# US Golf Living > US Golf Living is an independent research resource for people deciding where to live > when golf matters to their lifestyle. It profiles significant golf clubs and the > residential communities around them across the United States — how membership and > golf access actually work (equity, non-equity, bundled, mandatory, semi-private, > resort), amenities, housing, HOA/club costs and golf markets. Coverage: 50 states, 384 golf markets, 1675 researched golf clubs ("golf anchors"), 1296 residential communities and 236 head-to-head comparisons. Every page is listed below with a short description. How to use and cite this site: - Each club and community has its own page; cite that page's URL for facts about it. - Content is built only from verified, cited sources; each profile lists its sources and last-verified date. - "Golf anchor" means a club that passed the site's qualification standard (see Methodology): a meaningful barrier to entry plus real residential relevance, or national destination status. - Membership fees, availability and waitlists change; buyers should confirm current terms directly with each club. - US Golf Living is independent and is not affiliated with the clubs or communities it profiles. ## Core Guides - [US Golf Living — Golf Communities & Places to Live](https://www.usgolfliving.com/): Research golf communities, private clubs, nearby neighborhoods, membership options, amenities and places to live when golf matters to your lifestyle. - [Understanding Golf Membership & Access](https://www.usgolfliving.com/golf-membership-guide/): How golf club membership and access actually work for homeowners: equity, non-equity, bundled, mandatory, semi-private and resort models, and what each means for a buyer. - [Methodology: How Golf Anchors Are Selected](https://www.usgolfliving.com/methodology/): How US Golf Living researches and qualifies golf clubs, courses and their associated residential communities, and what it takes for a club to be published. - [About US Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/about/): Who US Golf Living is: an independent research resource for people deciding where to live when golf matters to their lifestyle. ## States - [Florida Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/): Independent research on 246 golf clubs and 216 residential golf communities across 42 Florida golf markets, including Naples, Sarasota and Lakewood Ranch / Bradenton: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Arizona Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/): Independent research on 77 golf clubs and 66 residential golf communities across 21 Arizona golf markets, including North Scottsdale, Paradise Valley and Cave Creek & Carefree: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [North Carolina Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/): Independent research on 131 golf clubs and 92 residential golf communities across 32 North Carolina golf markets, including Asheville / Hendersonville, Charlotte and Wilmington Metro: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [South Carolina Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/): Independent research on 96 golf clubs and 68 residential golf communities across 21 South Carolina golf markets, including Aiken, Beaufort & the Sea Islands and Bluffton: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Georgia Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/): Independent research on 78 golf clubs and 46 residential golf communities across 25 Georgia golf markets, including Atlanta In-Town/Historic, Augusta and Callaway Gardens / Pine Mountain: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Texas Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/): Independent research on 103 golf clubs and 76 residential golf communities across 26 Texas golf markets, including Austin Metro, Texas Hill Country / Horseshoe Bay and Park Cities / Preston Hollow / North Dallas: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [California Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/): Independent research on 148 golf clubs and 79 residential golf communities across 28 California golf markets, including Indian Wells, La Quinta and LA Westside — Old-Guard Clubs: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Nevada Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/): Independent research on 20 golf clubs and 21 residential golf communities across 4 Nevada golf markets, including Henderson, Las Vegas / Summerlin and Lake Tahoe, Nevada: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Tennessee Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/): Independent research on 38 golf clubs and 25 residential golf communities across 7 Tennessee golf markets, including Chattanooga, Franklin & Brentwood / Williamson County and Knoxville: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Virginia Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/): Independent research on 52 golf clubs and 48 residential golf communities across 12 Virginia golf markets, including Charlottesville, Loudoun County and Prince William County / Haymarket-Gainesville (+ Fairfax): how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Colorado Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/): Independent research on 44 golf clubs and 43 residential golf communities across 8 Colorado golf markets, including Aspen / Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado Springs and Denver Metro / Front Range: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [New Jersey Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/): Independent research on 58 golf clubs and 24 residential golf communities across 6 New Jersey golf markets, including Bergen / Essex / Passaic (NYC Suburbs), Greater Princeton and Jersey Shore / Monmouth County: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Pennsylvania Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/): Independent research on 70 golf clubs and 22 residential golf communities across 7 Pennsylvania golf markets, including Harrisburg, Hershey, Lancaster & York, Lehigh Valley & Bucks County and The Poconos: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [New York Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/): Independent research on 106 golf clubs and 23 residential golf communities across 10 New York golf markets, including The Hamptons (East End), Long Island Gold Coast (North Shore) and Westchester & Lower Hudson Valley: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Maryland Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/): Independent research on 45 golf clubs and 23 residential golf communities across 7 Maryland golf markets, including Baltimore Metro, DC Suburbs and Eastern Shore — Ocean City Corridor: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Alabama Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/): Independent research on 36 golf clubs and 25 residential golf communities across 6 Alabama golf markets, including Birmingham Metro, Gulf Coast and Huntsville: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Mississippi Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/): Independent research on 11 golf clubs and 9 residential golf communities across 4 Mississippi golf markets, including Mississippi Gulf Coast, Jackson Metro and Golden Triangle: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Louisiana Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/): Independent research on 17 golf clubs and 16 residential golf communities across 5 Louisiana golf markets, including Baton Rouge Metro, Lafayette / Acadiana and New Orleans Metro: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Arkansas Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/): Independent research on 15 golf clubs and 19 residential golf communities across 6 Arkansas golf markets, including Bella Vista Village, Northwest Arkansas and Hot Springs Village: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Oklahoma Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/): Independent research on 20 golf clubs and 25 residential golf communities across 4 Oklahoma golf markets, including Oklahoma City Metro, Tulsa Metro and Grand Lake: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [New Mexico Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/): Independent research on 9 golf clubs and 13 residential golf communities across 4 New Mexico golf markets, including Albuquerque Metro, Santa Fe and Las Cruces: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Utah Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/): Independent research on 10 golf clubs and 14 residential golf communities across 3 Utah golf markets, including Park City / Deer Valley, Salt Lake City Metro and St. George: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Oregon Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/): Independent research on 14 golf clubs and 18 residential golf communities across 4 Oregon golf markets, including Bend / Central Oregon, Portland Metro and Rogue Valley: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Washington Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/): Independent research on 14 golf clubs and 16 residential golf communities across 6 Washington golf markets, including Seattle Metro, Cle Elum / Suncadia and Semiahmoo / Whatcom County: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Illinois Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/): Independent research on 16 golf clubs and 19 residential golf communities across 3 Illinois golf markets, including Chicago North Shore, Chicago Western/Southwestern Suburbs and Peoria: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Ohio Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/): Independent research on 7 golf clubs and 6 residential golf communities across 5 Ohio golf markets, including Columbus Metro, Cincinnati Metro and Dayton Metro: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Michigan Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/): Independent research on 6 golf clubs and 4 residential golf communities across 2 Michigan golf markets, including Northern Michigan Resort Corridor and Detroit Metro: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Massachusetts Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/): Independent research on 9 golf clubs and 10 residential golf communities across 2 Massachusetts golf markets, including Cape Cod & the Islands and Greater Boston & South Shore: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Indiana Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/): Independent research on 11 golf clubs and 12 residential golf communities across 4 Indiana golf markets, including Indianapolis Metro, Northwest Indiana and Evansville: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Missouri Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/): Independent research on 15 golf clubs and 17 residential golf communities across 5 Missouri golf markets, including Kansas City Metro, St. Louis Metro and Lake of the Ozarks: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Wisconsin Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/): Independent research on 10 golf clubs and 11 residential golf communities across 6 Wisconsin golf markets, including Central Sands, Southeast Wisconsin and Door County: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Minnesota Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/): Independent research on 8 golf clubs and 10 residential golf communities across 3 Minnesota golf markets, including Brainerd Lakes, Twin Cities Metro and Rochester: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Kentucky Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/): Independent research on 9 golf clubs and 10 residential golf communities across 4 Kentucky golf markets, including Louisville Metro, Bowling Green and Lake Cumberland: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Connecticut Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/): Independent research on 6 golf clubs and 8 residential golf communities across 2 Connecticut golf markets, including Hartford Area & Central Connecticut and Gold Coast, Litchfield Hills & Shoreline: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Iowa Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/): Independent research on 8 golf clubs and 10 residential golf communities across 3 Iowa golf markets, including Des Moines Metro, Eastern Iowa & Remaining Regions and Okoboji & Iowa Great Lakes: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Kansas Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/): Independent research on 11 golf clubs and 11 residential golf communities across 3 Kansas golf markets, including Kansas City Metro & Johnson County, Wichita & South-Central Kansas and Lawrence, Manhattan, Topeka & Remaining Regions: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Idaho Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/): Independent research on 11 golf clubs and 15 residential golf communities across 3 Idaho golf markets, including Boise Metro & Treasure Valley, North Idaho & Coeur d'Alene and Sun Valley, McCall & Remaining Regions: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Nebraska Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/): Independent research on 7 golf clubs and 6 residential golf communities across 3 Nebraska golf markets, including Nebraska Sandhills, Omaha Metro and Lincoln & Remaining Regions: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [West Virginia Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/): Independent research on 4 golf clubs and 6 residential golf communities across 2 West Virginia golf markets, including Eastern Panhandle and Greenbrier Valley & Southern West Virginia: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Hawaii Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/): Independent research on 13 golf clubs and 34 residential golf communities across 4 Hawaii golf markets, including Big Island / Kona-Kohala Coast, Maui and Oahu: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [New Hampshire Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/): Independent research on 7 golf clubs and 8 residential golf communities across 3 New Hampshire golf markets, including Lakes Region & Dartmouth-Sunapee, Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire and White Mountains & North Country: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Maine Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/): Independent research on 7 golf clubs and 8 residential golf communities across 3 Maine golf markets, including Greater Portland Metro, Southern Coast & York County and Midcoast: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Montana Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/): Independent research on 12 golf clubs and 13 residential golf communities across 4 Montana golf markets, including Big Sky & Bozeman / Gallatin Valley, Flathead Valley & Glacier Gateway and Missoula & Bitterroot Valley: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Rhode Island Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/): Independent research on 5 golf clubs and 6 residential golf communities across 2 Rhode Island golf markets, including Newport County & Aquidneck Island and South County & Washington County Coastal: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Delaware Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/): Independent research on 10 golf clubs and 11 residential golf communities across 4 Delaware golf markets, including Sussex County — Rehoboth, Lewes & Millsboro/Long Neck, Sussex County - Bethany, Ocean View & Selbyville/Fenwick and Kent County & Dover: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [South Dakota Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/): Independent research on 5 golf clubs and 8 residential golf communities across 3 South Dakota golf markets, including Black Hills & Rapid City, Dakota Dunes and Sioux Falls Metro: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [North Dakota Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/): Independent research on 5 golf clubs and 6 residential golf communities across 4 North Dakota golf markets, including Bismarck, Fargo Metro and Grand Forks: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Alaska Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alaska/): Independent research on 1 golf club and 2 residential golf communities across 1 Alaska golf market (Mat-Su Valley (Wasilla)): how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Vermont Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/): Independent research on 6 golf clubs and 8 residential golf communities across 4 Vermont golf markets, including Stowe, Southern Vermont (Manchester & Ludlow/Okemo) and Mad River Valley (Sugarbush): how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. - [Wyoming Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/): Independent research on 8 golf clubs and 10 residential golf communities across 4 Wyoming golf markets, including Jackson Hole, Northeast Wyoming (Sheridan & Devils Tower Country) and Star Valley (Thayne / Star Valley Ranch): how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ## Florida - [Florida Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/): Independent research on 246 golf clubs and 216 residential golf communities across 42 Florida golf markets, including Naples, Sarasota and Lakewood Ranch / Bradenton: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Florida Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Florida](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 50 Florida golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Bonita National Golf & Country Club, Pelican Sound Golf & River Club, Copperleaf Golf Club, Spring Run at The Brooks and Highland Woods Golf & Country Club. - [Private Golf Communities in Florida](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 196 private Florida golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Bonita Bay, Shadow Wood Country Club, The Colony Golf & Bay Club, Spanish Wells Country Club and Grandezza Golf & Country Club. - [55+ Golf Communities in Florida](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/guides/55-plus-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 18 Florida golf anchors connected to age-restricted (55+) residential communities, including On Top of the World Golf Club, Candler Hills Golf Club, Stone Creek Golf Club, Glenview Champions Golf & Country Club and Havana Country Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in Florida](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 8 Florida golf resort ecosystems, including Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Reunion Resort, Tranquilo Golf Club at Four Seasons Resort Orlando, Tiburon Golf Club and PGA National Resort. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Florida](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 20 private Florida golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including The Colony Golf & Bay Club, Grasslands Golf & Country Club, Bay Colony Golf Club, Island Country Club and PGA National Resort. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Florida](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 82 Florida golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Bonita Bay, Shadow Wood Country Club, Pelican Sound Golf & River Club, Vasari Country Club and Worthington Country Club. - [Golf + Waterfront Communities in Florida](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/guides/golf-waterfront-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 44 Florida golf anchors with marina or beach access, including Bonita Bay, The Colony Golf & Bay Club, Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Gulf Harbour Yacht & Country Club and Mediterra. ### Florida Comparisons - [Grey Oaks Country Club vs Mediterra: Golf Community Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/grey-oaks-country-club-vs-mediterra/): A researched comparison of Grey Oaks Country Club and Mediterra in Naples, FL: course scale, membership fees, beach access, and community structure for golf-oriented buyers. - [Talis Park vs Quail West: Golf Community Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/talis-park-vs-quail-west/): A researched comparison of Talis Park and Quail West in Naples, FL: how mandatory membership works at each club, price, course pedigree, and community scale. - [Bonita Bay vs Shadow Wood Country Club: Golf Community Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/bonita-bay-vs-shadow-wood-country-club/): A researched comparison of Bonita Bay and Shadow Wood Country Club in the Bonita Springs-Estero market: scale, membership cost, waitlist length, and beach access. - [The Bear's Club vs Old Palm Golf Club: Golf Community Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-bears-club-vs-old-palm-golf-club/): The Bear's Club vs Old Palm Golf Club in Jupiter/Palm Beach Gardens, FL: invitation-only vs mandatory equity access, published fees, course architects, and what buyers should verify. - [Admirals Cove vs Jonathan's Landing: Golf Community Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/admirals-cove-vs-jonathans-landing/): Admirals Cove vs Jonathan's Landing in Jupiter, FL: mandatory vs optional club membership, golf and marina footprint, published fees, and what buyers should verify. - [BallenIsles Country Club vs Mirasol Country Club: Golf Community Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/ballenisles-country-club-vs-mirasol-country-club/): BallenIsles vs Mirasol Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens, FL: golf footprint and tournament pedigree, membership-tier structure, published fees, and what buyers should verify. - [Boca West Country Club vs Broken Sound Club: Golf Community Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/boca-west-country-club-vs-broken-sound-club/): A researched comparison of Boca West Country Club and Broken Sound Club in Boca Raton, FL: golf footprint, residential structure, membership tiers, cost, and documented waitlist status. - [Gulf Harbour Yacht & Country Club vs Fiddlesticks Country Club: Golf Community Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/gulf-harbour-yacht-country-club-vs-fiddlesticks-country-club/): A researched comparison of Gulf Harbour Yacht & Country Club and Fiddlesticks Country Club in Fort Myers, FL: whether club membership is required to buy, marina access, golf footprint, and cost. - [Lakewood National Golf Club vs The Concession Golf Club: Golf Community Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/lakewood-national-golf-club-vs-the-concession-golf-club/): A researched comparison of Lakewood National Golf Club and The Concession Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch/Bradenton, FL: bundled golf vs. invitation-only membership, community scale, and cost. - [Sailfish Point vs John's Island Club: Golf Community Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/sailfish-point-vs-johns-island-club/): A researched comparison of Sailfish Point (Stuart) and John's Island Club (Vero Beach/Indian River Shores), FL: golf footprint, waterfront identity, and what is and isn't documented about membership cost and access. - [Naples vs Bonita Springs / Estero for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/naples-vs-bonita-springs-estero-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Naples and Bonita Springs/Estero, FL for golf-oriented homebuyers: access-model mix, bundled-golf share, tournament pedigree, beach access, and price positioning. - [Naples vs Sarasota for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/naples-vs-sarasota-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Naples and Sarasota, FL for golf-oriented homebuyers: access-model mix, course history and pedigree, tournament history, airport access, and price positioning. - [Fort Myers / Cape Coral vs Bonita Springs / Estero for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/fort-myers-cape-coral-vs-bonita-springs-estero-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Fort Myers/Cape Coral and Bonita Springs/Estero, FL for golf-oriented homebuyers: bundled-golf structure, private-club pricing, tournament pedigree, and lifestyle amenities. - [Palm Beach Gardens vs Jupiter / Tequesta for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/palm-beach-gardens-vs-jupiter-tequesta-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter/Tequesta, FL for golf-oriented homebuyers: mandatory-membership prevalence, PGA Tour pedigree, marina access, and price positioning. - [Ocala vs The Villages for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/ocala-vs-the-villages-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Ocala and The Villages, FL for golf-oriented homebuyers: bundled vs. private club structure, age-restriction mix, cost model, and non-golf lifestyle identity. - [Palm Beach Gardens vs Boca Raton for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/palm-beach-gardens-vs-boca-raton-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Palm Beach Gardens and Boca Raton, FL for golf-oriented homebuyers: club access patterns, tournament pedigree, beach and airport access, downtown character, and price positioning. ### Naples, FL - [Naples, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/): Naples is, by sheer density and depth of private golf, arguably Florida's single most golf-saturated market: Collier County is home to dozens of private clubs and gated golf communities packed into a metro area of under 25 miles end to end, more concentrated golf-real-estate overlap than almost anywhere else in the state. #### Golf Clubs in Naples - [Grey Oaks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/grey-oaks-country-club/): Grey Oaks Country Club is a private, member-owned equity club in central Naples with three championship golf courses, built as the amenity core of the gated Grey Oaks masterplan (including the separately gated Estuary at Grey Oaks enclave). - [Mediterra](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/mediterra/): Mediterra is a private, gated golf and beach-club community in North Naples built around two Tom Fazio-designed courses, capped at 450 golf memberships, with a private Beach Club on Little Hickory Island. - [Talis Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/talis-park/): Talis Park is a 460-acre gated golf community in North Naples developed by Kitson & Partners around a Greg Norman/Pete Dye course, with the Vyne House as clubhouse. - [Quail West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/quail-west/): Quail West is a 1,180-acre, all-estate-home gated community in North Naples/Bonita Springs organized around two Arthur Hills-designed championship golf courses; club membership is mandatory for every property owner and currently reserved for residents only, with some resale homes offering transferable memberships. - [Bay Colony Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/bay-colony-golf-club/): Naples, FL: Bay Colony Golf Club is an invitation-only, 300-member-capped equity club on 200 acres physically sited within the Pelican Marsh community, and is bound with the separate beachfront Bay Colony community (in Pelican Bay) under one Bay Colony Community Association; Bay Colony (Pelican Bay) residents are offered membership at this club. - [Pelican Marsh Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/pelican-marsh-golf-club/): Pelican Marsh Golf Club is a member-owned private club at the center of the 1,000+ acre Pelican Marsh community in North Naples, which contains 26 named sub-neighborhoods; golf membership has a published multi-year waitlist and is open to both residents and non-residents by application. - [Olde Cypress Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/olde-cypress-golf-club/): Olde Cypress is a 550-home gated golf community in North Naples where a mandatory Social Membership at The Club at Olde Cypress (P.B. Dye course) is bundled with home ownership for residents who don't hold Golf/Associate Golf membership; Golf membership itself is a further optional, separately purchased upgrade. - [TwinEagles](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/twineagles/): TwinEagles is a private, member-owned, 1,115-acre golf community in North Naples/Golden Gate Estates area with 36 holes (Talon and Eagle courses) across 717 planned residences; every home is deeded a club membership (Golf, Sport, or Social), though which tier accompanies a given resale home varies. - [The Quarry](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/the-quarry/): The Quarry is a North Naples master-planned community built around 500+ acres of spring-fed, navigable lakes and an 18-hole Hurdzan-Fry course; golf club membership is optional and separately priced, while a private beach club/lake amenity is available community-wide. - [Imperial Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/imperial-golf-club/): Imperial Golf Club is a private, member-owned 36-hole club (Arthur Hills East Course, Ward Northrup West Course) established 1979, comparatively affordable for Naples ($12,000 join fee) and the namesake amenity of the gated, 633-home Imperial Golf Estates community, though about three-quarters of members live outside the neighborhood. - [Audubon Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/audubon-country-club/): Audubon Country Club is a private, gated, low-density (401-home, 14-neighborhood) golf community south of North Naples built around a Joe Lee-designed course, with non-equity golf membership capped at 340 members. - [Collier's Reserve Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/colliers-reserve-country-club/): Naples, FL: Collier's Reserve Country Club is a private, member-owned equity club (300-member cap) built around an Arthur Hills course along the Cocohatchee River, and is the sole amenity/club for its own 224-home gated community -- the first golf community in the world designated an Audubon International Signature Sanctuary. - [Fiddler's Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/fiddlers-creek/): Fiddler's Creek is a large, award-winning gated community between Naples and Marco Island; all homeowners are members of the base Club & Spa, while golf membership at the Arthur Hills-designed Creek Course (The Golf Club at Fiddler's Creek) and the Tarpon Club are optional, separately purchased add-ons. - [Tiburon Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/tiburon-golf-club/): Tiburon Golf Club comprises two Greg Norman-designed courses co-managed with The Ritz-Carlton, Naples, hosting PGA/LPGA Tour events; it anchors the ~550-home, multi-sub-community Tiburon residential area, with Signature and Medallion membership tiers tied to golf access and resort privileges. - [Wyndemere Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/wyndemere-country-club/): Wyndemere Country Club is a member-owned, centrally located Naples community of 634 residences across 16 neighborhoods; equity club membership (golf capped at 535, or social) is mandatory for all residents, built around a 27-hole Arthur Hills course. - [The Vineyards Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/the-vineyards-country-club/): Private, non-equity country club at the heart of the Vineyards master-planned community in central Naples, offering Full Golf and Lifestyle (social) memberships that are optional, not bundled, with home purchase. - [The Strand Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/the-strand-golf-and-country-club/): Privately-owned private club in North Naples with 27 holes across three nines, an 8-court Har-Tru tennis facility, and tiered membership open to both Strand residents and outside members; not bundled with home purchase. - [Treviso Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/treviso-bay/): TPC Treviso Bay is a bundled-golf community in South Naples; a Golf Membership or a Social Membership (no golf, non-upgradable) is deeded to each property, with roughly 700 homes carrying Social-only membership. - [Heritage Bay Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/heritage-bay-golf-and-country-club/): Bundled-golf, gated community in North Naples where every home purchase includes a full 27-hole Golf Membership with no separate initiation fee or equity requirement. - [Naples Lakes Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/naples-lakes-country-club/): Gated, bundled-golf community in South Naples (within the Lely Resort area) built around an 18-hole Arnold Palmer Signature course; all 731 residences include full golf membership with no initiation fee or waitlist. - [Naples Heritage Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/naples-heritage-golf-and-country-club/): Bundled-golf, gated community in Naples where all 799 residences include a full Golf Membership; single-family monthly HOA fees run roughly $700s-$800s, villas/condos roughly $1,200-$1,300+. - [Stonebridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/stonebridge-country-club/): Naples, FL: Gated, bundled-golf community with ten neighborhoods and 799 homes (estate homes, villas, coach homes, condominiums) on 313 acres; every home purchase includes full golf membership with no equity or deposit. - [Vanderbilt Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/vanderbilt-country-club/): Bundled-golf community of roughly 800 owner-members in Naples; every home purchase includes club membership with no initiation fee. - [Cedar Hammock Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/cedar-hammock-golf-and-country-club/): Bundled-golf, gated Naples community structured as a Common Interest Realty Association; every property owner is automatically a club member, with golf fees collected via quarterly HOA dues. - [Cypress Woods Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/cypress-woods-golf-and-country-club/): Gated Naples community where a full golf membership is bundled into every home purchase (single-family, coach home, or condo) with no initiation fee or separate dues; 18-hole, 6,300+-yard Gordon Lewis-designed course rated 71.7/136. - [Forest Glen Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/forest-glen-golf-and-country-club/): Gated Naples community of 799 homes, all with a golf membership deeded to the property (no initiation fee); renovated 18-hole championship course by Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates. - [Esplanade Golf & Country Club (Naples)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/esplanade-golf-and-country-club-naples/): Bundled-golf community at 8918 Torre Vista Dr, Naples (Collier County), with condominiums, coach homes, and single-family homes, each deeded either a Golf or Social Membership to the on-site 18-hole course. - [Foxfire Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/foxfire-golf-and-country-club/): Bundled-golf, gated community in Southeast Naples; membership is included with the purchase of any residence, with no separate initiation fee, and transfers with the sale of the property. - [Glen Eagle Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/glen-eagle-golf-and-country-club/): Naples, FL: Private, gated, deeded-membership community of roughly 1,234 residences across 15 neighborhoods; 924 carry a golf membership and 310 a social membership (full facility access, golf access May-October only). - [Countryside Golf & Country Club (Naples)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/countryside-golf-and-country-club-naples/): Naples, FL: Private, gated bundled community of 1,133 properties (850 golf units) organized as 34 local HOAs under a Master Association; a golf or social membership is included with purchase and there is no initiation fee. - [Wilderness Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/wilderness-country-club/): Established 1974, Naples' first private, gated, bundled golf community; 300 low-density residences around an Arthur Hills-designed, Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary-certified 18-hole course, member-owned and self-governed. - [Royal Wood Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/royal-wood-golf-and-country-club/): Private, bundled-golf community in Naples; membership costs are bundled into home purchase with annual golf dues of roughly $4,130 and no separate initiation fee or social dues. - [Quail Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/quail-creek-country-club/): Quail Creek Country Club is a member-owned private club in Naples with two Arthur Hills-designed 18-hole courses (Quail and Creek); golf membership is capped at 580 members, and the surrounding community consists of 291 estate homesites on quarter-acre-plus lots built around the courses. - [Kensington Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/kensington-golf-country-club/): Kensington Golf & Country Club is a private, gated 370-acre community in central Naples built around a Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed course; equity golf membership is capped at 350 with initiation fees reported at $100,000-150,000 and $15,000+ annual dues. - [Club Pelican Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/club-pelican-bay/): Club Pelican Bay is a private, member-owned club with 27 holes of Arthur Hills-designed golf (three nines) set within the large Pelican Bay community in North Naples; golf membership carries a lengthy multi-year waitlist and is not automatically granted by buying a home in Pelican Bay. #### Golf Communities in Naples - [Grey Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/grey-oaks/): Grey Oaks is a master-planned, gated luxury golf community in central Naples built around Grey Oaks Country Club's three golf courses. - [The Estuary at Grey Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/estuary-at-grey-oaks/): Naples, FL: The Estuary at Grey Oaks is a luxury gated enclave within the Grey Oaks masterplan; Grey Oaks golf membership explicitly includes access covering the Estuary as well as Grey Oaks proper. - [Talis Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/talis-park-community/): Talis Park is a 460-acre gated luxury community of 799 planned residences in North Naples, organized around its own golf course and Vyne House clubhouse/village center. - [Quail West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/quail-west-community/): Naples, FL: Quail West is a 1,180-acre, all single-family estate-home gated community (668 homes planned) built around its own two golf courses; club membership is mandatory for homeowners. - [Bay Colony](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/bay-colony/): Naples, FL: Bay Colony is an exclusive ~200-acre beachfront enclave within the larger Pelican Bay master-planned community, with 11 luxury condominium towers, villas and estate homes, a private Beach Club, and offered membership access to the separately located Bay Colony Golf Club. - [The Estates at Bay Colony Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/estates-at-bay-colony-golf-club/): Naples, FL: The Estates at Bay Colony Golf Club is a gated, on-course single-family enclave sited within the Pelican Marsh community boundary, built directly around Bay Colony Golf Club's course. - [Pelican Marsh](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/pelican-marsh/): Pelican Marsh is a 1,000+ acre North Naples master-planned community with 26 named sub-neighborhoods, 133 acres of nature preserve, and a member-owned private golf club at its center. - [Olde Cypress](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/olde-cypress/): Olde Cypress is a private, gated, 550-home golf community in North Naples where a mandatory Social Membership at The Club at Olde Cypress is bundled with every home that does not carry a higher membership tier. - [TwinEagles](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/twineagles-community/): TwinEagles is a 1,115-acre, 717-residence private golf community in North Naples where every home is deeded a club membership tied to the community's 36-hole Talon and Eagle courses. - [The Quarry](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/the-quarry-community/): The Quarry is a North Naples master-planned lake community built around 500+ acres of navigable lakes with a private beach club, resort pool, and an 18-hole Hurdzan-Fry golf course with optional membership. - [Imperial Golf Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/imperial-golf-estates/): Naples, FL: Imperial Golf Estates is a gated community established in 1979 comprising 633 single-family homes and condominiums, many with lake, preserve, or Imperial Golf Club course views. - [Collier's Reserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/colliers-reserve/): Collier's Reserve is a private, gated community of 224 custom single-family homes along the Cocohatchee River in North Naples, built entirely around Collier's Reserve Country Club. - [Tiburon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/tiburon/): Tiburon is a roughly 550-home residential area in North Naples organized as a series of private gated sub-communities alongside the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, sharing the Tiburon Golf Club's two Greg Norman courses. - [Wyndemere](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/wyndemere/): Wyndemere is a private, gated, member-owned community of 634 residences across 16 neighborhoods in central Naples, built around Wyndemere Country Club's 27-hole Arthur Hills golf course; equity club membership is mandatory for all residents. - [Vineyards](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/vineyards/): Large, gated master-planned community in central Naples built around The Vineyards Country Club's golf courses; club membership is optional and separate from home purchase. - [The Strand](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/the-strand/): Gated North Naples community surrounding The Strand Golf & Country Club's 27 holes; club membership is optional and also sold to non-residents. - [Treviso Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/treviso-bay-community/): Gated South Naples master-planned community built around the TPC Treviso Bay course; roughly two-thirds of homes carry a bundled Golf Membership, the rest a Social Membership only. - [Heritage Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/heritage-bay/): Gated North Naples community where every home includes a bundled Golf Membership to Heritage Bay's 27-hole course. - [Naples Lakes Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/naples-lakes-country-club-community/): 490-acre gated South Naples community of 731 residences with more than 160 acres of preserve, all with bundled golf membership to the on-site Arnold Palmer Signature course. - [Naples Heritage](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/naples-heritage/): Gated Naples community of 799 residences, all with bundled golf membership to the on-site 18-hole course. - [Stonebridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/stonebridge/): Gated, 313-acre, ten-neighborhood Naples community of 799 homes with bundled golf membership to the on-site 18-hole course. - [Vanderbilt Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/vanderbilt-country-club-community/): Naples community of roughly 800 owner-members with bundled club membership included with home purchase; course also open to some public play. - [Cedar Hammock](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/cedar-hammock/): Gated Naples community where every owner is automatically a member of Cedar Hammock Golf & Country Club, with golf fees paid via quarterly HOA dues. - [Cypress Woods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/cypress-woods/): Gated North Naples community where a full golf membership is bundled into every home purchase with no initiation fee or separate golf dues. - [Forest Glen](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/forest-glen/): Gated Naples community of 799 homes all carrying a deeded golf membership to Forest Glen's 18-hole Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest-designed course. - [Esplanade (Naples)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/esplanade-naples/): Gated Naples community (distinct from the Lakewood Ranch/Azario Esplanade properties) where each home carries a deeded Golf or Social membership to the on-site 18-hole course. - [Foxfire](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/foxfire/): Gated Southeast Naples community where club membership is bundled with every home purchase and transfers with the property. - [Glen Eagle](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/glen-eagle/): Gated Naples community of 15 neighborhoods and roughly 1,234 residences, each carrying a deeded golf or social membership to the on-site course. - [Countryside (Naples)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/countryside-naples/): Gated Naples community of 1,133 properties across 34 local HOAs under one Master Association; golf or social membership included with purchase, no initiation fee. - [Wilderness](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/wilderness/): Naples' first private, gated, bundled golf community (1974); 300 low-density residences with immediate, mandatory golf membership. - [Royal Wood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/royal-wood/): Naples community where club membership is bundled into home purchase with no separate initiation fee. - [Quail Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/quail-creek/): Quail Creek is a 640-acre Naples community of 291 estate-sized homes (quarter-acre-plus lots) built around Quail Creek Country Club's two Arthur Hills golf courses. - [Kensington](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/kensington/): Kensington is a gated, 370-acre golf community in central Naples surrounding Kensington Golf & Country Club's Robert Trent Jones Jr. course. - [Pelican Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/naples/pelican-bay/): Pelican Bay is a large master-planned community in North Naples built around Club Pelican Bay's 27 holes of golf; specific community housing mix, HOA/foundation fees, and beach-access terms were not independently verified in this pass. ### Bonita Springs / Estero, FL - [Bonita Springs / Estero, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/): Bonita Springs and Estero, two adjoining Lee County communities strung along US-41 between Naples and Fort Myers, form one of Southwest Florida's densest concentrations of private and bundled-golf living. #### Golf Clubs in Bonita Springs / Estero - [Bonita Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/bonita-bay/): Bonita Bay is a 2,400-acre master-planned private club community in Bonita Springs with 5 golf courses (3 on the Bonita Springs side, 2 at Bonita Bay East in North Naples), 18 lit tennis courts, pickleball, croquet, a large fitness/wellness campus, marina and a private Gulf-front beach club. - [Bonita National Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/bonita-national-golf-country-club/): Bonita National is a bundled-golf community in Bonita Springs built around an 18-hole Gordon Lewis championship course. Golf or Social club membership is deeded to the home at closing depending on unit type; roughly 866 of the community's 1,459 homes carry full golf membership. - [Shadow Wood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/shadow-wood-country-club/): Shadow Wood Country Club is a private non-equity club operating 3 championship 18-hole courses (54 holes total): two within Shadow Wood at The Brooks (Estero) and The Preserve course at Shadow Wood Preserve (Fort Myers). - [The Colony Golf & Bay Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/the-colony-golf-bay-club/): The Colony Golf & Bay Club is a private, non-equity club within the gated Colony enclave of Pelican Landing in Bonita Springs, centered on an 18-hole Jerry Pate championship course (opened 2000). - [Pelican Sound Golf & River Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/pelican-sound-golf-river-club/): Pelican Sound Golf & River Club is a 547-acre, 1,299-home bundled-golf and bundled-social community in Estero with a 27-hole private championship course, 8 lighted Har-Tru tennis courts, 18 pickleball courts, 5 bocce courts, 5 community pools, a fitness center and a kayak park with shuttle boat access to Lover's Key State Park. - [Copperleaf Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/copperleaf-golf-club/): Copperleaf Golf Club is a gated bundled-golf community within The Brooks master-planned area of Estero (416 single-family homes, 154 carriage homes). - [Spring Run at The Brooks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/spring-run-at-the-brooks/): Spring Run at The Brooks is a bundled-golf community within The Brooks master-planned area of Estero, offering an 18-hole course with nine sets of tees, tennis courts and a resort-style pool. - [Highland Woods Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/highland-woods-golf-country-club/): Highland Woods Golf & Country Club is a bundled-golf community of 799 residences in Bonita Springs, centered on an 18-hole, par-72 Gordon Lewis championship course with a full practice facility. - [Vasari Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/vasari-country-club/): Vasari Country Club is a 375-acre gated, member-owned bundled-golf community in Bonita Springs with an 18-hole, par-72 championship course (Gordon G. Lewis and Billy Fuller, 2002), tennis, pickleball, bocce, racquetball and other amenities set among lakes and wildlife preserves. - [Worthington Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/worthington-country-club/): Worthington Country Club is a member-owned bundled-golf community in Bonita Springs. Every home purchase includes golf privileges plus a complete country club membership for two. - [Spanish Wells Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/spanish-wells-country-club/): Bonita Springs, FL: Spanish Wells Golf & Country Club, founded 1979, is a semi-private club: the 27 holes (North/South by Gordon Lewis, East by Bruce Howard, playable in three 18-hole combinations) are open to public play, while the 32,000-sq-ft clubhouse, tennis, and fitness facility are reserved for members. - [Grandezza Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/grandezza-golf-country-club/): Grandezza is a gated, privately owned and Heritage Golf Group-operated ~1,000-home community in Estero with a 53,000-sq-ft Tuscan-style clubhouse. - [Breckenridge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/breckenridge-golf-club/): Breckenridge Golf & Tennis Club is a gated, bundled-golf community of 842 residences (condominiums, townhomes, twin villas) across 8 subdivisions in Estero. - [West Bay Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/west-bay-club/): West Bay Club is a private, gated golf community in Estero along the Estero River with an 18-hole course set in a preserve; every homeowner carries a mandatory Social membership bundled with home purchase, while golf membership is a separate, optional, non-equity upgrade capped at 290 members (reported $50,000 initiation, $10,700/year dues), part of the Troon golf network. - [Pelican's Nest Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/pelicans-nest-golf-club/): Pelican's Nest Golf Club is a private, member-funded 36-hole club (two Tom Fazio-designed courses, "The Gator" and "The Hurricane", built starting 1985) within the gated Pelican Landing master-planned community in Bonita Springs; golf membership is optional and separate from home purchase, with reported initiation fees in the $100,001-$150,000 range (directory-sourced, not an official rate sheet). #### Golf Communities in Bonita Springs / Estero - [Estancia at Bonita Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/estancia-at-bonita-bay/): Bonita Springs, FL: Estancia at Bonita Bay is a luxury high-rise condominium enclave within the Bonita Bay master-planned community, marketed as one of Bonita Bay's exclusive residential towers. - [Bonita National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/bonita-national/): Bonita National is a 1,459-home bundled-golf community in Bonita Springs built around Bonita National Golf & Country Club's 18-hole championship course. - [Shadow Wood at The Brooks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/shadow-wood-at-the-brooks/): Shadow Wood at The Brooks is one of five neighborhoods within the 2,492-acre master-planned Brooks of Estero community, and is the only Brooks neighborhood offering non-equity golf membership at Shadow Wood Country Club. - [Shadow Wood Preserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/shadow-wood-preserve/): Fort Myers, FL: Shadow Wood Preserve is an intimate 293-home master-planned community west of US-41 near Estero Bay, home to Shadow Wood Country Club's Preserve golf course; residents may apply for Shadow Wood Country Club membership. - [The Colony at Pelican Landing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/the-colony-at-pelican-landing/): Bonita Springs, FL: The Colony at Pelican Landing is an 800-acre gated luxury enclave within Pelican Landing, comprising high-rise towers (Sorrento, Navona, Florencia, Altaira, Palermo, La Scala, Treviso), mid-rise buildings (Cielo, Terzetto, Castella) and single-family/villa neighborhoods (Bellagio, Tuscany, Messina, Ponza), built around The Colony Golf & Bay Club (a non-equity club with Golf membership capped at 275). - [Pelican Landing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/pelican-landing/): Pelican Landing is a 3,318-residence, roughly 2,365-acre master-planned community between Estero Bay and