Fort Lauderdale / Broward Golf Living Guide

Each club has a distinct identity. The Club at Weston Hills, operated by Arcis Golf, is Broward's most tournament-pedigreed address: its Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed Tour Course hosted the PGA Tour's Honda Classic from 1992 to 2000, and the club also operates a second 18, the Players Course, plus tiered Full Golf/Sports/Social/Junior Executive/Family membership. Coral Ridge Country Club, in-town in Fort Lauderdale, is the market's most old-line, exclusive address — a 1955 Robert Trent Jones Sr. championship course plus a 2015 par-3 course, with all membership categories reported closed to new applicants due to sustained demand. Grande Oaks Golf Club, owned by Nova Southeastern University and managed by Troon Privé as of March 2026, has the market's most unusual history: built in 1959 as Rolling Hills Country Club, it was a filming location for Caddyshack before Raymond Floyd's redesign and its rebrand. Parkland Golf & Country Club is the most conventional model of the four — a private club course inside its own gated, HOA-governed community in Parkland.

Proximity does not equal access anywhere in this market, and two clubs make that point explicitly. Coral Ridge Country Club's membership categories are reported closed to new applicants regardless of where a buyer lives; owning a home in the surrounding Coral Ridge neighborhood does not include or guarantee club access. Grande Oaks is confirmed by multiple sources to be a club-only facility not based on property purchase — the guard-gated, 156-home Lake Estates at Rolling Hills community sits directly along the course and is marketed for that setting, but its homes do not include club membership. The Club at Weston Hills offers tiered private membership (Full Golf, Sports, Social, Junior Executive, Family) purchased independently of any specific home. Parkland Golf & Country Club is reported by one directory source to sell golf membership separately and optionally from its own community's mandatory HOA, rather than bundling it — this contradicts a naive assumption that a gated golf-course community equals bundled golf, and should be independently reconfirmed with the HOA before relying on it.

Lake Estates at Rolling Hills, the one community in this set with a verified price range, runs roughly $500,000–2,000,000 for its 156 guard-gated single-family homes along the Grande Oaks course. The Coral Ridge neighborhood is an established, non-gated single-family area in Fort Lauderdale around Coral Ridge Country Club; specific pricing was not independently verified this pass. Parkland Golf & Country Club's residential community is gated with a confirmed mandatory HOA, but its fee amount and home-price range were not found in sources reviewed.

The four anchors are spread across very different parts of Broward County rather than clustered: Parkland sits at the county's far northwest edge near the Palm Beach County line; Weston and Davie are western, inland suburbs closer to the Everglades edge; Coral Ridge is a coastal, in-town Fort Lauderdale neighborhood a few miles from the beach. A buyer choosing between them is choosing between a far-suburban gated development, a western master-planned suburb, and dense in-town urban living — not comparing similar settings.