Pleasant Valley Country Club
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas · Little Rock / Central Arkansas golf market
- Access
- invitation only
- Holes
- 27
- Architect(s)
- Joe Finger
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Pleasant Valley Country Club opened in 1968 on a 27-hole Joe Finger design in what was then a horse farm being developed into the Pleasant Valley neighborhood of west Little Rock. The course is unusual for the market in carrying three named nines -- Blue, Yellow, and Third -- combinable into three different 18-hole routings, with the Blue/Yellow pairing generally treated as the preferred championship combination; the full 27 holes span roughly 7,100-7,400 yards depending on the nines played, with eight ponds and tree-lined, bermudagrass fairways throughout. Golf Digest's own course-profile data confirms the club is private and that membership is by invitation.
The surrounding Pleasant Valley neighborhood has a genuine golf-course-integrated identity: real-estate coverage consistently describes it as 'revered for its stunning properties, award-winning country club,' with homes actively marketed for lining the fairways. That neighborhood identity, however, runs through two separate organizations that should not be conflated: the country club itself (private, invitation-only, governing golf/tennis/pool/dining membership) and the Pleasant Valley Property Owners Association (pvpoalr.com), a general neighborhood HOA that operates its own, unrelated set of 'resident-only' pools, playgrounds, and a community center open only to Pleasant Valley residents -- not to the golf club's membership roll.
This record also corrects a name-collision risk caught during research: some early search results describe 'Pleasant Valley Country Club' as a historic LPGA Championship host and 'major stop on the Professional Tour.' That tournament history (LPGA Championships in 1967, 1968, and 1970-1974) genuinely happened at a different club of the same name in Sutton, Massachusetts -- not at this Little Rock club, which opened the same year (1968) that the Massachusetts club was hosting its second consecutive LPGA Championship. Buyers and future researchers should not attribute that tournament pedigree to the Little Rock course.
Golf & Course
Joe Finger, whose Arkansas portfolio also includes work at Bella Vista and Meadowbrook Country Clubs, laid out Pleasant Valley's three nines at the end of the 1960s. The Third Nine alone runs to a par of 35 across roughly 3,090 yards; combined routings (most commonly Blue/Yellow) play to roughly 7,100-7,400 yards with Champion Ultra-Dwarf Bermuda greens and 419 Bermuda fairways, and eight ponds woven through the tree-lined layout.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Golf Digest's own course-profile data states membership at Pleasant Valley Country Club is by invitation, extending golf, tennis, swimming, dining, fitness, and clubhouse privileges to the member, spouse, and unmarried children under 23. No evidence was found of membership being included with or required by a Pleasant Valley home purchase -- treat it as a separate, invited privilege from living in the neighborhood.
Living in Pleasant Valley Country Club
The Pleasant Valley neighborhood developed from a 1960s horse farm into an established, non-gated west Little Rock community whose own real-estate coverage centers the country club as a defining amenity, with homes actively marketed for course frontage. The neighborhood's own POA (pvpoalr.com) is a separate organization from the club, running its own pools, playgrounds, tennis courts, and a rentable community center restricted to Pleasant Valley residents -- unrelated to golf club membership.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Club amenities reported include 12 tennis courts, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and a fitness center, alongside the golf course itself and clubhouse dining.
Location & Surrounding Area
Located in the Pleasant Valley neighborhood of west Little Rock, Pulaski County.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fee, dues, and invitation/waitlist practice directly with the club -- no first-party fee schedule was found this session.
- Do not treat 'resident-only amenities' language found on real-estate marketing sites as describing club access -- it refers to the separate Pleasant Valley POA's pools/playground/community center, not golf membership.
- Confirm gated status directly -- no source found this session described Pleasant Valley as a gated neighborhood, but this was not exhaustively confirmed either way.
Notable
- The course carries three named nines (Blue, Yellow, Third) rather than a single 18- or 36-hole layout -- an unusual configuration among Little Rock-metro clubs.
- A caught identity-collision risk: LPGA Championship history sometimes attributed to 'Pleasant Valley Country Club' in search results belongs to a same-named club in Sutton, Massachusetts, not this Little Rock course -- deliberately excluded from this record.
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