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The Sea Pines Resort or Sea Pines is located in Sea Pines Plantation, a 5,200-acre private residential gated community located on the southern tip of the island which comprises the town of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Sea Pines is home to four golf courses, including Harbour Town Golf Links, Ocean Course, the Heron Point golf course (formerly known as the Sea Marsh course) and the Club Course. The RBC Heritage is a PGA Tour event held annually in April at the Harbour Town course. ==History== On June 20, 1957, the Sea Pines Company was formed by Charles E. Fraser and Joseph B. Fraser Jr, with their father Joseph B. Fraser Sr serving as Chairman of the Board. The original offices of the company were located in a trailer on Sea Pines Circle (the intersection of William Hilton Parkway, Palmetto Bay Road, Pope Avenue, and Greenwood Drive). The only phone on the island was a car-based mobile unit. During the late 60’s and early 70’s Sea Pines Company was the most creative company in Real Estate and perhaps one of the most creative companies in the world at that time. Fraser was not only a creative man but hired some very young, very bright and very creative people. His initial cadre were hard working locals around which he hired young Turks that brought a more global perspective. Together they pioneered entirely new principles of land development and management including environmentally sensitive land use, blending with nature rather than overpowering it and nature oriented tourism. Harvard business school grads worked alongside creative land planners and contractors. Some of the first computer modeling in the South demonstrated how they would leverage land and their planning with Real Estate Investment Trust and banks. Fraser encouraged his people to learn through travel, to stay fresh by playing tennis in the middle of the day and picnicking with family and friends and to have plenty of gatherings where networking and cross fertilization would take place. The proof of his methods is found in the many first class developers across the nation that cut their teeth on Fraser and the Sea Pines Company. In 1967 Fraser had been developing 5,200 acres for 10 years, all on Hilton Head. By 1971 the company had 135,000 acres under development or planning with models showing positive cash in just 3 years. When the Prime Interest Rate jumped from 6 at the beginning of 1973 to 11.75 in October 1974 the company began to unravel as most of their loans were cost 3 points over prime. With a jump of 5 and ¾ percent in such a short time sales had no way to keep up. The demise of The Sea Pines Company in no way diminished the intelligent and creative development skills of Fraser and his cadre. Sea Pines Plantation, Amelia Island, Florida, Kiawah Island, South Carolina, River Hills, North Carolina and Brandermill, Virginia were all initiated by and planned by The Sea Pines Company. The list of developments done by Frasers executives is large and they are all of the highest quality. Fraser was considered extravagant in some ways but his extravagance was inspirational and often profitable in that it created a group of people who could think out of the box and created places that have a deep appeal to the human heart. Fraser (an "idea man" by nature), watched as his dream came off the rails piece by piece. 1980s Sea Pines changed hands many times in the decade of the 1980s. The Heizer Corporation purchased it in 1982 for $10 million. It was then transferred to an independent investor named Bobby Ginn with the Ginn Family. 1982 Bobby Ginn with the Ginn Family, purchased most of the property on the island and helped turned Sea Pines into a wonderful community. The Ginn Family sold assets to Roylat Holding Corporation with the deal financed by Philip Schwab, a stockholder in a large Florida savings and loan organization. Roylat Holding Corporation had a financial crisis, Federal Judge Sol Blatt of Charleston placed the Roylat Corporation and Schwab's organization in involuntary bankruptcy. The legal team he appointed to rebuild Sea Pines created two organizations to run Sea Pines: Sea Pines Associates, which owns resort properties, and the Community Services Associates (CSA) which owns, maintains, and secures common property and roads within Sea Pines. CSA runs, for example, a 42-man security department which handles traffic violations and other limited law enforcement functions. In March 2005, ownership passed to the Riverstone Group, a private concern owned by William Goodwin of Richmond Virginia, and the resort was renamed The Sea Pines Resort (dropping "Plantation"). The (Braddock's Point Cemetery ), a Gullah sea island cemetery on Hilton Head Island is a historic graveyard hidden between 2 apartment buildings and adjacent to the 18th fairway on Harbour town Golf Links – "the fairway may pass over buried ancestors" which may be the source of the urban legend that the 18th hole is haunted. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sea Pines Resort」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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