US-41 in Bonita Springs/Estero. - [Pelican Sound](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/pelican-sound/): Pelican Sound is a 547-acre, 1,299-home master-planned bundled-golf community in Estero built around Pelican Sound Golf & River Club's 27-hole course. - [Copperleaf at The Brooks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/copperleaf-at-the-brooks/): Copperleaf at The Brooks is one of five neighborhoods within The Brooks master-planned community in Estero, built around Copperleaf Golf Club's bundled 18-hole course. - [Highland Woods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/highland-woods/): Highland Woods is a 799-residence bundled-golf community in Bonita Springs built around Highland Woods Golf & Country Club's 18-hole Gordon Lewis course. - [Vasari](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/vasari/): Vasari is a 375-acre gated bundled-golf community in Bonita Springs built around Vasari Country Club's championship course. - [Worthington](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/worthington/): Worthington is a member-owned bundled-golf community in Bonita Springs; every home includes golf privileges and full country club membership for two. - [Spanish Wells](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/spanish-wells/): Spanish Wells is a gated, roughly 600-acre community of 8 subdivisions in Bonita Springs built around Spanish Wells Golf & Country Club, a semi-private facility whose 27 holes are open to public play while clubhouse amenities are members-only; club membership is optional in most subdivisions and mandatory only in Cordova. - [Grandezza](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/grandezza/): Grandezza is a gated, ~1,000-home community in Estero built out across about a dozen neighborhoods by Stock Development starting in 2001. - [Breckenridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/bonita-springs-estero/breckenridge/): Breckenridge is a gated, 842-residence, 8-subdivision bundled-golf community in Estero built around its own 18-hole executive (par-54) course. ### Fort Myers / Cape Coral, FL - [Fort Myers / Cape Coral, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/): Fort Myers/Cape Coral is Southwest Florida's largest golf-living market by anchor and community count, and its defining trait is how much of it runs on bundled golf. #### Golf Clubs in Fort Myers / Cape Coral - [Gulf Harbour Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/gulf-harbour-yacht-country-club/): Gulf Harbour Yacht & Country Club is a private, equity-membership yacht and golf club on the Caloosahatchee River in south Fort Myers, anchoring the gated, marina-front Gulf Harbour residential community. - [Fiddlesticks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/fiddlesticks-country-club/): Fiddlesticks Country Club is a private, resident-owned equity club in Fort Myers, gated with 24-hour guard security at two entrances, with two 18-hole championship golf courses: the Long Mean (Ron Garl, 1982, a Golf Digest-recognized Top 100 layout) and the Loch Ness (originally Robert Cupp's Wee Friendly, redesigned by Kipp Schulties and reopened in 2019). - [Heritage Palms Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/heritage-palms-golf-country-club/): Heritage Palms is a private, bundled-golf community in south Fort Myers with two 18-hole golf courses. Golf/social club access is included in the mandatory Master HOA fee rather than sold as a separate membership. - [Colonial Country Club (Fort Myers)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/colonial-country-club-fort-myers/): Colonial Country Club is a bundled-golf/social residential community in Fort Myers with two membership tiers tied to specific neighborhoods: a Golf membership (bundled with the 15 Golf Village neighborhoods, full course access) and a Lakes/social membership (bundled with the 21 Lake Village neighborhoods, no golf privileges). - [Olde Hickory Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/olde-hickory-golf-country-club/): Olde Hickory is a private, bundled-golf community in Fort Myers with a single 18-hole Ron Garl-designed championship course; club membership is included with home purchase rather than sold separately. - [Kelly Greens Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/kelly-greens-golf-country-club/): Kelly Greens is a private, gated, bundled-golf community of 939 single-family homes and condos between Sanibel and Fort Myers Beach, built around an 18-hole course. - [Lexington Country Club (Fort Myers)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/lexington-country-club-fort-myers/): Lexington Country Club is a bundled-golf/social community in Fort Myers split between Golf Villages (full golf membership) and Lake Villages (social membership, pay-as-you-play golf). - [The Legends Golf & Country Club (Fort Myers)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/legends-golf-country-club-fort-myers/): Legends Golf & Country Club is a private, gated, bundled-golf community in south Fort Myers with 1,291 homes; 831 properties include a golf membership and 461 include a social-only membership, bundled with no separate initiation fee. - [River Hall Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/river-hall-country-club/): River Hall Country Club is a private, gated, bundled-golf community in Alva (Lee County) built around an 18-hole Davis Love III-designed course. - [Babcock National Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/babcock-national-golf-country-club/): Babcock National is the golf neighborhood within the Babcock Ranch master-planned community, built around an 18-hole course. - [Herons Glen Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/herons-glen-golf-country-club/): Herons Glen is a residential community in North Fort Myers organized around a resident-funded Recreational District that owns its clubhouse and amenity complex, plus a semi-private 18-hole Ron Garl-designed golf course. - [The Landings Yacht, Golf & Tennis Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/landings-yacht-golf-tennis-club/): The Landings Yacht, Golf & Tennis Club in Fort Myers: researched bundled golf access, residential communities and what buyers should verify. - [Verandah Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/verandah-club/): Verandah is a guard-gated, 1,456-acre community along the Orange River in Fort Myers (developed by Bonita Bay Group starting in 2003, later acquired by The Kolter Group in 2012) with mandatory base club membership for homeowners and 36 holes of golf across two courses -- Bob Cupp's Old Orange and Jack Nicklaus/Jack Nicklaus II's Whispering Oak -- available via an optional golf-membership upgrade. - [The Forest Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/forest-country-club/): The Forest Country Club is a private, member-owned club (opened 1979) in a gated, non-bundled community in Fort Myers with two Gordon Lewis-designed 18-hole courses -- the Bobcat and the Bear -- set on 620 acres of nature preserve. - [Pelican Preserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/pelican-preserve/): Pelican Preserve is a 1,100-acre, age-restricted (55+) golf community in Fort Myers with 2,498 residences and 27 holes of Chip Powell-designed golf; golf club membership is separate and optional, with a refundable $27,000 initiation fee and $6,800/year dues. #### Golf Communities in Fort Myers / Cape Coral - [Gulf Harbour](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/gulf-harbour/): Gulf Harbour is a gated, marina-anchored residential community in south Fort Myers on the Caloosahatchee River, built around Gulf Harbour Yacht & Country Club's 18-hole course, with single-family homes and condominium/tower residences. - [Fiddlesticks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/fiddlesticks/): Fiddlesticks is a private, resident-owned, 24-hour guard-gated residential community of 585 residences in Fort Myers organized around Fiddlesticks Country Club's two 18-hole golf courses, the Long Mean and the Loch Ness. - [Heritage Palms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/heritage-palms/): Heritage Palms is a bundled-golf residential community in south Fort Myers with two 18-hole courses and a mandatory Master HOA fee that includes club access. - [Colonial Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/colonial-country-club/): Colonial Country Club is a large bundled-golf/social community in Fort Myers (1,699 units across 15 Golf Village and 21 Lake Village neighborhoods). - [Olde Hickory](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/olde-hickory/): Olde Hickory is a private, bundled-golf community of 561 single-family homes, villas, and condos in Fort Myers surrounding an 18-hole Ron Garl-designed course. - [Kelly Greens](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/kelly-greens/): Kelly Greens is a private, gated, bundled-golf community of 939 homes and condos in Fort Myers. - [Lexington Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/lexington-country-club/): Lexington Country Club is a bundled-golf/social community in Fort Myers, with HOA fees and membership tier varying by Golf Village vs. Lake Village. - [Legends Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/legends-golf-country-club/): Legends Golf & Country Club is a large, gated, bundled-golf community in south Fort Myers with 1,291 homes across multiple sub-HOAs (e.g., Somerset, Westfield). - [River Hall](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/river-hall/): River Hall is a gated, bundled-golf master-planned community in Alva (Lee County) built around an 18-hole Davis Love III-designed course. - [Babcock National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/babcock-national/): Babcock National is the golf neighborhood within Babcock Ranch, built around an 18-hole course, with single-family, coach, veranda, and terrace condominium homes. - [Herons Glen](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-myers-cape-coral/herons-glen/): Herons Glen is a North Fort Myers community organized around a resident-funded Recreational District clubhouse/amenity complex and a semi-private 18-hole Ron Garl-designed course. ### Marco Island, FL - [Marco Island, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/marco-island/): US Golf Living has researched 2 golf anchors in the Marco Island golf market, in Collier County, including Island Country Club and Hideaway Beach Club. #### Golf Clubs in Marco Island - [Island Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/marco-island/island-country-club-marco-island/): Discovered as part of Marco Island market research: Island Country Club, founded 1966, is a private, member-owned equity club and the only 18-hole championship course on Marco Island (par 72, 6,852 yards). - [Hideaway Beach Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/marco-island/hideaway-beach-club/): Discovered as part of Marco Island market research: Hideaway Beach Club is a gated, beachfront community (est. 1981) at the northwest corner of Marco Island combining 2.5 miles of private beach with tennis, dining, and a private 9-hole executive golf course (par 32, playable across multiple tee configurations, designed by Bruce Devlin and Robert Von Hagge). - [Hammock Bay Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/marco-island/hammock-bay-golf-country-club/): Hammock Bay Golf & Country Club is an 18-hole private course in unincorporated Collier County between Naples and Marco Island, operated together with The Rookery course as The Members Club at Marco in partnership with the JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort. #### Golf Communities in Marco Island - [Marco Island Estates Area](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/marco-island/marco-island-estates/): The single-family residential grid immediately surrounding Island Country Club in central Marco Island; not a single gated or HOA-unified development, but the area a golf-oriented buyer targeting Island CC would most likely shop. - [Hideaway Beach](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/marco-island/hideaway-beach/): Gated beachfront community occupying the northwest corner of Marco Island; all property owners are mandatory members of the on-site beach/golf/tennis club via a capital contribution. - [Hammock Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/marco-island/hammock-bay/): Gated residential community of high-rise condominiums, villas, and coach homes built directly around the Hammock Bay golf course in unincorporated Collier County, between Naples and Marco Island, surrounded by preserved wetlands and lakes. ### Ave Maria, FL - [Ave Maria, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ave-maria/): Ave Maria is a purpose-built town in eastern Collier County, developed around Ave Maria University (which opened in 2007) on former agricultural land -- a genuinely different kind of market from the beach-adjacent or legacy-suburb golf communities common elsewhere in Southwest Florida. #### Golf Clubs in Ave Maria - [The National Golf & Country Club at Ave Maria](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ave-maria/the-national-golf-and-country-club-at-ave-maria/): Bundled-golf, gated community within the Ave Maria master-planned town in eastern Collier County; a Golf or Social Membership is bundled with home purchase. #### Golf Communities in Ave Maria - [The National at Ave Maria](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ave-maria/the-national-at-ave-maria/): Gated golf neighborhood within the Ave Maria master-planned town; HOA fees bundle basic cable/internet, common-area maintenance, gated access, amenity maintenance, and golf course operations. ### Sarasota, FL - [Sarasota, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/): US Golf Living has researched 14 golf anchors in the Sarasota golf market, spanning Sarasota County and northern Manatee County, including The Oaks Club, TPC Prestancia, Longboat Key Club, The Founders Club and University Park Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Sarasota - [Heritage Oaks Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/heritage-oaks-golf-country-club/): Bundled-golf community/CIRA in Sarasota where golf/tennis/social club membership is included in HOA fees and reported as compulsory for most owner-residents, with some sections said to make it optional. - [The Founders Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/the-founders-club/): Sarasota, FL: Private club capped at 275 memberships, featuring an 18-hole Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed course on 700 acres, surrounded by a 262-home residential community of the same name. - [Laurel Oak Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/laurel-oak-country-club/): Private, member-owned equity club founded in 1990, anchoring a custom-home community in Sarasota; membership is a separate purchase from the home. - [Sara Bay Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/sara-bay-country-club/): Sarasota, FL: Founded in 1926 as part of the historic Whitfield Estates residential development, Sara Bay Country Club features a Donald Ross-designed course and remains a private, member-owned club with a low membership roster. - [University Park Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/university-park-country-club/): Gated, resident-owned 27-hole Ron Garl golf club in University Park, a 1,202-home master-planned community in Manatee County (marketed under the Sarasota area). - [TPC Prestancia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/tpc-prestancia/): Sarasota, FL: Non-equity private club within the TPC Network, offering 36 holes (Stadium Course and Players Course, designed by Ron Garl and Robert Von Hagge) inside the gated Prestancia community in Palmer Ranch. - [Stoneybrook Golf & Country Club of Sarasota](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/stoneybrook-golf-country-club-of-sarasota/): Gated, 940-home Palmer Ranch community built around an Arthur Hills/Kipp Schulties-designed golf course; all property owners are members of Stoneybrook Golf and Country Club of Sarasota, Inc., with membership required upon transfer of the property (894 golf memberships, 46 social-only). - [The Oaks Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/the-oaks-club/): Private, mandatory-membership club in Osprey with two 18-hole championship courses; membership (equity or social) is required with real-estate purchase in the surrounding gated community. - [Longboat Key Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/longboat-key-club/): Private 45-hole golf, tennis, and beach club on Longboat Key with resort operations; membership is a separate purchase from real estate but is a well-known amenity driving demand for nearby homes and condos. - [Misty Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/misty-creek-country-club/): Gated 302-home private golf community in Sarasota built around an 18-hole Ted McAnlis-designed course; real-estate sources disagree on whether club membership is mandatory for homeowners. - [Boca Royale Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/boca-royale-golf-country-club/): Semi-private 18-hole club anchoring a 1,000-acre gated Neal Communities master-planned development in Englewood (south Sarasota County), near Wellen Park. - [Pelican Pointe Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/pelican-pointe-golf-country-club/): 27-hole semi-private club (three nine-hole courses) in a 1,355-home Venice community; a base social club membership is included for all homeowners, while golf membership is a separate optional upgrade. - [Plantation Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/plantation-golf-country-club-venice/): Large master-planned Venice community (~2,600 homes) built around a private 36-hole club, including the Panther course; golf/clubhouse membership is optional for ownership but effectively required to use the facilities. - [Jacaranda West Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/jacaranda-west-country-club/): Private, member-owned 18-hole club in Venice with a published application-fee-plus-dues structure (multiple membership tiers); anchors the surrounding Jacaranda West residential community. #### Golf Communities in Sarasota - [Heritage Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/heritage-oaks-community/): Residential community built around Heritage Oaks Golf & Country Club in Sarasota; club membership is bundled into HOA dues for most owners. - [The Founders Club (community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/founders-club-community/): Sarasota, FL: 262-home residential community spread across 700 acres of lakes, fairways and preserves surrounding The Founders Club. - [Laurel Oak](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/laurel-oak-community/): Custom-home residential community surrounding Laurel Oak Country Club in Sarasota, founded 1990. - [Whitfield Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/whitfield-estates/): Historic residential development (established 1920s) north of downtown Sarasota, developed in conjunction with Sara Bay Country Club. - [University Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/university-park-community/): Gated, 1,202-home master-planned golf community in Manatee County built out across 32 sub-neighborhoods (1992-2016) around University Park Country Club's 27-hole Ron Garl course. - [Prestancia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/prestancia-community/): Gated golf community in Palmer Ranch, Sarasota, built around the 36-hole TPC Prestancia club, minutes from Siesta Key. - [Stoneybrook (Sarasota / Palmer Ranch)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/stoneybrook-sarasota-community/): Sarasota, FL: 940-home gated Palmer Ranch community (condos, verandas, villas, single-family) where club membership is bundled with ownership and required upon resale. - [The Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/the-oaks-osprey/): Residential community in Osprey built around The Oaks Club's two golf courses; club membership is mandatory with home purchase. - [Longboat Key Club Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/longboat-key-club-residences/): Condominium residences on and around the Longboat Key Club resort property at the south end of Longboat Key. - [Misty Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/misty-creek-sarasota/): Gated 302-home community surrounding Misty Creek Country Club's 18-hole course, set within a wildlife preserve in Sarasota. - [Boca Royale](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/boca-royale-englewood/): 1,000-acre gated master-planned community in Englewood (south Sarasota County) built by Neal Communities around Boca Royale Golf & Country Club. - [Pelican Pointe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/pelican-pointe-venice/): 1,355-home community on 1,000 acres of preserves and wetlands in Venice, built around Pelican Pointe's 27-hole club; social club membership is included for homeowners, golf is a separate optional upgrade. - [Plantation Golf & Country Club (Community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/plantation-venice/): Large master-planned community of about 2,600 homes across 20+ neighborhoods in Venice, centered on Plantation Golf & Country Club's private 36-hole course. - [Jacaranda West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/sarasota/jacaranda-west-venice/): Residential community in Venice built around Jacaranda West Country Club's 18-hole course; club membership is a separate, optional purchase. ### Lakewood Ranch / Bradenton, FL - [Lakewood Ranch / Bradenton, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/): Lakewood Ranch / Bradenton is one of the golf-densest single markets US Golf Living covers in Florida: nine researched anchors spanning nearly every access model that exists in Florida golf real estate. #### Golf Clubs in Lakewood Ranch / Bradenton - [Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/lakewood-ranch-golf-country-club/): Private member club operating four 18-hole golf courses (72 holes) within Lakewood Ranch, open to both residents and non-residents; membership is separate from village HOA dues and carries a significant initiation fee. - [Lakewood National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/lakewood-national-golf-club/): Lennar-built bundled-golf community in Lakewood Ranch with two Arnold Palmer-designed 18-hole courses; golf membership is attached to the home deed and paid through HOA/community fees rather than a separate initiation fee. - [Esplanade Golf & Country Club at Lakewood Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/esplanade-golf-country-club-at-lakewood-ranch/): Lakewood Ranch, FL: Sold-out, 1,250-home Taylor Morrison bundled-golf community built around an 18-hole Chris Wilczynski-designed course (6,716 yds, slope 135); golf membership is bundled with homeownership. - [Esplanade Golf & Country Club at Azario](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/esplanade-golf-country-club-at-azario/): 55+ gated bundled-golf community (1,512 homes, 600 acres) within the Azario Lakewood Ranch master plan, built around a 7,000+-yard Chris Wilczynski-designed championship course; golf is deeded with designated golf homes, with non-golf homes/villas also offered. - [The Concession Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/the-concession-golf-club/): Ultra-exclusive, invitation-only private club in Bradenton featuring an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus/Tony Jacklin-designed championship course plus a 9-hole par-3 course, set within a 1,200-acre, 255-home gated luxury estate community with four enclaves (Birkdale, Nicklaus Manor, Lindrick, Parkstone Estates). - [Calusa Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/calusa-country-club-sarasota/): New (2025) Lennar bundled-golf village in Lakewood Ranch (Manatee County) with two Gordon Lewis-designed courses -- an 18-hole championship layout and a 12-hole short course -- plus a clubhouse, resort pool, tennis and pickleball. - [Rosedale Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/rosedale-golf-country-club/): Semi-private 18-hole club inside the gated Rosedale community in Bradenton (Manatee County); membership is available to residents and non-residents alike and is not mandatory for most homeowners. - [Waterlefe Golf & River Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/waterlefe-golf-river-club/): Gated golf and Manatee River marina community in Bradenton (Manatee County); golf and the equity-structured 59-slip marina club are optional, separately purchased amenities layered on top of HOA/CDD dues. - [Peridia Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/peridia-golf-country-club/): Member-owned, 649-home Bradenton community (Manatee County) with a par-60, 18-hole executive course; a specialist real-estate source reports golf-club membership as bundled into HOA fees for residents, though the club is semi-private and also open to public/daily-fee play. #### Golf Communities in Lakewood Ranch / Bradenton - [Country Club (Lakewood Ranch)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/country-club-at-lakewood-ranch/): The original golf villages of Lakewood Ranch (Country Club and Country Club East) built around Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club's four courses. - [Lakewood National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/lakewood-national-community/): Lakewood Ranch, FL: 900-acre gated Lennar community built entirely around Lakewood National's two 18-hole Arnold Palmer courses; golf is bundled with every home. - [Esplanade Golf & Country Club at Lakewood Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/esplanade-at-lakewood-ranch/): Lakewood Ranch, FL: 1,250-home gated Taylor Morrison community with an 18-hole championship course, two amenity campuses and three resort pools; golf is bundled with home purchase. - [Esplanade at Azario](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/esplanade-at-azario/): 600-acre, 1,512-home 55+ gated village within Azario Lakewood Ranch, offering both golf-deeded and non-golf home options around the Esplanade championship course. - [The Concession](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/the-concession-estates/): Bradenton, FL: 1,200-acre gated luxury estate community with only 255 custom home sites (half-acre to full-acre) across four enclaves, built around The Concession Golf Club. - [Calusa Country Club (community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/calusa-country-club-community/): New Lennar-built golf village in Lakewood Ranch (Manatee County) surrounding Calusa Country Club's two Gordon Lewis-designed courses. - [Rosedale](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/rosedale-bradenton/): Gated residential community in Bradenton built around Rosedale Golf & Country Club; club membership is separate from the Rosedale Master HOA and not required of all homeowners. - [Waterlefe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/waterlefe-bradenton/): Riverside golf and boating community in Bradenton on the Manatee River, with an 18-hole golf club and a separate 59-slip marina club, both optional amenities on top of HOA and CDD fees. - [Peridia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakewood-ranch-bradenton/peridia-bradenton/): 649-home, member-owned community in Bradenton built around Peridia Golf & Country Club's par-60, 18-hole executive course. ### Venice / North Port, FL - [Venice / North Port, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/venice-north-port/): Venice / North Port, in Sarasota County just south of the Lakewood Ranch / Bradenton and Sarasota markets, is currently a thin market in US Golf Living's research: one anchor, Venice Golf & Country Club, and its surrounding community. #### Golf Clubs in Venice / North Port - [Venice Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/venice-north-port/venice-golf-country-club/): Private, member-owned equity club built in 1991 around an 18-hole, par-72 Ted McAnlis-designed course (Certified Audubon Sanctuary, water on 10 holes) in Venice (Sarasota County). #### Golf Communities in Venice / North Port - [Venice Golf & Country Club (community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/venice-north-port/venice-golf-and-country-club-community/): Gated, member-owned equity golf community of roughly 587 single-family homes built (from 1991) around Venice Golf & Country Club's Ted McAnlis-designed 18-hole Audubon Sanctuary course, just west of I-75 in Venice (Sarasota County). ### Tampa, FL - [Tampa, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/): Tampa's golf-living market is defined less by one dominant model than by a genuine split between old, in-town private clubs and newer, purpose-built suburban golf communities. #### Golf Clubs in Tampa - [Avila Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/avila-golf-country-club/): Avila Golf & Country Club is a private, invitation-only club at the center of Avila, a guard-gated luxury residential community in north Tampa. - [Palma Ceia Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/palma-ceia-golf-country-club/): Founded in 1916 with an 18-hole course originally laid out by Donald Ross (completed 1925), Palma Ceia Golf & Country Club is an invitation-only private club (~2,500 members) at the heart of South Tampa's Palma Ceia neighborhood, one of the city's most established residential areas. - [Hunter's Green Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/hunters-green-country-club/): Hunter's Green Country Club is a private, Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole club (founded 1989, 7,059 yards) at the center of the gated Hunter's Green master-planned community in New Tampa, which spans 23 neighborhood enclaves around 43 lakes and 65 acres of protected wetlands. - [Tampa Palms Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/tampa-palms-golf-country-club/): Private 18-hole Arthur Hills-designed club (operated by Invited) that has served as the golf and lifestyle centerpiece of the Tampa Palms master-planned community in New Tampa since 1981. - [Carrollwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/carrollwood-country-club/): Private 27-hole country club (Concert Golf Partners) in Carrollwood Village, Tampa, offering golf, tennis, a 50-room resort hotel, fitness and dining; fully restored and operating normally as of 2026 after 2024 hurricane damage. - [River Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/river-hills-country-club/): Deed-restricted, gated, multi-village community of ~1,160 homes in Valrico built entirely around River Hills Country Club (Joe Lee-designed 18-hole course, est. 1989). - [The Club at Cheval](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/club-at-cheval/): Private golf/tennis/fitness club (Heritage Golf Group), one of two golf courses (alongside a separate TPC course) inside Cheval, a large 24-hour-guarded gated community in Lutz. - [Temple Terrace Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/temple-terrace-golf-country-club/): Historic private club (course designed by Tom Bendelow, opened 1922) at the center of Temple Terrace, one of the first planned golf-course communities in the U.S. (founded 1925). #### Golf Communities in Tampa - [Avila](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/avila/): Avila is a guard-gated luxury residential community in north Tampa built around Avila Golf & Country Club's private 18-hole course; it is widely described as one of Tampa's most prestigious gated golf neighborhoods. - [Palma Ceia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/palma-ceia/): Palma Ceia is a historic, established South Tampa neighborhood surrounding Palma Ceia Golf & Country Club's 1916 Donald Ross-designed course; it is one of South Tampa's most desirable and sought-after residential areas. - [Hunter's Green](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/hunters-green/): Hunter's Green is a gated, master-planned community in New Tampa comprising 23 neighborhood enclaves built around 43 lakes and roughly 65 acres of protected wetlands, centered on the private Hunter's Green Country Club and its Tom Fazio golf course. - [Tampa Palms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/tampa-palms/): Large master-planned community in New Tampa comprising 24 residential villages (~2,277 homes) governed by the Tampa Palms Owners Association, built around Tampa Palms Golf & Country Club. - [Country Club Village at Carrollwood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/country-club-village-at-carrollwood/): Single-family neighborhood within Carrollwood Village, Tampa, directly bordering Carrollwood Country Club's golf course. - [River Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/river-hills-valrico/): Deed-restricted, controlled-access, multi-village community of ~1,160 single-family homes in Valrico surrounding River Hills Country Club. - [Cheval](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/cheval-lutz/): Large (600+ acre), three-gate, 24-hour-guarded luxury community in Lutz containing two golf courses, organized under separate Cheval East and Cheval West associations. - [Temple Terrace Historic District](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tampa/temple-terrace-historic-district/): Historic Mediterranean Revival neighborhood in Temple Terrace, planned in the 1920s as one of the first golf-course communities in the U.S., built around Temple Terrace Golf & Country Club. ### Clearwater / St. Petersburg, FL - [Clearwater / St. Petersburg, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/): US Golf Living has researched 7 golf anchors in the Clearwater / St. Petersburg golf market, in Pinellas County, including Innisbrook Resort, Pelican Golf Club, Feather Sound Country Club and Ardea Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Clearwater / St. Petersburg - [Innisbrook Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/innisbrook-resort/): Golf resort in Palm Harbor whose Copperhead Course (one of four Lawrence Packard-designed courses) has hosted the PGA TOUR's Valspar Championship annually since 2000. - [Pelican Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/pelican-golf-club/): Invitation-only private club in Belleair on the site of the former Donald Ross-designed Belleview Biltmore Golf Club, redesigned by Beau Welling in 2018 after the Doyle family's 2017 purchase. - [Feather Sound Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/feather-sound-country-club/): Private country club operating since 1974 in the Feather Sound community of Clearwater, with an 18-hole Joe Lee-designed course, tennis complex, and dining; requires initiation fee and dues. - [Ardea Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/ardea-country-club/): Private club with two 18-hole championship courses at the center of the East Lake Woodlands gated community in Oldsmar; recently renovated and rebranded from East Lake Woodlands Country Club to Ardea Country Club. - [Isla Del Sol Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/isla-del-sol-yacht-country-club/): Member-owned (since 1990) private club on the Isla del Sol peninsula near St. Petersburg, combining an 18-hole golf course, a 76-slip marina, tennis/pickleball and dining. - [Bardmoor Golf & Tennis Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/bardmoor-golf-tennis-club/): Private golf and tennis club in Largo/Seminole (18-hole course redesigned by Gary Koch in 2001), historic host of the JC Penney Classic; anchors the surrounding Bardmoor residential community. - [Countryside Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/countryside-country-club/): Private 27-hole club (three Gary Player-designed 9s, opened 1977) at the center of the Countryside community in Clearwater, with tennis, fitness, pool, spa and dining. #### Golf Communities in Clearwater / St. Petersburg - [Innisbrook Resort Villas & Condominiums](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/innisbrook-resort-villas/): Palm Harbor, FL: Individually owned condominium/villa units on the Innisbrook Resort property, marketed by Golf Host Securities, Inc. (d/b/a Innisbrook Real Estate Services); owners can enroll units in the resort's optional Rental Pool Program but must separately hold a resort membership for facility access. - [Belleair / Belleair Bluffs golf-oriented area](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/belleair-bluffs-golf-club-area/): General placeholder for the Belleair/Belleair Bluffs residential area near Pelican Golf Club; no single bordering subdivision was identified this session as specifically tied to the club, which has no residential development of its own. - [Feather Sound](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/feather-sound/): Residential community in Clearwater built around Feather Sound Country Club, near Tampa International Airport / St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport. - [East Lake Woodlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/east-lake-woodlands/): Master-planned gated community in Oldsmar with 3,789 households across single-family homes, cluster homes, villas and condominiums, built around Ardea (formerly East Lake Woodlands) Country Club's two golf courses. - [Isla del Sol](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/isla-del-sol/): Waterfront peninsula neighborhood between St. Petersburg and St. Pete Beach, built around Isla Del Sol Yacht & Country Club. - [Bardmoor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/bardmoor/): Residential community straddling Largo and Seminole in Pinellas County, built around Bardmoor Golf & Tennis Club. - [Countryside](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/clearwater-st-petersburg/countryside-clearwater/): Master-planned area of Clearwater built around Countryside Country Club's 27 holes of golf. ### Nature Coast, FL - [Nature Coast, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/nature-coast/): The Nature Coast golf market covers Citrus and Hernando counties along Florida's Gulf side, roughly 45-70 miles north of Tampa. #### Golf Clubs in Nature Coast - [Black Diamond Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/nature-coast/black-diamond-ranch/): Black Diamond Ranch is a private, gated luxury golf community in Lecanto (Citrus County) built around a converted limestone quarry. - [Southern Hills Plantation Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/nature-coast/southern-hills-plantation-club/): Southern Hills Plantation Club in Brooksville: researched mandatory membership, residential communities and what buyers should verify. - [Citrus Hills Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/nature-coast/citrus-hills-golf-country-club/): The Villages of Citrus Hills is a large, private, gated master-planned community in the Citrus Hills area near Hernando, FL (Citrus County), built around the Citrus Hills Golf & Country Club's three courses -- Skyview, The Oaks, and The Meadows -- plus multiple clubhouses and the 50,000 sq ft BellaVita Spa & Fitness Center. - [Brookridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/nature-coast/brookridge-country-club/): Brookridge Country Club is a member-owned, 18-hole (par 72, 6,491 yards) golf course that is the centerpiece of the gated, 24-hour-access, 55+ Brookridge community in Hernando County near Brooksville. - [Timber Pines Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/nature-coast/timber-pines-golf-club/): Timber Pines is a fully built-out, 55+ community of roughly 3,452 homes and villas on 1,400 acres in Spring Hill (Hernando County), centered on four member golf courses (Grand Pines, Highland, Lakes, and Hills -- 63 holes total) that are exclusive to community residents. - [Silverthorn Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/nature-coast/silverthorn-country-club/): Gated, ~801-home active-adult (55+) golf community in Brooksville, Hernando County, built around an 18-hole Joe Lee-designed championship course and a 25,000 sq ft clubhouse. #### Golf Communities in Nature Coast - [Terra Vista at Citrus Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/nature-coast/terra-vista-at-citrus-hills/): Terra Vista is a private, gated village within the larger Villages of Citrus Hills master-planned community near Hernando, FL (Citrus County), sitting atop some of the county's highest elevations. - [Brookridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/nature-coast/brookridge/): Brookridge is a gated, 24-hour-access, 55+ deed-restricted community in Hernando County near Brooksville, built around the member-owned Brookridge Country Club golf course. - [Timber Pines](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/nature-coast/timber-pines/): Timber Pines is a fully built-out 55+ community of roughly 3,452 homes and villas on 1,400 acres in Spring Hill (Hernando County), organized as a debt-free community association with healthy reserves. - [Silverthorn](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/nature-coast/silverthorn/): Gated, ~801-home active-adult (55+) community in Brooksville built around the semi-private Silverthorn Country Club golf course, with a 25,000 sq ft clubhouse and a full amenity package (pool, fitness, tennis, pickleball). ### Ocala, FL - [Ocala, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ocala/): Ocala's golf market sits inside Marion County, in the heart of Florida's "Horse Capital of the World" identity -- a region where thoroughbred farms, training facilities, and equestrian infrastructure run through the local economy and real-estate market as thoroughly as golf does elsewhere in the state. #### Golf Clubs in Ocala - [On Top of the World Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ocala/on-top-of-the-world-golf-club/): Private, resident-restricted 18/36-hole golf operation serving On Top of the World Communities in Ocala; residency plus a separately purchased annual golf membership are both required to join. - [Candler Hills Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ocala/candler-hills-golf-club/): Semi-private par-72 championship course within On Top of the World Communities' Candler Hills neighborhood in Ocala; open to public play with optional membership. - [Stone Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ocala/stone-creek-ocala-golf-club/): Guard-gated 55+ Del Webb community in Ocala centered on an 18-hole, 7,200-yard championship golf course; ~3,800 planned attached and single-family homes. - [Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ocala/golden-ocala-golf-equestrian-club/): Private 18-hole club (Ron Garl design with tribute holes referencing famous world courses) anchoring a 1,200-acre gated luxury/equestrian community in northwest Ocala; tiered membership with meaningful initiation fees. - [Country Club of Ocala](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ocala/country-club-of-ocala/): Private 18-hole club (Steve Nugent design, opened 1994; Heritage Golf Group-operated) set within a gated, guarded residential neighborhood of the same name in SE Ocala; has hosted multiple state/national amateur championship events. ### The Villages, FL - [The Villages, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/the-villages/): The Villages is the world's largest age-restricted (55-plus) master-planned community, spanning parts of Sumter, Marion, and Lake counties, with an estimated population well over 100,000 residents. #### Golf Clubs in The Villages - [Glenview Champions Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/the-villages/glenview-champions-golf-country-club/): 27-hole (three-nine) championship golf facility in The Villages near the historic Spanish Springs / Lady Lake side of the development, designed with senior PGA Tour pros Tommy Aaron, Hubert Green and John Mahaffey. - [Havana Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/the-villages/havana-country-club/): 27-hole (Killarney/Hemingway/Allamanda) developer-operated championship golf facility in The Villages, opened 1993, designed by Clifton, Ezell and Clifton; noted for dramatic elevation changes and undulating greens. - [Evans Prairie Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/the-villages/evans-prairie-country-club/): 27-hole developer-operated championship golf facility opened fall 2012 in the newer southern (Brownwood-area) part of The Villages; designed by Clifton, Ezell and Clifton, 3,801-7,052 yards across six tee sets. - [Nancy Lopez Legacy Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/the-villages/nancy-lopez-legacy-country-club/): 27-hole developer-operated championship golf facility in The Villages -- LPGA Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez's first course design, with three nines (Ashley Meadows, Torri Pines, Erinn Glenn) named for her daughters; clubhouse decorated with memorabilia from her career, with LPGA/PGA teaching pros on staff. - [Palmer Legends Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/the-villages/palmer-legends-country-club/): The Villages, FL: 27-hole developer-operated championship golf facility co-designed with Arnold Palmer, opened 2003 (7,180 yards), overlooking Lake Sumter and the Lake Sumter Landing town square; clubhouse/restaurant renovated under new ownership (Suleiman family) as of late 2025. #### Golf Communities in The Villages - [The Villages - Spanish Springs / Historic Side](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/the-villages/the-villages-spanish-springs-historic-side/): The original, oldest section of The Villages, centered on the Spanish Springs town square, on the Lady Lake (Lake County) side of the development; closest of the three broad sections to Glenview Champions Golf & Country Club (Lady Lake address). - [The Villages - Lake Sumter Landing area](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/the-villages/the-villages-lake-sumter-landing/): Central section of The Villages built around the Lake Sumter Landing town square, one of the development's three town centers; several holes of Palmer Legends Country Club overlook Lake Sumter and Lake Sumter Landing. - [The Villages - Brownwood / Southern Expansion](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/the-villages/the-villages-brownwood-southern-expansion/): Newer, southern-expansion section of The Villages built around the Brownwood town square (zip 32163 area); Evans Prairie Country Club (opened 2012) sits in this part of the development. ### Gainesville, FL - [Gainesville, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/gainesville/): US Golf Living has researched 2 golf anchors in the Gainesville golf market, in Alachua County, including Gainesville Country Club and Hawkstone Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Gainesville - [Gainesville Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/gainesville/gainesville-golf-and-country-club/): Private, member-owned (equity, nonprofit) country club in southwest Gainesville, founded in 1921 with the club relocating to its current Williston Road-area site (7300 SW 35th Way) in 1963. - [Hawkstone Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/gainesville/haile-plantation-golf-club/): 18-hole Gary Player-designed private golf and country club (opened 1993) inside the large Haile Plantation master-planned community southwest of Gainesville. #### Golf Communities in Gainesville - [Country Club Estates (Gainesville Country Club)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/gainesville/country-club-estates-gainesville/): Established (mostly 1970s-80s built, since renovated) single-family neighborhood of roughly 175 home sites surrounding the Gainesville Country Club's 18-hole course in SW Gainesville, near Paynes Prairie. - [Haile Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/gainesville/haile-plantation/): Large (~2,600-household, ~1,700-acre) master-planned development southwest of Gainesville, built out starting in the late 1970s, organized into multiple sub-neighborhoods and HOAs plus an umbrella Haile Plantation Association. ### Orlando, FL - [Orlando, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/orlando/): Orlando is Florida's largest inland golf market and, thanks to Arnold Palmer's decades as a part-time resident and Bay Hill Club owner, arguably the state's most golf-historic metro outside the traditional Gulf Coast/Southeast Florida resort belt. #### Golf Clubs in Orlando - [Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/orlando/bay-hill-club-and-lodge/): 280-acre resort/private-club property in southwest Orlando anchored by a 27-hole Bay Hill course; hosts the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational. - [Interlachen Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/orlando/interlachen-country-club/): Private, invitation-only club in Winter Park, FL, founded in 1983; its 18-hole, par-72 course opened in November 1985 to a Joe Lee design and was reworked in 2007 by Steve Smyers, set among lakes and tree-lined streets in one of Central Florida's most established towns. - [Orange Tree Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/orlando/orange-tree-golf-club/): Family-owned, private, non-equity 18-hole club (7,036 yards, Joe Lee design) in Orlando's Dr. Phillips area, set inside the gated Orange Tree community. - [Ventura Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/orlando/ventura-country-club/): Gated, 24-hour-security golf community in southeast Orlando near the airport, built around a semi-private 18-hole course; over 1,700 homes, condominiums, and townhouses surround the club, which offers separate (not bundled) golf, family, and social membership tiers. #### Golf Communities in Orlando - [Bay Hill](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/orlando/bay-hill/): Established southwest Orlando neighborhood on Big Sand Lake that grew up around Bay Hill Club & Lodge after Arnold Palmer's 1975 purchase of the club; mix of renovated 1970s-80s golf-course homes and modern lakefront estates. - [Orange Tree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/orlando/orange-tree/): Established gated community in Orlando's Dr. Phillips area built around the private, non-equity Orange Tree Golf Club. - [Ventura](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/orlando/ventura/): Self-managed, 24-hour gated golf community of 1,700+ homes, condominiums, and townhouses in southeast Orlando, roughly six miles north of Orlando International Airport, built around the semi-private Ventura Country Club course. ### Windermere, FL - [Windermere, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/windermere/): Windermere is an incorporated town on the Butler Chain of Lakes in west Orange County, and it holds a distinct place in Florida golf: home to two of Central Florida's most exclusive private clubs, Isleworth Golf & Country Club and The Golden Bear Club at Keene's Pointe, both built around guard-gated, lake-connected communities rather than public golf. #### Golf Clubs in Windermere - [Isleworth Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/windermere/isleworth-golf-country-club/): Windermere, FL: Ultra-private, guard-gated golf community of roughly 258 homes on ~600 acres with Butler Chain of Lakes frontage, built around an Arnold Palmer-designed course; membership is mandatory for residents. - [The Golden Bear Club at Keene's Pointe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/windermere/golden-bear-club-at-keenes-pointe/): Windermere, FL: Private Jack Nicklaus-designed 18-hole club (par 72, 7,173 yards, 14 holes on a peninsula) with a 24,000 sq ft clubhouse, inside the guard-gated Keene's Pointe community bordered by the Butler Chain of Lakes. #### Golf Communities in Windermere - [Isleworth](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/windermere/isleworth/): Windermere, FL: Single-entry, 24/7-guarded ultra-luxury community of ~258 homes on ~600 acres surrounding the Isleworth Golf & Country Club course, with direct Butler Chain of Lakes frontage. - [Keene's Pointe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/windermere/keenes-pointe/): ~950-acre, 24-hour guard-gated community of roughly 1,050-1,100 custom homes across 14 villages in Windermere, built around The Golden Bear Club golf course and bordered by the Butler Chain of Lakes. ### Lake Nona, FL - [Lake Nona, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lake-nona/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Lake Nona golf market, in Orange County: Lake Nona Golf & Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Lake Nona - [Lake Nona Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lake-nona/lake-nona-golf-country-club/): Private, gated golf-and-country-club community in southeast Orlando's Lake Nona area, built around an 18-hole private course; homes are custom estates averaging roughly 5,000 sq ft with a range of architectural styles. #### Golf Communities in Lake Nona - [Lake Nona Golf & Country Club (neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lake-nona/lake-nona-golf-and-country-club-neighborhood/): 24-hour gated neighborhood of custom estate homes built around the private Lake Nona Golf & Country Club course in southeast Orlando. ### Reunion / ChampionsGate, FL - [Reunion / ChampionsGate, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/reunion-championsgate/): Reunion/ChampionsGate covers two adjacent, golf-anchored resort-residential corridors in Osceola and Polk counties south of Walt Disney World, plus one outlying ultra-luxury node (Golden Oak/Four Seasons Resort Orlando) that this site's market structure groups here even though it sits several miles north, adjacent to Disney property itself. #### Golf Clubs in Reunion / ChampionsGate - [Reunion Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/reunion-championsgate/reunion-resort/): Reunion, FL: Master-planned resort-residential community roughly 7 miles south of Walt Disney World, built around three signature-designer golf courses (Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson); residential product ranges from 1-bedroom condos to large single-family homes, mostly operated as short-term vacation rentals. - [Tranquilo Golf Club at Four Seasons Resort Orlando](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/reunion-championsgate/tranquilo-golf-club-four-seasons-orlando/): Lake Buena Vista, FL: Tom Fazio-designed, par-71, Audubon-certified championship course at Four Seasons Resort Orlando (Golden Oak, Walt Disney World); play is reserved for resort guests and Four Seasons Golf and Sports Club members, including owners at the adjacent Golden Oak and Four Seasons Private Residences communities. - [ChampionsGate Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/reunion-championsgate/championsgate-country-club/): 18-hole George Clifton-designed course inside the ChampionsGate master-planned community near Disney; golf membership is bundled into home purchase for owners in the Country Club of ChampionsGate section, with only cart fees paid separately. #### Golf Communities in Reunion / ChampionsGate - [Reunion](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/reunion-championsgate/reunion/): Master-planned resort-residential community south of Walt Disney World built around Reunion Resort's three signature golf courses; heavily used for short-term vacation rentals. - [Golden Oak at Walt Disney World Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/reunion-championsgate/golden-oak/): Lake Buena Vista, FL: Disney's ultra-luxury single-family home community at Walt Disney World Resort, adjacent to Four Seasons Resort Orlando; homeownership includes Golden Oak Club membership. - [Four Seasons Private Residences Orlando at Golden Oak](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/reunion-championsgate/four-seasons-private-residences-golden-oak/): Lake Buena Vista, FL: 40-residence enclave (31 condos in a mid-rise tower plus 9 boutique homes) on a five-acre site adjacent to Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Golden Oak; tower completed late 2025, boutique homes expected summer 2026. - [Country Club of ChampionsGate](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/reunion-championsgate/country-club-of-championsgate/): Golf-front residential section of the larger ChampionsGate master-planned community, organized around ChampionsGate Country Club, with club membership bundled into home purchase for owners in this section. ### Lakeland / Winter Haven, FL - [Lakeland / Winter Haven, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakeland-winter-haven/): Lakeland/Winter Haven's golf-living story, on the research done so far, is essentially a single-club story: Grasslands Golf & Country Club, a private Jerry Pate/Bob Cupp-designed championship course a few minutes from downtown Lakeland, anchoring the large Grasslands master-planned community (roughly 18 sub-neighborhoods, including the gated Grasslands West enclave). #### Golf Clubs in Lakeland / Winter Haven - [Grasslands Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakeland-winter-haven/grasslands-golf-country-club/): Private championship club (Jerry Pate/Bob Cupp design) minutes from downtown Lakeland, with a separate Swim & Tennis Club (junior Olympic pool, 5 har-tru + 2 hard tennis courts, 2 pickleball courts). #### Golf Communities in Lakeland / Winter Haven - [Grasslands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakeland-winter-haven/grasslands/): Large master-planned community of roughly 18 sub-neighborhoods in Lakeland, FL, built around Grasslands Golf & Country Club; housing ranges from maintenance-free townhomes to custom executive homes. - [Grasslands West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lakeland-winter-haven/grasslands-west/): Lakeland, FL: Newer gated neighborhood within/adjacent to the larger Grasslands community, marketed with golf-course views; single-family homes ranging 1,480-2,344 sq ft, 3-5 bedrooms. ### Palm Beach Gardens, FL - [Palm Beach Gardens, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/): Palm Beach Gardens and its immediate northern neighbors (North Palm Beach, Juno Beach) form one of the densest concentrations of significant private golf in the United States. #### Golf Clubs in Palm Beach Gardens - [Old Palm Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/old-palm-golf-club/): Mandatory-membership private golf community in Palm Beach Gardens built around a Raymond Floyd-designed course. 