Jones at Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center
About
The Rees Jones course at Sea Trail Plantation is one of three courses on the property, which covers 2,000 acres of creeks and wooded lots.
It's in Sunset Beach, N.C., once named the top coastal destination in the U.S. by Money magazine, and in 2003, Golf Week named Sea Trail in America's best residential courses of distinction.
All three courses, by Dan Maples, Rees Jones and Willard Byrd got 4-star ratings from Golf Digest.
The Jones course opened in 1990 and has wide, rolling fairways and mounds and many of the elevated greens are surrounded by water. Water comes into play on 11 of the 18 holes, but those aren't the only hazards. You'll also have to deal with pot and large expanse bunkers. The course stretches to 6,761 from the tips and has a moderately difficult slope rating of 135 from the back tees. The Jones course has four sets of tees, down to 4,912 from the most forward tees.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 72 | 6754 yards | 73.2 | 138 |
| White | 72 | 6345 yards | 71.0 | 125 |
| Gold (W) | 72 | 5775 yards | 74.4 | 131 |
| Gold | 72 | 5775 yards | 68.4 | 119 |
| Red | 72 | 4985 yards | 64.9 | 108 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 4985 yards | 69.5 | 123 |
| Teal (W) | 72 | 3555 yards | 61.5 | 102 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue M: 73.2/138 | 440 | 196 | 367 | 396 | 170 | 402 | 440 | 511 | 531 | 3453 | 320 | 431 | 393 | 141 | 338 | 548 | 415 | 150 | 522 | 3258 | 6711 |
| White M: 71.0/125 | 399 | 176 | 353 | 356 | 143 | 389 | 405 | 493 | 512 | 3226 | 305 | 400 | 380 | 127 | 322 | 531 | 400 | 142 | 486 | 3093 | 6319 |
| Gold M: 68.4/119 W: 74.4/131 | 330 | 154 | 330 | 295 | 122 | 327 | 325 | 471 | 493 | 2847 | 283 | 369 | 361 | 108 | 299 | 466 | 371 | 132 | 464 | 2853 | 5700 |
| Red M: 64.9/108 W: 69.5/123 | 273 | 133 | 294 | 286 | 55 | 310 | 283 | 445 | 440 | 2519 | 236 | 322 | 305 | 99 | 244 | 390 | 294 | 120 | 417 | 2427 | 4946 |
| Teal W: 61.5/102 | 198 | 113 | 211 | 199 | 51 | 212 | 216 | 297 | 297 | 1794 | 169 | 208 | 214 | 90 | 204 | 261 | 218 | 117 | 292 | 1773 | 3567 |
| Handicap | 5 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 12 | |||
| Par | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 7 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 16 | 10 |
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Golf Advisor: Top 25 Most Improved U.S. Golf Courses (2019 #9)
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Sea Trail Rees Jones
Windy!!! Nice setting, quick greens, course is in good shape. You get rewarded with accuracy that's for sure. You also get penalized for inaccuracy. I would recommend this course to everyone!!!
for the time of the year
Ok greens rough looking but rolled ok -- fairways sparse
Sea Trail Rees Jones
THE WIND BLEW TOO MUCH!!! ;-) Fighting the wind was the biggest issue for me. The course was in good condition and greens rolled true. Would play this course again and would highly recommend it to others.
Windy day
Fairways in good condition for early spring. Greens were slow and a little rough.
5-STARS
Awesome course!
Awesome staff!
Awesome conditions!
Beautiful course!
This is a beautiful course very well laid out and easy to play. That being said there are a lot of challenges on every hole. Very scenic. Water on almost every hole. The bunkers are well placed. We had a great round of golf today!
Good day.
This was a hot deal so the value was great. I like the layout but they need hybrid tees combining gold and white. I can hit the ball fairly well for an old guy and don’t like playing gold. But especially this time of year there is no roll. Many of the par 4’s are long from the white tees. All in all it was a great day.
Greens were good. Fairways were very wet due to all the rain we’ve had
The course was very wet
The day I played this course, it had rained the night before, course was cart path only, all 4 wheels on paths at all times. This was reasonable because a lot of the course was too wet to walk on. In my opinion, the course should have been closed for the day.
