Sea Island Plantation Course
Sea Island Plantation Course: Walter Travis (1928), redesigned by Davis Love III and Mark Love (Love Golf Design) (2019). Par 72, 7,060 yards. Sami Välimäki won the 2025 RSM Classic here with 259 (−23).
Sea Island Plantation Course: Walter Travis (1928), redesigned by Davis Love III and Mark Love (Love Golf Design) (2019). Par 72, 7,060 yards. Sami Välimäki won the 2025 RSM Classic here with 259 (−23).
Sea Island Plantation Course: Walter Travis (1928), redesigned by Davis Love III and Mark Love (Love Golf Design) (2019). Par 72, 7,060 yards. Sami Välimäki won the 2025 RSM Classic here with 259 (−23).
Updated October 24, 2026
11 editions on the record, by event, newest first.
PGA Tour
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sami Välimäki | 259 (−23) | by 1 stroke |
| 2024 | Maverick McNealy | 266 (−16) | by 1 stroke |
| 2023 | Ludvig Åberg | 253 (−29) | lowest winning score in this event · by 4 strokes |
| 2022 | Adam Svensson | 263 (−19) | by 2 strokes |
| 2021 | Talor Gooch | 260 (−22) | by 3 strokes |
| 2020 | Robert Streb | 263 (−19) | won in a playoff |
| 2019 | Tyler Duncan | 263 (−19) | won in a playoff |
| 2018 | Charles Howell III | 263 (−19) | won in a playoff |
| 2017 | Austin Cook | 261 (−21) | by 4 strokes |
| 2016 | Mackenzie Hughes | 265 (−17) | won in a playoff |
| 2015 | Kevin Kisner | 260 (−22) | by 6 strokes |
When Plantation opened as a nine-hole course in 1928 resort guests stayed on a floating hotel, the Amphitrite, because The Cloister did not open until October that year.
Source: Sea Island - Plantation Course
Davis Love III and Mark Love, who grew up playing the course, completely redesigned Plantation in 2019, bringing back Travis-era features such as a Principal's Nose bunker and a punch-bowl green.
Source: Sea Island - Plantation Course
After winning the first Sea Island Ladies Open Invitational in 1954, Louise Suggs became the club's first touring professional on a handshake with Sea Island president A.W. Jones Sr., and taught there for decades.
Source: Sea Island golf history
The 283-yard 10th is a drivable par 4 whose lay-up must avoid the "principal's nose" bunkers, with water guarding the left edge of the green.
Source: Sea Island - Plantation Course
The 146-yard par-3 7th is played to an island green, which is also the largest green on the course.
Source: Sea Island - Plantation Course
The Love brothers' 2019 redesign lowered the elevation throughout, cut the bunkering and reintroduced Walter Travis's "chocolate drop" mounds, bulkheads, railroad ties and a punch bowl green on No. 13.
Source: Sea Island - Plantation Course · Sea Island golf history
A plantation corn barn built in 1825 was converted into Sea Island's first clubhouse beside Plantation's first hole by 1929; its core now houses the Davis Love Foundation and the RSM Classic headquarters.
Source: Sea Island golf history
Walter Travis
Combined the Retreat and Plantation nines into the 18-hole Plantation Course
Source: Sea Island golf history
Complete redesign inspired by Walter Travis's 1928 nine; closed after the 2018 RSM Classic
Source: Sea Island Plantation Course · Sea Island golf history · GCSAA Tournament Fact Sheet: RSM Classic 2025
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour weeks at this course since 2017.
| Year | Event | Winner | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | RSM Classic 19–22 November 2026 | scheduled · PGA Tour | |
| 2025 | RSM Classic 20–23 November 2025 | Sami Välimäki | here: R1-R2 rotation (one round per player on each course) · PGA Tour |
| 2024 | RSM Classic 21–24 November 2024 | Maverick McNealy | here: R1-R2 rotation (one round per player on each course) · PGA Tour |
| 2023 | RSM Classic 16–19 November 2023 | Ludvig Åberg | here: R1-R2 rotation (one round on each course) · PGA Tour |
| 2022 | RSM Classic 17–20 November 2022 | Adam Svensson | here: R1-R2 rotation (one round on each course) · PGA Tour |
| 2021 | RSM Classic 18–21 November 2021 | Talor Gooch | here: R1-R2 rotation (one round on each course) · PGA Tour |
| 2020 | RSM Classic 19–22 November 2020 | Robert Streb | here: R1-R2 (half the field) · PGA Tour |
| 2019 | RSM Classic 21–24 November 2019 | Tyler Duncan | here: R1-R2 (half the field) · PGA Tour |
| 2018 | RSM Classic 15–18 November 2018 | Charles Howell III | here: R1-R2 (half the field) · PGA Tour |
| 2017 | RSM Classic 16–19 November 2017 | Austin Cook | here: R1-R2 (half the field) · PGA Tour |
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's tour-course research (profiles, championship history, the tour's visits since 2017, stories, details and course changes, each with its sources). A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. The light in the room is the sun's real position on the last day of a recorded visit.
The clubhouse is drawn by GNN from reference photographs; the photographs stay private.
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