294 homesites across four neighborhoods (Golf, Isle, Grand, Custom Estates) on 650 acres; membership is capped at roughly 330 and required of every homeowner. - [Frenchman's Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/frenchmans-creek/): Mandatory-membership, equity-owned private country club and gated community in Palm Beach Gardens spanning 720 acres, with two 18-hole golf courses, a private members-only stretch of Juno Beach, and more than 100 custom estates plus patio homes, townhomes, and villas. - [Frenchman's Reserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/frenchmans-reserve/): Private, 100% member-owned equity country club and gated community in Palm Beach Gardens, developed by Toll Brothers (opened 2003) around an 18-hole Arnold Palmer-designed course. - [BallenIsles Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/ballenisles-country-club/): BallenIsles Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens: researched mandatory membership, residential communities and what buyers should verify. - [Lost Tree Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/lost-tree-village/): Ultra-exclusive, invitation-only 450-acre gated golf and beach community in North Palm Beach, developed beginning in 1959. - [Mirasol Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/mirasol-country-club/): Gated Mediterranean-style community in Palm Beach Gardens built on former MacArthur Foundation land, with 36 holes across two championship courses (Fazio's Sunrise and Hills' Sunset), 23 distinct sub-neighborhoods, and a $40 million clubhouse, tennis and aquatics renovation. - [PGA National Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/pga-national-resort/): 2,340-acre resort and master-planned residential ecosystem in Palm Beach Gardens anchored by five golf courses (90 holes total), including the Champion Course, home of the PGA Tour's Honda Classic/Cognizant Classic. - [Old Marsh Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/old-marsh-golf-club/): Private, invitation-only equity golf club in Palm Beach Gardens built around a 450-acre Pete Dye course (1987), buffered on three sides by protected wetlands/preserve. - [Seminole Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/seminole-golf-club/): Ultra-private 1929 Donald Ross design in Juno Beach, widely regarded as one of the four or five most exclusive golf clubs in America (roughly 300 members, invitation- and sponsorship-based, seasonal May-November play). - [Eastpointe Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/eastpointe-country-club/): 36-hole (George Fazio East Course, 1974; Tom Fazio/John Sanford-renovated West Course) private country club inside a single gated community of only 875 homes in Palm Beach Gardens. #### Golf Communities in Palm Beach Gardens - [PGA National (master community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/pga-national/): 2,340-acre master-planned community in Palm Beach Gardens with 5,000+ homes across 46 distinct sub-communities, organized around PGA National Resort's five golf courses and governed overall by the PGA Property Owners Association. - [Bay Hill Estates (PGA National)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/pga-national-bay-hill-estates/): Gated sub-community of 240 single-family homes within PGA National, Palm Beach Gardens. - [Marlwood Estates (PGA National)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/pga-national-marlwood-estates/): Sub-community within PGA National, Palm Beach Gardens, featuring larger seven-bedroom single-family homes. - [The Barclay Club (PGA National)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/pga-national-the-barclay-club/): Smaller-format sub-community within PGA National, Palm Beach Gardens, with one- and two-story 2-3 bedroom homes and a community pool. - [Old Marsh](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/old-marsh/): Gated luxury community in Palm Beach Gardens built directly around Old Marsh Golf Club's Pete Dye course, buffered on three sides by protected wetlands/preserve. - [Seminole Landing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/seminole-landing/): Ultra-exclusive oceanfront enclave of roughly 65 estate homes in Juno Beach, sited between the Atlantic Ocean, Lost Tree Village, and Seminole Golf Club to the north. - [Eastpointe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-beach-gardens/eastpointe/): A single gated community of only 875 homes in Palm Beach Gardens, built directly around Eastpointe Country Club's 36 holes of Fazio-designed golf. ### Jupiter / Tequesta, FL - [Jupiter / Tequesta, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/): Jupiter/Tequesta, running from the Loxahatchee River north to the Martin County line along Florida's northern Palm Beach County coast, is one of the state's densest concentrations of serious private golf. #### Golf Clubs in Jupiter / Tequesta - [The Bear's Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/the-bears-club/): Private golf club and 96-home gated estate community in Jupiter founded by Jack Nicklaus in 1999, built around an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature course. - [The Loxahatchee Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/the-loxahatchee-club/): Private, gated equity golf club and community in Jupiter built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature course (opened mid-1980s). - [Jupiter Hills Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/jupiter-hills-club/): One of Florida's most prestigious invitation-only private golf clubs, with two courses in Tequesta: the Hills Course (George Fazio, 1970) and the Village Course (Tom Fazio). - [Panther National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/panther-national/): Palm Beach Gardens, FL: Ultra-exclusive, invitation-only private residential golf community featuring the first golf course co-designed by Jack Nicklaus and Justin Thomas. - [Admirals Cove](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/admirals-cove/): Admirals Cove, Jupiter: 45 holes of golf, a 63-slip marina, mandatory member-owned club access, and what to verify before buying in this gated waterfront community. - [Jonathan's Landing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/jonathans-landing/): Established gated golf, tennis, fitness and boating community in Jupiter spanning 600 acres with roughly 1,213 homes and three golf courses, including the Tom Fazio-designed course at Old Trail. - [Jupiter Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/jupiter-island-club/): Private club (est. 1931) that anchors the Town of Jupiter Island, a barrier-island enclave of oceanfront and Intracoastal estates spanning Martin and Palm Beach counties. - [Trump National Golf Club Jupiter](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/trump-national-golf-club-jupiter/): Private 18-hole Jack Nicklaus-designed club in Jupiter (opened 2002 as the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club & Spa; acquired by Trump interests in 2012). - [Jupiter Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/jupiter-country-club/): Guard-gated Toll Brothers community (2007-2016) west of the Florida Turnpike off Indiantown Road in Jupiter: 405 single-family homes and 151 carriage-style condos across seven villages, built around an 18-hole Greg Norman course. - [Turtle Creek Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/turtle-creek-club/): Private gated club and residential community in Tequesta along the North Fork of the Loxahatchee River, built around an 18-hole Joe Lee course (1969). - [The Dye Preserve Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/the-dye-preserve/): Strictly invitation-only private golf club within Ranch Colony (a ~2,000-acre gated equestrian/golf community in western Jupiter, Palm Beach County), co-built by Pete Dye and Bobby Weed and renamed in 2002 from an earlier Gary Player-designed course called Cypress Links. #### Golf Communities in Jupiter / Tequesta - [Jupiter Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/jupiter-island-estates/): The Town of Jupiter Island's residential fabric of hedge-lined oceanfront and Intracoastal estates, organized around Jupiter Island Club. - [Trump National Golf Club Jupiter (Eagle Tree)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/trump-national-jupiter-eagle-tree/): 285-acre gated golf community in Jupiter around Trump National Golf Club Jupiter (Jack Nicklaus design), with custom estates, courtyard homes, golf villas, and club homes. - [Jupiter Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/jupiter-country-club-community/): Guard-gated Toll Brothers community built 2007-2016 west of the Florida Turnpike off Indiantown Road in Jupiter: 405 single-family homes and 151 carriage-style condominiums across seven villages, organized around an 18-hole Greg Norman course. - [Turtle Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/turtle-creek-community/): Gated golf community in Tequesta along the North Fork of the Loxahatchee River, built around the Turtle Creek Club course (Joe Lee, 1969). - [Ranch Colony](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jupiter-tequesta/ranch-colony/): Ranch Colony in Jupiter, a gated community: researched golf access, housing, HOA/CDD costs and what buyers should independently verify before purchasing. ### Boca Raton, FL - [Boca Raton, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/): Boca Raton is the most club-dense of the golf markets US Golf Living has researched in southern Palm Beach County: of the 10 anchors documented here, 7 require every homeowner to join the club as a condition of purchase -- Boca West, Broken Sound, Boca Grove, St. Andrews, Woodfield, Hunters Run, and Polo Club of Boca Raton all bundle a mandatory, six-figure club membership into buying a home in the community. #### Golf Clubs in Boca Raton - [Boca West Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/boca-west-country-club/): Large private, mandatory-membership country club community in west Boca Raton built around four 18-hole golf courses (Palmer I, Fazio II, Palmer III, and a fourth course under renovation). - [Broken Sound Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/broken-sound-club/): Private mandatory-membership club in Boca Raton with two 18-hole courses (Old Course and Club Course), spread across roughly 27-28 residential villages with 1,600+ homes ranging from golf villas and condos to multimillion-dollar estates. - [Boca Grove Golf & Tennis Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/boca-grove-golf-tennis-club/): Small, gated, mandatory-equity golf and tennis club community in west-central Boca Raton; one 18-hole course (originally Karl Litten, 1982; renovated Jim Fazio, 2011) and twelve Har-Tru tennis courts anchor six residential villages. - [Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/royal-palm-yacht-country-club/): Prestigious deed-restricted Boca Raton neighborhood of waterfront and golf-course estates centered on the private Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, whose golf and marina membership is by invitation only and separate from home ownership. - [St. Andrews Country Club (Boca Raton)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/st-andrews-country-club-boca-raton/): Mandatory-membership equity country club community in west Boca Raton with two resident-only 18-hole courses (Fazio II and the Arnold Palmer Course), among the priciest addresses in the market. - [Woodfield Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/woodfield-country-club/): Mandatory-equity private country club community in Boca Raton spanning 20 residential villages; every homebuyer must apply for and purchase club membership as a condition of ownership. - [Hunters Run Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/hunters-run-country-club/): Mandatory, member-owned equity club community near Boca Raton/Boynton Beach with three championship 18-hole golf courses, a 145,000-sq-ft clubhouse, and a manned, gated entrance; homeowners must maintain at least a social membership and can upgrade to golf or racquet sports. - [Polo Club of Boca Raton](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/polo-club-of-boca-raton/): A 1,100-acre mandatory-membership private club community in Boca Raton with two championship golf courses, a 22-court Har-Tru tennis and 18-court pickleball facility, and a 35,000-sq-ft spa/fitness center. - [Boca Rio Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/boca-rio-golf-club/): A private, invitation-only, member-owned golf club in Boca Raton (22041 Boca Rio Road) limited to 175 members with golf privileges, designed by Robert von Hagge (7,100 yards, par 72); no-tee-time, fore-caddie tradition. - [Boca Pointe Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/boca-pointe-country-club/): A private, non-equity-style club (18-hole championship course, 16 Har-Tru tennis courts, fitness center, 80,000-sq-ft clubhouse) operated by Heritage Golf Group at the center of the Boca Pointe master-planned gated community west of I-95 in Boca Raton. #### Golf Communities in Boca Raton - [Boca West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/boca-west/): The residential community surrounding Boca West Country Club's four golf courses in west Boca Raton; club membership is mandatory for all homeowners. - [Broken Sound](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/broken-sound/): Boca Raton, FL: 27-28 villages of golf villas, condos, patio homes, townhomes and single-family estates built around Broken Sound Club's two 18-hole courses. - [Boca Grove](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/boca-grove/): Boca Raton, FL: Gated, boutique community of roughly 420-443 homes across six private villages on ~300 acres, organized around Boca Grove's golf and tennis facilities. - [Royal Palm (Boca Raton)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/royal-palm-boca-raton/): One of Boca Raton's most prestigious deed-restricted neighborhoods of waterfront and golf-adjacent single-family estates surrounding the private Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club. - [St. Andrews Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/st-andrews-boca-raton/): Ultra-luxury residential community in west Boca Raton built around St. Andrews Country Club's two 18-hole resident-only courses; mandatory equity club membership. - [Woodfield Country Club Villages](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/woodfield/): 20 residential villages in Boca Raton organized around Woodfield Country Club; mandatory equity club membership for all homeowners. - [Hunters Run](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/hunters-run/): Boynton Beach, FL: Gated, private club community of roughly 1,649 homes and condos across 23 subcommunities, organized around Hunters Run's three 18-hole golf courses. - [Boca Rio](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/boca-rio/): A cluster of subdivisions (Boca Rio Townhomes, North, Heights, Banyan Lake Townhomes) in Boca Raton built 1985-1993, described by secondary real-estate sources as surrounding Boca Rio Golf Club. - [Boca Pointe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/boca-raton/boca-pointe/): A roughly 1,000-acre gated master-planned community of 28 villages (~1,200 homes) in western Boca Raton, built around the private Club at Boca Pointe golf course, with condos, villas, townhomes and single-family homes generally priced from the low $200,000s to around $800,000. ### Delray Beach / Boynton Beach, FL - [Delray Beach / Boynton Beach, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/): US Golf Living has researched 9 golf anchors in the Delray Beach / Boynton Beach golf market, in Palm Beach County, including Addison Reserve Country Club, Mizner Country Club, Delaire Country Club and Gleneagles Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Delray Beach / Boynton Beach - [Addison Reserve Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/addison-reserve-country-club/): Mandatory-membership private club community in Delray Beach; every home purchaser must take a Full Golf or Partial Golf/Sports membership as a condition of ownership, with dues and joining fees among the highest in the south Palm Beach market. - [Mizner Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/mizner-country-club/): Mandatory-membership, equity-based private club community in Delray Beach centered on luxury single-family homes, golf, tennis, pickleball, fitness, spa and dining; equity membership is a condition of home purchase. - [Delaire Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/delaire-country-club/): A boutique, exclusivity-focused private club community in Delray Beach limited to 325-326 home lots around a 27-hole Joe Lee golf course, with walk-on (no-tee-time) golf, eight Har-Tru tennis courts, and full-service dining. - [Gleneagles Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/gleneagles-country-club/): A mandatory-membership, 55+-oriented private country club community in Delray Beach with two championship 18-hole golf courses, 20 tennis courts, four pickleball courts, and seven satellite clubhouses each with their own pool and spa. - [Delray Dunes Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/delray-dunes-golf-country-club/): A private, member-owned, gated golf community on 337 acres in Boynton Beach/southern Palm Beach County, built around Pete Dye's first Florida golf course design; 323 home sites (200 single-family homes, 123 villas). - [Quail Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/quail-ridge-country-club/): A 600-acre, gated, mandatory-membership, member-owned private community in Boynton Beach with 946 residences and two championship 18-hole golf courses designed by Joe Lee, plus 16 Har-Tru tennis courts, pickleball, spa, and fitness facilities. - [Aberdeen Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/aberdeen-golf-country-club/): A mandatory-membership residential community in Boynton Beach built around an 18-hole Jim Fazio golf course; all new residents must join the club and select a golf, tennis, or social equity membership category. - [Pine Tree Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/pine-tree-golf-club/): A highly exclusive, invitation-only, member-owned private golf club in the Town of Golf, FL (Boynton Beach area), opened in 1962 on 168 acres, designed by Dick Wilson and Joe Lee. - [Seagate Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/seagate-country-club/): Seagate Country Club in Delray Beach: researched membership optional membership, residential communities and what buyers should verify. #### Golf Communities in Delray Beach / Boynton Beach - [Addison Reserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/addison-reserve/): Master-planned Delray Beach community built around Addison Reserve Country Club; mandatory Full Golf or Partial Golf club membership for all homeowners. - [Mizner Country Club Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/mizner-cc-residences/): Luxury single-family home community in Delray Beach built around Mizner Country Club; mandatory equity club membership for all homeowners. - [Delaire](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/delaire/): A small, purpose-built private community of 325-326 homesites in Delray Beach surrounding Delaire Country Club's 27-hole golf course. - [Delray Dunes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/delray-dunes/): Gated, 337-acre, 323-homesite private golf community in southern Palm Beach County (Boynton Beach/Delray Beach border area) built around a Pete Dye course; club membership required of residents. - [Quail Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/quail-ridge/): Gated, 600-acre, 946-residence private golf community in Boynton Beach built around Quail Ridge Country Club's two 18-hole courses; membership is mandatory for all residents. - [Aberdeen](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/aberdeen-boynton-beach/): Mandatory-membership residential community in Boynton Beach built around Aberdeen Golf & Country Club's 18-hole Jim Fazio course. - [Pine Tree Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/pine-tree-golf-club-estates/): Gated community of 240 single-family homes (2,000-6,000+ sq ft) surrounding Pine Tree Golf Club's 18-hole course in the Town of Golf, FL; HOA covers gated security, common areas, and basic cable, but not club membership. - [The Hamlet](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/delray-beach-boynton-beach/the-hamlet-delray-beach/): A gated residential community of 313 single-family homes and 136 condominium units built around a 146-acre golf course near downtown Delray Beach; the club at its center (now Seagate Country Club, formerly The Hamlet Country Club) is not a mandatory membership for residents. ### West Palm Beach / Wellington, FL - [West Palm Beach / Wellington, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/): US Golf Living has researched 6 golf anchors in the West Palm Beach / Wellington golf market, in Palm Beach County, including The Club at Ibis, Wycliffe Golf & Country Club, Palm Beach Polo & Country Club, Ironhorse Country Club, The Wanderers Club and Emerald Dunes Club. #### Golf Clubs in West Palm Beach / Wellington - [The Club at Ibis](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/the-club-at-ibis/): Mandatory-membership private club community in West Palm Beach with three 18-hole Jack Nicklaus-family-designed golf courses (Legend, Heritage, Tradition), a 20-acre practice facility, and 33 residential neighborhoods ranging from villas and condos to custom estates. - [Wycliffe Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/wycliffe-golf-country-club/): Private, gated golf community in Wellington with two 18-hole championship courses, 14 Har-Tru tennis courts, 8 pickleball courts, and resort-style amenities; club initiation fee is mandatory for every buyer at closing. - [Palm Beach Polo & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/palm-beach-polo-country-club/): A 36-hole private golf community in Wellington established in 1979 as part of one of the country's premier equestrian/polo destinations; the championship course was designed by George Fazio (1982) and renovated by Anderson & Hicks (2013). - [Ironhorse Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/ironhorse-country-club/): A private residential community and country club in West Palm Beach centered on an 18-hole Arthur Hills golf course (1989; renovated by Rees Jones, 2022), which covers more than half the property. - [The Wanderers Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/the-wanderers-club/): A private, family-oriented golf and country club in the heart of Wellington's equestrian-and-polo corridor. The course opened in 1985 as Wellington Golf & Country Club (Ted McAnlis design) and was substantially redesigned and rebranded as The Wanderers Club in 2007 by Peter Jacobsen and Jim Hardy. - [Emerald Dunes Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/emerald-dunes-club/): West Palm Beach, FL: A Tom Fazio-designed course that opened as a high-end public course in 1990 and was hailed as a top-100 U.S. layout, then purchased in 2005 by a consortium led by CBS Sports golf producer Frank Chirkinian and converted into a fully private, invitation-only club. #### Golf Communities in West Palm Beach / Wellington - [Ibis](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/ibis/): 33 neighborhoods in West Palm Beach organized around The Club at Ibis's three Nicklaus-family golf courses, bordered by the Grassy Waters Nature Preserve. - [Wycliffe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/wycliffe/): Private, gated golf community in Wellington organized around Wycliffe Golf & Country Club's two 18-hole courses; club initiation fee is mandatory for every buyer. - [Palm Beach Polo](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/palm-beach-polo/): 1,600+ acre master-planned Wellington community built around Palm Beach Polo & Country Club's golf, tennis, and equestrian/polo facilities; governed by its own Property Owners Association separate from the club. - [Ironhorse](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/ironhorse/): West Palm Beach residential community built around Ironhorse Country Club's 18-hole Arthur Hills golf course, which occupies more than half the property. - [Lakefield West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/lakefield-west/): Gated, 207-home single-family community in Wellington with its own electronic gated entrance directly across the street from The Wanderers Club. - [Emerald Dunes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/west-palm-beach-wellington/emerald-dunes/): West Palm Beach, FL: A gated residential neighborhood built directly around the Emerald Dunes golf course, made up of three distinct sub-communities -- The Villas at Emerald Dunes (condos), The Links at Emerald Dunes (townhomes), and Ventura Greens at Emerald Dunes (townhomes) -- generally dating to the mid-to-late 2000s. ### Hobe Sound / Palm City / Stuart, FL - [Hobe Sound / Palm City / Stuart, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/): Martin County's golf-living identity is built on a genuine, longstanding contrast with its neighbors to the north and south: this is the Treasure Coast county that deliberately kept its skyline low and its roadside free of billboards, branding itself around a slower-growth, "Old Florida" character rather than the high-rise density of Palm Beach County or the master-planned sprawl of St. Lucie County next door. #### Golf Clubs in Hobe Sound / Palm City / Stuart - [Sailfish Point](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/sailfish-point/): Sailfish Point is a private, member-owned club community on a 532-acre sea island at the southern tip of Hutchinson Island in Stuart, combining a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course (opened 1981, renovated by Nicklaus in 2007 and again in a comprehensive 2021 overhaul) with an 84-slip deep-water marina/yacht club and roughly 520 oceanfront/riverfront residences. - [Harbour Ridge Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/harbour-ridge-yacht-country-club/): Harbour Ridge is a private, member-owned equity club community on the St. Lucie River in Palm City, offering 36 holes of golf (River Ridge by Pete & P.B. Dye, Golden Marsh by Joe Lee), a yacht club/marina, tennis and pickleball, across 885 acres and roughly 695 residences. - [Willoughby Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/willoughby-golf-club/): Willoughby Golf Club is a 403-acre private golf community in Stuart built around a single Arthur Hills championship course. - [Mariner Sands Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/mariner-sands-country-club/): Mariner Sands Country Club in Stuart is a private club community with two championship golf courses and a relatively new clubhouse, offering resident (and other) membership tiers with published initiation-fee and dues brackets. - [The Floridian National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/the-floridian-national-golf-club/): The Floridian National Golf Club is an exceptionally exclusive, nationally-membered private club on the St. Lucie River in Palm City, originally designed by Gary Player (1996) and later redesigned by Tom Fazio, with a Butch Harmon Learning Center, marina, and cottages. - [Medalist Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/medalist-golf-club/): Medalist Golf Club is an elite, invitation-only private club in Hobe Sound co-designed by Greg Norman and Pete Dye, long known for a membership roster stacked with PGA Tour and LPGA Tour professionals. - [Piper's Landing Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/pipers-landing-yacht-country-club/): Piper's Landing is a private, equity member-owned yacht and country club community of 302 homes on 600 acres in Palm City, combining an 18-hole championship course with a 49-slip marina, Har-Tru tennis, pickleball and fitness facilities. - [Cape Club of Palm City](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/cape-club-of-palm-city/): Cape Club of Palm City is a private 18-hole club originally opened in 1989 as Cobblestone Country Club, redesigned in the 2000s by Darren Clarke and Eoghan O'Connell, and relaunched under new ownership in 2022 as part of the Cape Club Collection (with sister clubs in Massachusetts). - [Martin Downs Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/martin-downs-country-club/): Martin Downs Country Club in Palm City: researched semi private membership, residential communities and what buyers should verify. #### Golf Communities in Hobe Sound / Palm City / Stuart - [Harbour Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/harbour-ridge/): 885-acre private, gated club community on the St. Lucie River in Palm City with ~695 residences, two golf courses, and a yacht club/marina. - [Willoughby](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/willoughby/): 403-acre golf community in Stuart with ~525 total Club members; every homeowner is automatically a Club member (social tier), with an optional, capped Equity Golf Certificate for full golf access. - [Mariner Sands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/mariner-sands/): Gated residential community in Stuart built around Mariner Sands Country Club's two golf courses. - [Floridian Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/floridian-golf-club/): Palm City, FL: Small luxury real-estate enclave along the St. Lucie River attached to The Floridian National Golf Club, offering custom waterfront homes, condos, and golf-cottage home sites. - [Medalist Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/medalist-village/): Gated enclave of 109 custom single-family estates (3,100-6,000+ sq ft) within the Medalist compound in Hobe Sound, with its own 12-hole par-3 Greg Norman-designed course and club amenities (spa, tennis, fitness) separate from the main Medalist Golf Club championship course. - [Piper's Landing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/pipers-landing/): Gated, 302-home yacht and golf community on 600 acres in Palm City, built entirely around Piper's Landing Yacht & Country Club; a 49-slip private marina gives boating access to the St. Lucie River/Atlantic. - [Cobblestone](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/cobblestone-palm-city/): 512-acre residential enclave of roughly 238 home sites (minimum half-acre lots) in Palm City built around what is now Cape Club of Palm City. - [Martin Downs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/hobe-sound-palm-city-stuart/martin-downs/): A gated master-planned community in Palm City built around the two-course Martin Downs golf club, comprising multiple distinctly named golf-fronting subdivisions and shared amenities including pools, tennis/pickleball courts, a fitness center and clubhouse. ### Vero Beach, FL - [Vero Beach, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/): US Golf Living has researched 8 golf anchors in the Vero Beach golf market, in Indian River County, including Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club, John's Island Club, Bent Pine Golf Club and Quail Valley Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in Vero Beach - [Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/orchid-island-golf-beach-club/): Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club is a private, member-owned equity club on a barrier island north of Vero Beach (between the Atlantic Ocean and Indian River), with an Arnold Palmer-designed course, a Beach Club with over a mile of private beach, tennis, fitness and spa facilities, across a 600-acre, 376-residence community. - [John's Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/johns-island-club/): John's Island Club is a private, member-owned equity club on a 3,000-acre Intracoastal barrier island in Indian River Shores (Vero Beach area), with three 18-hole championship courses (North by Jack Nicklaus, South, and West by Tom Fazio — the West Course hosted the 2015 USGA Mid-Amateur), 17 Har-Tru tennis courts, squash, pickleball, and an oceanfront Beach Club. - [Bent Pine Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/bent-pine-golf-club/): Bent Pine is an intimate, golf-centric private club in Vero Beach (Joe Lee design, 1979) with roughly 300 members, a no-tee-time policy, and an acclaimed dining program. - [Quail Valley Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/quail-valley-golf-club/): Quail Valley is a private, tradition-based club network in Vero Beach spanning a 36-hole Tom Fazio-designed Golf Club plus a River Club and The Pointe, operating on a refundable-bond-plus-capital-payment membership model with distinct Charter (golf) and House (social) tiers. - [Windsor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/windsor/): Windsor is a private, 472-acre New Urbanist club community in Vero Beach designed by Andres Duany, sited between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River. - [The Moorings Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/the-moorings-yacht-country-club/): The Moorings Yacht & Country Club is a long-established private club in Vero Beach with two golf courses, tennis, pickleball, fitness, spa, croquet and a yacht club, offering Full Golf, Sports and Social membership tiers to residents and non-residents. - [Grand Harbor Golf & Beach Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/grand-harbor-golf-beach-club/): Grand Harbor Golf & Beach Club is a nationally recognized private club in Vero Beach (Distinguished Clubs with Exceptional Status, top 4% of private clubs worldwide per BoardRoom Magazine/Forbes Travel Guide), with two Audubon-certified 18-hole golf courses, an oceanfront beach club, pickleball/tennis and multiple membership tiers open to residents and non-residents. - [Indian River Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/indian-river-club/): Indian River Club is a private, non-equity gated golf community in Vero Beach centered on a Ron Garl-designed, Audubon Signature Sanctuary-certified 18-hole course. #### Golf Communities in Vero Beach - [Orchid Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/orchid-island/): 600-acre, 376-residence gated barrier-island community north of Vero Beach built around Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club. - [John's Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/johns-island/): 3,000-acre oceanfront barrier-island community in Indian River Shores built around John's Island Club's three golf courses and beach club. - [Bent Pine](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/bent-pine/): Bent Pine is a deed-restricted, manned-gated community in Northwest Vero Beach built around Bent Pine Golf Club (Joe Lee, 1979), with a mix of established estate homes and newer construction in the Bent Pine Preserve section (roughly $400K-$1M+). - [Quail Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/quail-valley/): Residential area associated with Quail Valley Golf Club in Vero Beach; the club/course itself is confirmed as not a gated community. - [The Moorings](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/the-moorings/): Established waterfront residential community on Vero Beach's barrier island built around The Moorings Yacht & Country Club and its two golf courses. - [Grand Harbor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/vero-beach/grand-harbor/): Master-planned residential community in Vero Beach built around Grand Harbor Golf & Beach Club's two courses and beach club; includes newer-built subdivisions such as The Reserve at Grand Harbor (GHO Homes). ### Port St. Lucie, FL - [Port St. Lucie, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/port-st-lucie/): Port St. Lucie's golf-living character is meaningfully different from its Martin County neighbor just to the south: this is a newer, larger-scale, more explicitly golf-branded suburban market built up rapidly since the 1980s and 1990s around a small number of very large golf-anchored developments, rather than a collection of older, small, exclusive private clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Port St. Lucie - [Tesoro Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/port-st-lucie/tesoro-club/): Tesoro Club is a private, gated golf community on 1,400 acres near the St. Lucie River in Port St. Lucie, built around an Arnold Palmer signature course and a Tom Watson signature course, with a 100,000+ sq ft clubhouse, Swim & Racquet Club (10 Har-Tru courts), spa, and luxury single-family homes. - [PGA Village / PGA Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/port-st-lucie/pga-village-pga-golf-club/): PGA Village is a large, golf-branded master-planned district in Port St. Lucie centered on PGA Golf Club's 54 holes (Ryder and Wanamaker Courses by Tom Fazio, Dye Course by Pete Dye). - [Astor Creek Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/port-st-lucie/astor-creek-golf-country-club/): Astor Creek Golf & Country Club is a new (Kolter Homes-built) gated golf community in Port St. Lucie planned for roughly 900 single-family homes on about 682 acres, where every home purchase includes a resident golf membership (no initiation fee) to the private 18-hole course, driving range, short-game complex, pool, pickleball and fitness amenities. - [Ballantrae Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/port-st-lucie/ballantrae-golf-club/): A private, members-only Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course (recently updated) on the North Fork of the St. Lucie River, serving as the central amenity of the gated Ballantrae community of 400+ homes in Port St. Lucie, which also includes a marina/boating component with access toward Lake Okeechobee and the Gulf via the river system. #### Golf Communities in Port St. Lucie - [Tesoro](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/port-st-lucie/tesoro/): 1,400-acre private, gated golf community in Port St. Lucie built around Tesoro Club's two signature courses. - [The Reserve at PGA Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/port-st-lucie/the-reserve-at-pga-village/): Port St. Lucie, FL: Gated neighborhood within PGA Village offering golf-course-fronting homes; golf club membership is optional and not required for residents. - [PGA Village Verano](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/port-st-lucie/pga-village-verano/): Port St. Lucie, FL: 55+ gated new-home community developed by Kolter Homes (since 2008, planned for ~1,800 residences) adjacent to PGA Golf Club, marketed with a 'privileged PGA membership' discount tier included with home purchase, plus a large private amenity center (27-court pickleball complex, indoor lap pool, fitness center). - [Astor Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/port-st-lucie/astor-creek/): New gated master-planned community in Port St. Lucie (Kolter Homes) planned for ~900 single-family homes on ~682 acres, built around Astor Creek Golf & Country Club with bundled resident golf membership included in every home purchase. - [Ballantrae](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/port-st-lucie/ballantrae/): A gated community of 400+ homes on the North Fork of the St. Lucie River in Port St. Lucie, anchored by the private Santa Lucia River Club golf course and a community marina with river access. ### Fort Lauderdale / Broward, FL - [Fort Lauderdale / Broward, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-lauderdale-broward/): Broward County's qualifying private-golf landscape is four structurally different clubs with little geographic or membership overlap: Parkland Golf & Country Club in the far-northwest exurb of Parkland, The Club at Weston Hills in western Weston, the historic, invitation-only Coral Ridge Country Club inside the city of Fort Lauderdale, and Grande Oaks Golf Club (formerly Rolling Hills Country Club) in Davie. #### Golf Clubs in Fort Lauderdale / Broward - [Parkland Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-lauderdale-broward/parkland-golf-country-club/): Parkland Golf & Country Club is a private, gated golf-course community in Parkland, FL (Broward County), organized around a private club course. - [The Club at Weston Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-lauderdale-broward/the-club-at-weston-hills/): The Club at Weston Hills is a private, 36-hole club in Weston, FL (Broward County), operated by Arcis Golf. It features the Tour Course (host of the Honda Classic, 1992-2000) and the Players Course, both designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., alongside 8 tennis courts, a pool, fitness, and dining. - [Coral Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-lauderdale-broward/coral-ridge-country-club/): Coral Ridge Country Club is a private, invitation-only club in Fort Lauderdale, FL, with an 18-hole championship course (Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1955) and a 9-hole par-3 course (2015), 11 clay tennis courts, and an Olympic-size pool. - [Grande Oaks Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-lauderdale-broward/grande-oaks-golf-club/): Grande Oaks Golf Club is a private, members-and-guests-only club in Davie, FL (Broward County), owned by Nova Southeastern University and managed by Troon Prive as of March 2026. #### Golf Communities in Fort Lauderdale / Broward - [Parkland Golf & Country Club (residential community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-lauderdale-broward/parkland-golf-country-club-homes/): The gated residential community surrounding Parkland Golf & Country Club's private course, governed by its own mandatory homeowners association, distinct from the separately optional golf club membership. - [Coral Ridge (Fort Lauderdale)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-lauderdale-broward/coral-ridge-neighborhood/): Coral Ridge is an established, non-gated waterfront/inland single-family neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale surrounding Coral Ridge Country Club. - [Lake Estates at Rolling Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/fort-lauderdale-broward/lake-estates-at-rolling-hills/): Lake Estates at Rolling Hills is a guard-gated community of 156 single-family homes in Davie, FL, built directly along the Grande Oaks Golf Club course (within the broader Rolling Hills Golf and Tennis Club area). ### Miami / Coral Gables / Doral, FL - [Miami / Coral Gables / Doral, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/miami-coral-gables-doral/): This market's two qualifying anchors, Deering Bay Yacht & Country Club in southern Coral Gables and Fisher Island Club off Miami Beach, are both high-end, membership-gated South Florida addresses, but they sit at opposite ends of how tightly golf access is tied to real estate. #### Golf Clubs in Miami / Coral Gables / Doral - [Deering Bay Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/miami-coral-gables-doral/deering-bay-yacht-country-club/): Deering Bay Yacht & Country Club is a private club in Coral Gables, FL (Miami-Dade County), built around South Florida's only Arnold Palmer-designed, bay-front golf course. - [Fisher Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/miami-coral-gables-doral/fisher-island-club/): Fisher Island is a private island community off Miami Beach reachable only by ferry, private boat, or helicopter. Purchasing property anywhere on the island requires mandatory Fisher Island Club equity membership ($250,000 initiation, roughly $19,260+ annual dues), which gates access to essentially every island amenity, including the private 9-hole P.B. Dye golf course. #### Golf Communities in Miami / Coral Gables / Doral - [Deering Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/miami-coral-gables-doral/deering-bay/): Deering Bay is a gated, 312-unit waterfront community in southern Coral Gables (Miami-Dade County) built directly around three marinas and the private Deering Bay Yacht & Country Club's Arnold Palmer golf course. - [Fisher Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/miami-coral-gables-doral/fisher-island/): Fisher Island is a private island community off Miami Beach, accessible only by ferry, private boat, or helicopter, comprising roughly 22 separate condominium/homeowners associations (including Palazzo del Sol) organized around the private Fisher Island Club, whose amenities include a 9-hole P.B. Dye golf course, private beach club, marinas, and spa. ### Jacksonville, FL - [Jacksonville, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/): Jacksonville is a large, spread-out golf market with no single dominant golf submarket -- instead it offers several genuinely different golf-living models scattered across Duval County's Southside and riverfront neighborhoods. #### Golf Clubs in Jacksonville - [Pablo Creek Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/pablo-creek-club/): Jacksonville, FL: Extremely private, invitation-only Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole course (opened 1996), founded in 1994 by the family behind Winn-Dixie. - [Deerwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/deerwood-country-club/): Private, member-owned club (since 1999) founded in 1960 in Jacksonville's Baymeadows/Southside area; 2004-renovated par-72 course. - [Deercreek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/deercreek-country-club/): Private, non-equity club opened in 1989, now part of Heritage Golf Group's portfolio. Offers unlimited golf, 8 Har-Tru tennis courts, 3 pickleball courts, pool, and fitness center across several membership tiers, located in Jacksonville's Baymeadows/Southside submarket. - [Jacksonville Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/jacksonville-golf-and-country-club/): Private, member-owned club established 1989 on Hunt Club Road in Jacksonville, offering distinct Equity (in-community residents) and Non-Equity (outside residents) membership tiers, plus golf, tennis, fitness, dining, and social programming. - [Queen's Harbour Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/queens-harbour-yacht-and-country-club/): Invitation-only private club, part of the Invited (formerly ClubCorp) network, anchoring the gated waterfront Queen's Harbour community in Jacksonville. - [Timuquana Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/timuquana-country-club/): Historic 1921-founded, Donald Ross-designed (1923) private club on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville's Ortega/Timuquana area. - [San Jose Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/san-jose-country-club/): Historic private club (built mid-1920s) with an 18-hole Donald Ross-designed course, originally one of the anchor institutions of the John Nolen-planned San Jose Estates community on Jacksonville's Southside (now a National-Register-listed historic thematic resource area). #### Golf Communities in Jacksonville - [Pablo Creek Reserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/pablo-creek-reserve/): Jacksonville, FL: An exclusive, gated ~400-acre residential community adjacent to Pablo Creek Club, a couple of miles west of Ponte Vedra Beach near the Intracoastal Waterway. - [Deerwood (Jacksonville)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/deerwood-neighborhood/): The established, guard-gated residential area surrounding Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville's Baymeadows/Southside submarket -- roughly 900 homes ranging from 5-acre estate lots to garden homes and townhouses, developed starting in 1960 by Bryant and Richard Skinner with two staffed entrances (Baymeadows Road and Southside Boulevard). - [Deercreek (Jacksonville)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/deercreek-neighborhood/): Gated ~750-home residential community in Jacksonville's Southside area built around Deercreek Country Club, roughly 15 minutes from both downtown Jacksonville and the beaches; homes generally sit on spacious lots with water, golf, or preserve views. - [Jacksonville Golf & Country Club community (Hunt Club Road)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/jacksonville-golf-and-country-club-community/): The residential development surrounding Jacksonville Golf & Country Club off Hunt Club Road, whose residents are eligible for the club's Equity membership tier. - [Queen's Harbour](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/queens-harbour/): Gated waterfront residential community in Jacksonville built around Queen's Harbour Yacht & Country Club, its golf course, and its 76-slip marina. - [Ortega / Timuquana (Jacksonville)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/ortega-timuquana-neighborhood/): Established, historic riverfront residential area of Jacksonville surrounding Timuquana Country Club. Specific subdivision/HOA structure not independently verified this session. - [San Jose (Jacksonville)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/jacksonville/san-jose-jacksonville/): Historic Jacksonville Southside neighborhood, roughly 4.5 miles from downtown, originally planned in the 1920s (city planner John