Clyde Johnston Designs, Inc.

Awards and Rankings

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 five straight years, 2004-2008.

"100 Must-Play Courses of the Carolinas", March 2006 issue of GolfStyles Magazine for Glen Dornoch, Heather Glen and Old South.