Springbrook Country Club
DeWitt, Clinton County, Iowa · Eastern Iowa & Remaining Regions golf market
- Access
- non equity
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Tom Bendelow, Dick Nugent
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Springbrook Country Club is a private 18-hole golf course in DeWitt, in the Quad Cities-adjacent corner of Clinton County, built in 1921 on a Tom Bendelow design and renovated in 1985 by Dick Nugent. It is one of only a small handful of Eastern Iowa clubs where a golf course is bordered by a purpose-built, developer-marketed residential product rather than simply sitting near pre-existing housing: the Old Rail Line Condominium Association, built by local builder Mission Built Construction, sits along Springbrook Lane just off the club's 17th fairway, with units marketed explicitly for their fairway and pond views and garages sized to fit a golf cart alongside a car.
A handful of single-family homes on the same Springbrook Lane corridor also back directly onto the course and have sold in the $300,000s-$500,000s range in recent years. Golf and social club membership is administered on an annual basis, separately from home or condo ownership -- buying into Old Rail Line or the adjacent single-family lots does not include or require Springbrook Country Club membership, and the club's own materials do not describe any bundled-access arrangement.
For a golf-oriented buyer, Springbrook offers a genuine, if modest and thinly documented, example of Eastern Iowa golf-residential integration: a century-old private club whose immediate residential neighbor was deliberately built and marketed around its fairways, rather than the old-guard member-owned-club-with-no-residential-tie pattern that describes most of the rest of the region.
Golf & Course
The course dates to 1921 and was designed by Tom Bendelow, one of the most prolific American golf architects of the early 20th century; a 1985 renovation by Dick Nugent modernized the layout while preserving its tree-lined, small-green character. (Note: at least one secondary source cites a 1927 founding date rather than 1921; this discrepancy was not resolved.) The club offers a full practice facility, including a driving range, putting green, and indoor golf simulators for off-season play.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Springbrook is a private club offering annual Golf and Social memberships; neither category is described anywhere as included with, or required by, ownership of a home or condo in the surrounding Old Rail Line community or along Springbrook Lane. Initiation fee, annual dues amounts, and waitlist status are not published; prospective members and buyers should contact the club directly to confirm current terms.
Living in Springbrook Country Club
The Old Rail Line Condominium Association, built by Mission Built Construction, sits on Springbrook Lane directly along the course's back nine and 17th fairway, with condo and townhouse units plus platted lots for stand-alone villas. Additional individually-owned single-family homes on the same street also back onto the course. This is a modest-scale community by comparison to larger Midwest golf developments -- research found no evidence of a large master-planned scale -- but it is a genuine, named, golf-course-organized residential product rather than incidental proximity.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Clubhouse amenities include casual and social dining, an outdoor pool, tennis courts, a fitness space, and event/banquet space, per the club's own site and directory listings. These are club amenities requiring membership, distinct from any homeowner-association amenities the surrounding condo community may separately provide (none were confirmed).
Location & Surrounding Area
DeWitt sits in Clinton County roughly 20-25 minutes northwest of the Quad Cities (Davenport/ Bettendorf) via US-61 and US-30, in the far eastern part of the state along the Mississippi River corridor. It is geographically and administratively distinct from the market's other anchor, Fort Dodge Country Club, which sits roughly 150 miles to the west in north-central Iowa.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fee, annual dues, and membership waitlist status directly with the club.
- Confirm whether Springbrook Lane's single-family homes are formally part of the Old Rail Line Condominium Association or a separate platted development.
- Confirm whether the 'Springbrook Home Owners Association' (springbrookhoa-dewitt.com, referencing a Springbrook Lake and the Looking Glass River) is the same development as the golf-course-adjacent Old Rail Line community or a distinct, unrelated DeWitt subdivision that happens to share the Springbrook name.
- Resolve the 1921 vs. 1927 founding-year discrepancy directly with the club.
- Confirm gated/access-control status, which was not found either way.
Notable
- Designed by Tom Bendelow, dating to 1921 (one source cites 1927); renovated in 1985 by Dick Nugent.
- The Old Rail Line Condominium Association, built by Mission Built Construction, sits just off the 17th fairway.
- Single-family homes on Springbrook Lane also back directly onto the course, with recent sales in the $300,000s-$500,000s.
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