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Resort Awards and Accolades

 

AAA-5-Diamond-logoForbes-2021-logoThe Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort

  • Five Star Award – Forbes Travel Guide (2021)
  • Five Diamond Award – American Automobile Association (2021)
  • Best Resort Hotel in South Carolina (1st) – Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards (2021)
  • Top 500 Hotels in the World — Travel + Leisure (2021)
  • Best Resorts in the South – Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards (2021)
  • Best 25 Hotels in the U.S. — U.S. News & World Report (2021)
  • World’s Top 100 Suites (Presidential Suite) – Elite Traveler (2021)

The Spa at The Sanctuary

  • Five Star Award – Forbes Travel Guide (2021)

Kiawah Island Golf Resort

  • Rankings:
    • Best Courses You Can Play (The Ocean Course) – Golfweek (2021)
    • Golf
      • Top 100 Courses in the World (The Ocean Course) (2020/21)
      • Top 100 Courses in the US (The Ocean Course) (2020/21)
    • Golf Advisor
      • Golfers’ Choice — South Carolina (2021)
        • The Ocean Course (1st)
        • Turtle Point (8th)
        • Cougar Point (19th)
    • Golf Digest
      • America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses (The Ocean Course) (2021/22)
      • Best Golf Academies — Southeast (2021)
      • Best Golf Resort — Carolinas (2021)
      • Best Courses in Every State (The Ocean Course) — South Carolina (2021/22)
    • Best Course in South Carolina (The Ocean Course) – South Carolina Golf Raters (2021)
  • Tournament Golf:
    • The Ocean Course, host:
      • 1991 Ryder Cup, 1997 and 2003 World Cups, 2001 UBS Warburg Cup, 2007 Senior PGA Championship, 2012 PGA Championship, 2013 Carolina Amateur, site of the 2021 PGA Championship
  • Best Golf Destination – Global Traveler (2021)

Kiawah Island Tennis

  • No. 1 Tennis Resort in the World – tennisresortsonline.com (2019) – No. 1 12 of the last 14 years

Kiawah Island Meetings

  • Platinum Choice Award — Smart Meetings (2021)
  • Top New or Renovated Award – ConventionSouth Editors’ Awards (2021)
  • Reader’s Choice Award – ConventionSouth (2021)
  • Best U.S. Golf & Spa – Prevue Meetings & Incentives Visionary Award (2020)
  • Best Golf Resort Southeast – Northstar Meetings Group Stella Awards (2021)
  • Top Service, Meeting Space, Rooms and Amenities – Meetings Today Best of Meetings Today (2020)

Kiawah Island Dining

  • Forbes Four Star (Ocean Room) (2021)

Kiawah Island

  • Top 10 Islands in the Continental US (#2) – Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards (2021)
  • Top Islands in the Continental US – Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards (2021)
  • Top 10 beaches in America (#9) – Dr. Stephen Leatherman (aka Dr. Beach) (2021)