Nolen) around San Jose Country Club and its Donald Ross golf course as part of the San Jose Estates development -- now a National-Register-listed historic thematic resource area. ### Ponte Vedra Beach, FL - [Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ponte-vedra-beach/): Ponte Vedra Beach is Florida's most concentrated cluster of private, membership-gated golf in a single coastal town, anchored by TPC Sawgrass -- the PGA TOUR's own headquarters course and home of THE PLAYERS Championship. #### Golf Clubs in Ponte Vedra Beach - [TPC Sawgrass ecosystem](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ponte-vedra-beach/tpc-sawgrass-ecosystem/): Home of THE PLAYERS Championship and PGA TOUR headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach. Two courses (Stadium Course and Dye's Valley Course) operate primarily as a public/resort daily-fee facility with a separate, limited private membership tier. - [The Plantation at Ponte Vedra](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ponte-vedra-beach/the-plantation-at-ponte-vedra/): Gated private community of roughly 577-579 homes on more than 650 acres in Ponte Vedra Beach, built around an 18-hole Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay-designed golf course (course opened in the mid-to-late 1980s). - [Marsh Landing Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ponte-vedra-beach/marsh-landing-country-club/): Private, non-equity country club (est. 1986; Ed Seay/Arnold Palmer Design Group course; owned by Concert Golf Partners since 2022) anchoring a guard-gated, 1,000+ home community in Ponte Vedra Beach. - [Sawgrass Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ponte-vedra-beach/sawgrass-country-club/): Ponte Vedra Beach, FL: Private, member-owned 27-hole country club founded in 1974, distinct from the public TPC Sawgrass; hosted the PGA Tour's Tournament Players Championship five times (1977-1981). #### Golf Communities in Ponte Vedra Beach - [Sawgrass Players Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ponte-vedra-beach/sawgrass-players-club/): A residential enclave within the Sawgrass area of Ponte Vedra Beach, situated along/near the TPC Sawgrass golf courses. Specific HOA, pricing, and access details were not independently verified this session and should be confirmed directly. - [Marsh Landing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ponte-vedra-beach/marsh-landing/): Guard-gated, 1,000+ home master-planned community in Ponte Vedra Beach built beginning in the 1980s around Marsh Landing Country Club, with a Master Association plus 10 sub-associations, private marina access for select homes, and optional country club membership. - [Sawgrass Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/ponte-vedra-beach/sawgrass-community/): A roughly 1,200-acre, 1,409-home guard-gated section of Ponte Vedra Beach between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway, built directly around Sawgrass Country Club's 27-hole golf course and oceanfront Beach Club. ### St. Augustine, FL - [St. Augustine, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/st-augustine/): St. Augustine's golf market is defined by two very different purpose-built developments rather than a cluster of old private clubs: Palencia, a Hines-developed master-planned community organized around the Arthur Hills-designed Palencia Club, and World Golf Village, a 1998 PGA TOUR-founded destination built around two signature-designer public courses and the World Golf Hall of Fame. #### Golf Clubs in St. Augustine - [Palencia Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/st-augustine/palencia-club/): Arthur Hills-designed 18-hole course (7,071 yards) and 33,000 sq ft clubhouse at the center of the Hines-developed, master-planned Palencia community in St. Augustine, with three dining venues and a 400-yard driving range. - [World Golf Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/st-augustine/world-golf-village/): St. Augustine, FL: PGA Tour-founded (1998) golf destination in St. Johns County anchored by the World Golf Hall of Fame and two signature-designer daily-fee courses: The King & Bear (Palmer/Nicklaus/Weed) and The Slammer & Squire (Snead/Sarazen/Weed). #### Golf Communities in St. Augustine - [Palencia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/st-augustine/palencia/): Master-planned community in St. Augustine developed by Hines, built around Palencia Club's golf course, with an extensive amenity package including three pools, athletic fields, and a 30-acre interconnected park/trail system. - [The King & Bear](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/st-augustine/king-and-bear-community/): St. Augustine, FL: The flagship guard-gated community of World Golf Village, wrapped around The King & Bear golf course, with 14 varied sub-neighborhoods of executive and luxury single-family homes, a clubhouse, tennis, pickleball, two pools, and a fitness center. - [The Cascades at World Golf Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/st-augustine/the-cascades-at-world-golf-village/): St. Augustine, FL: Gated, age-restricted (55+) neighborhood of 450 single-story homes within World Golf Village, sited beside the Slammer & Squire course with its own clubhouse, pool, tennis, pickleball, and fitness amenities. ### Amelia Island / Fernandina Beach, FL - [Amelia Island / Fernandina Beach, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/amelia-island-fernandina-beach/): Amelia Island / Fernandina Beach is a small, single-club golf market on Florida's northeasternmost coast, roughly 15 minutes from Jacksonville International Airport but with its own distinct barrier-island, beach-town identity. #### Golf Clubs in Amelia Island / Fernandina Beach - [Amelia National Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/amelia-island-fernandina-beach/amelia-national-golf-and-country-club/): Tom Fazio-designed golf course anchoring the Amelia National master-planned community in Fernandina Beach. Every homeowner must hold a mandatory Lifestyle (social/clubhouse) Membership; a separate paid Premier Golf Membership (e.g. Gold tier: $25,000 initiation / $7,900 annual dues) is required to access the golf course itself. #### Golf Communities in Amelia Island / Fernandina Beach - [Amelia National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/amelia-island-fernandina-beach/amelia-national-golf-and-country-club-community/): Master-planned golf community in Fernandina Beach built around the Tom Fazio-designed Amelia National golf course; new-home community with mandatory social club membership for all owners. ### Palm Coast / Daytona / Ormond Beach, FL - [Palm Coast / Daytona / Ormond Beach, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/): The Palm Coast / Daytona / Ormond Beach corridor is Florida's largest golf market by anchor count in this research batch -- eight distinct clubs spread across roughly 40 miles of the northeast Florida coast, from Hammock Dunes Club's oceanfront enclave north of Palm Coast down through Ormond Beach's inland gated communities. #### Golf Clubs in Palm Coast / Daytona / Ormond Beach - [Hammock Dunes Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/hammock-dunes-club/): Private, gated, oceanfront golf community roughly halfway between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach, just east of Palm Coast. - [Grand Haven Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/grand-haven-golf-club/): Jack Nicklaus Signature 18-hole course anchoring the gated, master-planned Grand Haven community in Palm Coast. Offers a resident-only 'associate' membership tier and a broader 'full golf' membership open to residents and non-residents alike; pricing is not published online. - [Plantation Bay Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/plantation-bay-golf-and-country-club/): Gated (24/7 manned entrance) golf-course community straddling Ormond Beach's Flagler/Volusia county line, with 45 holes across two clubhouses. - [Hammock Beach Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/hammock-beach-resort/): Oceanfront golf resort south of Palm Coast, built in 2000, featuring two championship courses -- the Jack Nicklaus-designed Ocean Course and the Tom Watson-designed Conservatory Course -- plus a 91,000-sq-ft water park, spa, marina, and Troon-managed Beach Club and Golf memberships with reciprocal access to 100+ Troon Prive private clubs. - [LPGA International](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/lpga-international/): 36-hole semi-private club in Daytona Beach, built in 1994 as the LPGA's headquarters course; home to the Rees Jones Champions Course and Arthur Hills Legends Course. - [Oceanside Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/oceanside-country-club/): Historic private club (established 1907; first nine holes completed 1907, second nine in 1908) between the Halifax River and the Atlantic in Ormond Beach, with an 18-hole course originally designed by P.F. Seabloom and recently renovated by Bobby Weed. - [The Club at Pelican Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/club-at-pelican-bay/): 36-hole club (North and South Courses, Bill Amick design) inside the gated Pelican Bay community in Daytona Beach (1,806 attached and single-family homes). - [Halifax Plantation Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/halifax-plantation-golf-club/): Gated, master-planned golf community in Ormond Beach organized around an 18-hole Bill Amick-designed course and a 25,000 sq ft clubhouse; the community has both mixed-age and age-restricted (55+) sections under separate HOAs, and golf/sport/social memberships (from ~$995 initiation) are sold separately to residents and non-residents. #### Golf Communities in Palm Coast / Daytona / Ormond Beach - [Hammock Dunes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/hammock-dunes/): 1,182-property private, gated, oceanfront community east of Palm Coast with 2.5 miles of oceanfront and 5+ miles of Intracoastal frontage. - [Grand Haven](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/grand-haven/): Gated, master-planned Palm Coast community begun in 1997, platted for roughly 1,901 homes, built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course. - [Plantation Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/plantation-bay/): Gated golf-course community west of I-95 near Ormond Beach, straddling the Flagler/Volusia county line, developed from the early 1990s through the 2010s. - [Ocean Hammock](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/ocean-hammock/): Oceanfront residential development at Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast, offering beach, chairs, and pool amenity access tied to the resort. - [Cinnamon Beach](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/cinnamon-beach/): Oceanfront residential community within the Hammock Beach Resort area of Palm Coast. - [Yacht Harbor Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/yacht-harbor-village/): Marina-oriented residential/condo development at Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast; residents/guests can access the beach, chairs, and pool at the adjacent Ocean Hammock Resort area. - [LPGA International (residential)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/lpga-international-community/): Master-planned residential area of multiple neighborhoods built around the LPGA International golf club in Daytona Beach; common areas are managed in part by the Renar Golf Communities at LPGA International Homeowners' Association. - [Halifax Riverside Area (Ormond Beach)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/halifax-riverside-ormond-beach/): General historic residential area of Ormond Beach along the Halifax River, near Oceanside Country Club's central, in-town location. - [Pelican Bay (Daytona Beach)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/pelican-bay-daytona-beach/): Gated golf community of 1,806 attached and single-family homes in Daytona Beach, built around two 18-hole courses; HOA-managed common areas include a clubhouse, fitness center, pool, tennis, and pickleball. - [Halifax Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/palm-coast-daytona-ormond-beach/halifax-plantation/): Large, gated master-planned community in Ormond Beach organized around the semi-private Halifax Plantation Golf Club, with mixed-age and 55+ sections under separate HOAs and a shared 25,000 sq ft clubhouse. ### Space Coast / Melbourne, FL - [Space Coast / Melbourne, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/space-coast-melbourne/): Melbourne's two qualifying golf anchors serve distinctly different buyers. Suntree Country Club anchors Suntree, a roughly 2,500-acre, ~15,000-resident master-planned area developed beginning in 1975, with two full 18-hole courses and membership sold separately from any home purchase. #### Golf Clubs in Space Coast / Melbourne - [Suntree Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/space-coast-melbourne/suntree-country-club/): Private, member-owned country club in Melbourne, FL anchoring the roughly 2,500-acre Suntree master-planned community (development began 1975; ~15,000 residents). - [Indian River Colony Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/space-coast-melbourne/indian-river-colony-club/): Private 55+, member-owned community in Melbourne (Viera East area), Brevard County, built around a private 18-hole golf course (Gordon G. Lewis, 1986; par 72; 6,647 yards) with water on every hole. #### Golf Communities in Space Coast / Melbourne - [Suntree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/space-coast-melbourne/suntree/): Suntree is an approximately 2,500-acre planned unit development formed in 1975, spanning the area roughly between Melbourne and Rockledge in Brevard County, with an estimated population around 15,000. - [Indian River Colony Club (community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/space-coast-melbourne/indian-river-colony-club-community/): 453-acre, not-for-profit, member-owned 55+ community in the Melbourne/Viera East area of Brevard County with nearly 800 individually owned single-family homes (2-4 bedrooms) built around Indian River Colony Club's private 18-hole golf course. ### Tallahassee, FL - [Tallahassee, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tallahassee/): US Golf Living has researched 2 golf anchors in the Tallahassee golf market, in Leon County, including Golden Eagle Country Club and Killearn Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Tallahassee - [Golden Eagle Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tallahassee/golden-eagle-country-club/): Private, application-based country club (Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole course, tennis, pool, dining) at the center of Golden Eagle Plantation, a gated ~800-home community in northeast Tallahassee. - [Killearn Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tallahassee/killearn-country-club/): Tallahassee, FL: Privately owned club (established 1967; rebranded 'The Killearn Club' in 2023) undergoing a multi-year renovation under owner David Cummings, with tiered memberships (roughly $15K-$75K initiation, ~$500-$1,100/month dues per the owner's public statements). #### Golf Communities in Tallahassee - [Golden Eagle Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tallahassee/golden-eagle-plantation/): Gated golf community in northeast Tallahassee built around Golden Eagle Country Club's Tom Fazio-designed course; roughly 800 built homes on ~948 platted lots, manned security gate, HOA-run amenities separate from the private country club. - [Killearn Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/tallahassee/killearn-estates/): One of Tallahassee's oldest master-planned neighborhoods (developed starting the mid-1960s), now roughly 3,800 homes and ~12,000 residents in northeast Tallahassee, built around what is now The Killearn Club (formerly Killearn Country Club). ### Destin / Sandestin / Miramar Beach, FL - [Destin / Sandestin / Miramar Beach, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/destin-sandestin-miramar-beach/): US Golf Living has researched 2 golf anchors in the Destin / Sandestin / Miramar Beach golf market, in Okaloosa and Walton Countyies, including Burnt Pine Golf Club and Kelly Plantation Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in Destin / Sandestin / Miramar Beach - [Burnt Pine Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/destin-sandestin-miramar-beach/burnt-pine-golf-club/): Burnt Pine is the private golf club of Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in Miramar Beach, offering tiered membership to resort property owners and outside applicants rather than automatic access with home purchase. - [Kelly Plantation Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/destin-sandestin-miramar-beach/kelly-plantation-golf-club/): Kelly Plantation Golf Club is a semi-private 18-hole, 7,099-yard course designed by Fred Couples and Gene Bates along Choctawhatchee Bay in Destin, serving as the centerpiece of the Kelly Plantation residential community. #### Golf Communities in Destin / Sandestin / Miramar Beach - [Burnt Pine (Sandestin)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/destin-sandestin-miramar-beach/burnt-pine-sandestin/): Burnt Pine is Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort's most exclusive residential enclave: a gated community of ten distinct custom-home neighborhoods built around the private, Rees Jones-designed Burnt Pine Golf Club (course opened 1994, community developed through the 1990s). - [Kelly Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/destin-sandestin-miramar-beach/kelly-plantation/): Kelly Plantation is a golf-course residential community in Destin built around Kelly Plantation Golf Club, on the former site of a turpentine plantation along Choctawhatchee Bay. ### 30A / Santa Rosa Beach, FL - [30A / Santa Rosa Beach, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/30a-santa-rosa-beach/): This market's research to date centers on a single, distinctive anchor: Santa Rosa Golf & Beach Club, described in its own materials as the only member-owned private golf and beach club on 30A. #### Golf Clubs in 30A / Santa Rosa Beach - [Santa Rosa Golf & Beach Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/30a-santa-rosa-beach/santa-rosa-golf-beach-club/): Santa Rosa Golf & Beach Club is a member-owned private golf and beach club in the Dune Allen area of Santa Rosa Beach on 30A, offering an 18-hole course, clubhouse dining (Vue on 30A), a private pool, and a private beach club. ### Panama City / Northwest Florida, FL - [Panama City / Northwest Florida, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/panama-city-nwfl/): Panama City/Northwest Florida's golf-living market is a study in three distinct models rather than one dominant type. Bay Point Golf Club anchors a roughly 1,100-acre gated golf-and-marina resort community on Grand Lagoon/St. Andrews Bay, built around two 18-hole courses (including the only Jack Nicklaus Design layout in Northwest Florida) and a 180-slip marina. #### Golf Clubs in Panama City / Northwest Florida - [Bay Point Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/panama-city-nwfl/bay-point-golf-club/): Gated, ~1,100-acre golf-and-marina resort community on the east end of Panama City Beach, built around two 18-hole courses (a Jack Nicklaus-designed course and the Meadows Course), a 180-slip marina, and a resort hotel. - [Panama Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/panama-city-nwfl/panama-country-club/): Private, members-only 18-hole club on North Bay in Lynn Haven, Bay County, at the center of the Country Club Harbour Estates residential neighborhood. - [Shark's Tooth Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/panama-city-nwfl/sharks-tooth-golf-club/): Panama City Beach, FL: Private, Greg Norman-designed 18-hole course inside the gated Wild Heron community on Lake Powell, operated as part of the private Watersound Club membership system. #### Golf Communities in Panama City / Northwest Florida - [Bay Point](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/panama-city-nwfl/bay-point/): Gated, ~1,100-acre resort-residential community on Grand Lagoon/St. Andrews Bay in Panama City Beach, built around two 18-hole golf courses, a 180-slip marina, and a resort hotel, with roughly 1,300 condos, golf villas, and homes across multiple sub-associations. - [Country Club Harbour Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/panama-city-nwfl/country-club-harbour-estates/): Established single-family neighborhood in Lynn Haven surrounding Panama Country Club along North Bay, with homes ranging from modest to larger waterfront/golf-front properties. - [Wild Heron](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/panama-city-nwfl/wild-heron/): Gated, 734-acre lakefront community on Lake Powell in Panama City Beach with fewer than 600 homes, built around 187 acres of Greg Norman-designed golf (Shark's Tooth) and 206 acres of conservation land; golf access requires separate private Watersound Club membership, not included with property. ### Pensacola, FL - [Pensacola, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/pensacola/): Pensacola's golf-living market, on the research done so far, centers on Pensacola Country Club -- founded in 1902 and widely cited (including by golf-architecture specialists at GolfClubAtlas.com) as the oldest private golf club in Florida. #### Golf Clubs in Pensacola - [Pensacola Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/pensacola/pensacola-country-club/): Pensacola Country Club, founded in 1902, is widely cited as the oldest private golf club in Florida. Its 18-hole course was rebuilt by designer Jerry Pate after Hurricane Ivan destroyed the original layout in 2004. ### Florida Keys / Key Largo, FL - [Florida Keys / Key Largo, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/florida-keys-key-largo/): Ocean Reef Club, at the northern tip of Key Largo, is the only golf anchor in the entire Florida Keys/Key Largo market that clears this site's qualification bar — golf is otherwise essentially absent from the Keys, so a single-anchor market here reflects the actual geography of golf in Monroe County rather than incomplete research. #### Golf Clubs in Florida Keys / Key Largo - [Ocean Reef Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/florida-keys-key-largo/ocean-reef-club/): Ocean Reef Club is a private, gated, 2,500-acre resort-residential community at the northern tip of Key Largo in the Florida Keys, built around two private 18-hole championship golf courses (Dolphin Course, 1970; Hammock Course, 1985/1996 Fazio redesign), a 175-slip marina, private airport, tennis, fitness center, and spa. #### Golf Communities in Florida Keys / Key Largo - [Ocean Reef Club (residential community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/florida-keys-key-largo/ocean-reef-club-community/): Ocean Reef Club's residential community spans roughly 2,500 acres at the northern tip of Key Largo (Monroe County) and comprises approximately 1,700 waterfront estates, golf-course homes, luxury condominiums, and marina boat slips organized around the private club's two 18-hole golf courses, marina, and private airport. ### Lake County / Clermont, FL - [Lake County / Clermont, FL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lake-county-clermont/): US Golf Living has researched 2 golf anchors in the Lake County / Clermont golf market, in Lake County, including Bella Collina and Bishops Gate Golf and Lakeside Community. #### Golf Clubs in Lake County / Clermont - [Bella Collina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lake-county-clermont/bella-collina/): Guard-gated, ~1,900-acre luxury lakefront golf community in Montverde (Lake County), built around an 18-hole Nick Faldo/Steve Smyers-designed championship course (opened 2008) and a 75,000-sq-ft Tuscan-inspired clubhouse. - [Bishops Gate Golf and Lakeside Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/florida/lake-county-clermont/bishops-gate/): Small, private golf community established in 1983 on Little Lake Harris in Howey-in-the-Hills (Lake County). An 18-hole course originally designed by Joe Lee (renovated by Rick Robbins in 2007) weaves through a chain of 13 natural lakes. ## Arizona - [Arizona Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/): Independent research on 77 golf clubs and 66 residential golf communities across 21 Arizona golf markets, including North Scottsdale, Paradise Valley and Cave Creek & Carefree: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Arizona Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Arizona](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 9 Arizona golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including The Gallery Golf Club, Forest Highlands Golf Club, Mountain Shadows Resort, Desert Highlands Golf Club and Terravita Golf & Country Club. - [Private Golf Communities in Arizona](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 68 private Arizona golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Desert Forest Golf Club, The Boulders Club, Tatum Ranch Golf Club, FireRock Country Club and Alta Mesa Golf Club. - [55+ Golf Communities in Arizona](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/guides/55-plus-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 19 Arizona golf anchors connected to age-restricted (55+) residential communities, including Apache Wells Country Club, The Highlands at Dove Mountain Golf Course, SaddleBrooke Golf Clubs, Quail Creek Golf Club at Robson Ranch and Recreation Centers of Sun City West Golf System. - [Golf Resort Communities in Arizona](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 12 Arizona golf resort ecosystems, including El Conquistador Country Club, Arizona Biltmore Golf Club, Wildfire Golf Club, Sedona Golf Resort and Mountain Shadows Resort. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Arizona](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 26 private Arizona golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including El Conquistador Country Club, The Golf Club at Chaparral Pines, The Rim Golf Club, White Mountain Country Club and Phoenix Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Arizona](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 26 Arizona golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Mesa Country Club, Red Mountain Ranch Country Club, Apache Wells Country Club, Seville Golf & Country Club and El Conquistador Country Club. ### Arizona Comparisons - [Desert Mountain Club vs Desert Highlands Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/desert-mountain-club-vs-desert-highlands-golf-club/): A researched comparison of Desert Mountain Club and Desert Highlands Golf Club in north Scottsdale, AZ: application-based versus mandatory bundled membership, course footprint, fees, and home prices for golf-oriented buyers. - [Whisper Rock Golf Club vs Mirabel Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/whisper-rock-golf-club-vs-mirabel-club/): A researched comparison of Whisper Rock Golf Club and Mirabel Club in north Scottsdale, AZ: invitation versus application membership, golf-only versus full-amenity clubs, course pedigree, and price of entry. - [Forest Highlands Golf Club vs Chaparral Pines](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/forest-highlands-golf-club-vs-chaparral-pines/): A researched comparison of Forest Highlands Golf Club (Flagstaff) and The Golf Club at Chaparral Pines (Payson), AZ: Arizona's two flagship high-country golf communities, including honest documentation gaps in each club's access model and pricing. - [Sun Cities vs Sun Lakes / Chandler South for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/sun-cities-vs-sun-lakes-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Sun Cities and Sun Lakes, AZ for golf-oriented 55+ buyers: nonprofit Recreation-Centers-owned golf vs. per-HOA private clubs, course inventory, and cost transparency. - [North Scottsdale vs Paradise Valley for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/north-scottsdale-vs-paradise-valley-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of North Scottsdale and Paradise Valley, AZ for golf-oriented buyers: private-club density and price ladder vs. a small town's own invitation-only and resort-hybrid golf. - [Tucson vs Oro Valley & Marana for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/tucson-vs-oro-valley-marana-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Tucson and Oro Valley & Marana, AZ for golf-oriented buyers: old-line in-town private clubs vs. newer foothills master planning, bundled golf, and 55+ inventory. ### North Scottsdale, AZ - [North Scottsdale, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/): North Scottsdale is Arizona's densest and most prestigious private-golf corridor — a roughly 15-mile north-south stretch of the McDowell Mountains foothills, from the Shea Boulevard/Via Linda area near Ancala north through Pinnacle Peak, DC Ranch, Troon, Desert Highlands, and up to the Desert Mountain/Rio Verde edge, spanning ZIP codes roughly 85255, 85258, 85259, and 85262. #### Golf Clubs in North Scottsdale - [Desert Mountain Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/desert-mountain-club/): 8,300-acre private, gated golf ecosystem in far north Scottsdale with six Jack Nicklaus Signature 18-hole courses (Renegade, Cochise, Geronimo, Apache, Chiricahua, Outlaw) plus the Constellation short course. - [Desert Highlands Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/desert-highlands-golf-club/): Guard-gated golf community in north Scottsdale, opened in 1984 as the first Jack Nicklaus design in Arizona and one of the first American communities built on a bundled-membership model: every homeowner is automatically a full club member (golf + social combined, no separate social-only tier), with no waitlist or board approval. - [The Estancia Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/the-estancia-club/): Scottsdale, AZ: Ultra-low-density (223 home sites plus 39 villas on 640 guard-gated acres), invitation-only private club at the base of Pinnacle Peak. - [Whisper Rock Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/whisper-rock-golf-club/): Scottsdale, AZ: Golf-only private club (no dining/social facilities beyond golf necessities) accessed through the guard-gated Whisper Rock Estates residential entrance, with two courses: the Phil Mickelson-designed Lower Course (2001) and the Tom Fazio-designed Upper Course (2005). - [Mirabel Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/mirabel-club/): Private, gated club in far-north Scottsdale built around a Tom Fazio-designed course (7,146 yards) and a 37,000-square-foot 'Desert Lodge' clubhouse. - [The Silverleaf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/the-silverleaf-club/): Scottsdale, AZ: Private, invitation/sponsorship-required club anchoring the ultra-luxury Silverleaf enclave on the east side of DC Ranch. - [The Country Club at DC Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/the-country-club-at-dc-ranch/): Scottsdale, AZ: Private, member-owned club within the larger DC Ranch master-planned community, par-71, originally designed by Scott Miller (1997) and completely redesigned in 2002 by 1996 Open Champion Tom Lehman and John Fought (a further redesign with Lehman Designs was reported planned for 2026). - [Troon Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/troon-country-club/): Scottsdale, AZ: Private, members-only club (Tom Weiskopf's first-ever golf design, with Jay Morrish, 1986; renovated 2020) anchoring the guard-gated/mixed-gate Troon Village master-planned community. - [Troon North Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/troon-north-golf-club/): Scottsdale, AZ: 36-hole daily-fee facility (Monument, 1990, and Pinnacle, 1995 — both Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish designs) open to public tee times, but it also maintains a genuine Full Golf Membership tier (reported $35,000-$80,000 initiation) that the club describes as currently sold out with its waitlist closed. - [Pinnacle Peak Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/pinnacle-peak-country-club/): Opened in 1976 as the first private golf facility in north Scottsdale (Dick Turner design); a private, member-owned, non-equity club describing itself as contiguous to three upscale residential communities. $50,000 non-equity initiation (interest-free 5-year payment plan) is the most accessible entry point among the corridor's mainline private clubs, and the club offers a $5,000 one-year trial membership. - [Scottsdale National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/scottsdale-national-golf-club/): Invitation-only private club owned by GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons, opened 2003 in the McDowell Mountain foothills (ZIP 85262, the same far-north Scottsdale corridor as Desert Mountain). - [Ancala Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/ancala-country-club/): Scottsdale, AZ: Private, guard-gated club at 11700 E Via Linda (ZIP 85259), designed by Perry Dye, with a tiered membership structure from Social ($500 initiation) up to Full Golf ($35,000 initiation, $1,165/month). - [Terravita Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/terravita-golf-country-club/): Scottsdale, AZ: Guard-gated community developed by Del Webb beginning in late 1993 as the company's first NON-age-restricted community, built around a Billy Casper/Greg Nash-designed course with mountain views (Black Mountain, The Boulders). - [Four Seasons Residence Club Scottsdale at Troon North](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/four-seasons-residence-club-scottsdale-at-troon-north/): A 45-villa deeded fractional-ownership (weekly-interval) residential product adjacent to the Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North. - [TPC Scottsdale](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/tpc-scottsdale/): Scottsdale, AZ: Home to the Stadium Course (Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish, 1986), which hosts the PGA Tour's Waste Management Phoenix Open — the largest-attended golf tournament in the world — plus the Champions Course. #### Golf Communities in North Scottsdale - [Desert Mountain](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/desert-mountain-community/): 8,300-acre guard-gated master-planned community in far north Scottsdale, organized into multiple named 'villages,' surrounding the seven-course Desert Mountain Club. - [Desert Highlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/desert-highlands/): Scottsdale, AZ: Guard-gated community built entirely around Desert Highlands Golf Club, where club membership is mandatory and bundled into every home purchase. - [Estancia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/estancia/): Scottsdale, AZ: Ultra-low-density (223 home sites plus 39 villas across 640 guard-gated acres), invitation-only community at the base of Pinnacle Peak, anchored by the Tom Fazio-designed Estancia Club course. - [Whisper Rock Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/whisper-rock-estates/): Scottsdale, AZ: 800-acre guard-gated community (200 home sites, 1-5 acre lots, 24-hour manned gatehouse) at Lone Mountain and Hayden Road, wrapped around the golf-only, invitation-only Whisper Rock Golf Club. - [Mirabel](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/mirabel/): Gated community in far-north Scottsdale anchored by the private Mirabel Club (Tom Fazio course). Golf membership is explicitly not bundled with home purchase. - [DC Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/dc-ranch/): Large, non-gated master-planned community in central-north Scottsdale, encompassing many distinct neighborhoods including the ultra-luxury gated Silverleaf enclave. - [Silverleaf](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/silverleaf/): Ultra-luxury guard-gated enclave on the east side of DC Ranch, widely regarded as one of Scottsdale's most prestigious addresses, anchored by The Silverleaf Club (Tom Weiskopf course, highest reported golf-membership initiation fee in the corridor). - [Troon Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/troon-village/): Scottsdale, AZ: 1,400-acre master-planned community of 12 distinct subdivisions (guard-gated, gated, and non-gated) surrounding Troon Mountain, anchored by the private Troon Country Club (Tom Weiskopf's first golf design). - [Ancala](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/ancala/): Scottsdale, AZ: Guard-gated community in the McDowell Mountain foothills (Via Linda corridor) anchored by the private Ancala Country Club (Perry Dye course). - [Terravita](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/terravita/): Scottsdale, AZ: Guard-gated community developed by Del Webb beginning in late 1993, marketed at the time as the company's first NON-age-restricted community, though multiple current retirement-community directories describe/list it as 55+ — a genuine, unresolved conflict documented here rather than picked. - [Pinnacle Peak Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/pinnacle-peak-country-club-estates/): Scottsdale, AZ: The named neighborhood most directly identified with Pinnacle Peak Country Club; the club itself describes being 'contiguous to three upscale residential communities,' but this pass could only independently confirm the one directly-named neighborhood. - [TPC Scottsdale Neighborhoods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/tpc-scottsdale-neighborhoods/): Collective name for the four small on-course neighborhoods (Crown Point I & II, Princess Views, Alcazar) directly adjacent to TPC Scottsdale's Stadium and Champions courses. - [Four Seasons Residence Club Scottsdale at Troon North (Villas)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-scottsdale/four-seasons-troon-north-villas/): The residential product corresponding to the Four Seasons Residence Club Scottsdale at Troon North anchor: 45 deeded fractional-ownership villas whose owners receive priority golf access to Troon North Golf Club. ### Paradise Valley, AZ - [Paradise Valley, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/paradise-valley/): Paradise Valley is a small, incorporated town wedged between Phoenix and Scottsdale, entirely residential and among the wealthiest municipalities in Arizona. #### Golf Clubs in Paradise Valley - [Paradise Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/paradise-valley/paradise-valley-country-club/): Founded in 1953, Paradise Valley Country Club is a traditional, invitation-only, member-owned private club at the base of Camelback Mountain with no public play and no resort-guest access — one of the clearest barrier-to-entry cases in the Paradise Valley golf market. - [Mountain Shadows Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/paradise-valley/mountain-shadows-resort/): Paradise Valley, AZ: A rebuilt (2017) resort at the base of Camelback Mountain with an 18-hole par-3 course and a small ownership product — a dedicated tower of privately owned residences — bundled with Citizens Club access to golf, fitness, and pools. - [Camelback Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/paradise-valley/camelback-golf-club/): Paradise Valley, AZ: A 36-hole resort golf facility at the JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn, offering a genuine paid non-equity membership program (Golf, Spa, and combined Lifestyle tiers) alongside resort-guest and public play, at the center of the Camelback Country Club Estates luxury neighborhood that takes its name from the course. #### Golf Communities in Paradise Valley - [Camelback Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/paradise-valley/camelback-country-club-estates/): A quiet, upscale Paradise Valley neighborhood of large custom estates (many on one-acre-plus lots) surrounding and named after the golf course now known as Camelback Golf Club — a proximity-driven identity, not a membership one. - [Mountain Shadows Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/paradise-valley/mountain-shadows-residences/): Paradise Valley, AZ: A dedicated tower of privately owned residences (reported as 41 or 48 units across sources) at Mountain Shadows Resort, bundling Citizens Club access — golf, fitness, and pools — with ownership, distinct from the resort's 183 hotel rooms. ### Central Scottsdale, AZ - [Central Scottsdale, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/central-scottsdale/): Central Scottsdale — the older, more centrally located Scottsdale golf corridor built out mainly in the 1970s-90s, closer to Old Town than the north Scottsdale private-club belt — is a much smaller golf-living market than its neighbor to the north. #### Golf Clubs in Central Scottsdale - [Gainey Ranch Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/central-scottsdale/gainey-ranch-golf-club/): A private, 27-hole club (Lakes, Dunes, and Arroyo nines) operated by Invited/ClubCorp, with reported six-figure initiation fees and named membership tiers (Full Golf, Limited Golf, Social), anchoring the guard-gated Gainey Ranch master-planned community in central Scottsdale. #### Golf Communities in Central Scottsdale - [Gainey Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/central-scottsdale/gainey-ranch/): One of Scottsdale's oldest established guard-gated master-planned communities, built out in the 1980s-90s on a former 640-acre Arabian horse ranch; home to Gainey Ranch Golf Club, a private club that is not included with homeownership. ### Cave Creek & Carefree, AZ - [Cave Creek & Carefree, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/cave-creek-carefree/): Cave Creek and Carefree are two adjoining desert-foothills towns north of Scottsdale that real estate coverage and buyers alike almost always treat as a single golf-living market. #### Golf Clubs in Cave Creek & Carefree - [Desert Forest Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/cave-creek-carefree/desert-forest-golf-club/): Desert Forest Golf Club is a private, invitation-only club in Carefree founded in 1962 by architect Robert "Red" Lawrence as the envisioned centerpiece of the new town of Carefree. - [The Boulders Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/cave-creek-carefree/the-boulders-club/): The Boulders Club is the semi-private golf club at The Boulders Resort & Spa in Carefree, built around the resort's namesake granite boulder outcroppings. - [Tatum Ranch Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/cave-creek-carefree/tatum-ranch-golf-club/): Tatum Ranch Golf Club is an Arcis Golf-managed private club in Cave Creek, the organizing golf amenity for the large (roughly 3,400-home) Tatum Ranch master-planned community. #### Golf Communities in Cave Creek & Carefree - [Desert Forest](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/cave-creek-carefree/desert-forest/): Desert Forest is the custom-home enclave built around and adjacent to Desert Forest Golf Club in Carefree, featuring luxury estate homes (reported roughly 2,200-6,000 sq. ft.) set against the club's desert-forest terrain near Tonto National Forest. - [The Boulders](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/cave-creek-carefree/the-boulders-community/): The Boulders is the residential community built into and around The Boulders Resort & Spa's granite boulder-field terrain in Carefree, home to custom homes and casitas whose owners gain eligibility for The Boulders Club's ownership-gated Social and Clubhouse membership tiers (golf membership, notably, does not require this ownership). - [Tatum Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/cave-creek-carefree/tatum-ranch-community/): Tatum Ranch is a large (roughly 3,400-home) master-planned community in Cave Creek built around Tatum Ranch Golf Club, comprising about 30 individual neighborhoods, several of which are separately gated with their own sub-HOA layer. ### Fountain Hills, AZ - [Fountain Hills, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/fountain-hills/): Fountain Hills is a small, distinct golf-living market east of Scottsdale, built around its landmark 560-foot fountain and framed by the McDowell Mountains. #### Golf Clubs in Fountain Hills - [FireRock Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/fountain-hills/firerock-country-club/): FireRock Country Club is Fountain Hills' first and flagship private club: an 18-hole Gary Panks-designed course at the center of a guard-gated, 379-homesite master-planned community with three attached townhome enclaves (Balera, The Villas, The Overlook). #### Golf Communities in Fountain Hills - [FireRock](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/fountain-hills/firerock/): FireRock is a guard-gated, master-planned community in Fountain Hills comprising 379 custom homesites plus three attached townhome/villa enclaves (Balera, The Villas, The Overlook), built around FireRock Country Club. ### Central Phoenix / Arcadia-Biltmore, AZ - [Central Phoenix / Arcadia-Biltmore, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/central-phoenix/): Central Phoenix's golf-living identity is unlike the gated desert golf communities of Scottsdale or Cave Creek/Carefree: this is old-Phoenix, in-town golf, where a handful of historically significant private and resort clubs sit directly inside dense, walkable, established residential neighborhoods rather than at the center of purpose-built master-planned subdivisions. #### Golf Clubs in Central Phoenix / Arcadia-Biltmore - [Phoenix Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/central-phoenix/phoenix-country-club/): Private member-only club founded in 1899 in central Phoenix, one of the oldest and most prestigious clubs in Arizona; the original longtime home of the Phoenix Open before it moved to the Scottsdale TPC. - [Arizona Biltmore Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/central-phoenix/arizona-biltmore-golf-club/): Phoenix, AZ: Historic 36-hole (Estates + Links) golf club attached to the Arizona Biltmore resort, opened in 1928 and long marketed as the 'Jewel of the Desert.' - [Moon Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/central-phoenix/moon-valley-country-club/): Private, member-only country club at the geographic center of Phoenix's Moon Valley neighborhood (established early 1960s, ~1,600 homes across 29 subdivisions). #### Golf Communities in Central Phoenix / Arcadia-Biltmore - [Country Club Manor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/central-phoenix/country-club-manor/): Country Club Manor is a gated historic district of large 1920s-40s estate homes (3,000-10,000 sq ft) built directly around Phoenix Country Club in central Phoenix, prized for mature landscaping and architectural character. - [Arizona Biltmore Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/central-phoenix/arizona-biltmore-estates/): Arizona Biltmore Estates is the flagship guard-gated luxury enclave organized around the historic Arizona Biltmore resort and its two golf courses (Estates and Links) in central Phoenix's Camelback Corridor, encompassing several named sub-communities from gated single-family estates to golf-course-frontage townhomes and high-rise condos. - [Moon Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/central-phoenix/moon-valley-neighborhood/): Moon Valley is an established, roughly 1,600-home north-central Phoenix neighborhood (29 subdivisions, developed from the early 1960s) built around Moon Valley Country Club, known for ranch-style homes, mature landscaping, and proximity to the Phoenix Mountains Preserve. ### North Phoenix / Desert Ridge, AZ - [North Phoenix / Desert Ridge, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-phoenix/): North Phoenix's Desert Ridge area is a resort-golf market built around a single strong anchor: Wildfire Golf Club, the two-course facility at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, branded as 'The Club at JW Marriott Desert Ridge' for its paid membership program. #### Golf Clubs in North Phoenix / Desert Ridge - [Wildfire Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-phoenix/wildfire-golf-club/): Two 18-hole championship courses (Arnold Palmer Signature, 1997; Nick Faldo Championship, 2002) at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in north Phoenix's Desert Ridge area. #### Golf Communities in North Phoenix / Desert Ridge - [Aviano at Desert Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/north-phoenix/aviano-at-desert-ridge/): Aviano at Desert Ridge is a 902-home, 400-acre Toll Brothers guard-gated master-planned community in north Phoenix's Desert Ridge area, roughly a five-minute drive from Wildfire Golf Club, with its own clubhouse and resort-style amenities but no golf course of its own and no bundled access to Wildfire membership. ### Mesa, AZ - [Mesa, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/mesa/): Mesa's golf-living market is built almost entirely on Arizona's classic non-gated, in-town private-club pattern rather than the gated-equity-membership model more common in north Scottsdale. #### Golf Clubs in Mesa - [Alta Mesa Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/mesa/alta-mesa-golf-club/): Alta Mesa Golf Club is a member-owned equity private club in Mesa, built in 1984 and converted to member ownership in 1988, with an 18-hole championship course on 160 acres incorporating eight lakes. - [Mesa Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/mesa/mesa-country-club/): Mesa Country Club is a fully gated, member-owned private club founded in 1948 (opened 1949), with an 18-hole championship course, six lighted tennis courts, two pickleball courts, and a Young Executive membership track for members under 40. - [Red Mountain Ranch Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/mesa/red-mountain-ranch-country-club/): Red Mountain Ranch Country Club, built in 1986, is Arizona's only Pete Dye-designed course and the centerpiece amenity of the Red Mountain Ranch master-planned community in northeast Mesa, offering separately purchased Golf, Tennis, Pickleball, Fitness, and Pool membership tiers alongside public tee-time access. - [Apache Wells Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/mesa/apache-wells-country-club/): Apache Wells Country Club is the semi-private, 18-hole (par 71) golf anchor of the Apache Wells 55+ active-adult community in Mesa (1,400+ homes), with club membership capped at 485 residents age 55+ who pay a separate initiation fee and annual dues. - [Las Sendas Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/mesa/las-sendas-golf-club/): Las Sendas Golf Club is a Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed, semi-private desert course (built 1995) inside the 3,400+-home, largely gated Las Sendas master-planned community in East Mesa, with a real $34,900 Full Membership initiation fee plus Junior and Social tiers, alongside public tee-time access on select days. - [Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/mesa/superstition-mountain-golf-country-club/): Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club is a private, gated residential golf community founded in 1998 at the base of the Superstition Mountains in Gold Canyon, with two Jack Nicklaus-designed courses (The Prospector, Lost Gold) and a tiered initiation fee of $115,000 (inside the gates) to $140,000 (outside the gates). #### Golf Communities in Mesa - [Red Mountain Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/mesa/red-mountain-ranch/): Red Mountain Ranch is a master-planned residential community in northeast Mesa, governed by its own owners association (RMROA), organized around Red Mountain Ranch Country Club's Pete Dye-designed golf course. - [Apache Wells](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/mesa/apache-wells/): Apache Wells is a 55+ active-adult community of 1,400+ homes in Mesa, roughly 20 minutes from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, built around Apache Wells Country Club with an extensive non-golf activity program (40+ clubs, an Activity Complex with bocce, horseshoes, billiards, crafts). - [Las Sendas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/mesa/las-sendas/): Las Sendas is East Mesa's largest master-planned community, with more than 3,400 homes across individually gated enclaves (one exception: Grayfox), built around Las Sendas Golf Club with desert and mountain views, trails, pools, parks, and a fitness/spa club. - [Superstition Mountain](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/mesa/superstition-mountain/): Superstition Mountain is a private, gated golf community founded in 1998 at the base of the Superstition Mountains in Gold Canyon (Pinal County), built around Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club's two Jack Nicklaus-designed courses, with a club initiation fee that differs by whether a buyer's home sits inside or outside the community's gates. ### Chandler / Gilbert, AZ - [Chandler / Gilbert, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/chandler-gilbert/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Chandler / Gilbert golf market, in Maricopa County, including Seville Golf & Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Chandler / Gilbert - [Seville Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/chandler-gilbert/seville-golf-country-club/): Seville Golf & Country Club is a private, Invited (ClubCorp)-operated club in Gilbert with separate Golf and Social/Sports membership tiers, anchoring the Seville residential community. #### Golf Communities in Chandler / Gilbert - [Seville](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/chandler-gilbert/seville/): Seville is a residential community in Gilbert built around Seville Golf & Country Club, an Invited (ClubCorp)-operated private club with separate Golf and