Davis may well be the only player on the PGA Tour who still practices on the same courses he played when he was just 15 years old.
His relationship with Sea Island dates to when Davis' parents moved the family there so that Davis, Jr. could teach at what is now
known as the Golf Learning Center at Sea Island Golf Club. Davis Jr. and Penta honeymooned at The Cloister on Sea Island in 1962,
brought Davis and his younger brother, Mark, back for vacations year after year, and settled there in 1978. The boys, 13 and 11
at the time, grew up playing the Sea Island courses, first against their mother, and then against their father, almost every afternoon.
"It was great timing for me," Davis remembers. "It was one of those great things because it came at the time when
I had decided to devote myself to the game and Sea Island was such a great place to do that. There were three courses, the range,
and I had more time with Dad."
As time went by, Davis became fast friends with Bill Jones III, now Chairman and CEO of Sea Island Company. Their friendship
became even stronger following the unexpected death of Davis, Jr. in 1988 and continues to this day. Davis serves on the
Sea Island Company board of directors, represents Sea Island on the tour and is raising his family where he grew up. When he
plays golf with his own son, Dru, it's usually on the same courses Davis himself played as a boy. It's the place he's always known, and its home.