Steelwood Country Club
Loxley, Baldwin County, Alabama · Gulf Coast golf market
- Access
- equity
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Jerry Pate
- Gated
- Yes
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Steelwood Country Club is a private, member-owned club founded in 1997 in Loxley, built around an 18-hole championship course designed by 1976 U.S. Open champion Jerry Pate, which Golf Digest rated the 5th-best new private course in the country on its debut. The course routes along the shores of 200-acre Steelwood Lake, with six holes touching the lake or its wetlands.
The club sits inside a 1,500+-acre private, gated residential community -- Steelwood -- that combines golf-course and lakefront homesites with a stocked fishing lake, boating, hunting land, tennis, a clubhouse with dining, swimming pools, and a fitness center. Of every candidate researched in this batch, Steelwood is the most straightforward example of a purpose-built private golf-and-lake residential community rather than golf-adjacent housing.
Golf & Course
Jerry Pate's design stretches to 7,140 yards (course rating 74.8, slope 132) and was recognized by Golf Digest as the 5th-best new private course in the country upon opening in 1997, a real architectural credential for a Gulf Coast private club.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Steelwood is private and member-owned, with named Golf, Social, and Fishing membership categories, but the exact relationship between Steelwood property ownership and required club membership was not confirmed from public sources -- the community's own Property Owners Association appears to be a separate entity from the country club.
Living in Steelwood Country Club
The 1,500+-acre Steelwood community combines golf-course and lakefront homesites around 200-acre Steelwood Lake, which is stocked for fishing and also supports boating; land is also set aside for hunting, giving Steelwood a broader outdoor-recreation identity than a golf-only gated community.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Clubhouse dining, tennis, swimming pools, and a fitness center round out Steelwood's amenity base alongside golf, fishing, boating, and hunting.
Location & Surrounding Area
Loxley, Baldwin County, roughly midway between Mobile and Gulf Shores/Foley.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Whether Steelwood property ownership requires, includes, or merely allows applying for country club membership.
- Current initiation fee and dues -- two conflicting third-party estimates found, neither club-confirmed.
Notable
- Golf Digest rated the course the 5th-best new private course in the country upon its 1997 opening.
- Designed by 1976 U.S. Open champion Jerry Pate.
- 1,500+-acre gated community built around 200-acre Steelwood Lake.
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