Mayacama Golf Club
Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California · Napa / Sonoma (Wine Country + North Bay) golf market
- Access
- invitation only
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Jack Nicklaus
- Gated
- Yes
- Golf access
- Bundled
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Mayacama sits in the hills above Santa Rosa in northern Sonoma County, close to Healdsburg, and is explicitly built and marketed as a private golf and residential community rather than a freestanding club. Its Jack Nicklaus-designed course is consistently ranked among Golf Digest's top 100 and was named the fifth-best residential golf course in the country by Golfweek. The gated community is deliberately low-density, with the course routed through wilderness terrain that includes deer and wild turkey.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Membership is invitation-only and requires sponsorship by an existing member; the club does not publish dues, initiation fees, deposits, or assessments. Whether owning property inside Mayacama's gates requires or automatically includes membership was not confirmed this session.
Living in Mayacama Golf Club
Most ownership at Mayacama is structured as deeded fractional (typically 1/10) Residence Club interests in villas or casitas, offering roughly three planned weeks per year of use plus additional short-notice access for housekeeping cost only -- a fractional-ownership model that is unusual among this batch's candidates. A limited number of traditional full homesites also exist inside the gates, constrained by land value and environmental requirements.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Whether club membership is required for, or automatically included with, either a full homesite or a fractional Residence Club interest -- not resolved this session due to search-budget exhaustion.
- Current initiation fee and dues -- reported figures conflict sharply ($85,000 vs. $250,000-$400,000) across secondary sources; no official rate sheet found.
Notable
- Golfweek ranked Mayacama's Jack Nicklaus-designed course the fifth-best residential golf course in the United States.
- Most Mayacama real estate is sold as deeded 1/10 fractional Residence Club interests rather than whole-home ownership.
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