The Preserve Golf Club at Santa Lucia Preserve
Carmel, Monterey County, California · Monterey Peninsula / Pebble Beach golf market
- Access
- resident only
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Tom Fazio
- Gated
- Yes
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Santa Lucia Preserve is a large conservation-oriented residential community (roughly 20,000 acres, roughly 300 homesites) in Carmel Valley built around extensive protected open space, with a private Tom Fazio golf course, The Preserve Golf Club, at its center. It is one of the cleanest proximity≠access examples in California: buying land here does not include club membership.
Golf & Course
An 18-hole Tom Fazio design routed through oak woodland and grassland within the Preserve's protected acreage.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Golf membership eligibility is restricted to owners of the Preserve's roughly 297 homesites (10-50 acres each, spanning ~20,000 acres, ~90% under conservation easement) -- but eligibility is not automatic inclusion. A homeowner must still separately apply and be approved for Golf Club membership, one of the cleanest proximity≠access flagships on the whole platform even within a resident-restricted model.
Living in The Preserve Golf Club at Santa Lucia Preserve
Santa Lucia Preserve is built around extensive conservation easements and a low-density homesite model (roughly 300 homesites across ~20,000 acres) rather than a conventional dense golf-course subdivision.
Location & Surrounding Area
Carmel Valley, inland from the Del Monte Forest/17-Mile Drive coastal cluster.
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$150,000
Golf Club membership initiation fee, per Santa Lucia Preserve's own official membership page (retrieved via WebSearch result summary this session -- direct WebFetch to santaluciapreserve.com returned EGRESS_BLOCKED, so the page's own stated effective date could not be independently confirmed). Corroborated by Robb Report ($150,000 initiation, $11,200 dues). Confirm directly with the Preserve's membership office before relying on this figure.
Initiation (range low)
Current$150,000
Golf Club membership; see initiation_fee notes.
Initiation (range high)
Current$150,000
Golf Club membership; see initiation_fee notes.
Annual dues
Current$11,200
Golf Club annual dues reported at $11,200 (Robb Report) / ~$11,500 by other secondary sources; see initiation_fee notes on sourcing limitations. There is also a separate, lower-tier Ranch Club membership (non-golf: equestrian, fitness, 18-acre lake) at a $35,000 initiation fee and $4,750/year dues.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current Golf Club initiation fee/dues and any waitlist directly with the Preserve's membership office -- the $150,000/$11,200 figures cited here come from a search-result summary of the club's own membership page (direct WebFetch was blocked) corroborated by Robb Report, not a fully re-verified live page read.
Notable
- Roughly 20,000 acres with a large share held in permanent conservation easement.
- Golf club membership is explicitly not included with real estate purchase per the community's own positioning.
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