Social/Sports membership tiers. ### Sun Lakes / Chandler South, AZ - [Sun Lakes / Chandler South, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-lakes/): Sun Lakes is a large, unincorporated 55+ master-planned community directly south of Chandler in Maricopa County, developed by Robson Communities beginning in 1972. #### Golf Clubs in Sun Lakes / Chandler South - [Sun Lakes Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-lakes/sun-lakes-country-club/): The founding (1972) country club of the Sun Lakes 55+ master-planned community in unincorporated Maricopa County adjacent to Chandler; a non-gated, resident-and-guest-only executive/short course (reported roughly 3,874 yards, par 60) whose HOA (Sun Lakes HOA #1) is one of three homeowner associations that together run Sun Lakes' five country clubs. - [Cottonwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-lakes/cottonwood-country-club/): A par-72 championship-style course in the Cottonwood section of Sun Lakes, owned and operated by Sun Lakes HOA #2 (Cottonwood Palo Verde) and, per the association's own site, restricted entirely to Cottonwood/Palo Verde homeowners and their guests — not open to the general public. - [Palo Verde Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-lakes/palo-verde-golf-course/): The shorter, executive companion course (four par 4s, two par 5s, twelve par 3s) to Cottonwood Country Club, sharing the same Sun Lakes HOA #2 association and homeowner-restricted access model; Palo Verde is the gated half of the paired Cottonwood/Palo Verde community. - [SunBird Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-lakes/sunbird-golf-club/): An 18-hole Gary Panks-designed course (opened 1987) owned outright by its own Membership Certificate Holders inside the guard-gated 55+ SunBird community in Chandler, adjacent to Sun Lakes; membership is open to the wider public only to the extent that SunBird homeowners remain a majority of members by the club's own governing rule, with a board-set cap on non-homeowner memberships. #### Golf Communities in Sun Lakes / Chandler South - [Sun Lakes (HOA #1)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-lakes/sun-lakes-hoa1/): The original (1972) neighborhood and homeowner association (HOA #1) of the larger Sun Lakes 55+ master-planned community south of Chandler, built around the non-gated, resident-and-guest-only Sun Lakes Country Club golf course. - [Cottonwood (Sun Lakes)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-lakes/cottonwood-sun-lakes/): The non-gated of the two neighborhoods (with Palo Verde) governed by Sun Lakes HOA #2, built around the homeowner-restricted, association-owned Cottonwood Country Club golf course. - [Palo Verde (Sun Lakes)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-lakes/palo-verde-sun-lakes/): The gated of the two neighborhoods (with Cottonwood) governed by Sun Lakes HOA #2, built around the homeowner-restricted, association-owned Palo Verde executive golf course. - [SunBird](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-lakes/sunbird-chandler/): A guard-gated 55+ community in Chandler, adjacent to Sun Lakes, whose golf course (SunBird Golf Club) is owned by its own Membership Certificate Holders rather than by the HOA, with SunBird homeowners required by the club's own rules to remain a majority of the membership. ### Queen Creek / San Tan Valley, AZ - [Queen Creek / San Tan Valley, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/queen-creek/): Queen Creek and the adjacent San Tan Valley area, straddling the Maricopa/Pinal county line southeast of Chandler and Gilbert, is a newer, fast-growing East Valley submarket. #### Golf Clubs in Queen Creek / San Tan Valley - [Encanterra Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/queen-creek/encanterra-country-club/): A private, non-equity country club inside the Encanterra (Trilogy, by Shea Homes) master-planned community in Queen Creek. #### Golf Communities in Queen Creek / San Tan Valley - [Encanterra](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/queen-creek/encanterra-queen-creek/): A gated, resort-style master-planned community in Queen Creek (Shea Homes' Trilogy brand) built around Encanterra Country Club; every homeowner automatically holds a social club membership, but golf itself requires a separate, substantial paid membership. ### Sun Cities, AZ - [Sun Cities, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-cities/): The Sun Cities -- Sun City, Sun City West and Sun City Grand, spread across the far northwest Phoenix metro in Maricopa County -- are the birthplace of the American age-restricted golf community as a housing category, and they still run golf in a way that has no real Florida equivalent. #### Golf Clubs in Sun Cities - [Recreation Centers of Sun City West Golf System](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-cities/recreation-centers-of-sun-city-west-golf-system/): A 7-course golf system (4 regulation, 3 executive: Deer Valley, Grandview, Pebblebrook and Trail Ridge regulation; Desert Trails, Echo Mesa and Stardust executive) owned and operated by the nonprofit Recreation Centers of Sun City West as a shared amenity for RCSCW cardholders, funded through property assessments plus a separately purchased annual golf card. - [Recreation Centers of Sun City Golf System](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-cities/recreation-centers-of-sun-city-golf-system/): Recreation Centers of Sun City Golf System in Sun City: researched bundled golf access, residential communities and what buyers should verify. - [Briarwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-cities/briarwood-country-club/): A private, independently owned 18-hole club in Sun City West, founded 1983, operating with no residency or HOA requirement -- distinct from the bundled RCSCW golf system that serves the rest of the community. - [Hillcrest Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-cities/hillcrest-golf-club/): A public, reservation-based 18-hole course in Sun City West with a genuine senior/LPGA professional tournament history (five Senior PGA Tour events, two LPGA events, including the MONY Arizona Classic 1984-1988), included as a destination-exception rather than a barrier-to-entry anchor since it offers no membership or resident-access program today. - [Corte Bella Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-cities/corte-bella-golf-club/): The 18-hole (7,011-yard) private course at the core of Corte Bella, a separate 1,650-home gated 55+ community inside Sun City West's boundaries. - [Sun City Grand Golf System](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-cities/sun-city-grand-golf-system/): 4 championship courses (Cimarron 2003, Desert Springs 1996, Granite Falls North 1999, Granite Falls South 1997) owned by the Sun City Grand Community Association ('The Grand') in Surprise; open to the public but with resident-preferred pricing. #### Golf Communities in Sun Cities - [Sun City](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-cities/sun-city/): The original Sun City, developed by Del Webb starting in 1960 as the first large-scale age-restricted active-adult master-planned community in the U.S. Golf, recreation centers and most community amenities are owned and operated by the nonprofit Recreation Centers of Sun City (RCSC), funded through a mandatory per-property recreation-card assessment. - [Sun City West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-cities/sun-city-west/): Del Webb's second Sun Cities development (opened 1978), governed by the nonprofit Recreation Centers of Sun City West (RCSCW), which owns 7 golf courses plus recreation centers as shared community amenities. - [Sun City Grand](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-cities/sun-city-grand/): Del Webb's third and newest Sun Cities development, in Surprise, governed by the Sun City Grand Community Association ('The Grand,' rebranded 2023). - [Corte Bella](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sun-cities/corte-bella/): A separate 1,650-home gated 55+ community carved out within Sun City West's boundaries, with its own private golf club entirely independent of the RCSCW 7-course system. ### West Valley, AZ - [West Valley, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/): The West Valley is Maricopa County's sprawling northwest and west quadrant -- Peoria, Surprise, Goodyear, Glendale, and Litchfield Park -- and, once the age-restricted Sun Cities (Sun City, Sun City West, Sun City Grand) are set aside as their own distinct market, it reads as a genuinely varied golf-living landscape rather than a single homogeneous corridor. #### Golf Clubs in West Valley - [Westbrook Village Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/westbrook-village-golf-club/): Westbrook Village Golf Club operates two 18-hole courses (Lakes and Vistas) inside Westbrook Village, a roughly 4,000-home, 40+ age-qualified master-planned community in Peoria. - [Trilogy Golf Club at Vistancia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/trilogy-golf-club-vistancia/): Trilogy Golf Club is the golf course at the heart of Trilogy at Vistancia, a guard-gated 55+ community in Peoria. The course is technically a public facility, but its annual and flex pass programs are sold only to Trilogy at Vistancia and Vistancia residents at preferred rates. - [Blackstone Country Club at Vistancia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/blackstone-country-club-at-vistancia/): Blackstone Country Club at Vistancia is a private club within the Vistancia master-planned community in Peoria, offering Equity Golf ($15,000 initiation), Non-Equity Golf ($7,500), and Equity Social ($2,500) membership tiers plus Junior and Corporate categories. - [PebbleCreek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/pebblecreek-golf-club/): PebbleCreek Golf Club comprises three championship 18-hole courses (54 holes total: Tuscany Falls East, Tuscany Falls West, Eagle's Nest) inside PebbleCreek, a guard-gated, roughly 2,300-acre Robson Resort Communities 55+ development in Goodyear. - [Arizona Traditions Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/arizona-traditions-golf-club/): Arizona Traditions Golf Club is an 18-hole, Dick Bailey-designed par-70 course at the center of Arizona Traditions, a gated 55+ community of roughly 1,700 homes on 718 acres in Surprise. - [Wigwam Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/wigwam-golf-club/): The Wigwam is a historic Litchfield Park resort (roots to 1918/1929) with 54 holes across three courses and a tiered membership program -- Premier Golf, Junior, Lifestyle, and Family golf memberships plus a Social Membership popular with Litchfield Park residents specifically for dining, pool, fitness, and event access. - [The Clubs at Arrowhead](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/the-clubs-at-arrowhead/): The Clubs at Arrowhead is a private club in Glendale formed by Arcis Golf's February 2025 merger of the formerly private Arrowhead Country Club and the formerly daily-fee Legend at Arrowhead into one membership spanning both clubhouses and 36 holes of Arnold Palmer-designed golf, with Full Golf, Sports, Social, Junior Executive, Family, and Single membership tiers. #### Golf Communities in West Valley - [Westbrook Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/westbrook-village/): Westbrook Village is a roughly 4,000-home, 40+ age-qualified master-planned community in Peoria built around its own two-course golf club (Lakes and Vistas courses), predating most of the West Valley's newer 55+ developments. - [Trilogy at Vistancia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/trilogy-at-vistancia/): Trilogy at Vistancia is a guard-gated 55+ community in Peoria within the larger Vistancia master plan, with HOA dues (~$340/month) covering the Kiva/Mita Club amenity complexes, fitness, pools, and tennis/pickleball -- golf is a separate resident-preferred pass purchase through Trilogy Golf Club. - [Vistancia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/vistancia/): Vistancia is a large, all-ages master-planned development in Peoria comprising several distinct named villages (including the age-restricted Trilogy at Vistancia), organized in part around Blackstone Country Club, a private club open to the public by application. - [PebbleCreek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/pebblecreek/): PebbleCreek is a roughly 2,300-acre, guard-gated 55+ Robson Resort Communities development in Goodyear built around three championship golf courses (54 holes total), with the Eagle's Nest section additionally guard-gated within the community. - [Arizona Traditions](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/west-valley/arizona-traditions/): Arizona Traditions is a gated 55+ community of roughly 1,700 homes on 718 acres in Surprise, built around its own 18-hole golf course and a large shared clubhouse (ballroom, pools, fitness, bocce, pickleball, tennis, arts studios, library). ### Tucson, AZ - [Tucson, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/): Tucson is Arizona's other major desert golf market, distinct in character from the Scottsdale/north Phoenix corridor to the north. #### Golf Clubs in Tucson - [La Paloma Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/la-paloma-country-club/): Private, application-based 27-hole club in Tucson's Catalina foothills, with Full Golf and Athletic membership tiers, situated within the gated La Paloma community adjacent to the (formerly Westin) La Paloma Resort. - [Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/ventana-canyon-golf-racquet-club/): Tucson, AZ: Member-owned private club with two Tom Fazio 18-hole courses (Mountain and Canyon) across a 600-acre desert preserve in the Catalina foothills, paired with the separately-branded Lodge at Ventana Canyon and 12 tennis/pickleball courts. - [Skyline Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/skyline-country-club/): Established private club (est. early 1960s, one of Tucson's first two country clubs) with an 18-hole course in the Catalina foothills, surrounded by the gated Skyline Country Club Estates community. - [Tucson Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/tucson-country-club/): Private, member-owned and member-run club founded in 1947 by about 50 Tucsonans; application and invitation required. Widely described, including by the club itself, as the only truly private, member-owned club of its kind in southern Arizona. - [Forty Niner Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/forty-niner-country-club/): Semi-private club on Tucson's east side offering both public daily-fee play and multiple tiered memberships (traditional, seasonal, golf & fitness, family fitness & pool, social), tied to the separately-organized 49er Country Club Estates HOA. - [Omni Tucson National Resort & Spa](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/omni-tucson-national-resort-spa/): 36-hole resort property (Catalina and Sonoran courses) on Tucson's north side; former long-time PGA Tour Tucson Open host (1965-2006, full-time host on the Catalina course 1997-2006) and former host of the PGA Tour Champions' Cologuard Classic (2015-2023). - [Starr Pass Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/starr-pass-golf-club/): 27-hole course (three nine-hole loops, Arnold Palmer 2003 redesign of a 1986 original) on Tucson's west side, owned by JW Marriott and operated as a semi-private/resort hybrid: resort guests, daily-fee public players, and standing members (via 'The Club at Starr Pass') all have access. #### Golf Communities in Tucson - [La Paloma](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/la-paloma-tucson/): Tucson, AZ: Gated residential area in the Catalina foothills built around La Paloma Country Club and the adjacent resort hotel property; homes here do not automatically include club membership. - [Ventana Canyon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/ventana-canyon-community/): Tucson, AZ: Gated foothills community built around Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club's 600-acre desert preserve and the separately-operated Lodge at Ventana Canyon. - [Skyline Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/skyline-country-club-estates/): Tucson, AZ: Gated community surrounding Skyline Country Club in the Catalina foothills; notable for a well-documented historical episode in which non-member homeowners here were asked to help fund the club's financial rescue in exchange for limited non-member privileges. - [Tucson Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/tucson-country-club-estates/): Established residential subdivision adjacent to Tucson Country Club. Multiple independent sources, and the club's own framing, confirm that living here does NOT include or confer club membership -- a clean proximity-is-not-access example. - [49er Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/49er-country-club-estates/): Residential HOA subdivision adjacent to Forty Niner Country Club on Tucson's east side. - [Tucson National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/tucson-national-community/): Custom-estate, villa, and townhome residential development surrounding Omni Tucson National Resort & Spa's 36 holes on Tucson's north side. - [Starr Pass Golf Homes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/tucson/starr-pass-golf-homes/): Owner-occupied residential neighborhood in the Tucson Mountains foothills, west side Tucson, near the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa and Starr Pass Golf Club -- distinct from the resort's own condo-hotel/timeshare inventory. ### Oro Valley & Marana, AZ - [Oro Valley & Marana, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/): Oro Valley and Marana form a contiguous foothills golf corridor along Oracle Road and Tangerine Road northwest of Tucson, consistently marketed by local brokerages as a single "Northwest Tucson" golf-living area even though it spans two municipalities and, at its northern edge, two counties. #### Golf Clubs in Oro Valley & Marana - [The Stone Canyon Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/stone-canyon-club/): Private, gated golf club on 1,400+ acres of Tortolita foothills near Oro Valley, built around a Golfweek Top-200 Modern Course and surrounded by custom homes on large (1-acre+) lots. - [Oro Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/oro-valley-country-club/): Private club founded in 1959, one of the Oro Valley corridor's oldest private golf clubs, designed by Robert Bruce Harris and renovated in 2023. - [El Conquistador Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/el-conquistador-country-club/): Historic Oro Valley golf resort (the resort itself traces to 1928) with 45 holes across two 18-hole courses and a 9-hole short course, plus a genuine separate membership program (El Conquistador Golf) distinct from resort-guest play. - [The Gallery Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/gallery-golf-club/): Marana, AZ: The corridor's flagship golf/residential complex: the private 36-hole Gallery Golf Club combined with the 27-hole resort course at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain, marketed jointly as 'The Clubs of Dove Mountain' (63 total holes). - [The Highlands at Dove Mountain Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/highlands-at-dove-mountain-golf-course/): Gated 55+ active-adult golf community in Marana built around an Arthur Hills-designed 18-hole championship course, formerly named Heritage Highlands before a community-led rebrand as The Highlands at Dove Mountain. - [SaddleBrooke Golf Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/saddlebrooke-golf-clubs/): SaddleBrooke (SaddleBrooke One), a large Robson-developed 55+ active-adult community straddling the Pima/Pinal county line north of Oro Valley/Catalina, built around 63 holes of golf across multiple courses. #### Golf Communities in Oro Valley & Marana - [Stone Canyon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/stone-canyon/): Gated custom-home community in the Tortolita foothills above Oro Valley, built around The Stone Canyon Club, with home lots generally an acre or larger. - [Canada Hills Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/canada-hills-estates/): Gated custom-homesite community (roughly 131 homesites per prior discovery research) adjacent to the two 18-hole El Conquistador courses in Oro Valley. - [The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Dove Mountain](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/ritz-carlton-residences-dove-mountain/): Luxury resort-residential community at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain in Marana, built by Fairfield Homes, with genuine bundled golf: home purchase includes a Residence Membership, upgradeable to 'Icon 63' for full access across the 63-hole Clubs of Dove Mountain golf system. - [The Highlands at Dove Mountain](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/highlands-at-dove-mountain/): Gated, 55+ active-adult community in Marana (Dove Mountain master plan), formerly named Heritage Highlands, with roughly 1,300-1,400 homes built 1997-2007, centered on The Highlands Golf Course. - [SaddleBrooke](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/oro-valley-marana/saddlebrooke/): SaddleBrooke (SaddleBrooke One), Southern Arizona's largest age-restricted active-adult community, straddling the Pima/Pinal county line north of Oro Valley/Catalina, built by Robson around 63 holes of golf. ### Green Valley / Sahuarita, AZ - [Green Valley / Sahuarita, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/green-valley/): Green Valley and Sahuarita form a retirement-and-second-home market roughly 20-25 miles south of Tucson on I-19, with a distinct identity from "Tucson proper." #### Golf Clubs in Green Valley / Sahuarita - [Quail Creek Golf Club at Robson Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/green-valley/quail-creek-golf-club/): Robson-developed, age-restricted golf community in Sahuarita with three 9-hole courses played as three 18-hole combinations, structured with resident-priority membership tiers (Platinum/Gold/Silver per prior research) distinct from general public play. #### Golf Communities in Green Valley / Sahuarita - [Quail Creek at Robson Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/green-valley/quail-creek-robson-ranch/): Robson-developed age-restricted golf community in Sahuarita built around Quail Creek Golf Club's three 9-hole courses, with resident-priority (Platinum/Gold/Silver) golf-access tiers. ### Prescott Area, AZ - [Prescott Area, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/prescott/): US Golf Living has researched 5 golf anchors in the Prescott golf market, in Yavapai County, including Talking Rock, Capital Canyon Club, The Club at Prescott Lakes, Prescott Golf Club, and StoneRidge (needs verification). #### Golf Clubs in Prescott Area - [Talking Rock](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/prescott/talking-rock/): Talking Rock is a private, guard-gated golf community roughly 30 minutes north of downtown Prescott (toward Chino Valley/Paulden), built around an 18-hole Jay Morrish-designed championship course (2002, par 72, up to 7,350 yards) on 5-10 acre homesites. - [Capital Canyon Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/prescott/capital-canyon-club/): Capital Canyon Club (formerly Hassayampa Golf Club) is a private golf and social club in Prescott built around a Tom Weiskopf-designed 18-hole course, with a tiered private-membership structure including a discounted entry tier, a pay-up-front no-dues-for-70-months tier, a 90-day paid trial, and a $55,000 Founders/Premium tier. - [The Club at Prescott Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/prescott/club-at-prescott-lakes/): The Club at Prescott Lakes is co-owned by the Prescott Lakes HOA and Arnold Palmer Golf Management; Prescott Lakes homeowners carry a mandatory athletic-club membership, while golf membership itself is a separate, optional purchase on top of that. - [Prescott Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/prescott/prescott-golf-club/): Prescott Golf Club (also seen as 'Prescott Golf and Country Club'; the surrounding residential community is separately named 'Prescott Country Club') is a semi-private course dating to 1971 in Dewey, AZ, with a structured multi-tier membership program (Platinum, Masters, Fitness, Mountain Card, Junior, Seasonal) and homes built directly around/within the course. #### Golf Communities in Prescott Area - [Talking Rock](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/prescott/talking-rock-community/): Talking Rock is a private, guard-gated golf community roughly 30 minutes from downtown Prescott, offering unusually large 5-10 acre custom homesites built around an 18-hole Jay Morrish course. - [Prescott Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/prescott/prescott-lakes/): Prescott Lakes is a master-planned Prescott community whose golf/athletic club is jointly owned by the HOA and Arnold Palmer Golf Management, with mandatory athletic-club membership for homeowners. - [Prescott Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/prescott/prescott-country-club/): Prescott Country Club is the residential neighborhood built directly around Prescott Golf Club (also seen as 'Prescott Golf and Country Club') in Dewey, AZ, reported to include 1,600+ homes with many backing directly onto the course. ### Sedona / Verde Valley, AZ - [Sedona / Verde Valley, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sedona-verde-valley/): Sedona's golf-living identity is inseparable from its red-rock geography and its status as a nationally known tourism/second-home destination. #### Golf Clubs in Sedona / Verde Valley - [The Club at Seven Canyons](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sedona-verde-valley/seven-canyons/): The Club at Seven Canyons is a private, 24-hour gated golf club and real-estate community on 200 acres in Sedona, built around a Tom Weiskopf-designed 18-hole course (par 70, 6,746 yards, opened 2002). - [Sedona Golf Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sedona-verde-valley/sedona-golf-resort/): Sedona Golf Resort is a continuously 4-star Golf Digest-rated, Gary Panks-designed public/resort course (1987, par 71, 6,646 yards) currently operated by Arizona Hideaway Collection, with its own namesake residential HOA, the Sedona Golf Resort Community Association, built around it. - [Oakcreek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sedona-verde-valley/oakcreek-country-club/): Oakcreek Country Club, Sedona's original golf course (1968, Robert Trent Jones Sr./Jr., par 72, 6,824 yards), is a semi-private club with a real, published multi-tier membership program. #### Golf Communities in Sedona / Verde Valley - [Seven Canyons](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sedona-verde-valley/seven-canyons-community/): Seven Canyons is a 24-hour gated, 200-acre luxury real-estate community in Sedona built around The Club at Seven Canyons' Tom Weiskopf-designed course, combining custom single-family homes, townhomes, and fractional-ownership villas. - [Sedona Golf Resort Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sedona-verde-valley/sedona-golf-resort-community/): The Sedona Golf Resort Community Association (SGRCA) is a HOAMCO-managed HOA governing the residential neighborhood built specifically around Sedona Golf Resort -- roughly 220 production homes plus 62 custom homesites, recent list prices roughly $249,000-$2,995,000, average HOA fee around $71/month. - [Village of Oak Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/sedona-verde-valley/village-of-oak-creek/): The Village of Oakcreek Association (VOCA), established 1975, is the mandatory HOA for the ~2,400-lot Village of Oak Creek area south of Sedona, and literally owns Oakcreek Country Club, its largest single asset -- though the club operates financially independent of HOA dues. ### Payson / Rim Country, AZ - [Payson / Rim Country, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/payson/): Payson and the surrounding Rim Country, about 90 minutes northeast of Phoenix along the base of the Mogollon Rim, is home to two genuine private golf clubs built directly into gated mountain residential communities: The Golf Club at Chaparral Pines and The Rim Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in Payson / Rim Country - [The Golf Club at Chaparral Pines](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/payson/chaparral-pines/): Private championship golf course and 860-acre gated residential community above Payson in Rim Country, managed by Arcis Golf. - [The Rim Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/payson/the-rim-golf-club/): Private Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish-designed golf club inside a gated Rim Country residential community near Payson, managed by Arcis Golf. #### Golf Communities in Payson / Rim Country - [Chaparral Pines](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/payson/chaparral-pines-community/): An 860-acre gated residential community in Rim Country above Payson, built around The Golf Club at Chaparral Pines' private championship course. - [The Rim Golf Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/payson/rim-golf-club-community/): Gated Rim Country residential community near Payson built around The Rim Golf Club's private course, governed by The Rim Golf Club Community Association. ### Flagstaff, AZ - [Flagstaff, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/flagstaff/): Flagstaff's golf-living market centers on a single, exceptionally well-resourced private club: Forest Highlands Golf Club, a guard-gated community built around two 18-hole courses (the Canyon Course and the Meadow Course) in the ponderosa pine forest just south of the city. #### Golf Clubs in Flagstaff - [Forest Highlands Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/flagstaff/forest-highlands-golf-club/): Guard-gated private club community south of Flagstaff built around two 18-hole courses (Canyon and Meadow). New property owners are required to pay a capital-contribution fee ($115,750 per the club's 2025 materials) on top of monthly dues, making this the clearest bundled/homeowner-linked golf case found in this research batch. #### Golf Communities in Flagstaff - [Forest Highlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/flagstaff/forest-highlands-community/): Guard-gated private residential community south of Flagstaff built around Forest Highlands Golf Club's two 18-hole courses. ### Pinetop-Lakeside / White Mountains, AZ - [Pinetop-Lakeside / White Mountains, AZ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/white-mountains/): The Pinetop-Lakeside/White Mountains golf market is the thinnest and most uncertain of the three markets in this research batch. #### Golf Clubs in Pinetop-Lakeside / White Mountains - [White Mountain Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/white-mountains/white-mountain-country-club/): Invitation-only private club requiring member sponsorship, set at roughly 7,000 feet in the White Mountains near Pinetop-Lakeside. #### Golf Communities in Pinetop-Lakeside / White Mountains - [White Mountain Summer Homes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arizona/white-mountains/white-mountain-summer-homes/): A seasonal cabin-home association (White Mountain Summer Homes Homeowners Association) adjacent to White Mountain Country Club near Pinetop-Lakeside. ## North Carolina - [North Carolina Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/): Independent research on 131 golf clubs and 92 residential golf communities across 32 North Carolina golf markets, including Asheville / Hendersonville, Charlotte and Wilmington Metro: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### North Carolina Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in North Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 3 North Carolina golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Linville Ridge Country Club, Maggie Valley Club & Resort and Trump National Golf Club Charlotte. - [Private Golf Communities in North Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 128 private North Carolina golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Biltmore Forest Country Club, Country Club of Asheville, Omni Grove Park Inn Golf Course, The Cliffs at Walnut Cove and Mountain Air Country Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in North Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 7 North Carolina golf resort ecosystems, including Omni Grove Park Inn Golf Course, Pinehurst Resort, Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club, Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club and Grandover Resort & Spa. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in North Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 23 private North Carolina golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte Country Club, Myers Park Country Club, Carmel Country Club and Providence Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in North Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 19 North Carolina golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Carolina Trace Country Club, Walnut Creek Country Club, Ballantyne Country Club, TPC Piper Glen and Cabarrus Country Club. ### North Carolina Comparisons - [Asheville/Hendersonville vs Highlands-Cashiers Plateau Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/asheville-hendersonville-vs-highlands-cashiers-plateau-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Asheville/Hendersonville and the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau, NC for golf-oriented homebuyers: elevation and seasonal access, club prestige and access models, geography, and honest pricing gaps. - [Charlotte vs Lake Norman for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/charlotte-vs-lake-norman-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Charlotte and Lake Norman, NC for golf-oriented homebuyers: freestanding urban private clubs vs. developer-integrated golf-and-lake communities, access models, and price positioning. - [Charlotte vs Raleigh/Wake Forest for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/charlotte-vs-raleigh-wake-forest-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Charlotte and Raleigh/North Raleigh/Wake Forest, NC for golf-oriented homebuyers: club era and access patterns, tournament pedigree, airport connectivity, economic identity, and where each market's home-price research is thin. - [Pinehurst vs West End/Whispering Pines/Foxfire for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/pinehurst-vs-west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of the Pinehurst/Southern Pines/Aberdeen golf core and the neighboring West End/Whispering Pines/Foxfire lake-and-golf belt for golf-oriented homebuyers: access models, documented pricing, shared ownership, and lake recreation. - [Raleigh & Wake Forest vs Cary & Holly Springs for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/raleigh-wake-forest-vs-cary-holly-springs-west-wake-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Raleigh/North Raleigh/Wake Forest and Cary/Holly Springs/West Wake, NC for golf-oriented homebuyers: freestanding vs residential-integrated clubs, a confirmed cross-club membership arrangement, tournament pedigree, and price documentation. - [Wilmington Metro vs Brunswick County (Southport/St. James) for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/wilmington-metro-vs-brunswick-county-southport-st-james-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Wilmington Metro and the Southport/St. James corridor of Brunswick County, NC for golf-oriented homebuyers: club access patterns, tournament pedigree, scale, geography, and price documentation gaps. ### Asheville / Hendersonville, NC - [Asheville / Hendersonville, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/): Asheville and Hendersonville sit at the eastern edge of Western North Carolina's mountain golf country, roughly 20-25 minutes apart along I-26 and sharing one real-estate market and metro identity (Henderson County is part of the Asheville MSA). #### Golf Clubs in Asheville / Hendersonville - [Biltmore Forest Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/biltmore-forest-country-club/): Founded in 1922, Biltmore Forest Country Club is a by-invitation, member-owned private club with a Donald Ross course commissioned for Gloria Vanderbilt, anchoring the exclusive incorporated Town of Biltmore Forest near the Biltmore Estate. - [Country Club of Asheville](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/country-club-of-asheville/): A roughly 120-year-old, Donald Ross-designed private club in Asheville, part of the McConnell Golf network of reciprocal private clubs across the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia. - [Omni Grove Park Inn Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/omni-grove-park-inn-golf-course/): Asheville, NC: A historic resort course built in 1899 and redesigned by Donald Ross in 1924, owned by the Omni Grove Park Inn resort, with a documented record of PGA Tour play into the 1950s and a roster of famous historical players. - [The Cliffs at Walnut Cove](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/the-cliffs-at-walnut-cove/): A private, gated Jack Nicklaus-designed golf community in Arden near Asheville, part of The Cliffs' seven-community network, and host of the PGA TOUR's inaugural Biltmore Championship Asheville in September 2026. - [Mountain Air Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/mountain-air-country-club/): A private club at a mountaintop fly-in community north of Asheville, built in 1990 (Scott Pool design), sharing its 4,500+ ft summit with a private airstrip; club membership is optional for property owners. - [Champion Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/champion-hills/): A private gated golf community in Hendersonville built around a Tom Fazio 'Mountain Masterpiece' course, marketed as Western NC's #1 year-round course (Golf Digest) with multiple equity membership tiers and no property-ownership requirement for membership since 2013. - [Kenmure Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/kenmure-country-club/): A 1,400-acre gated golf community in Flat Rock built around a Joe Lee-designed championship course, roughly 700 of a planned 900 homes built out, with a historic mansion clubhouse. #### Golf Communities in Asheville / Hendersonville - [Biltmore Forest](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/biltmore-forest/): The incorporated Town of Biltmore Forest, immediately south of the Biltmore Estate, is one of the Asheville area's most exclusive residential enclaves and is built around Biltmore Forest Country Club. - [The Cliffs at Walnut Cove](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/the-cliffs-at-walnut-cove-community/): A private, gated golf community in Arden near Asheville, built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature course and part of The Cliffs' seven-community Carolinas network; host of the PGA TOUR's 2026 Biltmore Championship Asheville. - [Mountain Air](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/mountain-air/): A mountaintop community above Burnsville (4,500+ ft elevation) combining residential real estate, a private airstrip, and an optional-membership golf/country club. - [Champion Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/champion-hills-community/): A gated golf community in Hendersonville built around a Tom Fazio course marketed as Western NC's #1 year-round golf course, with several equity membership tiers. - [Kenmure](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/asheville-hendersonville/kenmure/): A 1,400-acre gated community in Flat Rock built around Kenmure Country Club's Joe Lee-designed course, roughly 700 of a planned 900 homes built, spanning condos to single-family estates. ### Fayetteville, NC - [Fayetteville, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/fayetteville/): Fayetteville's golf-living market is shaped as much by Fort Bragg (redesignated Fort Liberty) as by golf itself: this is a military-town real estate market first, with golf functioning as a genuine but secondary amenity layer for buyers who want it. #### Golf Clubs in Fayetteville - [Highland Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/fayetteville/highland-country-club/): Highland Country Club is Fayetteville's oldest and most prestigious private club, founded in 1945 on a Donald Ross-designed course. - [Gates Four Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/fayetteville/gates-four-golf-country-club/): Gates Four Golf & Country Club anchors the gated Gates Four residential community in southwest Fayetteville — the city's first gated community, dating to 1967, with roughly 760 homes and 24-hour security. - [Anderson Creek Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/fayetteville/anderson-creek-club/): Anderson Creek Club is a gated, semi-private golf community in Spring Lake (Harnett County), designed by Davis Love III and Paul Cowley (2001). #### Golf Communities in Fayetteville - [Gates Four](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/fayetteville/gates-four/): Gates Four is Fayetteville's first gated community (1967), built around Gates Four Golf & Country Club's 18-hole, Willard Byrd-designed (Kris Spence 2011 redesign) course in southwest Fayetteville. - [Anderson Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/fayetteville/anderson-creek/): Anderson Creek is the gated residential community built around Anderson Creek Club's Davis Love III/Paul Cowley-designed course in Spring Lake, Harnett County, marketed significantly toward Fort Bragg/Fort Liberty-connected buyers. ### Sanford, NC - [Sanford, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sanford/): Sanford, in Lee County just east of Moore County and the core Sandhills/Pinehurst region, is a genuinely distinct small market rather than a Pinehurst suburb, though it is frequently swept into 'Sandhills golf' marketing. #### Golf Clubs in Sanford - [Carolina Trace Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sanford/carolina-trace-country-club/): Carolina Trace Country Club anchors Carolina Trace, a 2,500-acre gated golf and lake community in Sanford (Lee County) built around two Robert Trent Jones Sr. 18-hole courses (Lake and Creek) and a 315-acre private lake. #### Golf Communities in Sanford - [Carolina Trace](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sanford/carolina-trace/): Carolina Trace is a 2,500-acre gated master-planned community in Sanford (Lee County) organized into 19 sub-neighborhoods around a private 315-acre lake and Carolina Trace Country Club's two Robert Trent Jones Sr. courses (36 holes total). ### Salisbury, NC - [Salisbury, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/salisbury/): Salisbury sits in Rowan County, in the corridor between Charlotte and the Piedmont Triad but not core to either metro's own golf-living identity. #### Golf Clubs in Salisbury - [Country Club of Salisbury](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/salisbury/country-club-of-salisbury/): The Country Club of Salisbury is a private club founded in 1925 on a Donald Ross course completed in 1927, restored by Kris Spence in 2002, and host of the 1985 Carolinas PGA Championship. ### Hickory / Statesville, NC - [Hickory / Statesville, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/hickory-statesville/): Hickory and Statesville sit about 25 minutes apart on US-70/I-40 in the Catawba/Iredell foothills, west of the Piedmont Triad and northwest of Charlotte/Lake Norman — close enough to both metros to be confused with either, but with their own distinct, smaller-scale private-club golf identity. #### Golf Clubs in Hickory / Statesville - [Lake Hickory Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/hickory-statesville/lake-hickory-country-club/): Lake Hickory Country Club is a private, membership-restricted club with 36 holes of golf across two sites plus a full amenity set (tennis/racquet sports, pool/aquatics, fitness, dining). - [Statesville Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/hickory-statesville/statesville-country-club/): Statesville Country Club is a private 18-hole club founded in 1944 in Iredell County, marketed on its exclusivity. No bundled residential community was found; it is a freestanding club. - [Catawba Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/hickory-statesville/catawba-country-club/): Catawba Country Club is a private, member-owned 18-hole club in Newton, NC (Catawba County) -- centrally located between Hickory, Lincolnton, Gastonia, and Statesville -- built around a 1946 Donald Ross-designed course. ### Morganton, NC - [Morganton, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/morganton/): Morganton, in the Burke County foothills, is a genuinely small, single-anchor market centered on Mimosa Hills Golf & Country Club — a 1929 Donald Ross design that has earned a reputation as one of North Carolina's better-regarded private courses despite the modest size of the town around it. #### Golf Clubs in Morganton - [Mimosa Hills Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/morganton/mimosa-hills-golf-country-club/): Mimosa Hills Golf & Country Club is a private, full-service club built in 1929 on a Donald Ross design, in Morganton (Burke County), consistently ranked among North Carolina's top courses. ### Shelby, NC - [Shelby, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/shelby/): Shelby, west of Charlotte but outside the Charlotte/Lake Norman metro proper, is a small, single-anchor market centered on Cleveland Country Club — a private club operating since 1927 that has continued to invest in itself, including a John LaFoy redesign and a recently reported clubhouse/course renovation. #### Golf Clubs in Shelby - [Cleveland Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/shelby/cleveland-country-club/): Cleveland Country Club is a private, member-owned club founded in 1927 in Shelby (Cleveland County), on a John LaFoy-designed 18-hole course, with a 2020 dining/clubhouse renovation and a new 2023 Aquatic Center. ### Goldsboro, NC - [Goldsboro, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/goldsboro/): Goldsboro, home to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, is a small, single-anchor golf-living market centered on Walnut Creek Country Club, an Ellis Maples-designed private club that describes itself explicitly as members-only. #### Golf Clubs in Goldsboro - [Walnut Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/goldsboro/walnut-creek-country-club/): Walnut Creek Country Club is a private, members-only club in Goldsboro (Wayne County) on an Ellis Maples-designed course, with golf, tennis, pickleball, pool, and dining amenities. ### Lumberton, NC - [Lumberton, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lumberton/): US Golf Living has researched golf anchors in the Lumberton, NC market (Robeson County). This is a genuinely thin, single-anchor market: Pinecrest Country Club, a private Donald Ross-designed club, is the only entity that clears this project's qualification bar. #### Golf Clubs in Lumberton - [Pinecrest Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lumberton/pinecrest-country-club/): Pinecrest Country Club is a Lumberton (Robeson County) course combining an original 1932 Dick Wilson-designed nine with a 1955 nine developed with Donald Ross's involvement, merged into the current club in 1962. ### Roanoke Rapids / Weldon, NC - [Roanoke Rapids / Weldon, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/roanoke-rapids-weldon/): Roanoke Rapids and Weldon sit in Halifax County in the far northeastern part of the state, near the Virginia border and Lake Gaston. #### Golf Clubs in Roanoke Rapids / Weldon - [Chockoyotte Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/roanoke-rapids-weldon/roanoke-country-club/): Chockoyotte Country Club is a semi-private club in Weldon, Halifax County, North Carolina, founded in 1927 along Chockoyotte Creek. ### Charlotte, NC - [Charlotte, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/): Charlotte's golf-living landscape is fundamentally different from the master-planned, golf-bundled communities that dominate much of Florida and Arizona. #### Golf Clubs in Charlotte - [Quail Hollow Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/quail-hollow-club/): Private, sponsorship-only club in south Charlotte, host of the PGA Tour's annual Charlotte stop since 2003 and two PGA Championship majors (2017, 2025). - [Charlotte Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/charlotte-country-club/): Historic private club in the Dilworth neighborhood near downtown Charlotte, with a reported multi-year waitlist alongside Quail Hollow and Myers Park Country Club as one of the market's top-tier freestanding private clubs. - [Myers Park Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/myers-park-country-club/): Charlotte, NC: Private club founded in 1921 as part of the original Myers Park neighborhood development; its Donald Ross-designed 18-hole course debuted in 1944 and was restored by John Fought in 2007-08. - [Carmel Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/carmel-country-club/): Charlotte, NC: Private, member-owned club since 1947 with two 18-hole courses (36 holes total), invitation-only membership, and one of the region's strongest junior golf programs. - [Providence Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/providence-country-club/): Private McConnell Golf club (est. 1989) with a Dan Maples-designed course in south Charlotte, sharing its name with the surrounding ~650-home 'Providence Country Club' neighborhood but operating as a separate, optional membership. - [Ballantyne Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/ballantyne-country-club/): Private club established in 1996 with a Rees Jones-designed 18-hole course and a top-ranked practice facility, anchoring the 'Ballantyne Country Club' residential enclave within the larger Ballantyne district of south Charlotte. - [TPC Piper Glen](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/tpc-piper-glen/): Charlotte, NC: Private TPC-network club founded in 1988 with an Arnold Palmer-designed course that hosted a PGA Tour Champions event 1990-1995. - [Raintree Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/raintree-country-club/): Charlotte, NC: Private club established in 1971 with 36 holes across two courses, originally designed as a lake community; the club describes itself as having pioneered the golf-course-community concept in Mecklenburg County. - [Pine Island Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/pine-island-country-club/): Private, non-equity, members-only club (est. 1968, designed by Charles M. "Mark" Mahannah Jr., ASGCA) in northwest Charlotte near Mountain Island, anchoring the 'Pine Island Country Club' residential subdivision that real-estate listings market under the club's own name. - [Cabarrus Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/cabarrus-country-club/): Private, member-owned club founded in 1932 in Concord (Cabarrus County), just east of Charlotte, with an 18-hole George Cobb-designed course renovated by John LaFoy in 1980. - [Firethorne Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/firethorne-country-club/): Private club (Invited/ClubCorp network) anchoring the Firethorne neighborhood in Waxhaw since 1998, with a Tom Jackson-designed 18-hole course and an extensive swim/tennis complex. - [The Palisades Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/the-palisades-country-club/): Private Jack Nicklaus-designed club within the 1,600-acre master-planned Palisades community in southwest Charlotte, on the NC side of Lake Wylie. #### Golf Communities in Charlotte - [Dilworth](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/dilworth-charlotte/): Charlotte's oldest streetcar suburb, just south of downtown, home to Charlotte Country Club. A historic, walkable, non-gated neighborhood valued for its architecture and location independent of the club. - [Myers Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/myers-park-charlotte/): One of Charlotte's most prestigious early-20th-century residential neighborhoods, developed alongside Myers Park Country Club beginning in 1921. - [Quail Hollow (neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/quail-hollow-neighborhood-charlotte/): Established, affluent in-town Charlotte neighborhood surrounding Quail Hollow Club. Predates the club's national tournament prominence and is not a bundled residential development. - [SouthPark / Carmel](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/southpark-carmel-charlotte/): South Charlotte neighborhood area anchored by Carmel Country Club, adjacent to the SouthPark shopping/business district. - [Providence Country Club (neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/providence-country-club-neighborhood/): ~650-home south Charlotte neighborhood sharing its exact name with Providence Country Club, near Providence Road and I-485, close to the Waverly and Rea Farms shopping/dining complexes. - [Ballantyne Country Club (enclave)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/ballantyne-country-club-enclave/): Named residential enclave built around Ballantyne Country Club within the much larger Ballantyne mixed-use district of south Charlotte. - [Piper Glen](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/piper-glen-charlotte/): A collection of six coordinated residential enclaves in south Charlotte built around TPC Piper Glen, with its own community website that directly references the