Birnam Wood Golf Club
Montecito, Santa Barbara County, California · Central Coast / Santa Barbara golf market
- Access
- mandatory
- Holes
- 18
- Gated
- Yes
- Golf access
- Bundled
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Birnam Wood is a small, exclusive, guard-gated residential enclave in Montecito built around its own private golf club -- confirmed directly from the club's own site as one of the cleanest mandatory-membership residential-golf cases on the Central Coast: every homeowner in the community carries a mandatory Corporate Club membership, billed separately from the HOA and from the home purchase price itself (a one-time $155,000 initiation fee as of March 2025, plus $1,265/month Club dues on top of an $870/month HOA assessment).
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Confirmed directly from the club's own site: Club membership is mandatory for every homeowner in the Birnam Wood community. It is billed separately from the home purchase itself -- a one-time Corporate Homeowner initiation fee ($155,000 as of March 1, 2025) plus ongoing monthly Club dues ($1,265/month), in addition to a separate monthly HOA assessment ($870/month).
Living in Birnam Wood Golf Club
The residential community comprises a finite set of guard-gated lots/homes (reported at 152 lots, ~142 built homes); the HOA and the golf Club are structured as two separate, parallel billing entities -- both mandatory for every homeowner.
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
Historical — as of 2025-03-01$155,000
Club's own site lists this as the Corporate Homeowner initiation fee 'as of March 1, 2025' -- retrieved 2026-09-22 but the source itself frames it as a March-2025 figure, so is_current is left false pending a fresher check; confirm current figure directly with the club.
Annual dues
Historical — as of 2025-03-01$15,180
Derived from the club's own published monthly Club dues of $1,265/month (as of March 1, 2025) x 12; this figure does NOT include the separate monthly HOA assessment ($870/month) -- see buyer_notes. Do not present as current-year pricing.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current (post-March-2025) initiation fee and dues figures directly with the club.
- Confirm membership transferability on resale and whether a new initiation fee applies to a subsequent buyer.
Notable
- Reported 152 residential lots (~142 homes) inside a single guard-gated community.
- Corporate Club membership is mandatory for every homeowner -- confirmed via the club's own site.
- As of March 1, 2025: $155,000 Corporate Homeowner initiation fee, $1,265/month Club dues, and a separate $870/month HOA assessment (source: bwgc.net/membership).
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