Sea Trail Golf Courses

Sea Trail offers three distinctively different golf courses, totaling 54 holes of award-winning golf for guests and members to enjoy: the Dan Maples Course, Rees Jones Course, and Willard Byrd Course. All three championship courses were named as “Best Resort Courses of Distinction” by Golfweek magazine, as well as the “Reader’s Choice Best Golf Courses in Brunswick County for 2008-2009″ by Brunswick Beacon readers. With numerous accolades and signature courses, golfing at Sea Trail is an experience you will not want to miss!

SEA TRAIL – BYRD COURSE
 

Opened to the public in the Fall of 1990, each hole of the Willard Byrd Golf Course at Sea Trail Resort & Golf Links, Sunset Beach, NC is memorable for its aesthetic beauty and precision play. Built around several man-made lakes, each ranging from 14-20 acres, every hole of this par-72 signature course requires accuracy and thought. The Byrd course at Sea Trails features good roll to the fairways, some hard doglegs, tight landing areas, large bunkers, lots of water, and large undulating greens.
 

SEA TRAIL – REES JONES COURSE
 

The Rees Jones Golf Course at Sea Trail Resort & Golf Links, Sunset Beach, NC, opened in the Spring of 1990 and has become a annual favorite for golfers come from far away or those just down the street. The Jones Course is basically a traditionally styled, straightforward tract, with wide fairways, large mounding, pot and waste bunkers and large, elevated greens.
 

It has four lakes and water comes into-play on eleven holes. Players of all skill levels will enjoy an extraordinary golf experience on this straightforward golf course with typical Jones bounding. In addition to water hazards, the many pot and large expanse bunkers make for a delightfully challenging game of golf.
 

SEA TRAIL – MAPLES COURSE
 

The first built course at Sea Trails, the Maples course, opened in 1986 and is a mixture of twisted ancient oaks, tall Carolina Pines and tifdwarf greens defining each hole on this beautiful par 72 course. S till regarded as one of Maples finest, this one-of-a-kind course has newly renovated A1/A4 blended Bent grass is home to nesting ospreys and other native wildlife.
 

The course, although a bit shorter than the other two courses, and more its fairways features five holes along the marshes and Calabash Creek, as well as medium-sized greens and water comes in-play at least a dozen times. The course also is peppered with numerous waste bunkers, one of which extends the full length of a fairway. The one bad thing is that the Maples course has backyards to detract from the beauty and challenge of this course.