El Caballero Country Club
Tarzana, Los Angeles County, California · San Fernando Valley golf market
- Access
- invitation only
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Robert Trent Jones Sr., Rees Jones (2021 renovation)
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El Caballero Country Club is a private, invitation-only club in Tarzana, founded in 1957 on land that was once part of the Tarzana Ranch associated with Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. Its 18-hole course was originally laid out by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and was substantially renovated by his son Rees Jones in 2021.
Membership requires sponsorship by two current members plus a reported $50,000 initiation fee and $650/month dues (per a secondary source; the club does not publish pricing itself). Several gated luxury streets sit around the course, and per real-estate coverage, homes immediately adjacent have outperformed the broader Tarzana market in recent appreciation -- a proximity effect, not a membership benefit.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Membership is by invitation/sponsorship only; there is no bundled or automatic path to membership through any nearby home purchase. Buyers drawn to the immediate streets around the course should not assume proximity confers any admission advantage.
Living in El Caballero Country Club
Multiple gated streets in the hills around El Caballero offer custom estates with a strong physical connection to the course, though no single named HOA or master-planned community was found covering all of them -- this is a cluster of individually gated streets rather than one cohesive development.
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 2026-09-22$50,000
Country Club Magazine reports a $50,000 initiation fee and $650/month dues; the club does not publish these figures itself, so is_current is left unset rather than asserted.
Annual dues
Historical — as of 2026-09-22$7,800
Derived from Country Club Magazine's reported $650/month dues figure ($650 x 12); not an official club-published number.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fee and dues directly with the club -- no official published fee schedule was located this session.
- Confirm whether any single named community/HOA exists for the gated streets surrounding the course.
Notable
- The club sits on part of the former Tarzana Ranch, historically associated with Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- The course was originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and renovated by his son, Rees Jones, in 2021.
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