Diamante Country Club
Hot Springs Village, Garland County, Arkansas · Hot Springs Village golf market
- Access
- mandatory
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Ault, Clark & Associates (Tom Clark)
- Gated
- Yes
- Golf access
- Bundled
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Diamante Country Club is the private-club exception inside Hot Springs Village's otherwise pay-to-play golf system: a single 18-hole championship course (Ault, Clark & Associates, 1995) owned and governed by its own membership corporation rather than the HSV POA, sitting inside the Diamante subdivision in the community's Garland County section. Diamante was sold by its original corporate owners (Club Corp. and Cooper Industries) to a nonprofit corporation owned by Diamante property owners in a deal finalized in December 2017, and KemperSports was selected to manage the club and golf operations shortly after, in a relationship first announced in January 2018 (current 2026 management status was not independently reconfirmed this research pass). The club has been ranked among Arkansas's top courses by Golf Digest for multiple years, most recently No. 4 in the state for 2025. For a golf-oriented buyer, Diamante represents the one genuinely traditional, mandatory-membership private-club product inside Hot Springs Village, standing in sharp contrast to the pay-as-you-go structure of HSV's eight other community courses.
Golf & Course
Diamante opened in 1995 as an 18-hole, par-72 course with Zoysia fairways and bentgrass greens, playable from seven tee sets ranging 4,650 to 7,560 yards. The architect is Ault, Clark & Associates (Tom Clark), confirmed independently across GolfPass, TeeOff, top100golfcourses.com, and Diamante's own site -- this is deliberately distinguished from an unrelated, similarly-named 'El Cardonal at Diamante' (Tiger Woods) and 'Dunes Course' (Davis Love III) at Diamante Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, a completely different development that has no connection to the Arkansas club; several lower-quality aggregator search results (e.g. a 'Diamante Dunes Golf Course' composite page) blend the two developments' facts together, and none of that content was used for this Arkansas record. Diamante has been ranked Arkansas's No. 1 course by Golf Digest for four consecutive years historically and No. 4 in the state for the 2025 ranking cycle.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Access to Diamante works differently depending on where in Hot Springs Village a buyer is looking. Inside the Diamante subdivision itself, club membership is reported as a mandatory, dues-paying condition of property ownership -- buyers should treat golf-club dues as a real, ongoing cost of owning there, not an optional add-on. Outside the Diamante subdivision but still within HSV, membership is available but not required, through the separate 'Emerald' tier aimed specifically at other HSV residents, plus Associate, Non-Resident, and Corporate tiers for buyers/members who live elsewhere. None of this membership is included with, or required for, ownership of a typical (non-Diamante-subdivision) HSV home.
Living in Diamante Country Club
Diamante is one of HSV's more upscale named neighborhoods -- real-estate listings (Redfin, RE/MAX, Century 21 HSV Realty, LakeHomes.com) treat it as its own distinct subdivision within HSV, distinguishing Diamante-subdivision home values and inventory from the rest of the Village. One real-estate source noted Diamante home values have lagged comparable Granada/Isabella-area homes, attributing this in part to the mandatory club-dues condition attached to Diamante ownership -- a real, if secondhand, illustration of how the mandatory-membership structure affects the local housing market.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Beyond golf, Diamante's clubhouse amenities include tennis courts, a swimming pool, and dining/social event space; a lower-tier 'Clubhouse' membership exists specifically for residents who want dining/social access without golf or tennis.
Location & Surrounding Area
Diamante Country Club sits at 2000 Country Club Drive, within Hot Springs Village, Garland County -- inside HSV's outer boundary, not a separate development elsewhere in the Hot Springs area.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Golf membership initiation
Current$7,500
Cited as the '2026 Diamante Initiation Fee' on an August 2026 Diamante-subdivision real estate listing -- a specialist real-estate source, not the club's own published rate sheet (diamantecc.com/membership-options does not publicly post a rate card). May vary by membership tier (Full Golf vs. Associate/Non-Resident/Emerald/Corporate); confirm directly with Diamante's Membership Director before relying on this figure.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm whether KemperSports still manages Diamante's golf operations in 2026 (last confirmed announcement dates to January 2018).
- Confirm current initiation fees and annual dues by membership tier directly with Diamante's Membership Director -- the $7,500 initiation figure traces to a single real-estate listing, not the club's own rate sheet, and no reliable current annual-dues figure was found.
- Confirm whether membership is transferable on resale of a Diamante-subdivision home, and the exact mechanics of the mandatory-membership requirement (e.g., minimum commitment period, 'Gold status' inactive-membership provisions referenced in secondary sources).
Notable
- Diamante was sold by Club Corp./Cooper Industries to a nonprofit corporation owned by Diamante property owners in a sale finalized December 19, 2017.
- Diamante ranked Arkansas's No. 1 course by Golf Digest for four consecutive years historically, and No. 4 in the state for 2025.
- The Tiger Woods/Davis Love III-designed courses sometimes associated with the 'Diamante' name belong to an unrelated Diamante resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico -- the Arkansas course was designed by Ault, Clark & Associates (Tom Clark), 1995.
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