club. - [Raintree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/raintree-charlotte/): South Charlotte lake-and-golf community developed in tandem with Raintree Country Club beginning in 1971; the club's own history describes it as having pioneered the golf-community concept in Mecklenburg County. - [Firethorne](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/firethorne-waxhaw/): Waxhaw (Union County) neighborhood developed alongside Firethorne Country Club since 1998, at the southern edge of the Charlotte metro. - [The Sanctuary (Lake Wylie, NC)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/the-sanctuary-lake-wylie-nc-community/): Exclusive ~1,300-acre gated lake community on the NC side of Lake Wylie (Steele Creek, southwest Charlotte), limited to roughly 187 families with 5+ acre average homesites. - [The Palisades](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/charlotte/the-palisades-charlotte/): 1,600-acre master-planned community in southwest Charlotte (Steele Creek, off NC Hwy 49, NC side of Lake Wylie), built around The Palisades Country Club's Jack Nicklaus-designed course. ### New Bern / Craven County, NC - [New Bern / Craven County, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/new-bern/): New Bern sits at the confluence of the Neuse and Trent rivers, and its golf-living market reflects that geography directly: this is a river-and-water-recreation town first, with golf as one of several ways developers have organized residential communities around water access. #### Golf Clubs in New Bern / Craven County - [Taberna Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/new-bern/taberna-country-club/): 18-hole Jack Nicklaus/Jim Lipe course (1997) and Swiss-themed clubhouse anchoring Taberna, an ~800-home, 1,100-acre gated-community-style development five minutes from downtown New Bern; club membership is available but not required to own a home in Taberna. - [New Bern Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/new-bern/new-bern-golf-and-country-club/): Private, member-owned club in Trent Woods (just outside downtown New Bern) founded in 1920; 18-hole course renovated by Bob Moore (1990, 2017), plus eight tennis courts, pool and fitness. - [River Bend Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/new-bern/river-bend-golf-and-country-club/): 18-hole Gene Hamm-designed course (1977, par 71) that the incorporated town of River Bend (Craven County, ~8 miles from downtown New Bern) was built around and remains organized by; access is semi-private/public with annual and monthly memberships rather than a private-club barrier. #### Golf Communities in New Bern / Craven County - [Taberna](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/new-bern/taberna/): Approximately 800-home, 1,100-acre master-planned community five minutes from downtown New Bern, built out from 1997 around Taberna Country Club's Swiss-themed clubhouse and 18-hole Nicklaus/Lipe course; club membership is available to residents but not required. - [Trent Woods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/new-bern/trent-woods/): Trent Woods is a small, established, incorporated town immediately adjoining New Bern, home to New Bern Golf & Country Club. - [River Bend](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/new-bern/river-bend/): Incorporated town in Craven County, ~8 miles from downtown New Bern, founded in the late 1970s as a golf-course community; the town's layout is still organized around its semi-private 18-hole course today. ### Crystal Coast, NC - [Crystal Coast, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/crystal-coast/): A targeted follow-up pass re-researched the Crystal Coast from the evidence outward rather than assuming the original three candidates were the correct universe. #### Golf Clubs in Crystal Coast - [Morehead City Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/crystal-coast/morehead-city-country-club/): Fully private, members-only 18-hole country club in Morehead City, established 1954 by architects William F. Gordon and David W. Gordon and extended/renovated in 2016 by John LaFoy while preserving the original design intent (par 72, 6,761 yards). - [Star Hill Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/crystal-coast/star-hill-golf-club/): 27-hole club (three nine-hole courses: Sands, Pines, Lakes) in Cape Carteret, opened 1967 and designed by Russell T. Burney -- one of the Crystal Coast's oldest courses. - [Crystal Coast Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/crystal-coast/crystal-coast-country-club/): Semi-private 18-hole club in Pine Knoll Shores -- the only golf course on Bogue Banks -- built in 1971 and designed by Maurice Brackett. #### Golf Communities in Crystal Coast - [Country Club Run](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/crystal-coast/country-club-run/): 171-home single-family subdivision (plus roughly 70 townhomes) built directly beside Morehead City Country Club, with its own separate clubhouse and community pool. - [Star Hill Golf Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/crystal-coast/star-hill-golf-country-club-neighborhood/): Residential neighborhood in Cape Carteret built on and named for the Star Hill Golf Club, with active on-course home sales; 2026 reported median sale price approximately $528,750, up 32.2% year-over-year. ### Wilmington Metro, NC - [Wilmington Metro, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/): Wilmington is coastal North Carolina's largest and most golf-historic metro: an in-town cluster of century-old private clubs, a marquee gated golf-and-waterway community, and a newer belt of golf-anchored master-planned communities just across the Cape Fear River in Leland and Belville. #### Golf Clubs in Wilmington Metro - [Country Club of Landfall](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/country-club-of-landfall/): Country Club of Landfall is a member-owned private club with 45 holes of golf (27 by Jack Nicklaus, 18 by Pete Dye) anchoring Landfall, a gated ~2,200-acre, 2,000+ home master-planned community on the Intracoastal Waterway across from Wrightsville Beach -- Wilmington's marquee golf-residential address. - [Porters Neck Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/porters-neck-country-club/): Porters Neck Country Club is a member-managed private club in Wilmington offering Equity and Non-Equity membership, anchoring the gated Porters Neck Plantation community; the course has hosted multiple NC State Amateur championships. - [Cape Fear Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/cape-fear-country-club/): Wilmington, NC: Founded in 1896, Cape Fear Country Club is the oldest private country club in North Carolina and one of five founding members of the Carolina Golf Association (1905). - [Eagle Point Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/eagle-point-golf-club/): Eagle Point Golf Club is a private, limited-membership Tom Fazio design (2000) on the Intracoastal Waterway in Wilmington, with non-transferable memberships and packages specifically marketed to homeowners in the surrounding golf-course neighborhood. - [Compass Pointe Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/compass-pointe-golf-club/): Belville, NC: Compass Pointe Golf Club is a private, Rick Robbins-designed course managed by Heritage Golf Group, offering tiered Golf/Club/Social membership. - [Pine Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/pine-valley-country-club/): Pine Valley Country Club, established 1955, is a private 18-hole club (Ellis Maples design, a Donald Ross protege) in Wilmington offering Full and Non-Resident membership categories, plus tennis, pickleball, pool and fitness amenities. - [River Landing Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/river-landing-golf-country-club/): River Landing is a private, gated 2,000-acre community in Wallace, NC (Duplin County) with 36 holes of golf across two Clyde Johnston-designed courses. - [Cape Fear National at Brunswick Forest](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/cape-fear-national-brunswick-forest/): Cape Fear National is an 18-hole Tim Cate design (2009) within Brunswick Forest in Leland, NC. Previously a semi-private course with public daily-fee play, it was sold to Heritage Golf Group in March 2022 for $12 million and converted into a fully private club requiring a one-time membership fee plus annual dues. #### Golf Communities in Wilmington Metro - [Landfall](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/landfall/): Landfall is a gated, ~2,200-acre master-planned community of 2,000+ homes in Wilmington, NC, on the Intracoastal Waterway across from Wrightsville Beach, organized around the member-owned Country Club of Landfall's 45 holes of golf. - [Porters Neck Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/porters-neck-plantation/): Porters Neck Plantation is a private, gated golf-course community at Wilmington's northern edge, built around Porters Neck Country Club; its own marketing describes golf as central to the community's identity. - [Cape Fear Country Club Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/cape-fear-country-club-neighborhood/): An established, in-town Wilmington residential neighborhood surrounding Cape Fear Country Club. This session could not independently re-verify neighborhood-level details (boundaries, HOA structure, price range) beyond the discovery pass's lead; treat as a low-confidence, incomplete record pending direct verification. - [Eagle Point](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/eagle-point/): The residential neighborhood surrounding Eagle Point Golf Club along the Intracoastal Waterway in Wilmington; the club markets certain membership packages specifically to homeowners here. - [Compass Pointe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/compass-pointe/): Compass Pointe is a large gated, master-planned community in Belville (Wilmington-adjacent) with 26-plus named sub-communities, positioned partly as an active-adult/retirement destination, anchored by Compass Pointe Golf Club. - [River Landing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilmington-metro/river-landing/): River Landing is a private, gated 2,000-acre golf community in Wallace, NC (Duplin County), roughly 35 minutes inland from Wilmington, built around 36 holes of Clyde Johnston-designed golf. ### Brunswick County -- Southport/St. James Corridor, NC - [Brunswick County -- Southport/St. James Corridor, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-county-southport-st-james/): The Southport/St. James corridor, built around the Lockwood Folly and Shallotte River area of Brunswick County, is the most golf-dense submarket in southeastern coastal North Carolina by both course count and depth of residential integration. #### Golf Clubs in Brunswick County -- Southport/St. James Corridor - [The Clubs at St. James Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-county-southport-st-james/st-james-plantation-clubs/): St. James Plantation is a 6,000-acre gated community in Southport organized around four member golf clubs -- Reserve, Founders, Members, and Players -- totaling 81 holes and managed by Troon Prive. - [Bald Head Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-county-southport-st-james/bald-head-island-club/): Bald Head Island Club is a private club on car-free Bald Head Island, reachable only by a 20-minute passenger ferry from Southport (Deep Point Marina) or private boat. - [Carolina National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-county-southport-st-james/carolina-national-golf-club/): Carolina National Golf Club is a Fred Couples-designed, Audubon-certified 27-hole semi-private club ($4,000 golf-membership initiation fee) anchoring the gated, roughly 1,300-acre Winding River Plantation community near Bolivia/Southport, whose property owners also have access to a private oceanfront beach club on Holden Beach. - [Rivers Edge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-county-southport-st-james/rivers-edge-golf-club/): Rivers Edge Golf Club is a fully public Arnold Palmer-designed course (1999) on the Shallotte River that has appeared on Golf Digest's 'America's 100 Greatest Public Courses' list. - [Lockwood Folly Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-county-southport-st-james/lockwood-folly-country-club/): Lockwood Folly Country Club is the only member-owned golf course in Brunswick County, a Willard Byrd-designed 18-hole club that grew into a gated neighborhood of roughly 500 homesites near Supply, NC. #### Golf Communities in Brunswick County -- Southport/St. James Corridor - [St. James Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-county-southport-st-james/st-james-plantation/): St. James Plantation is a 6,000-acre gated master-planned community in Southport, NC, organized around four member golf clubs (81 holes total), a private oceanfront beach club, and a 475-slip marina. - [Bald Head Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-county-southport-st-james/bald-head-island/): Bald Head Island is a car-free barrier island community in Brunswick County reachable only by ferry or private boat, built around Bald Head Island Club. - [Winding River Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-county-southport-st-james/winding-river-plantation/): Winding River Plantation is a roughly 1,300-acre gated community in Bolivia, NC, encircling Carolina National Golf Club (27 holes, Fred Couples design), with a private oceanfront beach club on Holden Beach. - [Rivers Edge Golf Club & Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-county-southport-st-james/rivers-edge-plantation/): Rivers Edge Golf Club & Plantation is a gated community in Shallotte, NC, built around and named for the public Rivers Edge Golf Club (Arnold Palmer design); owners have access to a private oceanfront beach club on Holden Beach. - [Lockwood Folly](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-county-southport-st-james/lockwood-folly/): Lockwood Folly is a gated neighborhood of roughly 500 homesites near Supply, NC, that grew from the member-owned Lockwood Folly Country Club. ### Brunswick Islands -- Calabash/Sunset Beach/Ocean Isle, NC - [Brunswick Islands -- Calabash/Sunset Beach/Ocean Isle, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-islands/): The Brunswick Islands -- Calabash, Sunset Beach, Ocean Isle Beach, and Shallotte -- sit at the southern tip of North Carolina's coast, right at the South Carolina line. #### Golf Clubs in Brunswick Islands -- Calabash/Sunset Beach/Ocean Isle - [Ocean Ridge Plantation (Big Cats Golf)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-islands/ocean-ridge-plantation-golf/): Ocean Ridge Plantation is a large master-planned community near Ocean Isle Beach/Sunset Beach anchored by four semi-private 'Big Cats' golf courses (Lion's Paw, Panther's Run, Tiger's Eye, Leopard's Chase) -- a branded quartet central to the community's own marketing identity -- plus a private oceanfront beach club. - [Brunswick Plantation & Golf Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-islands/brunswick-plantation-golf-resort/): Brunswick Plantation & Golf Resort is a 2,000-acre-plus development in Calabash, NC combining a semi-private 27-hole course (Azalea, Dogwood, Magnolia nines) with a genuine residential community of 1,800+ property owners and roughly 1,000 homes/townhomes/condos, plus a resort-rental component. #### Golf Communities in Brunswick Islands -- Calabash/Sunset Beach/Ocean Isle - [Ocean Ridge Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-islands/ocean-ridge-plantation/): Ocean Ridge Plantation is a large master-planned community near Ocean Isle Beach/Sunset Beach, NC, whose marketing identity centers on its branded 'Big Cats' quartet of golf courses, plus a private oceanfront beach club. - [Brunswick Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/brunswick-islands/brunswick-plantation/): Brunswick Plantation is a 1,750+ acre residential-and-resort-rental community in Calabash, NC with over 1,800 property owners, built around a semi-private 27-hole golf course. ### Greenville, NC - [Greenville, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/greenville/): Greenville, the seat of Pitt County and home to East Carolina University, is eastern North Carolina's largest inland city and carries two genuinely private, long-established country clubs rather than a purpose-built golf-residential development. #### Golf Clubs in Greenville - [Greenville Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/greenville/greenville-country-club-nc/): Eastern North Carolina's oldest and most historically significant private club, founded 1905 on Greenville's east side. The 18-hole course traces to a 1923 Donald Ross design, renovated by Perry Maxwell in 1930 and reworked by a Fazio design team in 1976; has hosted the Carolinas Open and Carolinas Amateur. - [Brook Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/greenville/brook-valley-country-club/): Private McConnell Golf club in Greenville founded 1966, an Ellis Maples design restored by Kris Spence in 2015. East Carolina University's home golf course; hosted the 2017 NC Amateur Championship. ### Kinston, NC - [Kinston, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/kinston/): Kinston, the seat of Lenoir County, is a genuinely small golf-living market anchored by a single qualifying private club: Kinston Country Club, which the club itself describes as a 'premier, full-service, family-oriented private country club,' with a course dating to a 1948 Ellis Maples design. #### Golf Clubs in Kinston - [Kinston Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/kinston/kinston-country-club/): Private, family-oriented country club in Kinston (Lenoir County), with an Ellis Maples-designed course dating to 1948. ### Wilson / Rocky Mount Corridor, NC - [Wilson / Rocky Mount Corridor, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilson-rocky-mount/): Wilson and Rocky Mount sit roughly 20 minutes apart on US-301/I-95 in the coastal plain northeast of Raleigh, and are evaluated jointly here as a single corridor market rather than two separate one-anchor markets, following the discovery pass's recommendation. #### Golf Clubs in Wilson / Rocky Mount Corridor - [Wilson Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/wilson-rocky-mount/wilson-country-club/): Private club in Wilson, NC founded 1915, one of roughly 16 McConnell Golf properties across NC/SC/VA. Course is a Willard Byrd design renovated by John LaFoy in 2005. ### Albemarle Sound / Inner Banks, NC - [Albemarle Sound / Inner Banks, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/albemarle-sound/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Albemarle Sound/Inner Banks market: Sound Golf Links at Albemarle Plantation, a Dan Maples-designed course anchoring a 1,300-acre gated waterfront community with a 166-slip marina near Hertford, NC. #### Golf Clubs in Albemarle Sound / Inner Banks - [Sound Golf Links at Albemarle Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/albemarle-sound/sound-golf-links-albemarle-plantation/): Dan Maples/Michael Gleason-designed course anchoring Albemarle Plantation, a 1,300-acre gated waterfront community with a 166-slip marina on the Albemarle Sound near Hertford, NC, recognized on Golf Digest's 2010 'Best Places to Play' list. #### Golf Communities in Albemarle Sound / Inner Banks - [Albemarle Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/albemarle-sound/albemarle-plantation/): Albemarle Plantation is a 1,300-acre gated residential community on the Albemarle Sound near Hertford, NC, built around Sound Golf Links (Dan Maples/Michael Gleason, Golf Digest "Best Places to Play" 2010) and a 166-slip marina. ### High Country, NC - [High Country, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/): The High Country is North Carolina's highest-elevation golf market, spread across Watauga, Avery, and Caldwell counties around Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, Linville, Beech Mountain, and Seven Devils. #### Golf Clubs in High Country - [Hound Ears Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/hound-ears-club/): Private, member-owned equity club and adjacent 750-acre residential community west of Boone, established more than 40 years ago. - [Grandfather Golf and Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/grandfather-golf-and-country-club/): Invitation-only, member-owned private club in Linville with a championship 18-hole course and a par-three executive course, plus tennis, a fitness center, a lake with sandy beaches, and multiple dining venues. - [Linville Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/linville-golf-club/): Historic Donald Ross course in Linville (expanded to 18 holes 1924-1926; golf on the site since 1891), operated in tandem with the Eseeola Lodge. - [Linville Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/linville-ridge-country-club/): Private country club near Blowing Rock/Linville, established 1982, where full Golf Membership explicitly requires owning residential property within Linville Ridge. - [Blowing Rock Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/blowing-rock-country-club/): Private club in the town of Blowing Rock (established 1915) with Full Golf, Social, Family, and Single membership categories. - [Elk River Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/elk-river-club/): Invitation-only, member-owned private club in Banner Elk built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course, with golf membership capped at 245 members and separate resident/non-resident membership tiers. - [Diamond Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/diamond-creek-golf-club/): Private, Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole course in Banner Elk (opened 2003, roughly 320 members) within a private gated community. - [Beech Mountain Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/beech-mountain-club/): Private club in the Town of Beech Mountain, one of the highest-elevation incorporated towns in the eastern U.S. For 50 years, club membership required owning property within Beech Mountain; the club has since begun offering a limited number of Non-Property-Owner (NPO) memberships as well. #### Golf Communities in High Country - [Hound Ears](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/hound-ears-community/): 750-acre private, gated residential community along the Watauga River between Boone and Blowing Rock, built around Hound Ears Club. - [Linville Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/linville-ridge-community/): Private residential community near Blowing Rock/Linville built around Linville Ridge Country Club, where full golf club membership is explicitly restricted to property owners within the community. - [Elk River](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/elk-river-community/): Private, gated golf and equestrian residential community in Banner Elk built around Elk River Club (a Jack Nicklaus Signature course), with separate resident and non-resident club membership tiers. - [Diamond Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/high-country/diamond-creek-community/): Private, gated residential community in Banner Elk built around Diamond Creek Golf Club's Tom Fazio course. Golf press coverage this session suggests the club was deliberately founded as a standalone golf club rather than a real-estate-bundled country club, implying club membership does not require buying property here -- a genuine new lead, not yet independently confirmed against an official statement. ### Highlands-Cashiers Plateau, NC - [Highlands-Cashiers Plateau, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/): The Highlands-Cashiers Plateau is a cluster of century-old mountain resort towns -- Highlands, Cashiers, Lake Toxaway, Sapphire, and, to its south, Brevard/Connestee Falls -- spanning Macon, Jackson, and Transylvania counties at elevations generally between 3,500 and 4,500 feet. #### Golf Clubs in Highlands-Cashiers Plateau - [Wade Hampton Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/wade-hampton-golf-club/): Private, invitation-only Tom Fazio design in Cashiers widely regarded as one of the most nationally prestigious residential golf clubs in North Carolina -- ranked #1 Best Residential Golf Course by Golfweek (2009) and reported as the state's highest-ranked course in Golf Digest's America's 100 Greatest every year since 2007. - [Highlands Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/highlands-country-club/): The oldest private club on the Highlands-Cashiers plateau (established 1928), an equity-model club with a Ron Pritchard-designed course central to Highlands' identity as a century-old mountain summer colony. - [Cullasaja Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/cullasaja-club/): Member-owned, invitation-only private club in Highlands (not Cashiers, despite frequent aggregator misattribution) built around an Arnold Palmer-designed 1989 course, with a documented On Campus/Off Campus membership structure tied to Cullasaja property ownership. - [Old Edwards Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/old-edwards-club/): Private, non-equity club at Highlands Cove built around the Tom Jackson-designed GlenCove course, affiliated with the Old Edwards Inn & Spa resort. - [Mountaintop Golf & Lake Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/mountaintop-golf-lake-club/): Private, invitation-based equity golf and lake club developed by Discovery Land Company on 731 acres near Cashiers, with a Tom Fazio-designed course (2006) and a private Lake Club on Lake Glenville; 350 equity golf memberships are offered to purchasers of property within the 251-lot/75-cabin community. - [Wildcat Cliffs Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/wildcat-cliffs-country-club/): Historic private country club (George Cobb design, 1961) between Highlands and Cashiers near Whiteside Mountain. - [Trillium Links & Lake Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/trillium-links-lake-club/): Private residential, lake, and golf community in Cashiers built around a Morris Hatalsky-designed course (1998). - [Lake Toxaway Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/lake-toxaway-country-club/): Private, member-owned club on the shores of Lake Toxaway, North Carolina's largest privately held lake, with a Kris Spence-rebuilt course (2008). - [Country Club of Sapphire Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/country-club-of-sapphire-valley/): Private, member-owned club in Sapphire, NC (George Cobb design, 1956; renovated 2007) -- distinct from the separate, public Sapphire National Golf Club nearby. - [Connestee Falls Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/connestee-falls-golf-club/): A George Cobb-designed (1973) course inside the 3,800-acre gated Connestee Falls community near Brevard, distinctive for being described by the community's own site as fully owned and operated by its residents rather than by an outside club or developer entity. #### Golf Communities in Highlands-Cashiers Plateau - [Wade Hampton](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/wade-hampton/): The private, gated residential community built around Wade Hampton Golf Club in Cashiers -- an 18-hole Tom Fazio-designed course ranked #1 for Best Residential Golf Course by GolfWeek Magazine in 2009, and North Carolina's most nationally recognized residential golf club. - [Cullasaja](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/cullasaja/): The gated residential development in Highlands, NC built around Cullasaja Club, with a documented On Campus (property owner) equity golf membership category. - [Highlands Cove](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/highlands-cove/): The residential development in Highlands, NC where the Old Edwards Club is located, affiliated with the Old Edwards Inn & Spa resort. - [Mountaintop](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/mountaintop/): The residential community built around Mountaintop Golf & Lake Club in Cashiers, NC. - [Wildcat Cliffs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/wildcat-cliffs/): The residential community surrounding Wildcat Cliffs Country Club between Highlands and Cashiers, NC -- an invitation-only private club (George Cobb design, 1961) with a documented Golf Membership ($40,000 initiation/$11,700 annual dues) and Social Membership ($25,000 initiation/$7,020 annual dues). - [Trillium](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/trillium/): The private residential, lake, and golf community in Cashiers, NC built around Trillium Links (Morris Hatalsky design, 1998). - [Lake Toxaway](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/lake-toxaway-estates/): The gated lakefront residential community of Lake Toxaway Estates, around which Lake Toxaway Country Club is built -- confirmed this session as the specific, named development whose property owners are eligible for club membership, resolving the prior uncertainty over whether a precisely named development existed distinct from the lake/club itself. - [Sapphire Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/sapphire-valley-resort-area/): The broader Sapphire community area near the Country Club of Sapphire Valley. Described honestly as a general area rather than one confirmed, precisely named HOA development, since Sapphire also encompasses the separate, unrelated Sapphire National Golf Club and other resort-area development -- see the entity-identity note on the anchor record. - [Connestee Falls](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/highlands-cashiers-plateau/connestee-falls/): A 3,800-acre gated residential community near Brevard, NC, distinctive for fully owning and operating its own golf course and amenities rather than a developer- or investor-owned club. ### Waynesville / Maggie Valley / Sylva, NC - [Waynesville / Maggie Valley / Sylva, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/waynesville-maggie-valley-sylva/): Waynesville, Maggie Valley, and Sylva form a small cluster of Haywood/Jackson County mountain towns roughly 30-45 minutes west of Asheville. #### Golf Clubs in Waynesville / Maggie Valley / Sylva - [Balsam Mountain Preserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/waynesville-maggie-valley-sylva/balsam-mountain-preserve/): Private, gated 4,400-acre golf community near Sylva with an Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay/Harrison Minchew course reaching roughly 5,400 feet elevation, marketed as the lowest-density private community in the Carolinas at one residence per 12 acres. - [Maggie Valley Club & Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/waynesville-maggie-valley-sylva/maggie-valley-club-resort/): 300-acre resort-golf community in Maggie Valley (fewer than 300 families) combining a semi-private/resort model with a documented residential-bundling signal: real estate purchase has been reported to include a sports membership as part of the purchase. - [Springdale Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/waynesville-maggie-valley-sylva/springdale-country-club/): A mountain course in the Canton/Waynesville area overlooking Cold Mountain, reported as recently renovated; membership structure not researched this session. - [Laurel Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/waynesville-maggie-valley-sylva/laurel-ridge-country-club/): A private-named club in Waynesville referenced only via a Waynesville Inn stay-and-play arrangement; membership structure and residential relationship not researched this session. #### Golf Communities in Waynesville / Maggie Valley / Sylva - [Balsam Mountain Preserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/waynesville-maggie-valley-sylva/balsam-mountain-preserve-community/): A 4,400-acre private, gated golf community near Sylva, NC marketed as the lowest-density private community in the Carolinas at approximately one residence per 12 acres. ### Lake Norman, NC - [Lake Norman, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/): Lake Norman is North Carolina's largest man-made lake (created in 1963 by Duke Power for hydroelectric and cooling purposes) and, for golf-oriented buyers, one of the state's most genuinely golf-and-water-integrated residential markets. #### Golf Clubs in Lake Norman - [Trump National Golf Club Charlotte](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/trump-national-golf-club-charlotte/): 18-hole Greg Norman-designed course in Mooresville that anchors The Point, an 862-lot luxury Lake Norman community. Known as The Point Lake and Golf Club until a 2012 member vote sold the club to a Trump entity; the community kept the original 'The Point' name. - [The Peninsula Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/the-peninsula-club/): Member-owned private club in Cornelius spanning roughly 11 miles of Lake Norman shoreline within The Peninsula community. - [River Run Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/river-run-country-club/): Private country club anchoring River Run, a large residential community in eastern Davidson. 18-hole, par-72 course (7,300+ yards) designed by Robert Walker and Raymond (Ray) Floyd, opened 1989. - [NorthStone Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/northstone-country-club/): Fully private club at the center of the NorthStone residential community in Huntersville. Unusual fee structure for the market -- no initiation fee, dues-only tiers reported from roughly $1,015 to $4,750/year -- but membership is required to play; the course is not open to the public. - [Skybrook Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/skybrook-golf-club/): Semi-private 18-hole course winding through the Skybrook master-planned community in Huntersville. Open to public daily-fee play but also carries a real membership tier with a reported two-year waitlist and resident/non-resident monthly dues. - [Cowan's Ford Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/cowans-ford-country-club/): Private, member-owned club on Lake Norman's west shore in Stanley, opened 1964, anchoring the Cowans Ford Country Club residential subdivision built around it from 1988-2013. - [Verdict Ridge Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/verdict-ridge-golf-and-country-club/): 18-hole public-play golf course in Denver, NC (opened 2009) paired with a separate, optional Verdict Ridge Golf & Country Club membership (clubhouse, pool, tennis/pickleball, fitness, and a preferred golf tier) carrying real initiation fees and dues. #### Golf Communities in Lake Norman - [The Point](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/the-point-mooresville/): 862-lot luxury lake community spanning roughly 18 miles of Lake Norman shoreline in Mooresville, built around what is now Trump National Golf Club Charlotte (formerly The Point Lake and Golf Club). - [The Peninsula](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/the-peninsula-cornelius/): Lakefront residential community in Cornelius spanning roughly 11 miles of Lake Norman shoreline, built around The Peninsula Club. - [River Run](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/river-run-davidson/): Large, gated residential community in eastern Davidson built around and named for River Run Country Club, with active newer phases including The Reserve and The Summit townhomes (Phase 6 master plan approved by the Town of Davidson). - [NorthStone](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/northstone-huntersville/): 237-acre housing community in Huntersville built around NorthStone Country Club, which sits at its center. Homes sold in the past year ranged roughly $490K-$1.15M; current active listings average around $732K. - [Skybrook](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/skybrook-huntersville/): Master-planned community spanning roughly 1,100 acres in Huntersville, with Skybrook Golf Club (John LaFoy design) winding through it as the namesake amenity. - [Cowans Ford Country Club (subdivision)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/cowans-ford-country-club-stanley/): Single-family subdivision in Stanley built 1988-2013 directly around Cowan's Ford Country Club, sharing the club's exact name. - [Verdict Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/lake-norman/verdict-ridge-denver/): Golf-named residential community in Denver, NC (Lincoln County) with a mandatory, modest HOA separate from an optional country club membership tied to the community's public-play golf course. ### Pinehurst / Southern Pines / Aberdeen, NC - [Pinehurst / Southern Pines / Aberdeen, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/): Pinehurst, Southern Pines and Aberdeen together make up the market golf press and real-estate marketing treat as one shopping area -- 'the Sandhills' or 'America's Home of Golf' -- and it is genuinely the most nationally significant golf-living market in North Carolina. #### Golf Clubs in Pinehurst / Southern Pines / Aberdeen - [Pinehurst Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/pinehurst-resort/): Pinehurst Resort is the Dedman-family-owned corporate entity operating ten numbered 18-hole golf courses (plus its own Pinehurst Country Club membership program) around the Village of Pinehurst. - [Country Club of North Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/country-club-of-north-carolina/): Country Club of North Carolina is a fully independent, invitation-only private club founded in 1963 in Pinehurst -- NOT part of the Pinehurst Resort corporate entity despite the generic "country club" name it shares in casual conversation with the resort's own Pinehurst Country Club. - [Forest Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/forest-creek-golf-club/): Forest Creek Golf Club is an independent private club on the Pinehurst/Southern Pines border with two Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole courses (37 holes total per some club descriptions, including a practice-length extra hole), a real initiation-fee barrier, and its own directly attached real-estate program marketing gated-community homes on the golf property. - [Pinewild Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/pinewild-country-club/): Pinewild Country Club is an independent private club (no corporate tie to Pinehurst Resort) with two 18-hole courses -- Magnolia (Gene Hamm, 1989) and Holly (Gary Player) -- organizing a gated ~920-home community on 1,800+ acres less than 10 minutes from the Village of Pinehurst. - [Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/pine-needles-lodge-golf-club/): Pine Needles is a Donald Ross-designed resort/lodge-and-golf-club in Southern Pines, owned and run for decades by LPGA Hall of Famer Peggy Kirk Bell and her family, with four U.S. Women's Opens (1996, 2001, 2007, 2022) hosted on the property -- a genuinely significant national tournament record independent of the Pinehurst Resort brand next door. - [Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/mid-pines-inn-golf-club/): Mid Pines is a Donald Ross 1921 design in Southern Pines, restored by Kyle Franz in 2013 (GOLF Magazine's Best U.S. Resort Renovation), operated today under the Ross Resorts brand alongside sister property Pine Needles across the road. - [Talamore Golf Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/talamore-golf-resort/): Talamore Golf Resort is a Rees Jones-designed course in Southern Pines whose club membership is, per the resort's own site, currently limited to property owners within the linked Mid South and Talamore residential communities -- an explicit bundled-to-ownership access model. - [Mid South Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/mid-south-club/): Mid South Club is an Arnold Palmer-designed course (opened 1995, originally known as Pinehurst Plantation) at the center of a 545-acre gated residential community in Southern Pines, linked by shared/affiliate ownership and membership to neighboring Talamore Golf Resort. #### Golf Communities in Pinehurst / Southern Pines / Aberdeen - [Fairwoods on 7](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/fairwoods-on-7/): Fairwoods on 7 is a gated custom-home community purpose-built around Pinehurst Resort's No. 7 course, with golf-front lots also touching No. 2 and No. 4 -- the tightest resort-course-to-housing pairing found in the numbered-course set. - [Country Club of North Carolina (CCNC) Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/ccnc-community/): Pinehurst, NC: The residential community inside CCNC's gates is the oldest gated golf community in the Sandhills (1963), where residency and club membership are closely linked through the club's own invitation/sponsorship process. - [Forest Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/forest-creek-community/): Pinehurst, NC: Forest Creek is a gated, 1,265-acre estate-home community directly marketed by its own golf club, with reported home prices commonly in the $1M-$2M+ range. - [Pinewild](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/pinewild/): Pinehurst, NC: Pinewild is a gated community of roughly 920 homes on 1,800+ acres, organized around Pinewild Country Club's two courses, with a POA (Property Owners Association) separate from the club membership itself. - [Mid South Club Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/mid-south-club-neighborhood/): Mid South Club Neighborhood is a gated, 545-acre golf community in Southern Pines organized around the Arnold Palmer-designed Mid South course, with linked membership access to the neighboring Talamore course. - [Talamore](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/talamore-community/): Southern Pines, NC: Talamore is the residential/resort-lodging community tied to Talamore Golf Resort's Rees Jones course, linked by shared ownership and membership to the neighboring Mid South Club community. - [Village of Pinehurst (Broad Market)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/sandhills-pinehurst/village-of-pinehurst-broad/): The Village of Pinehurst is an incorporated municipality (population roughly 15,000), not a single housing development -- ordinary, non-golf-affiliated homes exist here alongside golf-course-adjacent ones. ### West End / Whispering Pines / Foxfire, NC - [West End / Whispering Pines / Foxfire, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire/): This market covers the western Sandhills lake-and-golf belt: West End (home to Seven Lakes and Beacon Ridge, plus the pure-golf Dormie Club), the incorporated Village of Whispering Pines, the incorporated Foxfire Village, and Vass (home to Woodlake Country Club). #### Golf Clubs in West End / Whispering Pines / Foxfire - [Seven Lakes Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire/seven-lakes-golf-club/): Seven Lakes Golf Club is a semi-private, 1976 Peter Tufts III-designed course 9 miles west of the Village of Pinehurst that anchors the golf side of the roughly 1,509-lot Seven Lakes Landowners Association gated lake-and-recreation community in West End. - [Beacon Ridge Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire/beacon-ridge-golf-country-club/): Beacon Ridge Golf & Country Club is a semi-private, 1988 Gene Hamm-designed course in West End that has explicitly marketed itself for over 30 years as serving the greater Seven Lakes residential community, with monthly-fee Social and Non-Resident membership tiers. - [Dormie Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire/dormie-club/): Dormie Club is the only original Coore & Crenshaw golf course design in North Carolina, a private, invitation-based Dormie Network club (acquired 2017) on roughly 1,028 acres in West End with no residential real-estate product of its own. - [Country Club of Whispering Pines](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire/country-club-of-whispering-pines/): Country Club of Whispering Pines is a 36-hole (River + Pines courses) Ellis Maples design, opened 1959, at the center of the incorporated Village of Whispering Pines, with optional membership for property owners. - [Foxfire Resort & Golf](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire/foxfire-resort-golf/): Foxfire Resort & Golf operates the 36-hole Grey Fox and Red Fox courses (Gene Hamm) that anchor the incorporated Foxfire Village. - [Woodlake Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire/woodlake-country-club/): Woodlake Country Club is a gated golf-and-lake community in Vass whose course (Ellis Maples original, Kris Spence 2023 redesign) reopened in September 2023 after Hurricane Matthew dam/lake damage (2016) and a 2021 foreclosure sale; new owners partnered with Bobby Jones Links and grew membership to roughly 115 by late 2024, with a new 3,500 sq. ft. clubhouse. #### Golf Communities in West End / Whispering Pines / Foxfire - [Seven Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire/seven-lakes/): Seven Lakes is a 1,545-acre gated lake-and-recreation community (combined North and South sections, ~1,509 lots) in West End, built around seven spring-fed lakes; golf is provided by two separate, non-SLLA-affiliated clubs (Seven Lakes Golf Club and Beacon Ridge Golf & Country Club) rather than a single bundled course. - [Village of Whispering Pines](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire/village-of-whispering-pines/): The Village of Whispering Pines is its own incorporated municipality (est. 1959, incorporated 1969, population ~5,445 as of mid-2025), built around Country Club of Whispering Pines' 36 holes and six lakes. - [Foxfire Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire/foxfire-village/): Foxfire Village is its own incorporated municipality (incorporated 1977) built around Foxfire Resort & Golf's 36 holes, roughly 6 miles west of Pinehurst and 10 miles northwest of Aberdeen. - [Woodlake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/west-end-whispering-pines-foxfire/woodlake-vass/): Woodlake is a gated golf-and-lake community in Vass mid-recovery from 2016 hurricane/dam damage and a 2021 foreclosure; current home-price data was not found this session. ### Piedmont Triad, NC - [Piedmont Triad, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/): The Piedmont Triad -- Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point -- is North Carolina's third-largest metro region and shares a single media market, MSA, and regional identity, but its golf-living character does not divide neatly along city lines. #### Golf Clubs in Piedmont Triad - [Sedgefield Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/sedgefield-country-club/): Donald Ross-designed private club (1926) in southwest Greensboro, home of the PGA Tour's Wyndham Championship since 2008 and the Greater Greensboro Open for decades before that. - [Greensboro Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/greensboro-country-club/): Greensboro, NC: Private club founded 1909, among North Carolina's oldest, with 36 holes across two courses. Membership requires a sponsor plus three endorsers. - [Starmount Forest Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/starmount-forest-country-club/): Private club founded 1930, the only North Carolina design by architects Wayne Stiles and John Van Kleek. Co-hosted the Greater Greensboro Open 1938-1960 and hosted the 1947 U.S. Women's Open. - [Grandover Resort & Spa](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/grandover-resort-and-spa/): 1,500-acre resort in southwest Greensboro with 36 holes (East opened 1996, West opened 1997; David Graham/Gary Panks design), a AAA Four Diamond hotel and spa, and an explicit residential arm selling custom homesites on and off the golf courses, including enclaves platted directly on the 1st and 5th holes of the West course. - [Greensboro National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/greensboro-national-golf-club/): George Cobb-designed 18-hole course in Summerfield, north of Greensboro, developed together with a subdivision of 1+ acre custom-home lots interwoven through the fairways. - [Old Town Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/old-town-club/): Winston-Salem, NC: Private club founded 1939, a Perry Maxwell design restored by Coore & Crenshaw in 2013, ranked No. 80 in GOLF Magazine's 2025-2026 Top 100 Courses in the World. - [Forsyth Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/forsyth-country-club/): Private club in Winston-Salem with 1,500+ members. Freestanding, with no bundled residential development found. - [Tanglewood Park Championship Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/tanglewood-park-championship-course/): Forsyth County-owned public course (Robert Trent Jones Sr. design) in Clemmons that hosted the 1974 PGA Championship, a major, plus 15 editions of the Champions Tour's Vantage/RJR Championship (1987/88-2002) and the 1986 U.S. Amateur Public Links. - [High Point Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/high-point-country-club/): Private club since 1923 in High Point, with the 18-hole Willow Creek course (1964, William Byrd) and 9-hole Emerywood course. #### Golf Communities in Piedmont Triad - [Sedgefield (neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/sedgefield-neighborhood/): A broad, decades-old residential district in southwest Greensboro developed starting in the 1930s around Sedgefield Country Club -- more an area-wide "golf address" identity than a single gated development. - [Grandover Neighborhoods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/grandover-neighborhoods/): Greensboro, NC: Resort-developer-platted homesites and custom homes on and off the Grandover Resort golf courses, including enclaves specifically sited on the 1st and 5th holes of the West course. - [Irving Park / Old Irving Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/irving-park-greensboro/): A historic, National Register-listed prestige residential district adjacent to Greensboro Country Club. This session re-confirmed via the club's own site and independent preservation-history sources that the district predates and remains organizationally independent of the club -- it is a historic neighborhood, not a club-developed golf community. - [Starmount / Hamilton Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/starmount-hamilton-lakes/): A Greensboro neighborhood adjacent to Starmount Forest Country Club. This session resolved the prior 'country club access' ambiguity: the neighborhood's real, documented amenity is the separate, member-owned Hamilton Lakes Swim & Tennis Club (non-golf), not bundled access to Starmount Forest Country Club's golf membership. - [Greensboro National Golf Club (subdivision)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/greensboro-national-subdivision/): Custom-home subdivision of 1+ acre lots interwoven through the Greensboro National Golf Club course in Summerfield. Golf and pool memberships are sold to residents. ### Davie County / Yadkin Valley Golf Corridor, NC - [Davie County / Yadkin Valley Golf Corridor, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/davie-county-yadkin-valley/): Davie County, just west of Winston-Salem along the Yadkin River, is home to the single clearest "golf town" case found anywhere in this research: Bermuda Run, an entire incorporated municipality (population-scale, not just a subdivision) that grew directly out of, and organized itself around, Bermuda Run Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Davie County / Yadkin Valley Golf Corridor - [Bermuda Run Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/davie-county-yadkin-valley/bermuda-run-country-club/): The private, 36-hole (East & West, Ellis and Dan Maples design) club that the incorporated Town of Bermuda Run literally grew up around and organized itself as a municipality (1999) to preserve. - [Salem Glen Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/davie-county-yadkin-valley/salem-glen-country-club/): Semi-private club (Jack Nicklaus/Glen Day design, 1997) along the Yadkin River in Clemmons, marketed jointly with its surrounding residential neighborhood. #### Golf Communities in Davie County / Yadkin Valley Golf Corridor - [Bermuda Run West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/davie-county-yadkin-valley/bermuda-run-west/): Gated subdivision of New Traditional-style homes lining the fairways of Bermuda Run Country Club, within the Town of Bermuda Run. - [Kinderton Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/davie-county-yadkin-valley/kinderton-village/): A 525-home master-planned, mixed-housing village within the Town of Bermuda Run, near I-40. Its own amenities (clubhouse, pool, trails) are separate from Bermuda Run Country Club; no evidence found of a bundled golf-membership relationship. - [Bermuda Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/davie-county-yadkin-valley/bermuda-village/): A gated, equity-ownership retirement/life-plan community bordering Bermuda Run Country Club, offering villas and condos with full resident access to the club's two 18-hole private golf courses as a stated community amenity -- an unusually direct bundled-golf case for a retirement community. - [Salem Glen (residential)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/davie-county-yadkin-valley/salem-glen-residential/): Clemmons, NC: Residential neighborhood marketed jointly with Salem Glen Country Club as "golf, recreational activities and elegant living." ### Chapel Hill / Chatham County, NC - [Chapel Hill / Chatham County, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/chapel-hill-chatham-county/): US Golf Living has researched golf anchors in the Chapel Hill / Chatham County market, spanning the university town of Chapel Hill and the fast-growing Chatham County corridor to its south around Pittsboro. #### Golf Clubs in Chapel Hill / Chatham County - [Governors Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/chapel-hill-chatham-county/governors-club/): Private, gated, member-owned 