CLYDE JOHNSTON DESIGNS, INC.

Golf Course Architecture

Awards & Recognitions

  • Best New Public Golf Course of 1987, Golf Digest award for Heather Glen Golf Links, Little River, SC (while employed by Willard Byrd and Assoc.).
  • Top 50 Courses in South Carolina for 1988, by Golfweek Magazine for Heather Glen Golf Links, ranked 43rd.
  • South Carolina’s Top 50 Courses, Golfweek Magazine for Heather Glen Golf Links, ranked 22nd.
  • Top 10 Resort/Public Courses of 1990, Golf Magazine award for Ocean Harbour Golf Links, Calabash, NC.
  • Top 50 Courses in South Carolina for 1990, GolfWeek Magazine for Heather Glen Golf Links, 10th Place.
  • Top 50 Favorite Carolinas Courses for 1990, by Golf Reporter Magazine for Ocean Harbour Golf Links.
  • Top 50 Public Courses in America in 1990, Golf Digest for Heather Glen Golf Links.
  • Top 50 Most Distinctive Development Courses in the Southeastern U.S. of 1990, Golfweek Magazine award for Jacksonville Golf and Country Club, Jacksonville, Florida.
  • Top 50 Carolina Courses for 1991, Golf Reporter Magazine award for Ocean Harbour Golf Links, Calabash, NC.
  • America’s Best Golf Courses of 1991, Golfweek Magazine award for Heather Glen Golf Links, Little River, SC and Oak Point Golf Links, Johns Island, SC – ranked 15th and 48th in the State, respectively.
  • Grand Aurora Award for Best Residential Development and Recreational Facility of 1991, Southeast Builders Conference award for Jacksonville Golf & Country Club, Jacksonville, Florida.
  • 1991 Top 50 Carolina Courses, By Golf Reporter Magazine, Heather Glen Golf Links, Little River, SC.
  • Tenth Place, Public Category, Best New Courses of 1992, by Golf Digest Magazine, Old South Golf Links, Hilton Head Island, SC.
  • America’s Best Golf Courses of 1992, Golfweek Magazine award for Heather Glen Golf Links, Little River, S.C. and Oak Point Golf Links, Johns Island, SC – ranked 17th and 38th in the State, respectively.
  • America’s Best Golf Courses of 1993, Golfweek Magazine award for Heather Glen Golf Links, Little River, SC and Oak Point Golf Links, Johns Island, SC – ranked 13th and 42nd in the State, respectively.
  • America’s Best Golf Courses of 1994, Golfweek Magazine award for Heather Glen Golf Links, Little River, SC and Oak Point Golf Links, Johns Island, SC – ranked 12th and 50th in the State, respectively.
  • America’s Best Golf Courses of 1995, Golfweek Magazine award for Heather Glen Golf Links, Little River, SC – ranked 20th in the State.
  • Golf Digest, January 1996 America’s 500 Best Places to Play, award for Heather Glen Golf Links, 5th in SC and Covered Bridge Golf Club, 3rd in Indiana.
  • “Best New Course in Myrtle Beach”, Wachesaw East GC, 1996, The Sun News.
  • “Best New Courses in the Carolinas”, Wicked Stick Golf Links, 1996 issue of Golf Courses in the Carolinas, a publication of Golf Courses in America.
  • “A Grand Strand Top Ten”, Ron Whitten, Golf Digest, March 1997, for Glen Dornoch Golf Links (8th)
  • One of the Top Twenty Courses in NC in “The Best Public Golf Courses”, March, 1998, by North Carolina Magazine for River Landing Country Club.
  • One of “State’s Best Emerging Golf Architects”, recognition by North Carolina Magazine, March 1998.
  • Clyde Johnston is featured on the cover and in an article of the Spring, 1998 issue of Carolina Fairways magazine.
  • “Top 100 Best Master Planned Communities in America”, River Landing CC, 1999 from Where to Retire magazine.
  • “Top 50 Golf Communities in America”, River Landing CC, 1999, from Luxury Golf Homes magazine.
  • “Top 10 Military Courses”, Travel & Leisure Golf Magazine, July/August 2001 for The Legends at Parris Island GC.
  • North Carolina Magazine “Top 100 in North Carolina”, River Landing GC, Wallace, NC: Ranked 16th in State and No. 1 in Coastal North Carolina, Spring, 2006. (2005 – 17th, 2003 & 2004 – 20th)
  • “Top Ten Best New Affordable Public Golf Courses” Golf Digest Magazine, January Issue, 2003 for Cherry Blossom GC, Georgetown, KY. No. 9.
  • “100 Must-Play Courses of the Middle Atlantic”, Washington Golf Monthly magazine, March 2003 and March 2004 issues for Forest Greens GC.
  • “America’s Best Courses You Can Play”, Golfweek Magazine rated Cherry Blossom G&CC No. 1 in Kentucky for six straight years, 2004-2009.
  • “100 Must-Play Courses of the Carolinas”, March 2006 issue of GolfStyles Magazine for Glen Dornoch, Heather Glen and Old South.
  • “The 30 Best You Can Play in S.C,” Spring 2009 issue of Palmetto Golfer.