The River Course is ranked number 38 on "America's Best Top 100 Residential Courses," by Golfweek Magazine, 2005
Other rankings: Golfweek — No. 85, America's Best Courses (Modern) and No. 17, America's Best Courses (Real Estate); Golf Digest — No. 8 in South Carolina. . . . .
Host site of the Kiawah Pro Celebrity Challenge and co-host of the Hootie & the Blowfish Monday after the Masters pro-am charity tournament. . . . .
Fully certified as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary in 1999, at that time just the sixth in the state. . . . .