Kiawah Island Golf Resort Voted "Best Places to Play"

May 26, 2006 -- Readers of Golf Digest magazine once again bestowed high ratings on Kiawah Island Golf Resort and it’s five golf courses. The Ocean Course maintained its 5-star status, one of only 17 public access golf courses rated 5-stars in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, while all four of the resort’s other courses garnered a near-perfect 4½ star rating. These high ratings were part of Golf Digest’s latest “Best Place to Play” reader’s poll, a summary of which was released in Golf Digest’s May 2006 issue with the complete results compiled in book form (Golf Digest’s Best Places to Play) listing the top 4,000 courses of close to 8,000 courses that were rated.

The entire resort was noted for its high level of service while every course on the resort was noted for excellent “pace of play.” Both Osprey Point Golf Course and Oak Point Golf Course were both noted as one of the best values in the state of South Carolina.

“As I have with past ‘Best Places to Play’ ratings, I am very pleased with of this recognition by the readers of Golf Digest magazine,” said Roger Warren, President of Kiawah Island Golf Resort and President of the PGA of America. “I’m especially proud of the improvements made at both Osprey Point (4 to 4½ stars) and Oak Point (3½ to 4½ stars). The ratings on all of our courses are a great reflection on the high service standards of our head golf professionals, superintendents and staffs, in fact, all the employees of Kiawah Island Golf Resort.”

Unique amongst golf magazine rankings and ratings, Golf Digest’s “Places to Play” is not based on the opinions of magazine editors or panels of “experts,” but rather reflects the opinion of the golfing public. Golf Digest sends ballots to their subscribers and posts its ballot on its web site asking readers to share their opinions and experiences on close to 8,000 courses in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Located just a short 35-minute drive from beautiful and historic Charleston, South Carolina, Kiawah Island Golf Resort lies along 10 miles of uninterrupted Atlantic Ocean beach, rated as one of America’s top 10 beaches by The Travel Channel. Guests can choose from close to 600 AAA Four Diamond-rated villas and luxury homes and the newly opened 255-room Sanctuary at Kiawah Island which boasts a nature-based spa, fine dining and handsome meeting space. The resort has been rated as the No. 1 tennis resort in the U.S. by Tennis magazine and the No. 1 tennis resort in the world by tennisresortsonline.com. It features an ultra-luxury oceanfront hotel and spa, The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, a variety of restaurants and lounges, award winning nature and children programs and five championship golf courses including the world-famous Pete Dye-designed Ocean Course, site of the 1991 Ryder Cup Matches, the 2007 Senior PGA Championship and the 2012 PGA Championship, the Nicklaus-designed Turtle Point, site of the 1987, 1992 and 2006 Carolinas Amateur Championship and the 1990 PGA Cup, the Fazio-designed Osprey Point, site of the 2000 Eastern Regional PGA Club Professional Championship, the Player-designed Cougar Point and the Johnston-designed Oak Point.

For more information about Kiawah Island Golf Resort, please call (888) 854-2924 or visit online at www.kiawahgolf.com.

For more information on The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, visit www.TheSanctuary.com or call (877) 683-1234.

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