Sea Island Golf Club - Plantation Course

Plantation traces to a 9-hole course that opened in 1928 and was expanded/redesigned over the following decades. Sources this pass disagree on the date of the most recent Davis Love III/Mark Love full reconstruction -- one set of sources places it at 2001 (matching the Retreat redesign year), another describes a substantial 2019 rework -- so this detail is flagged as conflicting rather than resolved. It has co-hosted the RSM Classic with Seaside every year since 2015.

Golf, beach, and club access at Sea Island run entirely through the Sea Island Club, a single membership organization (not a separate club per course) that Sea Island's own membership page describes as having four categories: Full and Beach & Sports memberships, both of which require the prospective member to first own (or be purchasing) qualifying real estate on Sea Island or in an affiliated Sea Island community; and Invitational and Junior memberships, neither of which requires real estate ownership. Real estate ownership is a precondition for the Full/Beach & Sports path, not a guarantee -- multiple independent real-estate-advisor sources report that Sea Island states these categories also require the applicant to be recommended by a current Club member and approved, so most Sea Island homeowners hold 'application rights' to the Club rather than automatic membership at closing. Invitational membership likewise requires sponsorship/recommendation by an existing member plus a non-refundable initiation fee and its own dues -- it is not an open-enrollment alternative. Junior membership is limited to members under age 50. The one documented exception to this approval-based model is the 22-unit Cloister Ocean Residences fractional-ownership property, where full, year-round Sea Island Club membership is automatically bundled into every deeded share (initiation fee waived, dues reduced to one quarter of the standard rate) -- see the Cloister Ocean Residences community record. Reported current figures (not independently confirmed on Sea Island's own site, sourced from a private-club aggregator and repeated by several realtor blogs) are a $150,000 initiation fee and $12,000/year dues for standard membership.

Like Seaside, Plantation sits within the Sea Island Golf Club grounds on St. Simons Island, geographically separate from Sea Island's own residential home sites and The Cloister across the causeway. Its residential relevance runs through the shared, island-wide Sea Island Club membership rather than a dedicated on-course subdivision.

Shares the full Sea Island Club amenity package with Seaside and Retreat: dining, spa/fitness, golf performance center, shooting school, and yacht club access.

Located on Retreat Avenue, St. Simons Island, Glynn County -- part of the same Sea Island Golf Club grounds as Retreat, off the Frederica Road/Kings Way roundabout.