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Colonial Country Club



    Sea Island: Seaside

    Sea Island: Seaside

    100 Retreat Rd

    Saint Simons Island, GA 31522-2491

    United States

    Overview

    The Sea Island resort continues to credit famed British golf architect H.S. Colt for its Seaside design, but in truth it was never purely Colt's design. It was the work of Colt's partner, Charles Alison, who traveled to the U.S. and beyond in the 1920s and 30s while Colt remained in England. But the Seaside Course isn't even Alison's anymore--it is purely Tom Fazio, who incorporated Alison's original Seaside nine (today's 10-18) along with a nine (the Marshland Nine) designed in 1974 by Joe Lee, to create a totally new 18- hole course. But in keeping with the resort’s heritage, Fazio styled his new course in the design fashion of Alison, with big clamshell bunkers, smallish putting surfaces and exposed sand dunes off most of the windswept fairways. The Seaside Course has hosted numerous USGA championships and has been a mainstay of the PGA Tour’s early season roster.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 6657
    Slope 137
    Facility Type Private
    Designer Colt & Alison/(R) Thomas Fazio, ASGCA

    Awards

    100 Greatest the Second 100
    100 Greatest Public
    Best Courses in Every State

    Second 100 Greatest: Ranked since 2013. Highest ranking: No. 155, 2013-'14. 2021-'22 ranking: No. 176.

    100 Greatest Public: Ranked since the inaugural edition in 2003. Highest ranking: No. 22, 2005-'06. 2023-'24 ranking: No. 36.

    Best in State: Ranked sixth, 2011-'12, 2017-'20. Ranked seventh, 2015-'16, 2021-'24. Ranked eighth, 2013-'14.

    Current ranking: Seventh.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    4.2

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    7.1377
    Character
    7.2887
    Challenge
    7.1374
    Layout Variety
    7.1104
    Fun
    7.1729
    Aesthetics
    7.4692
    Conditioning
    7.287

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