Nice Layout but wet
Layout is nice but course was very wet due to heavy rain the night before and cart path only.
Certainly would like to return when dry.
Kiss this one GOODBYE
Played this in early February. The course had not been touched in at least a week. Tee boxes were uncut. Fairways were overun with weeds. Greens were a mix of several different grasses and weeds, more weed then grass. It was wet, which I know that is out of the hands of the people at Sea Trail, but other courses nearby were at least being taken care of. The Byrd course at Sea Trail was in very good shape, while the Maples course was closed all together. The maintenance people we saw, which were not many, were busy picking up pine cones, not cutting greens The guy behind the counter when I checked in told me what a wonderful experience we were about to have, a flat out lie. When we finished, I went back to talk about the experience, but he had left for the day. To complete an overall terrible experience, the restaurant and Bob the waiter were werse then the course we had just played. I have another trip in 2 weeks to Sea Trail, but we have dropped the Jones course and the Maples course because of the conditions and the people. After that trip, we will not return. Not worth the 1 star I had to give.
Great layout
Course opens with along par 4, closes with a long par 5. Winding through the Sea Trails development.
Not Good...
We started out the day with the first tee time because we were on vacation with our families and needed to get back following golf. We were told that with us being the first group off that we needed to play fast as we lead the pace of play for the day. We play rather fast and had no problem with this. The beach had recently received a descent amount of rain so the course was cart path only. I've seen this before at the beach, BUT I hadn't seen a course with such POOR drainage ANYWHERE! This back 9 holes were a mud pit. It was absolutely terrible. Also due to this condition the tee boxes and around had barely been cut. Grass had grown up fairly high in places. The worse part was the amount of mosquito's around this area. It was miserable.
With all of this being noted above there is still more to add to this giving this course even worse ratings. So we started first, but the course double stacked times for the day so they started our foursome on the back nine. We finished our 9 in just over 2 hours which they told us that we played too fast and that we had to wait on a foursome that was starting on the front nine in front of us. BUT WE JUST PLAYED NINE HOLES, WHY ARE WE NOW HAVING TO WAIT ON A GROUP JUST BEGINNING??? We waited a few minutes as the 6 starters they had fumbled around with other groups at the bag drop and the first tee box was still unoccupied. Finally we demanded to know why we played nine and they were starting a group in front of us. They said that they double booked, but that group should be there in a minute. They finally let us go in front of that group. We still caught another group that they began as well.
I'll never go back here unfortunately.
I couldn't find a way to write my own review. Me and my son golfed here on 8-5-2018. Got to the clubhouse and they couldn't confirm that it was paid for online so I had to pay again and take a business card to call back the following day and get one of my payments refunded. Get to the starter and he tells us that the course should probably be closed due to being super wet, mind you the guy at the clubhouse said nothing about it. Also it hadn't rained in 2 days. So we start golfing the tee boxes are like shaggy fairways and the fairways have latches of grass 7-8 inches tall. Hit one to the green and the green is cut so extremely short it barely has grass and lots of dirt. Needless to say for the price to golf here I would not recommend this course to anyone. I am from Dayton Ohio which is not suppose to be anywhere near the golfing location as myrtle beach, but if this course was in Dayton it would be closed. Terrible terrible terrible.
Great time on vacation
Excellent course. Breakfast buffet and lunch buffet were great. Staff was very friendly and the bartender was very fun and friendly after the round. Had a very enjoyable experience.
Greens were tough but seems to be a common problem in the area so didnt take away from a great experience at the course.
Bad Greens
The course ost it’s greens. Had some make shift greens.
Great Course to play
We were excited to play at this course and did enjoy the course. My complaint is the cart guy was the most unhelpful, unfriendly person which made us rethink if we wanted to play. We tried to ask him directions and asked him where to go. No help what so ever. Once we got over that the ladies in the snack bar where very helpful and charming. The staff in the pro shop told us of the conditions. We had the course to ourselves so we really had a great time. Got done in 4 hours. Not bad.
Impossible!