Myrtle Beach golf courses offer some of the best golf in the world, and the Myrtle Beach Golf Association’s Player’s Top 20 reflects the very best golf courses in the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina area.

The Myrtle Beach Golf Association's Player’s Top 20 culminates from local knowledge, insider advisories, golfer research, and feedback from the golfers actually playing the over 90+ Myrtle Beach golf courses.

Note: Normally with all of the wild and crazy weather the Myrtle Beach area has been experiencing over the last couple of years, the Myrtle Beach Golf Association has had an extremely difficult time finding golf courses that meet the high standards required to be included in the prestigious MBGA Player’s Top 20.

Therefore, rather than lowering our standards, we instead only presented the BEST courses in the Player’s Top 20. So there have been several times when there have been as few as only 16 courses to rate inclusion in the MBGA Player’s Top 20.

Good News: Lately, however, with the Myrtle Beach golf courses having more robust cash-flows, the area’s courses are in far better shape than ever before. So much so, that currently Myrtle Beach area has more than 20 courses that meet the Myrtle Beach Golf Association’s criteria for inclusion in our prestigious Player’s Top 20. 

The Myrtle Beach Golf Association’s rankings are based upon each course’s layout, playability, challenge, imagination, beauty, pricing, actual conditions (course, clubhouse, restrooms, cleanliness, etc.), practice facilities, pace-of-play, as well as the amount of development around the course and the quality of their, food and beverage facilities. Particular emphasis and consideration is placed upon the professionalism and friendliness of the staff at each Myrtle Beach golf course.

All golf course information is updated as quickly as new data becomes available to the Myrtle Beach Golf Association. The ratings and rankings, however, take longer because they are based upon the feedback of the traveling golfers.

Since the Myrtle Beach Golf Association cannot totally rely on fast information from the traveling golfers, who e-mail their feedback upon returning home, they have recruited over 40 local golf industry "insiders" who work hard to keep MBGA.COM up-to-date.

Needless to say, since it takes a preponderance of evidence and verification before any up or down movements in the ratings can take place, the Player’s Top 20 and Basement rankings change rather slowly. Of course they are always revisited and corrected just prior to the annual Myrtle Beach Spring and Fall Golf Seasons.

Score Your Rounds Before and After You Play - On each golf course’s MBGA.COM web page you will find a link to the Version 4 interactive, hole-by-hole eYardageBook for that particular course. Created by our friends at GolfWits.Com, you can view, plan and strategize all of your future and past Myrtle Beach golf rounds in the comfort of your own home, before you depart for your next golf vacation, or upon your return home – better yet, do both.

It makes no difference whether you are a regular visitor to our area, or a first-timer, we encourage you to cast your ballots for your own Player's Top 20 Myrtle Beach area golf courses. Regardless, whether you have one pick or 20, please send your Player's Top 20 nominees, comments and any other feedback, which you may deem helpful to Top20@mbga.com.

Note: While it is certainly not required, it would be very helpful if you would take a moment and rank your nominees for the Player’s Top 20, with your number “1” pick being the “Best Golf Course in Myrtle Beach,” and “20” being your last nominee for the MBGA Player’s Top 20 roster. 

All Myrtle Beach golf course rankings, Myrtle Beach golf course ratings and Myrtle Beach golf course reviews are by their very nature subjective and should be considered so, but the MBGA takes great pains to make sure that all rankings, ratings and reviews are as current and as accurate as humanly possible.

The following MBGA Player’s Top 20 Golf Courses are

displayed in alphabetical order!