Sea Island Golf Club - Seaside Course

Originally designed in 1929 by Harry S. Colt and Charles Alison, Seaside was reworked by Tom Fazio in 1999, who combined the original Seaside nine with the old Marshside nine into today's 18-hole routing (par 70, approximately 7,005 yards). It has hosted the PGA Tour's RSM Classic -- founded by Sea Island touring pro Davis Love III and his wife Robin -- every year since the tournament's 2010 debut as the McGladrey Classic; Plantation joined as co-host starting in 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.

Seaside sits within the broader Sea Island Golf Club grounds on St. Simons Island (Glynn County), across the marsh/causeway from Sea Island's own residential home sites, The Cloister resort, and the Beach Club. It is not itself surrounded by a dedicated Sea-Island-branded subdivision the way Retreat anchors the Island Club at Retreat neighborhood; its residential relevance runs through the island-wide Sea Island Club membership rather than direct on-course lots.

Members have access to the full Sea Island Club amenity set: multiple dining venues, a Forbes Five-Star spa and fitness center, the Sea Island Golf Performance Center, the Sea Island Shooting School, and the Sea Island Yacht Club, in addition to golf at all three Sea Island Golf Club courses.

Physically located on St. Simons Island, Glynn County -- Sea Island Golf Club's courses are geographically separate from Sea Island proper, which sits across the marsh/causeway. This is a branding/geography quirk buyers should understand before assuming the course sits on the same landmass as The Cloister and Sea Island's home sites.