The Wilmington Island Club is a semi-private country club located right across the street from Wilmington Plantation. The pre-eminent Scottish golf course architect Donald J. Ross designed the championship 18-hole course, which was built in 1927. Donald Ross had three standards of design that he applied to each of his courses. They were: Make each golf hole present a different problem. Arrange the course so that every stroke must be made with a full concentration and attention necessary to good golf. Build each hole in such a manner that it wastes none of the ground at one’s disposal, and takes advantage of every possibility.