Caledonia and True Blue joined The Dunes Golf & Beach Club as top five entries among the Myrtle Beach-area designs that have been named among Golfweek’s Best 2025 in the Carolinas.
TPC Myrtle Beach and Tidewater Golf Club joined the aforementioned Palmetto State designs to give the Grand Strand five of South Carolina’s top 10 selections. Prestwick, the Moorland and Heathland courses at Legends Golf Resort, the Dye Course at Barefoot Resort, Heritage Club and King’s North at Myrtle Beach National rounded out Golfweek’s top 20 honorees from 2024 returning to this year’s list.
The total South Carolina list includes:
1. The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Resort
2. Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort
3. The Dunes Golf & Beach Club
4. Caledonia Golf & Fish Club
5. True Blue Golf Club
6. Atlantic Dunes at Sea Pines Resort
7. Heron Point at Sea Pines Resort
8. TPC Myrtle Beach
9. Tidewater Golf Club
10. Osprey Point at Sea Pines Resort
11. Prestwick
12. Legends Golf Resort-Moorland Course
13. Legends Golf Resort-Heathland Course
14. Cougar Point at Kiawah Island Resort
15. Barefoot Resort-Dye Course
16. The Heritage Club
17. Palmetto Dunes – Robert Trent Jones Course
18. King’s North at Myrtle Beach National
19. Turtle Point at Kiawah Island Resort
20. Aiken Golf Club
Thistle returns to the North Carolina ranking at No. 11, in a list dominated by Pinehurst Resort’s six entries among the state’s top 20 selections.
In addition to their statewide honors, five of the aforementioned designs – The Dunes Club, Caledonia, True Blue, Legends-Moorland, and Barefoot-Dye – were included in Golfweek’s 2025 ranking of their Top 200 resort golf courses in the U.S., with Pebble Beach Golf Links and Pacific Dunes at Bandon Dunes topping that list.