RANKINGS: The Top 50 Public Golf Facilities | Private | Resort
RANKINGS: The Top 10 in the U.S.: Public Facilities | Private | Resort
SELECTED PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS: Public | Private | Resort | The Best of the Best
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Top 10 Facilities in each ranking category: Public | Private | Resorts
WEB EXCLUSIVE: State By State: All the facilities scoring at least 75 points
Methodology for the Destination rankings
In conjunction with voting for the Readers' Choice Awards program, Golf World readers also offered their opinions on various golf destinations areas around the world. Using a 10-point scale, readers were asked to evaluate 38 different destinations based on seven criteria -- quality of golf courses, accessibility of area, hotel accommodations, dining, friendliness, ambiance and overall value. A destination's score within each of the criteria is the percentage of readers who gave the destination a "top three" score of 8, 9 or 10. (For example, the 87.3 score Charleston/Kiawah Island, S.C., received for quality of courses means that 87.3 percent of the readers gave this destination either an 8, 9 or 10 rating for that criteria.) An overall total score for each destination was determined by averaging the scores in all seven categories.
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__1.__ __Charleston/Kiawah Island, S.C.__ [#image: /photos/55ad9e65b01eefe207f7f3e3]|||quality of course||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e65b01eefe207f7f3e9]|||accessibility||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e65add713143b43b125]|||Hotel Accomodations||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e65b01eefe207f7f3e5]|||food/dining||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e65add713143b43b12f]|||Friendliness||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e65add713143b43b132]|||Ambiance||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e65b01eefe207f7f3f6]|||overall value|||Total 87.3 67.3 90.1 86.7 84.8 87.3 70.9 82.4 __2.__ __Hawaii__ 90.9 48.4 93.5 87.7 87.7 94.7 57.2 80.0 __3.__ __Pinehurst, N.C.__ 95.3 57.5 83.0 81.3 81.9 89.1 71.0 79.9 __4.__ __Scottsdale/Phoenix, Ariz.__ 90.1 79.3 90.0 87.8 71.6 77.5 62.6 79.8 __5.__ __Orlando, Fla.__ 83.1 88.1 90.1 83.4 72.9 68.8 71.2 79.6 __6.__ __San Antonio, Texas__ 80.7 75.4 82.5 80.7 84.2 73.7 75.4 78.9 __7.__ __Monterey Peninsula, Calif.__ 94.2 51.8 89.9 89.1 68.1 95.7 50.0 77.0 __8.__ __Myrtle Beach, S.C.__ 86.5 73.0 78.8 78.8 76.2 60.1 80.4 76.3 __9.__ __Ireland__ 97.4 49.6 70.2 55.2 96.6 96.6 64.7 75.7 __10.__ __San Diego, Calif.__ 82.2 74.0 83.3 86.3 63.0 78.1 60.8 75.4 __11.__ __Northern Michigan__ 88.5 47.1 76.0 72.1 85.6 76.0 80.8 75.1 __12.__ __Bermuda__ 70.9 64.0 84.1 78.3 83.7 87.2 55.8 74.9 __13.__ __Kohler, Wis.__ [#image: /photos/55ad9e65b01eefe207f7f3f8]|||quality of course||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e65b01eefe207f7f3fa]|||accessibility||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e66add713143b43b137]|||Hotel Accomodations||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e66b01eefe207f7f405]|||food/dining||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e66b01eefe207f7f408]|||Friendliness||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e66add713143b43b13c]|||Ambiance||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e66add713143b43b140]|||overall value|||Total 93.4 50.5 85.2 77.8 77.8 81.3 57.1 74.7 __14.__ __Hilton Head, S.C.__ 82.8 56.1 83.3 79.5 76.5 79.5 64.3 74.6 __15.__ __Scotland__ 98.3 56.7 71.4 55.0 78.3 94.2 65.8 74.3 __16.__ __Reynolds Plantation/Lake Oconee, Ga.__ 87.0 50.0 83.7 67.4 80.4 82.6 65.2 73.8 __17.__ __Oregon Coast__ 100.0 19.5 71.6 70.7 84.4 88.3 80.5 73.6 __18.__ __Las Vegas__ 76.1 80.5 91.9 92.5 57.0 67.8 48.0 73.4 __19.__ __Sarasota/Naples/Florida West Coast__ 76.9 73.8 84.5 76.6 64.6 69.2 63.1 72.7 __20.__ __Bend/Sunriver, Ore.__ 88.7 32.1 76.9 69.8 79.2 83.0 75.5 72.2 __21.__ __Williamsburg, Va.__ 80.0 62.7 73.0 73.3 72.0 74.7 69.3 72.1 __22.__ __Lake Tahoe/Reno, Nev.__ 73.1 54.9 79.2 84.3 72.5 78.8 58.8 71.7 __23.__ __Palm Springs, Calif.__ 61.8 61.8 85.2 82.3 57.4 72.6 56.5 71.3 __24.__ __Caribbean__ 64.2 50.5 82.6 73.1 78.9 77.9 65.3 70.4 __25.__ __Canada__ 70.8 56.3 69.8 66.0 83.3 78.7 66.7 70.2 [#image: /photos/55ad9e66b01eefe207f7f40d]|||symbol key||| __26.__ __Colorado__ [#image: /photos/55ad9e66b01eefe207f7f418]|||quality of course||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e66add713143b43b151]|||accessibility||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e66b01eefe207f7f412]|||Hotel Accomodations||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e67add713143b43b15f]|||food/dining||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e66b01eefe207f7f416]|||Friendliness||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e67add713143b43b162]|||Ambiance||| [#image: /photos/55ad9e67b01eefe207f7f421]|||overall value|||Total 76.9 56.9 75.0 73.0 72.3 73.8 61.5 69.9 __27.__ __Tucson, Ariz.__ 77.8 57.1 72.9 73.0 71.4 69.4 65.1 69.5 __28.__ __Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Ala.__ 84.5 62.5 60.7 55.9 83.3 62.9 763 69.5 __29.__ __North Carolina Mountains__ 73.3 50.0 64.7 66.7 80.0 81.1 70.0 69.4 __30.__ __Mesquite, Nev.__ 80.7 63.9 65.7 57.4 77.1 63.0 75.2 69.0 __31.__ __Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Fla.__ 80.4 75.0 78.8 83.6 51.8 60.7 50.0 68.6 __32.__ __Mississippi Gulf Coast__ 68.6 57.1 68.6 68.6 71.4 68.6 68.6 67.3 __33.__ __Palm Beach/Boca Raton, Fla.__ 71.3 72.5 76.3 75.0 48.8 61.3 56.3 65.9 __34.__ __Mexico__ 72.5 48.8 82.9 69.7 62.5 70.0 50.0 65.2 __35.__ __Ocean City, Md.__ 68.3 65.9 57.5 61.0 68.3 51.2 78.0 64.3 __36.__ __Gulf Shores, Ala.__ 65.8 55.3 70.3 60.5 71.1 57.9 63.2 63.4 __37.__ __Utah/Sun Valley, Idaho__ 66.7 47.6 65.0 65.0 61.9 66.7 61.9 62.1 __38.__ __Jacksonville, Fla.__ 69.4 65.3 68.7 54.2 52.8 55.6 54.2 60.0
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