Sea Trail Plantation is an expansive real estate and resort development five miles from the ocean in Sunset Beach, north of the main part of Myrtle Beach. The resort offers courses by Willard Byrd, Dan Maples and a fine example from Rees Jones, son of the famed Robert Trent Jones. Jones, in addition to his work building new courses, is noted as the “Open Doctor,” called in by the U.S. Golf Association to help prepare (which means toughen) venues to host the U.S. Open. But here, as at many of his own designs, he is in a more benign mood. Many fairways are contained by rising mounds, which help deflect wayward balls and keep them in play. There is plenty of water on this course, but rarely does Jones demand that golfers hit long carries over it. Greens are generally large and receptive. So is the Rees Jones course here a pushover? Hardly. With an ever-present ocean breeze, surrounding piney woods and lots of sand (plus that water lurking to the sides) it is very easy to shoot a high number here. But it’s equally possible to score well.