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Myrtle Beach’s Best Golf Courses
Myrtle Beach golf courses offer some of the best golf in the world, and the Myrtle Beach Golf Association’s Player’s Top 20 reflects the very best golf courses in the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina area.
The Myrtle Beach Golf Association’s Player’s Top 20 culminates from local knowledge, insider advisories, golfer research, and feedback from the golfers actually playing the 97 Myrtle Beach golf courses.
Note: With all of the wild and crazy weather the Myrtle Beach area has been experiencing over the last couple of years, the Myrtle Beach Golf Association has had an extremely difficult time finding golf courses that meet the high standards required to be included in the prestigious MBGA Player’s Top 20. Therefore, rather than lowering our standards, we instead only present the VERY BEST courses in the Player’s Top 20. So there have been several times when there have been as few as only 16 courses to rate inclusion in the MBGA Player’s Top 20.
Good News: Lately, however, with the Myrtle Beach golf courses having more rain and somewhat better cash-flows, the area’s courses are in far better shape than ever before. So much so, that the Myrtle Beach area may have more than 20 courses that meet the Myrtle Beach Golf Association’s criteria for inclusion in our prestigious Player’s Top 20.
The Myrtle Beach Golf Association’s rankings are based upon each course’s layout, playability, challenge, imagination, beauty, pricing, actual conditions (course, clubhouse, restrooms, cleanliness, etc.), practice facilities, pace-of-play, as well as the amount of development around the course and the quality of their, food and beverage facilities. Particular emphasis and consideration is placed upon the professionalism and friendliness of the staff at each Myrtle Beach golf course.
All golf course information is updated as quickly as new data becomes available to the Myrtle Beach Golf Association. The ratings and rankings, however, take longer because they are based upon the feedback of the traveling golfers. Since the Myrtle Beach Golf Association cannot totally rely on fast information from the traveling golfers, who e-mail their feedback upon returning home, they have recruited over 40 local golf industry “insiders” who work hard to keep MBGA.COM up-to-date.
Needless to say, since it takes a preponderance of evidence and verification before any up or down movements in the ratings can take place, the Player’s Top 20 and Basement rankings change rather slowly. Of course they are always revisited and corrected just prior to the annual Myrtle Beach Spring and Fall Golf Seasons.
All Myrtle Beach golf course rankings, Myrtle Beach golf course ratings and Myrtle Beach golf course reviews observations, narratives, assessments, advisories, assertions and opinions are the culmination of 30-years of working with all of the various entities and components of the Myrtle Beach golf vacation business, as well as monitoring the well established Myrtle Beach golf industry rumor mill. While all material found here is as factual and candid as we can possibly offer it, it is highly opinionated and subjective and is the personal opinions and assessments of the Myrtle Beach Golf Association and our contributors and should always be considered as such!
Please send your nominees - along with the date you played, details of your experience and your telephone number for possible verication - for inclusion in the Myrtle Beach Golf Association’s Player’s Top 20 to Top20@mbga.com.
The following MBGA Player's Top 20 Golf Courses are displayed in alphabetical order!
Barefoot Resort - Dye Club
Barefoot Resort - Fazio Course
Caledonia Golf & Fish Club
Dunes Golf & Beach Club
Grande Dunes Members Club
Heritage Club
International World Tour Golf Links
Legends Resort - Moorland Course
Long Bay Club
Myrtle Beach National - King’s North
Oyster Bay Golf Links
Prestwick Country Club
River Club
Surf Golf & Beach Club
Thistle Golf Club
Tiger’s Eye Golf Links
TPC of Myrtle Beach
True Blue Plantation
Willbrook Plantation Golf Club
