The story of Davis and Robin Love and rebuilding their ‘forever home’

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – Day after day, Robin Love would wake without an alarm at the same time every morning: 5 o’clock, the time when their three-story, 12,000-square foot plantation-style home of more than 20 years caught fire on March 27, 2020.

“When you see 4:55 or 5 o’clock on the clock, you can’t go back to sleep,” her husband, World Golf Hall of Fame member Davis Love III said.

Often after the catastrophe, Robin would rise from her bed, drive over to the site of their old home and sit by the seven-stall horse barn that survived the flames and watch the sun rise. When Davis would get up, he’d wonder where his wife had gone and would call her. With concern in his voice, he’d ask, “Why are you doing this to yourself?”

“I’m doing it because it makes me feel better,” Robin would say.

In the aftermath of losing their home, and with it a lifetime of mementos and memories, in a two-alarm fire, the Loves experienced a range of emotions from disbelief to anger and finally acceptance. Nothing symbolized this transformation more than the horse barn.

“She wanted to tear it down,” Davis recalled. “She’d say, ‘I stood in that barn and watched my house burn down.’ She said, ‘I don’t think I can ever go back in there.’”

This is the story of how Robin Love came full circle, and now the couple is on the verge of breaking ground to rebuild their family home nestled among live oaks and palms on a secluded five-acre lot with prime marsh frontage.

Glynn County firefighters battle the blaze at the St. Simons Island, Ga., home of Davis Love III. [Kyle Jurgens, Glynn County Fire and Rescue]

Davis and Robin Love dated in high school at Glynn Academy, and the couple are the unofficial mayors of this picturesque corner of Southeast Georgia, the largest of a chain of barrier islands nicknamed the Golden Isles. For a decade, the Loves hosted the PGA Tour’s RSM Classic pro-am draft party for tournament participants in a tent in their backyard, where guests feasted on the island’s best low-country cuisine and Robin made sure that every detail – down to the flowers on the tables – were right. Their daughter Lexi was married at the home, as were a handful of friends. Charity events were held there. Losing their home was a traumatic experience, and each handled the pain and anguish in different…