27-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature golf community on roughly 1,600 acres, physically located in Chatham County under a Chapel Hill mailing address. - [Chapel Hill Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/chapel-hill-chatham-county/chapel-hill-country-club/): Chapel Hill's oldest golf club (roots to 1907-1922 as a nine-hole course near campus), relocated to the Oaks neighborhood with a new Gene Hamm-designed 18-hole course opening in 1972. - [Chapel Ridge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/chapel-hill-chatham-county/chapel-ridge-golf-club/): 790-acre golf course community in Pittsboro (Chatham County) anchored by a Bob Moore/Fred Couples-designed course, operated by GreatLIFE Golf Management alongside The Preserve at Jordan Lake under a confirmed shared/reciprocal member section, with a real initiation fee and monthly dues for its own paid-application membership. - [The Preserve at Jordan Lake Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/chapel-hill-chatham-county/the-preserve-at-jordan-lake-golf-club/): Chapel Hill, NC: Semi-private, Davis Love III-designed 18-hole course (2002) on the western shoreline of Jordan Lake in Chatham County, an Audubon-certified sanctuary and the namesake anchor of The Preserve at Jordan Lake residential community. #### Golf Communities in Chapel Hill / Chatham County - [Governors Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/chapel-hill-chatham-county/governors-club-community/): Chapel Hill, NC: Roughly 1,600-acre gated community in Chatham County built around Governors Club's 27-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature course. - [The Preserve at Jordan Lake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/chapel-hill-chatham-county/the-preserve-at-jordan-lake-community/): Chapel Hill, NC: Neighborhood built out since 2003 along the western shoreline of Jordan Lake, adjacent to and named for The Preserve at Jordan Lake Golf Club. ### Durham, NC - [Durham, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/durham/): Durham's golf-living character skews older and more historic than the newer master-planned communities common elsewhere in the Triangle. #### Golf Clubs in Durham - [Treyburn Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/durham/treyburn-country-club/): Private, Tom Fazio-designed club in north Durham, operated by McConnell Golf's 16-club reciprocal network. Anchors the roughly 220-acre Treyburn residential community; ranked among North Carolina's best courses by Golf Digest. - [Hope Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/durham/hope-valley-country-club/): Historic 1926 Donald Ross-designed private club, founded explicitly as a country-club community for Durham, Duke, and Chapel Hill. - [Croasdaile Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/durham/croasdaile-country-club/): Private, member-owned club founded 1966 (George Cobb design, later John LaFoy renovation) in northwest Durham near Duke. - [Duke University Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/durham/duke-university-golf-club/): Durham, NC: Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed (1957) championship course on the Duke University campus, part of the AAA Four Diamond Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club resort. #### Golf Communities in Durham - [Treyburn](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/durham/treyburn-community/): Roughly 220-acre residential community in north Durham built around Treyburn Country Club's Tom Fazio-designed course, reported as gated with HOA architectural-review standards. - [Hope Valley Historic District](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/durham/hope-valley-historic-district/): Durham, NC: National Register of Historic Places-listed district (listed 2009) of 80 contributing buildings built 1927-1959, developed as an early-20th-century country-club community around Hope Valley Country Club. - [Croasdaile Farm](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/durham/croasdaile-farm/): Residential community of over 500 acres of rolling hills, lakes, and greenways in northwest Durham, built around Croasdaile Country Club, near Duke. ### Raleigh / North Raleigh / Wake Forest, NC - [Raleigh / North Raleigh / Wake Forest, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/raleigh-wake-forest/): US Golf Living has researched 7 golf anchors in the Raleigh / North Raleigh / Wake Forest market, in Wake County, including Carolina Country Club, Raleigh Country Club (Donald Ross's final design), North Ridge Country Club, The Country Club at Wakefield Plantation, Brier Creek Country Club, The Hasentree Club, and Heritage Golf Club (flagged needs_verification). #### Golf Clubs in Raleigh / North Raleigh / Wake Forest - [Carolina Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/raleigh-wake-forest/carolina-country-club-raleigh/): Founded in 1910, Carolina Country Club is Raleigh's oldest private country club — a freestanding, member-nominated 18-hole club on Glenwood Avenue with no bundled residential development. - [Raleigh Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/raleigh-wake-forest/raleigh-country-club/): Raleigh Country Club's course is Donald Ross's final design, opened in 1949; the freestanding McConnell Golf club was restored in a $5.5M Kyle Franz-led project completed in 2020. - [North Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/raleigh-wake-forest/north-ridge-country-club/): Member-owned club with two 18-hole courses (The Lakes, 1967; The Oaks, 1972) at the center of North Raleigh's established North Ridge neighborhood. - [The Country Club at Wakefield Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/raleigh-wake-forest/country-club-at-wakefield-plantation/): McConnell Golf's Hale Irwin-designed club (18+9 holes) inside the large Wakefield Plantation community near Falls Lake in North Raleigh; a former TPC Tour venue purchased by McConnell Golf in 2011. - [Brier Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/raleigh-wake-forest/brier-creek-country-club/): Raleigh, NC: Invited-operated private club with an Arnold Palmer Signature course anchoring the ~670-acre Brier Creek residential community near RDU/RTP. - [The Hasentree Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/raleigh-wake-forest/hasentree-club/): Invited-operated private club with a Tom Fazio championship course (2006) anchoring the gated Hasentree community in Wake Forest. #### Golf Communities in Raleigh / North Raleigh / Wake Forest - [North Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/raleigh-wake-forest/north-ridge-raleigh/): Established North Raleigh neighborhood built around North Ridge Country Club's two 18-hole courses; several distinct sections with a wide home-price range. - [Wakefield Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/raleigh-wake-forest/wakefield-plantation-raleigh/): Large master-planned North Raleigh community near Falls Lake, built around The Country Club at Wakefield Plantation, dating to 1998 with continued development since. - [Brier Creek Country Club (community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/raleigh-wake-forest/brier-creek-country-club-community/): ~670-acre NW Raleigh community (built out 2001–2011) anchored by Brier Creek Country Club, with a mixed housing product from condos to custom estates. - [Hasentree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/raleigh-wake-forest/hasentree-wake-forest/): Gated, ~800-acre Toll Brothers luxury community in Wake Forest anchored by The Hasentree Club (Tom Fazio course). ### Cary / Holly Springs / West Wake, NC - [Cary / Holly Springs / West Wake, NC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/cary-holly-springs-west-wake/): The West Wake golf corridor along NC-55/US-1, running from Cary through Holly Springs, mixes two of the Triangle's oldest club-community pairings (MacGregor Downs, 1966; Prestonwood, 1988) with newer 2000s-era private clubs built into master-planned developments (12 Oaks, 2009; and the freestanding, invitation-only Old Chatham Golf Club, 2001). #### Golf Clubs in Cary / Holly Springs / West Wake - [MacGregor Downs Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/cary-holly-springs-west-wake/macgregor-downs-country-club/): Founded 1966 as the centerpiece of a Cary community; now Concert Golf-operated alongside The Club at 12 Oaks under a confirmed shared 'Premier' membership. - [Prestonwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/cary-holly-springs-west-wake/prestonwood-country-club/): Founded 1988 as the anchor of Cary's Preston community; 54 holes across three Tom Jackson courses and host of the PGA Tour Champions' SAS Championship. - [Old Chatham Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/cary-holly-springs-west-wake/old-chatham-golf-club/): Cary, NC: Invitation-only, golf-only club (opened 2001) on 400 protected acres near Jordan Lake with genuine USGA championship pedigree; explicitly kept free of adjacent residential development. - [The Club at 12 Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/cary-holly-springs-west-wake/club-at-12-oaks/): Nicklaus Design course (2009) anchoring the master-planned 12 Oaks community in Holly Springs; Concert Golf-operated with a confirmed shared membership to MacGregor Downs. - [Devils Ridge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/cary-holly-springs-west-wake/devils-ridge-golf-club/): Invited-operated private club (John LaFoy, 1991) nested within the established Sunset Ridge community in Holly Springs. #### Golf Communities in Cary / Holly Springs / West Wake - [Preston](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/cary-holly-springs-west-wake/preston-cary/): Cary neighborhood built around Prestonwood Country Club, expanded following the club's 1991 sale to private investors. Spans multiple subdivisions with varying HOA structures; reported median home price roughly $1.0-$1.25 million depending on source. - [MacGregor Downs (neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/cary-holly-springs-west-wake/macgregor-downs-neighborhood-cary/): Established Cary neighborhood built as the original centerpiece development around MacGregor Downs Country Club (1966), comprising three sub-areas (MacGregor Downs, MacGregor West, Balmoral Townhomes) with three pools, ten tennis courts, and two lakes among shared amenities. - [12 Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/cary-holly-springs-west-wake/12-oaks-holly-springs/): Master-planned Holly Springs community anchored by The Club at 12 Oaks (Nicklaus Design), with a housing mix that explicitly includes 'golf cottages.' - [Sunset Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-carolina/cary-holly-springs-west-wake/sunset-ridge-holly-springs/): Established (1995) Holly Springs neighborhood built around Devils Ridge Golf Club, with a recent median home price around $775K–$802K. ## South Carolina - [South Carolina Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/): Independent research on 96 golf clubs and 68 residential golf communities across 21 South Carolina golf markets, including Aiken, Beaufort & the Sea Islands and Bluffton: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### South Carolina Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in South Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 18 South Carolina golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Berkeley Hall Club, River Hills Country Club, Sun City Carolina Lakes, Daniel Island Club and Long Cove Club. - [Private Golf Communities in South Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 78 private South Carolina golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Palmetto Golf Club, Old Barnwell, Woodside Plantation Country Club, Houndslake Country Club and Cedar Creek Golf Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in South Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 8 South Carolina golf resort ecosystems, including Harbour Town Golf Links, Atlantic Dunes by Davis Love III, Heron Point by Pete Dye, Palmetto Dunes Golf Courses and Sun City Hilton Head Golf Courses. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in South Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 3 private South Carolina golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Timberlake Country Club, Seabrook Island Club and Kiawah Island Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in South Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 15 South Carolina golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Callawassie Island Club, Fripp Island Club, Hampton Hall Club, The WildeWood Club and Golden Hills Country Club. ### South Carolina Comparisons - [Hilton Head Island vs Bluffton Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/hilton-head-island-vs-bluffton-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Hilton Head Island and Bluffton, SC for golf-oriented homebuyers: club culture and the RBC Heritage, bundled vs. layered membership models, cost of ownership, Palmetto Bluff's membership litigation, and geography. - [Long Cove Club vs Colleton River Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/long-cove-club-vs-colleton-river-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Long Cove Club (Hilton Head Island) and Colleton River Club (Bluffton), SC for golf-oriented homebuyers: single vs. two-course golf, community density, membership costs, and honest fee-documentation gaps. - [Kiawah Island vs Seabrook Island for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/kiawah-island-vs-seabrook-island-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Kiawah Island and Seabrook Island, SC for golf-oriented homebuyers: four-entity golf complexity and championship pedigree vs. a single simpler club, price tiers, and overall island character. - [Myrtle Beach vs Pawleys Island Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/myrtle-beach-grand-strand-vs-pawleys-island-georgetown-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Myrtle Beach/Grand Strand and Pawleys Island/Georgetown County, SC for golf-oriented homebuyers: tourism-trail volume vs. upscale-private character, genuine access models, and honest pricing gaps. ### Aiken, SC - [Aiken, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/): Aiken, South Carolina sits roughly an hour southeast of Columbia and just across the Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia, giving it a distinct identity shaped more by Augusta's Masters-week golf culture and its own 19th-century Winter Colony history than by Columbia's Midlands identity. #### Golf Clubs in Aiken - [Palmetto Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/palmetto-golf-club/): Founded in 1892 and laid out by Herbert Leeds, Palmetto Golf Club is reported as the second-oldest 18-hole course in America on its original site, and is directly tied to the founding of Aiken's historic Winter Colony. - [Old Barnwell](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/old-barnwell/): A new (2023) 575-acre private national/invitation-style club at Aiken's eastern edge, designed by Brian Schneider and Blake Conant, with on-site lodging, real national trade-press attention, and a second course ('The Gilroy') expected in 2027. - [Woodside Plantation Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/woodside-plantation-country-club/): A large, gated golf-retirement community in Aiken with a two-tier club structure: the private, member-owned Reserve Club and the semi-private, Invited-managed Woodside Plantation Country Club, totaling 45 holes. - [Houndslake Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/houndslake-country-club/): A Joe Lee-designed (1974) club with real SC Golf Association tournament pedigree, at the center of the Houndslake residential neighborhood in Aiken. - [Cedar Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/cedar-creek-golf-club/): An Arthur Hills-designed 18-hole course (built 1991, up to 7,206 yards) at the center of the Cedar Creek community south of Aiken; confirmed this session as Jim McNair Jr.'s sister course to The Aiken Golf Club (purchased Nov. - [Mount Vintage Plantation Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/mount-vintage-plantation-golf-club/): A 27-hole Tom Jackson design across three nines (Chester, Vintage, Independent) at the center of a roughly 5,000-acre master-planned community near North Augusta, with an equestrian complex and athletic club, likened by Golf Magazine to Augusta National. - [Sage Valley Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/sage-valley-golf-club/): An ultra-elite, invitation-only private club in Graniteville, designed by Tom Fazio and Beau Welling in the style of Augusta National, and host of the Sage Valley Junior Invitational, one of amateur golf's most prestigious junior events. - [The Tree Farm](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/the-tree-farm/): A top-ranked new (2023) public/destination golf course in Batesburg-Leesville designed by Tom Doak and Kye Goalby, with on-site cabins and strong national golf-media attention, on the outer edge of the Aiken market's orbit. #### Golf Communities in Aiken - [Houndslake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/houndslake/): A residential neighborhood in Aiken built around Houndslake Country Club, a Joe Lee design with real SC Golf Association tournament pedigree; the relationship between homeownership and club access is unresolved. - [Woodside Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/woodside-plantation/): A large, gated golf community on Aiken's west side built around 45 holes of golf across two club tiers -- a private, member-owned Reserve Club and a semi-private, Invited-managed country club. - [Cedar Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/cedar-creek/): A residential community about 10 miles south of downtown Aiken (2019 Aiken's Choice Best Community to Live In, median home price around $500,000), where golf club membership is explicitly optional and separate from HOA dues. - [Mount Vintage Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/aiken/mount-vintage-plantation/): A roughly 5,000-acre master-planned community near North Augusta organized around a 27-hole Tom Jackson golf course, with an equestrian complex, athletic club, and town center. ### Beaufort & the Sea Islands, SC - [Beaufort & the Sea Islands, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/): Beaufort is a historic small Lowcountry city, not itself a golf-community brand, ringed by a set of private island and rural-plantation communities that together give this market a genuinely distinct golf-living identity within South Carolina. #### Golf Clubs in Beaufort & the Sea Islands - [Callawassie Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/callawassie-island-club/): Okatie, SC: A private, gated 880-acre island community between Beaufort and Bluffton built around 27 holes of Tom Fazio golf across three nines (Dogwood, Magnolia, Palmetto); property owners have been required to hold an equity Island Club membership since December 2001, with golf membership available as a separate optional tier. - [Fripp Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/fripp-island-club/): Fripp Island, SC: A gated private barrier island near Beaufort with two full 18-hole courses (George Cobb's Ocean Point and Davis Love III/Paul Cowley's Ocean Creek) and a resort-residential hybrid membership structure limiting Full membership to island property owners. - [Secession Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/secession-golf-club/): An invitation-only, walking-only private golf club on Gibbes Island near Beaufort, opened in 1992 (Bruce Devlin/Derrell Witt design), with no residential development of any kind on or around the course; membership is capped around 750 with a current waiting list and an explicit rule barring members who live within 100 miles of the club. - [Cat Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/cat-island-club/): A private, non-gated country club on Cat Island within the city of Beaufort, on a 1985 George Cobb-designed (John LaFoy-completed) course; formerly known as Sanctuary Golf Club, it closed in 2019, changed hands twice amid a controversial membership-sales episode, and reopened as Cat Island Club under Resort Development Partners in May 2023. - [Congaree Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/congaree-golf-club/): Congaree Golf Club in Ridgeland: researched invitation only membership, residential communities and what buyers should verify. - [Dataw Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/dataw-island-club/): Dataw Island, SC: An 870-acre gated Sea Island community near Beaufort with two 18-hole courses (Tom Fazio's Cotton Dike and Arthur Hills's Morgan River); Club and Owners Association membership is mandatory for every property purchaser, with a currently published 2026 fee schedule. - [Spring Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/spring-island-club/): Okatie, SC: A private, 3,000-acre nature-preserve Sea Island community near Beaufort where property owners must join the club; roughly 1,200 acres are permanently protected preserve, and the Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay-designed Old Tabby Links course (1992, renovated 2012) anchors the highest initiation fee ($125K-$150K) found in this market. - [Brays Island Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/brays-island-plantation/): A rural, inland, hunting/equestrian/sporting-life gated plantation community near Sheldon, SC, permanently capped at 325 property owners; property ownership alone -- with no separate club to join -- grants full, automatic access to the Ron Garl-designed 18-hole golf course and all other sporting amenities. #### Golf Communities in Beaufort & the Sea Islands - [Callawassie Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/callawassie-island/): Okatie, SC: A private, 24-hour-secured gated island community between Beaufort and Bluffton, built around 27 holes of Tom Fazio golf across three nines, with mandatory equity Island Club membership for property owners since December 2001. - [Dataw Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/dataw-island/): Dataw Island, SC: An 870-acre gated Sea Island community near Beaufort with two 18-hole golf courses; Club and Owners Association membership is mandatory for every property purchaser, with a currently published fee schedule. - [Fripp Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/fripp-island/): Fripp Island, SC: A gated, private barrier island near Beaufort combining resort and year-round residential real estate with two full 18-hole golf courses; Full club membership is reserved for property owners but purchased separately from the home. - [Spring Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/spring-island/): Okatie, SC: A private, 3,000-acre nature-preserve Sea Island community near Beaufort where roughly 1,200 acres are permanently protected preserve; property ownership requires club membership, carrying the highest initiation fee identified in this market. - [Brays Island Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/beaufort-sea-islands/brays-island-plantation-community/): A rural, inland, hunting/equestrian/sporting-life gated plantation community near Sheldon, SC, permanently capped at 325 property owners, where ownership alone grants full access to golf and all other amenities with no separate club to join. ### Bluffton, SC - [Bluffton, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/): Bluffton is South Carolina's fastest-growing town (from roughly 12,900 residents in 2010 toward roughly 40,000 by the mid-2020s) and is marketed and priced as the more-affordable, more-land-available mainland alternative to Hilton Head Island. #### Golf Clubs in Bluffton - [Colleton River Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/colleton-river-club/): Member-owned private club on a low-density, 1,500-plus-acre private peninsula in Bluffton between the Colleton and Chechessee rivers, with Jack Nicklaus and Pete Dye 18-hole courses plus a Bruce Borland par-3 course, and a $125,000 capital contribution normally paid at closing. - [Belfair Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/belfair-club/): Bluffton, SC: Every home in the gated, 1,100-acre Belfair community includes a transferable Belfair Family Membership; two 36-hole Tom Fazio championship courses (West 1996, East 1999) sit at the center, with upgraded Full Golf/Sports/Social membership tiers layered on top for owners who want golf access. - [Berkeley Hall Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/berkeley-hall-club/): A 980-acre gated Bluffton community of 554 homesites, each bundled with a transferable equity family membership capped 1:1 to the homesite count, anchored by the world's only pair of Tom Fazio 'core' golf courses and Platinum Club of America recognition. - [Oldfield Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/oldfield-club/): A gated Okatie River community in Bluffton with a mandatory base club membership for all property owners and a separately capped (375) Equity Golf Membership for the Greg Norman-designed course; the club's fragmented web presence across several domains is confirmed to be one entity, distinct from an unrelated same-named Greg Norman course in Australia. - [Hampton Hall Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/hampton-hall-club/): A 944-property gated Bluffton community where every owner carries a mandatory $35,000 Social Membership, while golf on the 2004 Pete Dye Signature course requires a separate, capped (438) membership tier -- a textbook 'social bundled, golf layered' regional structure. - [Palmetto Bluff Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/palmetto-bluff-club/): A large Montage-branded resort/residential development in Bluffton with three private golf courses (May River, Crossroads, Anson Point); whether base club membership is mandatory for homeowners has been under active, unresolved litigation since at least 2022, while a separate optional Golf Club membership now runs as high as $300,000 (Tier I, effective May 2026). #### Golf Communities in Bluffton - [Colleton River Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/colleton-river-plantation/): A member-owned, gated golf community on a 1,500-plus-acre private peninsula in Bluffton, deliberately capped at roughly 705 homesites, anchored by Colleton River Club's Nicklaus, Dye, and Borland par-3 courses. - [Belfair](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/belfair-bluffton/): A gated, 1,100-acre golf community in Bluffton along the Colleton River with over 730 homesites, where every home includes a transferable Belfair Family Membership; two Tom Fazio championship courses total 36 holes. - [Berkeley Hall](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/berkeley-hall-bluffton/): A 980-acre gated golf community on the Okatie River in Bluffton with exactly 554 homesites, each bundled with a transferable equity family membership matched 1:1 to the club's membership cap. - [Hampton Hall](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/hampton-hall-bluffton/): A 944-property gated community in Bluffton where every owner is a mandatory Social Member, while golf on the 2004 Pete Dye Signature course requires a separate, capped (438) membership. - [Oldfield](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/oldfield-bluffton/): A gated, master-planned community on the Okatie River in Bluffton with mandatory base club membership for all property owners (covering tennis, pool, fitness, and equestrian amenities) and a separate, optional, capped Equity Golf Membership for the Greg Norman-designed course. - [Palmetto Bluff](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/bluffton/palmetto-bluff/): A large, Montage-branded resort and residential development in Bluffton with three private golf courses; the mandatory-vs-optional status of base club membership for homeowners is under active, unresolved litigation as of September 2026. ### Camden (Kershaw County), SC - [Camden (Kershaw County), SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/camden/): Camden is South Carolina's oldest inland municipality and the seat of Kershaw County, roughly 30 miles northeast of Columbia. #### Golf Clubs in Camden (Kershaw County) - [Camden Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/camden/camden-country-club/): Camden Country Club is an 18-hole private club (par 70, 6,455 yards, slope 139) in Camden, South Carolina, whose course began as the Kirkwood Links -- a 1922 Walter Travis 18-hole design -- and was redesigned by Donald Ross in 1939; it is currently under active restoration by Scot Sherman, ASGCA, and anchors Camden's identity as South Carolina's premier horse-country, equestrian-estate living market. #### Golf Communities in Camden (Kershaw County) - [Camden Country Club Area & Equestrian Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/camden/camden-country-club-area/): Rather than one purpose-built subdivision, this is a recognizable real-estate pattern in Camden, South Carolina: historic in-town homes and rural-acreage estates, including specifically marketed golf-frontage lots along Camden Country Club's fairways, layered onto the town's broader equestrian-estate identity. ### Rock Hill / Fort Mill (York County Corridor), SC - [Rock Hill / Fort Mill (York County Corridor), SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/rock-hill-fort-mill/): The Rock Hill/Fort Mill corridor is the York County (plus Lancaster County's Indian Land panhandle) side of the Charlotte metro area, immediately across the state line from North Carolina. #### Golf Clubs in Rock Hill / Fort Mill (York County Corridor) - [River Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/rock-hill-fort-mill/river-hills-country-club/): River Hills Country Club, a Willard Byrd-designed 18-hole course, is the central amenity of River Hills Plantation, a gated, 24-hour-security lakeside community on Lake Wylie about 20 minutes from Charlotte. - [Sun City Carolina Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/rock-hill-fort-mill/sun-city-carolina-lakes/): Sun City Carolina Lakes is a Del Webb 55+ active-adult community of 3,100+ homes in Indian Land, South Carolina (Lancaster County), built around an 18-hole golf club (Tim Freeland design) with resident-preferred tee times and discounted memberships. - [Tega Cay Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/rock-hill-fort-mill/tega-cay-golf-club/): Tega Cay Golf Club is a 27-hole, semi-private facility on 200+ acres around Lake Wylie, embedded in the Tega Cay Peninsula residential development, with real membership tiers but no gate and apparent public/outside play. - [Rock Hill Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/rock-hill-fort-mill/rock-hill-country-club/): Rock Hill Country Club is a private, sponsorship-required club founded in 1934 in York County's largest city, with a front nine by A.W. Tillinghast and a 1949 back nine by Arthur Hamm, and 400+ members. #### Golf Communities in Rock Hill / Fort Mill (York County Corridor) - [River Hills Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/rock-hill-fort-mill/river-hills-plantation/): River Hills Plantation is a gated, 24-hour-security lakeside community on Lake Wylie, established in the early 1970s, built around River Hills Country Club with a marina, tennis, and pools, roughly 20 minutes from Charlotte. - [Tega Cay Peninsula](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/rock-hill-fort-mill/tega-cay-peninsula/): Tega Cay Peninsula is the residential development built around Tega Cay Golf Club's 27 holes on Lake Wylie, with a marina, parks, tennis, and walking trails; unlike River Hills Plantation, it is not gated. - [Sun City Carolina Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/rock-hill-fort-mill/sun-city-carolina-lakes-community/): A Del Webb 55+ master-planned community of 3,100+ homes on 1,512 acres along the Catawba River in Indian Land, South Carolina (Lancaster County), built around its own 18-hole golf club. ### Charleston Metro, SC - [Charleston Metro, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/): The Charleston Metro market is the broadest and most historically layered golf-living landscape researched so far in South Carolina, spanning six distinct pockets under one metro identity: the historic Charleston peninsula and James Island, West Ashley, North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Isle of Palms, and Daniel Island. #### Golf Clubs in Charleston Metro - [Country Club of Charleston](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/country-club-of-charleston/): A Seth Raynor-designed private club on James Island dating to 1900 (with golf activity in Charleston traced to 1786), host of the 2019 U.S. Women's Open, widely regarded as the flagship historic private club of the Charleston Metro market. - [Yeamans Hall Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/yeamans-hall-club/): A 1925 Seth Raynor-designed private club on an 1,100-acre tract in Hanahan (Berkeley County), one of the most exclusive historic clubs in South Carolina, with 35 on-site proprietary-member cottages directly integrating club and housing. - [Snee Farm Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/snee-farm-country-club/): A private, George Cobb-designed club on 200+ acres in Mount Pleasant, part of the ClubCorp/Invited network of 200+ clubs, anchoring the Snee Farm residential community. - [RiverTowne Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/rivertowne-country-club/): The only Arnold Palmer Signature golf course in the Charleston Metro area, a semi-private club in Mount Pleasant explicitly not bundled with home purchase in the surrounding RiverTowne neighborhood. - [Dunes West Golf & River Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/dunes-west-golf-river-club/): An award-winning Arthur Hills-designed semi-private club in Mount Pleasant offering optional resident memberships to owners across five named neighborhoods within the 2,500+-acre Dunes West master-planned community. - [Bulls Bay Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/bulls-bay-golf-club/): A Mike Strantz-designed (2002) private club in Awendaw with a fully closed membership and significant waitlist, widely cited among Charleston's most exclusive courses. - [Daniel Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/daniel-island-club/): A two-course private club (Beresford Creek, Tom Fazio, 2000; Ralston Creek, Rees Jones, 2006) where Daniel Island Park property owners automatically receive a minimum Social Membership and can hold a permanent, transferable Golf Membership -- one of the Charleston Metro market's clearest bundled-golf residential cases. - [Coosaw Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/coosaw-creek-country-club/): A private Arthur Hills-designed course in North Charleston anchoring a roughly 500-600-home community where club/HOA membership is mandatory at closing -- a genuine bundled-golf residential case. - [Wild Dunes Resort Golf (Links Course & Harbor Course)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/wild-dunes-resort-golf/): Two Tom Fazio-designed courses (Links, 1980, his first solo design; Harbor, 1985) anchoring the Wild Dunes resort/residential community on the Isle of Palms; 'The Club at Wild Dunes' is the resort's own branded membership program, not a separate private club. #### Golf Communities in Charleston Metro - [Country Club (James Island)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/country-club-james-island/): An established, informally named residential pocket on James Island built up around the Country Club of Charleston, distinct from a single-developer master-planned community. - [Snee Farm](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/snee-farm/): An established Mount Pleasant neighborhood built around and named for the private Snee Farm Country Club. - [RiverTowne](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/rivertowne/): A Mount Pleasant neighborhood built around RiverTowne Country Club, the only Arnold Palmer-designed course in the Charleston Metro area; club membership is explicitly NOT included with home purchase. - [Dunes West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/dunes-west/): A 2,500+-acre master-planned Mount Pleasant community whose golf-club resident-membership eligibility uniquely extends across five named neighborhoods -- Dunes West, Palmetto Hall, Cypress Point, Ellington Woods, and The Heritage. - [Wild Dunes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/wild-dunes/): A 1,600-acre gated resort/residential community at the northeastern tip of the Isle of Palms, combining oceanfront condos, beach cottages, golf villas, and luxury homes around two Tom Fazio golf courses. - [Daniel Island Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/daniel-island-park/): Charleston (Daniel Island), SC: The specific gated-feel neighborhood within Daniel Island carrying Daniel Island Club membership eligibility -- distinct from the broader, largely non-golf-linked Daniel Island community. - [Yeamans Hall](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/yeamans-hall/): A roughly 1,100-acre historic enclave in Hanahan (Berkeley County) built directly around Yeamans Hall Club, including 35 on-site proprietary-member cottages -- club and community share essentially the same footprint. - [Coosaw Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/charleston-metro/coosaw-creek/): A roughly 500-600-home community in North Charleston where club membership is a mandatory condition of homeownership, anchored by the private Coosaw Creek Country Club. ### Columbia / Midlands, SC - [Columbia / Midlands, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/): Columbia, South Carolina's capital, anchors a contiguous golf market spanning the city proper and its close-in club suburbs: Blythewood and Elgin to the north/northeast, the town of Lexington to the southwest, and the Lake Murray/Chapin area (roughly 25-30 minutes from downtown) to the west. #### Golf Clubs in Columbia / Midlands - [Forest Lake Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/forest-lake-club/): Founded in 1923, Forest Lake Club is a roughly 1,140-member private club in Columbia widely described as the premier country club in the Midlands, with a 44,000 sq ft clubhouse and a real, though third-party-reported, membership fee barrier. - [The WildeWood Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/the-wildewood-club/): A private, member-owned club in Columbia's Wildewood neighborhood (Russell Breeden design, opened 1976) that operates as one legal entity with its sister club in Elgin, Woodcreek Farms Country Club, since the membership purchased both in 2009. - [Columbia Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/columbia-country-club/): Founded in 1904, Columbia Country Club is a private, member-owned club with 27 holes (three Ellis Maples-designed nines) physically located in Blythewood, SC -- not the City of Columbia despite its name -- and was named South Carolina's 2020 Club of the Year. - [Woodcreek Farms Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/woodcreek-farms-country-club/): Built in 1997 (Tom Fazio/Beau Welling design) at the center of the 2,300-acre Woodcreek Farms community in Elgin, this member-owned club has operated as one legal entity with its sister club, The WildeWood Club in Columbia, since a 2009 member buyout. - [Spring Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/spring-valley-country-club/): A private, member-owned club on 150 acres in Columbia, built in 1960 (George Cobb) and renovated in 1999 (John LaFoy), offering golf, tennis, and aquatics. - [Cobblestone Park Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/cobblestone-park-golf-club/): A 27-hole, P.B. Dye-designed course in Blythewood (USC Gamecocks' home venue) that went public under D.R. Horton ownership before being acquired by McConnell Golf in March 2025 and rebranded 'Cobblestone Golf Club' -- restoring a genuine private-club membership barrier as of this session. - [Country Club of Lexington](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/country-club-of-lexington/): A private club in the town of Lexington with an 18-hole course, golf learning center, Olympic pool, and tennis center, marketed as relatively affordable among Midlands private clubs. - [Golden Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/golden-hills-country-club/): An 18-hole, Ron Garl-designed (1988) semi-private course anchoring Golden Hills, a real 300+ acre, 285-home gated golf-course community in Lexington (homes $545K-$1.199M), with a genuine membership program (initiation $4,000-$7,500 depending on tier) alongside public green-fee play. - [Timberlake Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/timberlake-country-club/): Chapin, SC: Open since 1988 (Willard C. Byrd design), Timberlake Country Club is explicitly billed by Lake Murray's own tourism organization as the only golf course on the lake, trailing along the shoreline through its namesake Timberlake Plantation community with real equity-membership tiers and free boat-in marina access. #### Golf Communities in Columbia / Midlands - [Wildewood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/wildewood/): Wildewood is an established, non-gated neighborhood in Columbia built up around The WildeWood Club, a private golf and racquet club that does not require neighborhood homeownership to join. - [Woodcreek Farms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/woodcreek-farms/): A 2,300-acre country-club residential community in Elgin with roughly 400 homes built since 1997, organized around Woodcreek Farms Country Club, a member-owned club purchased by its membership in 2009. - [Cobblestone Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/cobblestone-park/): A mass-market residential community in Blythewood built by D.R. Horton since 2013 around the 27-hole Cobblestone Park Golf Club, explicitly marketed as a 'lifestyle-driven golf community.' - [Timberlake Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/timberlake-plantation/): A Lake Murray residential community in Chapin, named after and organized around Timberlake Country Club -- the only golf course on Lake Murray -- with free boat-in marina access to the club for residents. - [WhiteWater Landing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/whitewater-landing/): Chapin, SC: A new lakefront community adjacent to Timberlake's golf course on Lake Murray, marketed around 'lakeshore lifestyle' with water-view, golf-course, and interior homesite categories -- golf is one lot-type option, not the community's organizing identity. - [Stewart Landing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/columbia-midlands/stewart-landing/): Chapin, SC: A 'golf cart-friendly' planned lakeshore community near Lake Murray; this term refers to cart-legal neighborhood streets, not an on-site golf course -- no actual golf course tied to this community was found by either the discovery pass or this session. ### Hilton Head Island, SC - [Hilton Head Island, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/): Hilton Head Island is South Carolina's most nationally recognized golf destination, and its golf-residential landscape is genuinely varied rather than following a single template. #### Golf Clubs in Hilton Head Island - [Harbour Town Golf Links](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/harbour-town-golf-links/): Hilton Head Island, SC: Home of the RBC Heritage since 1969 (South Carolina's only PGA Tour event), Harbour Town Golf Links is a Pete Dye design (with Jack Nicklaus input) owned and operated by Sea Pines Resort inside Sea Pines Plantation, distinct from the separate, fully private Sea Pines Country Club. - [Atlantic Dunes by Davis Love III](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/atlantic-dunes-sea-pines/): A complete Davis Love III reconstruction of Sea Pines' historic Ocean Course -- Hilton Head Island's first golf course -- operated by Sea Pines Resort with resort-guest and property-owner-package access; an NGCOA National Course of the Year honoree. - [Heron Point by Pete Dye](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/heron-point-sea-pines/): Hilton Head Island, SC: A Pete Dye redesign of Sea Pines' former Sea Marsh course, playing out of the 23,000 sq ft Plantation Golf Club clubhouse it shares with Atlantic Dunes (which includes Fraser's Tavern dining); part of the resort-owned golf trio (with Harbour Town) that anchors Sea Pines Plantation's golf identity, separate from the independent Sea Pines Country Club. - [Sea Pines Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/sea-pines-country-club/): Hilton Head Island, SC: The only fully private, invitation-only golf club inside Sea Pines Plantation -- entity-distinct from the three resort-owned Sea Pines courses (Harbour Town, Atlantic Dunes, Heron Point) -- built on an Arnold Palmer design updated by Clyde Johnston in 2001. - [Country Club of Hilton Head](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/country-club-of-hilton-head/): Hilton Head Island, SC: A Rees Jones-designed private club inside the gated Hilton Head Plantation community, one of four distinct golf clubs there, operated by Invited (ClubCorp) with a tiered, optional membership structure. - [Bear Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/bear-creek-golf-club-hhi/): Hilton Head Island, SC: A Rees Jones-designed club (his first course design; founded 1980) inside Hilton Head Plantation, positioned as a strictly golf-focused, member-owned club capped at roughly 250 members -- more golf-focused (less full-amenity) than its plantation sister clubs -- with a real membership program including dining and a full practice facility. - [Oyster Reef Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/oyster-reef-golf-club/): Hilton Head Island, SC: A Rees Jones design (1982) inside Hilton Head Plantation, ranked a Top 25 New Course in America at opening and a consistent Top 20 Carolinas course since; commercially operated by Heritage Golf Group as part of its Hilton Head Collection with Shipyard and Port Royal. - [Dolphin Head Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/dolphin-head-golf-club/): Hilton Head Island, SC: Hilton Head Plantation's first golf course (1974), a Gary Player design -- his first in the Hilton Head area -- now operated by GreatLIFE Golf Management / Brown Golf as the 'Premier' brand within their portfolio: a semi-private, daily-fee-accessible public course with optional Single Golf ($3,500 initiation + $2,950/yr) and Family Golf ($3,500 initiation + $4,853/yr) membership tiers. - [Long Cove Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/long-cove-club/): A single-purpose golf and yacht community on Hilton Head Island where club membership is automatic and mandatory with every property purchase; Pete Dye's 1981 design is ranked #24 in Golfweek's Top 200 Residential Golf Courses nationally and #8 among Golfweek's Best Private Courses in South Carolina (2026). - [Wexford Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/wexford-club/): Hilton Head Island, SC: An Arnold Palmer Signature course anchoring the gated Wexford Plantation, where club membership is reserved for and bundled with property ownership -- a one-time initiation fee (no interview/screening), capped under 500 member families, paired with a 37-acre inland deepwater marina. - [Palmetto Hall Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/palmetto-hall-golf-country-club/): Hilton Head Island, SC: 36 holes (Arthur Hills and Robert Cupp designs) at the gated Palmetto Hall Plantation, operated by Heritage Golf Group since 2022, with flexible, optional golf or social membership tiers layered on top of (but not required for) homeownership. - [Port Royal Golf & Racquet Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/port-royal-golf-racquet-club/): Hilton Head Island, SC: Three 18-hole courses -- Barony (1963, one of Hilton Head's oldest), Planter's Row, and Robber's Row (Pete Dye 1994 redesign) -- inside the gated, residential-only Port Royal Plantation; operates as a semi-private club with real optional membership tiers and public play. - [Shipyard Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/shipyard-golf-club/): 27 holes across three distinct 9-hole courses (Clipper, Galleon, Brigantine) inside the gated Shipyard Plantation, one of Hilton Head Island's oldest clubs, operated by Heritage Golf Group with optional membership reciprocal across its Hilton Head Collection. - [Moss Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/moss-creek-golf-club/): Two George and Tom Fazio-designed courses (Devil's Elbow North/South, 1974/1976) at a gated boating/golf/equestrian community straddling the Bluffton-Hilton Head Island border; property owners pay a one-time $45,000 Membership Certificate Fee, a distinct and less standard structure than an open-application club. - [Palmetto Dunes Golf Courses](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/palmetto-dunes-golf-courses/): Hilton Head Island, SC: Three championship courses -- Robert Trent Jones Oceanfront, George Fazio, and Arthur Hills -- at the large oceanfront Palmetto Dunes resort/residential community, open to public daily-fee play with no membership requirement; the Fazio course is ranked among America's top 100 and is the island's only public par-70. - [Sun City Hilton Head Golf Courses](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/sun-city-hilton-head-golf-courses/): Bluffton, SC: Three 18-hole courses -- Argent Lakes (executive), Okatie Creek, and Hidden Cypress (Mark McCumber design) -- at Sun City Hilton Head, a large, age-restricted (55+) Del Webb community; a fundamentally different market segment from the island's prestige plantation clubs, built around lifestyle and affordability for active retirees. - [Haig Point Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/haig-point-club/): A private, member-owned/member-operated club on ferry-only Daufuskie Island, built around a 29-hole Rees Jones/Greg Muirhead design (a 20-hole Signature course plus a 9-hole Osprey course) ranked among America's Top 100 courses, with a confirmed current $65,000 club initiation fee. #### Golf Communities in Hilton Head Island - [Hilton Head Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/hilton-head-plantation/): A nearly 4,000-acre gated community on the north end of Hilton Head Island with roughly 4,200 homes and four independently operated golf clubs (Country Club of Hilton Head, Bear Creek, Oyster Reef, Dolphin Head), plus Skull Creek Marina. - [Palmetto Hall Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/palmetto-hall-plantation/): Hilton Head Island, SC: A gated community built around 36 holes of golf (Arthur Hills and Robert Cupp designs), where homeowners may choose golf membership, social membership, or no club membership at all. - [Port Royal Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/port-royal-plantation/): A fully gated, residential-only community (no short-term rentals) on Hilton Head Island's northwestern Atlantic-facing point, home to the three-course Port Royal Golf & Racquet Club. - [Sea Pines Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/sea-pines-plantation/): Sea Pines Plantation is Hilton Head Island's most nationally recognized golf-residential community, home to the RBC Heritage host course Harbour Town Golf Links plus two other resort-owned courses (Atlantic Dunes, Heron Point) and the separate, fully private Sea Pines Country Club. - [Long Cove](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/long-cove/): Hilton Head Island, SC: A single-purpose golf-and-yacht community where club membership (Pete Dye course, 85-slip marina, Yacht Club, tennis/pickleball, pool) is automatic and mandatory with every property purchase. - [Wexford Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/wexford-plantation/): Hilton Head Island, SC: A boating, golf, and tennis community built around an Arnold Palmer Signature course and a 37-acre inland deepwater harbor; club membership is reserved for and bundled with property ownership, capped under 500 member families. - [Shipyard Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/shipyard-plantation/): A gated, resort-style community on Hilton Head Island's south end mixing full-time homes, villas, and vacation rentals around the 27-hole Shipyard Golf Club. - [Moss Creek Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/moss-creek-plantation/): A gated boating, golf, and equestrian community straddling the Bluffton-Hilton Head Island border, built around two Fazio-designed courses; local real-estate commentary itself flags the fee structure here as confusing and worth extra buyer scrutiny. - [Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/palmetto-dunes-resort-community/): Hilton Head Island, SC: A large oceanfront resort and residential community with three public, no-membership championship golf courses, managed by the Palmetto Dunes Property Owners Association. - [Sun City Hilton Head](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/sun-city-hilton-head-community/): A large (14,000+ resident), age-restricted 55+ Del Webb community with three golf courses, physically located in the Bluffton/Okatie area despite its 'Hilton Head' name. - [Haig Point](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/hilton-head-island/haig-point/): A private, ferry-access-only golf and residential community on Daufuskie Island, built around the member-owned/member-operated Haig Point Club and its 29-hole Rees Jones/Greg Muirhead golf design. ### Kiawah Island, SC - [Kiawah Island, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/kiawah-island/): Kiawah