Wild Quail Golf & Country Club
Camden Wyoming, Kent County, Delaware · Kent County & Dover golf market
- Access
- membership optional
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Ed Ault
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Wild Quail Golf & Country Club is a private 18-hole club in Camden Wyoming, just outside Dover, built in 1990 to a design by Ed Ault of Ault, Clark & Associates across roughly 188 acres of rolling Kent County farmland, woods, lakes and streams. Golf Digest has repeatedly rated it among Delaware's top five courses, and it is one of only a small handful of genuinely private clubs in central Delaware -- a meaningful distinction in a Kent County golf market otherwise dominated by public, daily-fee courses (Garrisons Lake, Eagle Creek) and one long-established but access-ambiguous member club (Maple Dale). The club's 20,000-square-foot clubhouse, built alongside the course in 1990, houses a pub, a dining room, a private function room, and hosts the club's pool and tennis facilities.
What separates Wild Quail from Kent County's other courses for a golf-oriented homebuyer is the residential fabric built directly around it: the original golf-frontage neighborhood (marketed as Village of Wild Quail, and generally referred to simply as "Wild Quail"), incorporated in 1990 with roughly 181 homes, and a later phase built by Timberlake Homes between 2016 and 2021 and marketed as "The Estates of Wild Quail" on larger, half-acre-plus homesites nearby. Both are governed, at least in part, by a dedicated Wild Quail-area homeowners' association (wildquailde.com). This is a genuine, decades-long developer/community relationship to the golf course, not merely a subdivision that happens to sit near a course.
Golf & Course
The course routes across roughly 188 acres of rolling terrain that Ault used to incorporate wooded stretches, lakes and streams into a scenic, strategically bunkered 18 holes. It has matured into what Golf Digest has consistently ranked among Delaware's five best courses, and remains one of the state's few genuinely private layouts.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Wild Quail is a private club: membership is available to area residents and the general public but is explicitly not a requirement of living in the surrounding neighborhoods, and club materials describe an all-inclusive membership (golf, carts, range, pool, clubhouse, tennis) rather than a tiered structure with separately priced categories. Specific initiation fees, annual dues, and current waitlist status were not published in any source found and should be confirmed directly with the club's membership office before a purchase decision.
Living in Wild Quail Golf & Country Club
The residential footprint around the club splits into (at least) two identifiably different products: an original, golf-frontage neighborhood dating to the club's 1990 founding (Village of Wild Quail), and a newer, larger-lot phase built by Timberlake Homes between 2016 and 2021 (The Estates of Wild Quail) a short distance away. Both fall within the well-regarded Caesar Rodney School District and are commonly grouped together as "Wild Quail" by local real estate agents, though they represent distinct building eras, lot sizes, and (per differing aggregator reports) different price bands -- buyers should confirm which specific section a given listing belongs to.
Lifestyle & Amenities
The clubhouse offers a casual pub, a business-casual dining room, a private fireplace room (the Muirfield Room), an Olympic-sized outdoor pool with a children's wading pool and poolside bar, and four tennis courts (two Har-Tru, two asphalt), with lessons offered for both swimming and tennis.
Location & Surrounding Area
Camden Wyoming sits a few minutes south of Dover in Kent County, giving residents quick access to Dover's shopping, dining, and state-government employment base while remaining in a more rural, lower-density setting than Dover proper.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fee, annual dues, and membership category structure directly with the club (not published online).
- Confirm current membership waitlist status.
- Confirm whether a specific home listing sits within the original Village of Wild Quail (golf-frontage, 1990-era) section or the newer Estates of Wild Quail (Timberlake Homes, 2016-2021) section, since lot size and reported price ranges differ.
- Confirm gated/access-control status of the residential area directly, since no source explicitly addressed it.
Notable
- Designed by Ed Ault of Ault, Clark & Associates and opened in 1990.
- Repeatedly rated by Golf Digest among Delaware's top five golf courses.
- One of the few genuinely private golf clubs in Kent County, in a county otherwise dominated by public daily-fee courses.
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