Eagle's Nest Country Club
Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky · Lake Cumberland golf market
- Access
- semi private
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Ben Wihry
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Eagle's Nest Country Club sits in central Pulaski County, winding through wooded hills a few miles from Somerset. Built in 1979 to a Ben Wihry design, the course became the former home of the Kentucky boys' state high school golf tournament and a senior Kentucky Golf Association event, and today plays to a par of 71 across roughly 6,400 yards. What distinguishes Eagle's Nest for a golf-oriented homebuyer is that the club's own marketing explicitly frames the surrounding neighborhood as a package deal with the golf: its website states that '[u]nique to the golf course is the golf community that surrounds the course and small body of water,' and separately advises that anyone buying golf-course real estate there will want to add a Full Family Membership -- language independently confirmed via two differently-worded searches rather than taken from a single AI-summarized source.
That said, Eagle's Nest remains a semi-private club open to public and out-of-county play, and membership is optional rather than mandatory or bundled -- a homeowner can buy a house backing the 7th fairway and never join the club, or join without living anywhere nearby.
Golf & Course
The Ben Wihry-designed course opened in 1979 and plays through the wooded hills of central Pulaski County with several tight driving holes and quick greens; total yardage is reported between roughly 6,404 and 6,409 yards depending on source, with a par of 71. It has hosted the boys' state high school tournament and Kentucky Golf Association senior events historically.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Eagle's Nest is semi-private and open to public and out-of-town play -- there is no bundled or mandatory membership tied to buying a home in the surrounding neighborhood. The club's own materials recommend a Full Family Membership specifically to those purchasing golf-course real estate, framing it as the intended path for a resident who wants full use of the course rather than the club's public green-fee rate, but this remains an optional, separately purchased add-on.
Living in Eagle's Nest Country Club
Homes visibly ring the golf course and a small pond, close enough in places that (per club-adjacent sourcing) an errant shot could reach them, though the clubhouse view of 'the homes surrounding the property' is presented as a selling point rather than a hazard. No formal, Kentucky-specific community association or gated structure was confirmed for the neighborhood during this research pass -- unlike Olde Stone or Woodson Bend, this reads as an established golf-fronting neighborhood rather than a single master-planned, HOA-governed development.
Lifestyle & Amenities
The clubhouse offers an outdoor pool, tennis and pickleball courts, and dining/event space alongside the course itself.
Location & Surrounding Area
Somerset is the seat of Pulaski County and the commercial hub of the Lake Cumberland region, roughly 8 miles from Woodson Bend Resort in Bronston -- the two anchors sit close enough to be genuinely cross-shoppable within the same Lake Cumberland golf market, though they offer very different housing products (single-family neighborhood golf living at Eagle's Nest versus gated condo-resort living at Woodson Bend).
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Annual dues
Historical$1,550
A Full Family Membership is reported at $1,550/year (or $133.33/month) per content surfaced from the club's own website via search; the page itself could not be directly loaded this session (fetch blocked), and no effective date was stated, so this should be confirmed as current before relying on it.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current membership dues and any initiation fee directly with the club -- the $1,550/year Full Family figure found this session was not loaded from a dated, official rate sheet.
- Confirm whether the neighborhood surrounding the course has any formal homeowners association or is simply an unincorporated cluster of individually built homes.
- Confirm gated status directly -- no source found this session stated it either way.
Notable
- Built in 1979 to a Ben Wihry design; formerly hosted the Kentucky boys' state high school golf tournament and a Kentucky Golf Association senior event.
- The club's own website explicitly describes 'the golf community that surrounds the course and small body of water' as unique to Eagle's Nest -- verified via two independently worded searches.
- Remains semi-private and open to public/out-of-county play; membership is optional, not a condition of buying golf-course real estate there.
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