Savannah Metro Golf Living Guide

The Landings Club, modeled here as a single flagship parent anchor across its six courses (Marshwood, Magnolia, Terrapin Point, Palmetto, Oakridge, and Deer Creek), is the market's largest and most golf-centric community -- note that the course formerly called 'Plantation' is now named Terrapin Point, and the original course is Marshwood, not 'Marshlands,' a naming correction this research made against the discovery pass. The Ford Field & River Club is the market's strongest access-barrier case: every Ford Plantation property owner is required to become an equity club member, a genuinely mandatory bundled model rather than optional access. The Savannah Golf Club and Savannah Country Club are both real, invitation-adjacent private clubs with deep history (1794/1899 and 1927 respectively), but neither is tied to a developer-built residential community -- The Oglethorpe Club, despite its similar historic-Savannah-institution profile, is a social club with no golf course at all and was excluded outright. Savannah Country Club in particular carries a complicated naming history (General Oglethorpe Golf Course to Savannah Inn and Country Club to Wilmington Island Club to its current name in 2018) that must not be confused with either The Savannah Golf Club or The Oglethorpe Club.

Skidaway Island (The Landings) and Richmond Hill/Bryan County (The Ford Plantation) function as distinct golf-residential submarkets from central Savannah and Wilmington Island, where the two historic freestanding clubs sit inside ordinary (non-gated, non-golf-bundled) neighborhoods. Richmond Hill, in Bryan County rather than Chatham County, is treated here as a sub-area of the broader Savannah Metro market per real-estate sources' common practice of covering it alongside Savannah proper, rather than as its own standalone market, given only one strong anchor was found there.

Access spans a real spectrum in this small market: mandatory equity membership (Ford Field & River Club -- every homeowner must join); resident-priority optional membership with a capped non-resident allocation (The Landings Club); and invitation-only private membership with no residential tie at all (The Savannah Golf Club, Savannah Country Club). Buyers should not assume any Savannah-area club's access model from its name or setting -- 'Savannah Country Club' and 'The Savannah Golf Club' sound similar but are unrelated, differently structured institutions in different parts of the metro.

Reported price ranges vary widely by community: roughly $250,000-$2,000,000+ across The Landings' housing stock (patio homes through waterfront estates; Skidaway Island's broader 2026 median was reported around $800K-$914K), versus roughly $895,000-$3,400,000+ for current Ford Plantation listings. Landings Association dues were only confirmed via a 2016-dated secondary source (roughly $1,730/year) and should be treated as historical, not current; Ford Plantation's POA assessment was reported around $2,500/year plus a mandatory club membership cost layered on top -- the club fee, not the HOA fee, is the dominant and disputed cost figure buyers must confirm directly.

Marina and water access are a recurring co-amenity with golf in this market: The Landings has two deepwater marinas, and The Ford Plantation has a 36-slip deepwater marina plus a 7-acre equestrian center -- both communities pair boating and (at Ford) equestrian sports with golf as co-equal lifestyle draws, distinct from the purely golf/tennis/dining identity of the two in-town historic clubs.

The Landings occupies most of Skidaway Island, roughly 12 miles southeast of downtown Savannah via the Diamond Causeway. The Ford Plantation sits on the Ogeechee River in Richmond Hill, Bryan County, roughly 18-30 minutes south of downtown. The Savannah Golf Club is in-town at 1661 E President St, Chatham County. Savannah Country Club sits on Wilmington Island, east of downtown along the Wilmington River.