Bayside Resort Golf Club (Selbyville, DE)

Bayside Resort Golf Club anchors a 1,000-acre gated resort community in Selbyville, Delaware, about 4 miles inland from the beaches of Fenwick Island and a short drive north of Ocean City, Maryland. The course was Delaware's first Jack Nicklaus Signature design, playing along Assawoman Bay through salt marsh, meadow, and woodland terrain with views across the water to the Ocean City skyline, and per available sourcing has been voted the No. 1 Course You Can Play in Delaware by Golfweek Magazine for 14 consecutive years. The surrounding community -- built out with single-family homes, townhomes, duplexes, and condos across multiple builder phases -- functions as a largely self-contained coastal village, with its own retail, dining, dedicated internal shuttles linking micro-neighborhoods, and a Health and Aquatic Club.

The golf-residential tie here is real and verifiable, though more layered than a simple 'buy a home, get a membership' model. The club currently structures its standing membership program (Premier and Sports tiers) as exclusive to Bayside homeowners, with only a limited number of Invitational Premier memberships offered to buyers from outside the community -- a genuine homeowner-priority access model. At the same time, the course also accepts public daily-fee tee times through Troon's booking system, and available sourcing indicates the exact relationship between HOA dues and golf access (included, add-on, or pay-as-you-play) has varied across the community's different sections and builder phases over time. Buyers should confirm the current structure for the specific section/home they're considering directly with the club rather than assuming a single, uniform answer applies across all of Bayside.