Island, in Charleston County roughly 25 miles south of downtown Charleston, is a barrier island built almost entirely around golf and beach real estate. #### Golf Clubs in Kiawah Island - [Kiawah Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/kiawah-island/kiawah-island-club/): Kiawah Island Club is the island's private, member-access club, owning exactly two courses -- Cassique (Tom Watson, 2000) and the River Course (Tom Fazio, 1995) -- with mandatory membership tied to purchase in the Cassique and Settlement neighborhoods and reported 2026 initiation fees from $120,000 to $185,000. - [The Ocean Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/kiawah-island/the-ocean-course-kiawah/): The Ocean Course is Kiawah Island Golf Resort's Pete Dye-designed marquee course, host of the 1991 Ryder Cup, the 2012 and 2021 PGA Championships, and named host of the 2031 PGA Championship -- public/resort-access, not a membership club, and not part of Kiawah Island Club. #### Golf Communities in Kiawah Island - [Cassique](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/kiawah-island/cassique-kiawah/): Cassique is Kiawah Island Club's flagship neighborhood, home to the Tom Watson-designed Cassique golf course and the Sports Pavilion, with mandatory Kiawah Island Club membership tied to every property. - [The Settlement](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/kiawah-island/the-settlement-kiawah/): The Settlement is a small, ultra-exclusive gated enclave (listed on the National Register of Historic Places) within Vanderhorst Plantation, backing onto the Kiawah River, where Kiawah Island Club membership is mandatory for every property. - [Vanderhorst Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/kiawah-island/vanderhorst-plantation-kiawah/): Vanderhorst Plantation in Kiawah Island: researched golf access, housing and costs, and what buyers should independently verify before purchasing. ### Myrtle Beach / North Myrtle Beach / Grand Strand, SC - [Myrtle Beach / North Myrtle Beach / Grand Strand, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/myrtle-beach-grand-strand/): The Myrtle Beach / North Myrtle Beach / Grand Strand core (Horry County, plus a boundary sliver of Georgetown County at Murrells Inlet/Prince Creek) is, by course count, the largest golf market this platform has researched anywhere -- well over 100 golf courses along a roughly 60-mile stretch of coastline. #### Golf Clubs in Myrtle Beach / North Myrtle Beach / Grand Strand - [Grande Dunes Members Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/myrtle-beach-grand-strand/grande-dunes-members-club/): Marketed and treated across the golf press as Myrtle Beach's only exclusive private golf club: a Craig Schreiner design with Nick Price's input (2005), now operated by Heritage Golf Group, that deliberately eliminated public/packager play to remain a genuine members-only club inside the large Grande Dunes master-planned development. - [Grande Dunes Ocean Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/myrtle-beach-grand-strand/grande-dunes-ocean-club/): A private oceanfront beach club at Grande Dunes offering a large pool, private beach access, and dining; Grande Dunes homeowners receive a complimentary household membership automatically as part of community ownership, the strongest homeowner-to-private-amenity bundle found in the Myrtle Beach core market. - [TPC Myrtle Beach](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/myrtle-beach-grand-strand/tpc-myrtle-beach/): The only TPC-branded course in South Carolina (Tom Fazio, 1999), 5-star rated by Golf Digest, with a genuine current membership waiting list; anchors the Prince Creek master-planned community in Murrells Inlet, with Champions Village bordering the course directly. - [Barefoot Resort & Golf (Members Club)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/myrtle-beach-grand-strand/barefoot-resort-golf/): North Myrtle Beach, SC: Barefoot Resort's four daily-fee trail courses (Norman, Love, Fazio, Dye) are ordinary public golf on their face, but a separate members-only program carries genuine eligibility restricted to owners in specific named developments -- Centex/Pulte Homes-built sections, North Towers/Yacht Club Villas, The Retreat, and North Beach Plantation -- making this a narrow but real residential-bundled membership case. - [The Dunes Golf and Beach Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/myrtle-beach-grand-strand/the-dunes-golf-and-beach-club/): A member-owned private club (800+ members) since 1948, Robert Trent Jones Sr.'s original design and the course that helped launch his career; a real fee schedule (roughly $25K-$50K initiation, $5K-$10K dues per third-party estimate) and, since May 2024, host of the PGA Tour's ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic. #### Golf Communities in Myrtle Beach / North Myrtle Beach / Grand Strand - [Grande Dunes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/myrtle-beach-grand-strand/grande-dunes/): A roughly 2,200-2,700-acre gated, master-planned luxury community along the Intracoastal Waterway in Myrtle Beach, home to a private golf club, a separate public golf course, a private beach club with automatic homeowner access, a marina, and a tennis facility. - [Barefoot Resort - Member-Eligible Developments (The Retreat, North Towers/Yacht Club Villas, Centex/Pulte Sections, North Beach Plantation)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/myrtle-beach-grand-strand/barefoot-resort-eligible-developments/): North Myrtle Beach, SC: The specific, named subset of Barefoot Resort developments -- Centex/Pulte-built sections, North Towers/Yacht Club Villas, The Retreat, and the separate North Beach Plantation project -- whose owners are eligible to enroll in Barefoot's members-only golf/social program; the bulk of Barefoot Resort's broader footprint is NOT eligible. - [Prince Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/myrtle-beach-grand-strand/prince-creek/): A roughly 2,800-3,000-acre master-planned community in Murrells Inlet built around TPC Myrtle Beach -- South Carolina's only TPC Network golf course -- with 15+ neighborhoods including several gated sections and Champions Village, which borders the course directly. ### Pawleys Island / Georgetown County, SC - [Pawleys Island / Georgetown County, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/pawleys-island-georgetown/): Pawleys Island and Georgetown County -- marketed regionally as South Carolina's 'Hammock Coast' -- sit immediately south of the Myrtle Beach/Grand Strand tourism core, and the contrast between the two markets is sharp and deliberate. #### Golf Clubs in Pawleys Island / Georgetown County - [DeBordieu Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/pawleys-island-georgetown/debordieu-club/): Golf, tennis, and beach club with membership exclusively available to property owners of DeBordieu Colony, a ~2,700-acre gated community near Georgetown, built around a Pete & P.B. Dye championship course and a 30,000-sq-ft Georgian-style clubhouse. - [Wachesaw Plantation Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/pawleys-island-georgetown/wachesaw-plantation-club/): Private, member-owned country club since 1985 on a Tom Fazio-designed course, sharing its name and gated grounds with the surrounding Wachesaw Plantation residential community in Murrells Inlet; membership carries a genuine equity fee but is not mandatory for homeowners. - [The Reserve Golf Club at Litchfield](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/pawleys-island-georgetown/the-reserve-golf-club-at-litchfield/): Pawleys Island, SC: Private, McConnell Golf-owned club on a Greg Norman-designed course, built as the defining amenity of The Reserve at Litchfield, a 700-acre gated community of 400+ residences within the larger Litchfield by the Sea development on the Waccamaw River/Intracoastal Waterway. #### Golf Communities in Pawleys Island / Georgetown County - [DeBordieu Colony](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/pawleys-island-georgetown/debordieu-colony/): A roughly 2,700-acre private, gated oceanfront community near Georgetown with 24-hour manned security, built around DeBordieu Club, whose four-tier membership is exclusively available to Colony property owners. - [Wachesaw Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/pawleys-island-georgetown/wachesaw-plantation/): A 24-hour gated residential community in Murrells Inlet built around Wachesaw Plantation Club's Tom Fazio golf course; club membership is optional but the club is the community's central private amenity. - [The Reserve at Litchfield](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/pawleys-island-georgetown/the-reserve-at-litchfield/): A 700-acre gated community of 400+ residences on the Waccamaw River in Pawleys Island, built directly around the private Reserve Golf Club (Greg Norman design) and part of the larger Litchfield by the Sea development. ### Florence / Pee Dee, SC - [Florence / Pee Dee, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/florence-pee-dee/): Florence is the commercial hub of South Carolina's Pee Dee region, sitting at the crossroads of I-95 and I-20 roughly 70 miles east of Columbia. #### Golf Clubs in Florence / Pee Dee - [Florence Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/florence-pee-dee/florence-country-club/): Florence Country Club is a private, Donald Ross-designed club that opened in 1924 and hosted the 1955 U.S. Girls' Junior Championship and the 1963 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, giving it genuine USGA competitive pedigree for a small Pee Dee-region market. - [Country Club of South Carolina](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/florence-pee-dee/country-club-of-south-carolina/): Country Club of South Carolina is a private, 18-hole club in Florence redesigned by Ellis Maples in 1963, with a confirmed $950 initiation fee and $150/month dues, and a history of hosting the SC Amateur Championship three times and the SC Golf Classic tour event from 1991-2000. ### Sumter, SC - [Sumter, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/sumter/): Sumter, seat of Sumter County in South Carolina's Midlands region roughly 45 minutes east of Columbia, is a genuinely small golf-living market carried by two distinct and unusual anchors rather than a broad roster of interchangeable country clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Sumter - [Quixote Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/sumter/quixote-club/): Quixote Club is a members-only private club in Sumter -- a $13 million, Kris Spence/Jack Nicklaus II redesign of the historic Sunset Country Club that reopened in 2020 -- with current initiation fees reported at $75,000 (local) / $60,000 (national), half of which funds Liberty STEAM Charter School through the nonprofit Quixote Foundation. ### Orangeburg, SC - [Orangeburg, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/orangeburg/): Orangeburg, seat of Orangeburg County along the I-26 corridor roughly 40 minutes south of Columbia, is a genuinely small, single-anchor golf-living market. #### Golf Clubs in Orangeburg - [Orangeburg Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/orangeburg/orangeburg-country-club/): Orangeburg Country Club is a private, 18-hole club (roughly 7,032 yards) designed by Ellis Maples in 1961 and renovated by Richard Mandell in 2009, ranked #45 overall / #5 in the Midlands region on the SC Golf Ratings Panel's top-50 list. ### Greenwood, SC - [Greenwood, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenwood/): Greenwood, seat of Greenwood County near Lake Greenwood in South Carolina's Lakelands region roughly an hour southeast of Greenville, is a genuinely small, single-anchor golf-living market. #### Golf Clubs in Greenwood - [Greenwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenwood/greenwood-country-club/): Greenwood Country Club, founded in 1927, is sourced as the only private country club in Greenwood, SC, with a George Cobb-designed course (1950) organized into Lake and Cedar nines. ### Newberry, SC - [Newberry, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/newberry/): Newberry, seat of Newberry County in South Carolina's Midlands region roughly 40 minutes northwest of Columbia, is this batch's thinnest market -- a single, honest anchor rather than a padded list. #### Golf Clubs in Newberry - [Country Club of Newberry](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/newberry/country-club-of-newberry/): Country Club of Newberry, founded in 1922, is a semi-private club whose own Membership page requires sponsorship by a current member or the membership committee -- a genuine access barrier -- with an 18-hole, par-72 Bill Brazell-designed course (original nine from 1922, back nine completed 1976). ### Seabrook Island (with Johns Island), SC - [Seabrook Island (with Johns Island), SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/seabrook-island/): Seabrook Island and Johns Island sit immediately south and inland of Kiawah Island on Charleston's coast, and together they offer a genuinely thin but genuinely high-quality golf-residential market: exactly two qualifying anchors, each with real, well-documented barriers to entry, and a real honesty gap between them worth stating plainly. #### Golf Clubs in Seabrook Island (with Johns Island) - [The Golf Club at Briar's Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/seabrook-island/golf-club-at-briars-creek/): The Golf Club at Briar's Creek is a totally private, invitation-only Rees Jones design (opened 2001/2002) capped at 300 members with no tee times, set inside a roughly 800-900-acre gated, low-density community along the Kiawah River on Johns Island; membership is highly encouraged but not mandatory for the community's homeowners. - [Seabrook Island Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/seabrook-island/seabrook-island-club/): Seabrook Island Club is the single private-club entity behind both of Seabrook Island's golf courses -- Ocean Winds (Willard Byrd, 1973) and Crooked Oaks (Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1981, later renovated by Rees Jones) -- plus tennis/pickleball, an equestrian center, a beach club, marina, fitness and dining, all behind a single SIPOA-controlled security gate on this barrier-island community south of Charleston. #### Golf Communities in Seabrook Island (with Johns Island) - [Briar's Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/seabrook-island/briars-creek-community/): Briar's Creek is a deliberately low-density, gated golf community on Johns Island built around the invitation-only Golf Club at Briar's Creek, with large custom estate homes on a roughly 800-900-acre wooded/lakefront tract along the Kiawah River. - [Seabrook Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/seabrook-island/seabrook-island-community/): Seabrook Island is a gated, roughly 2,200-plus-acre barrier-island community south of Charleston, governed by SIPOA and organized around the single Seabrook Island Club (36 holes of golf, tennis, equestrian, marina, beach club); home types span single-family houses to villas and condos, and prices/fee structures vary meaningfully by property type and neighborhood regime. ### Greenville, SC - [Greenville, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenville/): Greenville, South Carolina anchors the core of the Upstate's golf-living market, spanning a historic in-town private club scene, several suburban residential-integrated clubs, and one notable public destination course. #### Golf Clubs in Greenville - [Thornblade Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenville/thornblade-club/): Private club in Greer founded in 1988 by Jay Haas and Champ Covington, built around a Tom Fazio course, and the 15-year home of the Korn Ferry Tour's BMW Charity Pro-Am. - [Green Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenville/green-valley-country-club-sc/): Private club founded in 1958 on the north side of Greenville, built around a George Cobb-designed course in the Reedy River Valley, with named family-oriented membership categories. - [Holly Tree Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenville/holly-tree-country-club/): Private, member-owned club opened in 1973 and located inside the Holly Tree subdivision in Simpsonville, built around a George Cobb-designed 18-hole course that hosted the 2012 Carolinas Mid-Amateur. - [Pebble Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenville/pebble-creek-golf-club-taylors/): A 27-hole, ~500-acre facility in Taylors (private Linkside + public Creekside courses) anchoring a large multi-subdivision residential cluster in Greenville's northern suburbs -- the clearest golf-anchors-a-neighborhood-cluster pattern identified in the Greenville market. - [The Preserve at Verdae](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenville/the-preserve-at-verdae/): A public, resort-operated course (Embassy Suites Greenville Golf Resort) that hosted the PGA Tour's Nationwide/Korn Ferry Tour 'Greater Greenville Classic' from 1992-2000; not residentially bundled and not the same entity as the separate, much larger Verdae mixed-use development nearby. - [Greenville Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenville/greenville-country-club-sc/): Founded in 1895 (as Sans Souci Country Club), Greenville Country Club is an invitation-only, 36-hole private club (Chanticleer + Riverside courses) that hosted the 1973 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship -- one of the Upstate's flagship historic clubs. #### Golf Communities in Greenville - [Thornblade](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenville/thornblade-community/): A luxury residential community in Greer built around Thornblade Club; whether homeownership includes or requires club membership was not confirmed this session. - [Chanticleer (Greenville neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenville/chanticleer-neighborhood-greenville/): A prestigious in-town Greenville neighborhood that shares its name with, and sits adjacent to, Greenville Country Club's flagship Chanticleer course, but is not a formally bundled club-membership community. - [Holly Tree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenville/holly-tree-subdivision/): The subdivision in Simpsonville that Holly Tree Country Club is explicitly sited within. - [Pebble Creek & affiliated subdivisions](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/greenville/pebble-creek-cluster/): A cluster of at least nine named subdivisions in Taylors built around and near Pebble Creek Golf Club -- the largest, most clearly golf-anchored residential cluster identified in the Greenville market. ### Spartanburg, SC - [Spartanburg, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/spartanburg/): Research Spartanburg, South Carolina golf clubs and communities, including membership access and residential bundling. #### Golf Clubs in Spartanburg - [River Falls Plantation Golf](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/spartanburg/river-falls-plantation-golf/): A Gary Player Signature course (1990) at the center of River Falls Plantation, a ~300-lot residential community in Duncan, Spartanburg County, on the Greenville-Spartanburg I-85 corridor. - [The Carolina Country Club, Spartanburg, SC](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/spartanburg/the-carolina-country-club-spartanburg-sc/): The Carolina Country Club, Spartanburg, SC in Spartanburg: researched non equity membership, residential communities and what buyers should verify. - [The Country Club of Spartanburg](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/spartanburg/the-country-club-of-spartanburg/): Private club founded in 1908 in Spartanburg with a Donald Ross-designed course, offering championship golf, racquet sports, and aquatics -- a historic freestanding club with no residential-bundling signal found. - [Links O'Tryon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/spartanburg/links-otryon/): A small (~130-resident), genuinely golf-anchored semi-private neighborhood in Campobello, far-northern Spartanburg County near the NC line, built around a 1987 Tom Jackson course once named among the top courses in America. #### Golf Communities in Spartanburg - [River Falls Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/spartanburg/river-falls-plantation-community/): A ~300-lot residential community in Duncan, Spartanburg County, built around the Gary Player Signature River Falls Plantation golf course, bordered by the South Tyger River. - [Carolina Country Club Real Estate Owners Association area](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/spartanburg/carolina-country-club-real-estate-spartanburg/): A residential footprint implied by the existence of the formally incorporated 'Carolina Country Club Real Estate Owners Association' (CCCREOA) around The Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg; the association's exact scope was not confirmed this session. - [Links O'Tryon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/spartanburg/links-otryon-community/): A small (~130-resident), genuinely golf-anchored neighborhood in Campobello, far-northern Spartanburg County, built around the semi-private Links O'Tryon course. ### Cliffs Mountain Region, SC - [Cliffs Mountain Region, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-mountain-region/): US Golf Living has researched golf anchors in the Cliffs Mountain Region, a distinct Blue Ridge-foothills submarket in northern Greenville County, SC comprising three private, gated communities in The Cliffs' reciprocal Carolinas membership network: The Cliffs at Glassy (Landrum), The Cliffs Valley (Travelers Rest), and The Cliffs at Mountain Park (Travelers Rest). #### Golf Clubs in Cliffs Mountain Region - [The Cliffs at Glassy](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-mountain-region/the-cliffs-at-glassy-landrum-sc/): A private, gated mountaintop golf community atop Glassy Mountain in Landrum, Greenville County, SC, built around a 1993 Gary Player course marketed as 'South Carolina's only mountaintop golf course,' and part of The Cliffs' reciprocal Carolinas membership network. - [The Cliffs Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-mountain-region/the-cliffs-valley-travelers-rest-sc/): A private, gated mountain-foothills golf community in Travelers Rest, Greenville County, SC, introduced in 1994, part of The Cliffs' reciprocal Carolinas membership network and also marketed to 55+ buyers. - [The Cliffs at Mountain Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-mountain-region/the-cliffs-at-mountain-park-travelers-rest-sc/): A private, gated, roughly 5,000-acre golf community at the southern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Travelers Rest, Greenville County, SC, built around a 2013 Gary Player course, part of The Cliffs' reciprocal Carolinas membership network. #### Golf Communities in Cliffs Mountain Region - [The Cliffs at Glassy](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-mountain-region/the-cliffs-at-glassy-community/): A gated mountaintop residential community atop Glassy Mountain in Landrum, Greenville County, SC, built around the Gary Player-designed golf course marketed as South Carolina's only mountaintop course. - [The Cliffs Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-mountain-region/the-cliffs-valley-community/): A gated mountain-foothills residential community in Travelers Rest, Greenville County, SC, introduced in 1994, also marketed on some secondary sites to 55+ buyers. - [The Cliffs at Mountain Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-mountain-region/the-cliffs-at-mountain-park-community/): A gated, roughly 5,000-acre residential community at the southern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Travelers Rest, Greenville County, SC, built around a 2013 Gary Player golf course. ### Cliffs Lake Region, SC - [Cliffs Lake Region, SC Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-lake-region/): The Cliffs Lake Region is a distinct submarket on Lake Keowee in Oconee County, South Carolina, comprising three private, gated golf communities in The Cliffs' reciprocal Carolinas membership network: The Cliffs at Keowee Falls (Salem, Jack Nicklaus Signature course), The Cliffs at Keowee Springs (Salem, Tom Fazio course), and The Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards (Sunset, Tom Fazio course). #### Golf Clubs in Cliffs Lake Region - [The Cliffs at Keowee Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-lake-region/the-cliffs-at-keowee-springs-six-mile-sc/): A private, gated Lake Keowee community at 341 Keowee Baptist Church Road, Six Mile, Pickens County, SC (corrected this session from a prior Salem/Oconee County location error), built around a Tom Fazio-designed golf course that opened in 2008, one of two Fazio courses in The Cliffs' Lake Region grouping alongside Keowee Vineyards. - [The Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-lake-region/the-cliffs-at-keowee-vineyards-sunset-sc/): A private, gated Lake Keowee community centered at 824 Club House Dr, Sunset, Pickens County, SC (corrected this session from a prior Oconee County error), built around a Tom Fazio-designed golf course, the second of two Fazio courses in The Cliffs' Lake Region grouping. - [The Cliffs at Keowee Falls](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-lake-region/the-cliffs-at-keowee-falls-salem-sc/): A private, gated Lake Keowee community at 770 S Cherry Laurel Way, Salem, Oconee County, SC, built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature course -- the flagship of The Cliffs' three-community Lake Region grouping. #### Golf Communities in Cliffs Lake Region - [The Cliffs at Keowee Falls](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-lake-region/the-cliffs-at-keowee-falls-community/): A gated Lake Keowee residential community at 770 S Cherry Laurel Way, Salem, Oconee County, SC, built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course. - [The Cliffs at Keowee Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-lake-region/the-cliffs-at-keowee-springs-community/): A gated Lake Keowee residential community at 341 Keowee Baptist Church Road, Six Mile, Pickens County, SC (corrected this session from a prior Salem/Oconee County location error), built around a Tom Fazio-designed golf course that opened in 2008. - [The Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-carolina/cliffs-lake-region/the-cliffs-at-keowee-vineyards-community/): A gated Lake Keowee residential community centered at 824 Club House Dr, Sunset, Pickens County, SC (corrected this session from a prior Oconee County error), built around a Tom Fazio-designed golf course, and confirmed this session as the physical site of the Cliffs Lake Region's full-service marina and equestrian center. ## Georgia - [Georgia Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/): Independent research on 78 golf clubs and 46 residential golf communities across 25 Georgia golf markets, including Atlanta In-Town/Historic, Augusta and Callaway Gardens / Pine Mountain: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Georgia Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Georgia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 4 Georgia golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Waterfall Club, The Ford Field & River Club, Bent Tree Country Club and Old Toccoa Farm. - [Private Golf Communities in Georgia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 74 private Georgia golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta Country Club, Peachtree Golf Club, Atlanta Athletic Club and Capital City Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in Georgia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 9 Georgia golf resort ecosystems, including East Lake Golf Club, Augusta National Golf Club, Callaway Resort & Gardens Golf, Glen Arven Country Club and Ohoopee Match Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Georgia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 13 private Georgia golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including East Lake Golf Club, Green Island Country Club, Callaway Resort & Gardens Golf, Idle Hour Club and The Club at Lake Sinclair. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Georgia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 15 Georgia golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including River North Country Club, Reynolds Lake Oconee, The Golf Club at Cuscowilla, Harbor Club Golf Course and The Orchard Golf & Country Club. ### Georgia Comparisons - [The Landings vs. Ford Plantation: Savannah Golf Living Compared](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-landings-vs-ford-plantation-for-golf-living/): Compare The Landings and The Ford Plantation near Savannah, GA -- optional vs. mandatory golf membership, course counts, home prices, and lifestyle amenities. - [Atlanta In-Town Historic vs North Atlanta Suburbs Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/atlanta-in-town-historic-vs-north-atlanta-suburban-belt-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Atlanta's historic in-town private-club belt and the North Atlanta suburban golf-community belt: prestige vs. bundled residential product, initiation-fee tiers, championship pedigree, and membership-to-real-estate structure. - [Reynolds Lake Oconee vs Cuscowilla for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/reynolds-lake-oconee-vs-cuscowilla-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Reynolds Lake Oconee and Cuscowilla, GA for golf-oriented homebuyers: seven-course resort scale vs. a single Coore & Crenshaw boutique course, tiered vs. unpublished membership pricing, and honest cost-documentation gaps. - [Sea Island vs St. Simons Island Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/sea-island-vs-st-simons-island-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Sea Island and St. Simons Island, GA for golf-oriented homebuyers: the geography quirk that puts Sea Island's courses on St. Simons Island, tiered vs. varied membership models, price tiers, and RSM Classic pedigree. - [Waterfall Club vs Currahee Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/waterfall-club-vs-currahee-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Waterfall Club (Lake Burton) and Currahee Club (Lake Hartwell), GA for golf-oriented homebuyers: course architects, initiation-fee tiers, and an honest look at whether golf is bundled to home purchase at each. ### Atlanta In-Town/Historic, GA - [Atlanta In-Town/Historic, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/): Atlanta's historic in-town/close-in private-club belt is not a single neighborhood but a loose constellation of the metro's oldest, most prestigious golf clubs -- most founded between the 1880s and 1960s, defined by club vintage, invitation-only social prestige, and Bobby Jones-era history more than by a tight geographic radius. #### Golf Clubs in Atlanta In-Town/Historic - [East Lake Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/east-lake-golf-club/): Atlanta, GA: Bobby Jones's home course and the permanent home of the PGA Tour's Tour Championship since 2004, East Lake is also the financing catalyst behind the Villages of East Lake mixed-income housing redevelopment -- a nationally cited neighborhood-transformation story distinct from any conventional bundled golf community. - [Atlanta Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/atlanta-country-club/): An equity private club in Marietta's East Cobb/Chattahoochee Plantation area, designed by Willard Byrd (1966) and renovated by Bob Cupp (2001-03); ranked among Golf Digest's America's 100 Greatest since 1968 and host of the PGA Tour's Atlanta Classic for 29 years (1967-1996). - [Peachtree Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/peachtree-golf-club/): Atlanta, GA: An extremely private, invitation-only club opened in 1948, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. with substantial input from Bobby Jones -- the two men, despite the name similarity, were unrelated, and Jones adopted the middle name 'Trent' specifically to avoid confusion with the amateur legend. - [Atlanta Athletic Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/atlanta-athletic-club/): Founded 1898 (originally at East Lake), Atlanta Athletic Club relocated to Johns Creek in the late 1960s and today fields two 18-hole championship courses that together have hosted a US Open (1976) and three PGA Championships (1981, 2001, 2011). - [Capital City Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/capital-city-club/): Atlanta, GA: Founded 1883 as Brookhaven Country Club, one of America's oldest prestigious social clubs. Operates three facilities: the downtown City Club, the historic Brookhaven golf course (Herbert Barker, 1903; rebuilt by Bob Cupp, 2009), and the Crabapple Golf Club (Tom Fazio, opened 2002) 22 miles north in Milton. - [Druid Hills Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/druid-hills-golf-club/): A private club founded in 1912 in Atlanta's historic, Olmsted-designed Druid Hills neighborhood, redesigned by A.W. Tillinghast in 1935 and Bob Cupp in 2003 -- invitation-only membership requiring a primary sponsor plus two additional endorsing members. - [Ansley Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/ansley-golf-club/): Founded 1912 as Ansley Park Golf Club (renamed Ansley Golf Club in 1953), an invitation-only, sponsor-nominated club with a 9-hole course in Midtown Atlanta plus the 18-hole Settindown Creek course in Roswell, acquired in 1999. - [Cherokee Town and Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/cherokee-town-and-country-club/): Atlanta, GA: An ultra-exclusive, invitation-only club with two 18-hole courses (Buckhead and Sandy Springs), requiring sponsorship by three existing members. - [Dunwoody Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/dunwoody-country-club/): Chartered in 1969 when 92 charter members of a distinct Ansley-affiliated property split off to buy the ~200-acre Dunwoody tract and form an independent, non-equity, invitation-only club, now with roughly 1,075 members. - [The Standard Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/the-standard-club/): Georgia's oldest country club, tracing to the 1867 Concordia Association, Atlanta's first Jewish social club; reorganized as The Standard Club in 1904 and relocated to Johns Creek in 1987. - [Country Club of Roswell](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/country-club-of-roswell/): An 18-hole private club (est. 1973) on 150 acres inside Roswell's ~700-home Willow Springs development, offering tiered membership (Full Golf, Intermediate, Tennis, Social); recapitalized in 2020 by Concert Golf Partners, ending its prior member-owned structure. #### Golf Communities in Atlanta In-Town/Historic - [Villages of East Lake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/villages-of-east-lake/): Atlanta, GA: A 650-home mixed-income housing redevelopment (rental and for-sale) that replaced the East Lake Meadows public-housing project in the late 1990s, financed and catalyzed by Tom Cousins's restoration of the adjacent East Lake Golf Club. - [Willow Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/atlanta-in-town-historic/willow-springs-roswell/): A ~700-home, 650-acre residential development in east Roswell built around the Country Club of Roswell; club membership is optional for homeowners rather than mandatory or automatically included. ### Augusta, GA - [Augusta, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/augusta/): Augusta is a golf market defined, more than any other in the country, by a single institution that a homebuyer here cannot actually join: Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters. #### Golf Clubs in Augusta - [Augusta National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/augusta/augusta-national-golf-club/): Home of the Masters Tournament since 1934, Augusta National is an invitation-only private club with no residential real-estate product of any kind -- the club's own ~$500 million real-estate footprint is built from buying surrounding land INTO the club, not selling homes to the public. - [Augusta Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/augusta/augusta-country-club/): Founded circa 1897-1899, one of the oldest private clubs in the South, sharing a fence and Rae's Creek with the adjacent, entity-distinct Augusta National. - [West Lake Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/augusta/west-lake-country-club-ga/): A member-owned private club since 1969, Ellis Maples design, with a 30,000 sq ft clubhouse and full family amenities, sitting at the center of the roughly 1,000-home West Lake gated neighborhood in Martinez (Columbia County); membership is optional, not required, for neighborhood homeowners. - [Champions Retreat Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/augusta/champions-retreat-golf-club/): The only golf property in the world with three individually designed nines by Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player, on 365 acres along the Savannah River in Evans, roughly 15 miles from Augusta National. #### Golf Communities in Augusta - [West Lake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/augusta/west-lake-community-martinez/): A roughly 1,000-home gated neighborhood in Martinez (Columbia County) built around West Lake Country Club; club membership is optional for residents, not included with or required by a home purchase. ### Columbus, GA - [Columbus, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/columbus/): Columbus is a smaller, self-contained golf market roughly 100 miles from Augusta, on the Chattahoochee River at the Alabama border, whose local economy and population are anchored primarily by Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning) rather than by any golf-destination identity. #### Golf Clubs in Columbus - [The Country Club of Columbus](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/columbus/country-club-of-columbus/): Founded in 1909, an 18-hole Donald Ross design (1925, updated by Ross in 1938, restored by Ron Forse in 2000-2001), private membership club in Midtown Columbus and annual host of the Southeastern Amateur Championship. - [Columbus Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/columbus/columbus-country-club-ga/): A private, Troon-managed club in Columbus, Muscogee County, GA, offering a championship course plus a par-3 nine and practice facilities, with reciprocal access to roughly 75 clubs worldwide via the Troon Privé network -- distinct from both The Country Club of Columbus (Georgia) and an unrelated, similarly named club in Columbus, Ohio. - [Green Island Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/columbus/green-island-country-club/): A private club at the center of Green Island Hills, an upscale Columbus neighborhood along the Chattahoochee River; the club's own materials trace its origin to the late 1950s (course opened circa 1960-1961, George Cobb design), though one secondary source cites a conflicting 1898/Willard Byrd origin that this session could not resolve. #### Golf Communities in Columbus - [Green Island Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/columbus/green-island-hills/): An upscale, established residential neighborhood in Columbus along the Chattahoochee River (Lake Oliver), built around Green Island Country Club, with a mix of Georgian, Tudor, Spanish Revival, and Craftsman homes and newer construction in the $400,000+ range; among the higher-income neighborhoods in the Columbus area. ### Callaway Gardens / Pine Mountain, GA - [Callaway Gardens / Pine Mountain, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/callaway-gardens-pine-mountain/): Callaway Gardens / Pine Mountain is a genuinely single-anchor golf-living market in west-central Georgia's Harris County, built entirely around Callaway Resort & Gardens -- a 2,500-acre legacy resort opened in 1952. #### Golf Clubs in Callaway Gardens / Pine Mountain - [Callaway Resort & Gardens Golf](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/callaway-gardens-pine-mountain/callaway-resort-gardens-golf/): A 2,500-acre legacy resort (opened 1952) in Pine Mountain with two 18-hole courses -- Lake View (opened 1951, expanded to 18 holes in 1961) and Mountain View (opened 1965) -- that hosted the PGA Tour's Southern Open from 1991-2002. #### Golf Communities in Callaway Gardens / Pine Mountain - [Highland at Callaway Gardens](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/callaway-gardens-pine-mountain/highland-callaway-gardens/): Pine Mountain, GA: One of three new residential communities under active development at Callaway Resort & Gardens, built by JWB Properties with half-acre-plus lots. - [Skyview at Callaway Gardens](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/callaway-gardens-pine-mountain/skyview-callaway-gardens/): Pine Mountain, GA: One of three new residential communities under active development at Callaway Resort & Gardens; builder marketing describes a number of Skyview lots as being 'along the golf course, providing residents with stunning views and immediate access to world-class golfing facilities.' - [Mountain View (residential) at Callaway Gardens](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/callaway-gardens-pine-mountain/mountain-view-residential-callaway-gardens/): Pine Mountain, GA: One of three new residential communities under active development at Callaway Resort & Gardens, distinct from (though named after and adjacent to) the Mountain View golf course itself; builder marketing describes lots here as course-fronting. ### Macon, GA - [Macon, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/macon/): Macon's golf-living identity is built around long-standing, private, member-owned institutional clubs rather than master-planned golf-residential developments -- a genuinely different pattern from Georgia's resort-corridor and metro-Atlanta markets. #### Golf Clubs in Macon - [Idle Hour Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/macon/idle-hour-club/): Macon, GA: Founded in 1912 on the former Idle Hour Farms stock farm after the Log Cabin Club (organized 1890) was sold, Idle Hour Club is one of Georgia's oldest private, member-owned clubs. - [Brickyard Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/macon/brickyard-golf-club/): Macon, GA: Formerly Riverside Golf & Country Club (opened 1961), rebuilt 2003-2005 by the Sams brothers with a redesign by former PGA Tour player Mark McCumber into a 7,200+-yard championship course -- Golf Digest's 15th-best course in Georgia and the home venue for Mercer University's NCAA Division I golf programs, including the annual Brickyard Collegiate. - [River North Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/macon/river-north-country-club/): River North Country Club, at 293 River North Blvd in Macon, operates an 18-hole Gary Player-designed course (built 1973, opened April 1974). #### Golf Communities in Macon - [Idle Hour (Macon neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/macon/idle-hour-neighborhood-macon/): The established, affluent Macon neighborhood surrounding Idle Hour Club on Idle Hour Drive. Reads as a historic neighborhood that grew up around the century-old club rather than a purpose-built, golf-bundled residential development. - [River North](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/macon/river-north-community/): River North is a gated residential community in north Macon (Bibb County) built 1976-2005, made up of single-family homes and condominiums along the Ocmulgee River. ### Thomasville, GA - [Thomasville, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/thomasville/): Thomasville is a small, historic south Georgia city whose golf identity rests almost entirely on a single institution: Glen Arven Country Club, the oldest golf course in Georgia and a genuine former PGA Tour venue. #### Golf Clubs in Thomasville - [Glen Arven Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/thomasville/glen-arven-country-club/): The oldest golf course in Georgia (c. 1892) and one of the oldest private clubs in the United States, Glen Arven hosted the PGA Tour's Thomasville Open from 1936-1941, drawing Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen, and eventual World Golf Hall of Famers Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, and Lloyd Mangrum -- the strongest destination-significance find in this batch. ### Valdosta, GA - [Valdosta, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/valdosta/): Valdosta's golf-living market is defined by a single institution, Valdosta Country Club, a fully member-owned private club dating to 1917 and marketed as the only completely member-owned country club in the area. #### Golf Clubs in Valdosta - [Valdosta Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/valdosta/valdosta-country-club/): A fully member-owned private club organized in 1917 in Valdosta -- confirmed this session via its official site to run a current tiered membership program (Golf, Dining, Non-Resident) -- with 27 holes across three nines plus tennis, fitness, pool, and dining. ### Albany, GA - [Albany, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/albany/): Albany's golf market centers on two confirmed private clubs with genuine residential integration: Doublegate Country Club, around which the distinctly-named Doublegate neighborhood (roughly 800 residents) is built, and Stonebridge Golf & Country Club, the centerpiece of a 902-acre planned residential community offering villas and luxury estates. #### Golf Clubs in Albany - [Doublegate Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/albany/doublegate-country-club/): A private, George Cobb-designed 18-hole club (built 1964, renovated 1992 by John LaFoy) in Albany, at the center of the genuinely distinct residential neighborhood of Doublegate (roughly 800 residents), with tennis, fitness, pool, and banquet facilities. - [Stonebridge Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/albany/stonebridge-golf-country-club/): A 902-acre planned residential-golf community in Albany built around an 18-hole course (Golf Digest's 10th-best new US/Canada course of 1997), with villas and single-family estates, tennis, fitness, pool, and a tiered Social/Tennis/Full Privilege membership structure -- confirmed this session as a genuine golf-bundled residential community, resolving the prior pass's open lead. #### Golf Communities in Albany - [Doublegate](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/albany/doublegate-neighborhood/): A distinctly-named residential neighborhood in Albany, roughly 7 miles northwest of downtown, built directly around Doublegate Country Club -- confirmed via Wikipedia and neighborhood-level census data (approximately 800 residents). - [Stonebridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/albany/stonebridge-community-albany/): A 902-acre planned residential-golf community in Albany built around Stonebridge Golf & Country Club's 18-hole course, offering villas and single-family luxury estates. ### Milledgeville / Lake Sinclair, GA - [Milledgeville / Lake Sinclair, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/milledgeville-lake-sinclair/): The Milledgeville / Lake Sinclair market centers on The Club at Lake Sinclair (formerly Milledgeville Country Club, founded 1957), marketed as the only golf course on the lake. #### Golf Clubs in Milledgeville / Lake Sinclair - [The Club at Lake Sinclair](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/milledgeville-lake-sinclair/the-club-at-lake-sinclair/): Marketed as the only golf course on Lake Sinclair; founded 1957 as Milledgeville Country Club (George Cobb design, opened 1961), purchased by Ted and Joni Smith in 2016, renovated for ~$5M, and reopened in January 2018 as The Club at Lake Sinclair, now with 600+ members. #### Golf Communities in Milledgeville / Lake Sinclair - [Legacy at Sinclair](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/milledgeville-lake-sinclair/legacy-at-sinclair/): A gated luxury condominium development at 3750 Sinclair Dam Road, Milledgeville, marketed as adjacent to The Club at Lake Sinclair's 18-hole golf course, with a pool, clubhouse, and optional boat slip. - [Country Club Townhomes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/milledgeville-lake-sinclair/country-club-townhomes-lake-sinclair/): Milledgeville, GA: A townhome development near Lake Sinclair marketed specifically on proximity to The Club at Lake Sinclair, per an earlier discovery pass -- not independently re-verified with a primary source this session. ### Statesboro, GA - [Statesboro, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/statesboro/): Statesboro's golf market is anchored by Forest Heights Country Club, founded in 1947 by roughly 200 local citizens and best known as the longtime host of the Southeastern Amateur Golf Tournament, a genuinely notable regional amateur event. #### Golf Clubs in Statesboro - [Forest Heights Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/statesboro/forest-heights-country-club/): Statesboro, GA: Founded in 1947 by roughly 200 local citizens with an original George Cobb-designed nine, Forest Heights is the confirmed, currently active host of the Southeastern Amateur Golf Tournament and the Chris Schenkel/E-Z Go Invitational (46th edition, March 2026). ### Dublin, GA - [Dublin, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/dublin/): Dublin's golf market is a single, genuinely private small-town institution: Dublin Country Club, incorporated in 1946, a George Cobb-designed course with tennis, pool, and banquet facilities. #### Golf Clubs in Dublin - [Dublin Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/dublin/dublin-country-club/): Dublin, GA: Originally chartered in 1921, reorganized/incorporated in 1946 at its current site, with the present 18-hole layout dating to a 1964 redesign by Tommy Birdsong and Howard Cordell Sr. -- genuinely private and long-established, without a standout tournament or residential-bundling signal. ### Tifton, GA - [Tifton, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/tifton/): Tifton's golf market is a single, genuinely private small-town institution: Spring Hill Country Club, organized in 1941 as The Tifton Country Club, with its current course (Ray Jensen design) opened in 1964. #### Golf Clubs in Tifton - [Spring Hill Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/tifton/spring-hill-country-club/): Organized in 1941 as The Tifton Country Club, with its current course (Ray Jensen design, confirmed via the club's official site) opened in 1964 -- genuinely private and long-established, without a standout tournament or residential-bundling signal. ### Ohoopee Match Club / Cobbtown, GA - [Ohoopee Match Club / Cobbtown, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/ohoopee-match-club/): Ohoopee Match Club sits in rural Cobbtown, Tattnall County -- geographically isolated from every other market in this research cluster. #### Golf Clubs in Ohoopee Match Club / Cobbtown - [Ohoopee Match Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/ohoopee-match-club/ohoopee-match-club/): Ohoopee Match Club in Cobbtown: researched invitation only membership, residential communities and what buyers should verify. ### Lake Oconee, GA - [Lake Oconee, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-oconee/): Lake Oconee, a roughly 19,000-acre reservoir in central Georgia, is sold and marketed as a single lifestyle destination even though its individual golf clubs are entirely distinct entities with very different ownership, membership philosophy, and price points. #### Golf Clubs in Lake Oconee - [Reynolds Lake Oconee](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-oconee/reynolds-lake-oconee/): Reynolds Lake Oconee is a single membership entity operating seven private golf courses (an eighth, Fenmoor, under construction for late 2026) across a 10,000-plus-acre, MetLife-owned resort-residential development in Greensboro, Greene County. - [The Golf Club at Cuscowilla](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-oconee/golf-club-at-cuscowilla/): The Golf Club at Cuscowilla is a private, gated golf-and-lake community in Eatonton (Putnam County) built around an 18-hole Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw design opened in 1997. - [Harbor Club Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-oconee/harbor-club-golf-course/): Harbor Club is an 18-hole Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish golf course anchoring a roughly 1,100-acre, mandatory-membership residential community on Lake Oconee in Greensboro, Greene County. #### Golf Communities in Lake Oconee - [Reynolds Lake Oconee](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-oconee/reynolds-lake-oconee-community/): Reynolds Lake Oconee is the residential development wrapped around the Reynolds Lake Oconee golf club's seven (soon eight) courses -- a roughly 10,000-12,000-acre, MetLife-owned, gated community in Greensboro, Greene County, with about 3,600 property owners, anchored by The Ritz-Carlton Reynolds, Lake Oconee resort hotel. - [Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-oconee/cuscowilla-on-lake-oconee/): Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee is a private, gated golf-and-lake community in Eatonton, Putnam County, built around the Coore & Crenshaw-designed Golf Club at Cuscowilla, with roughly 275 of a planned 550 homes built to date. - [Harbor Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-oconee/harbor-club-community/): Harbor Club is a roughly 1,100-acre, mandatory-membership golf-and-lake community in Greensboro, Greene County, bordered by about nine miles of Lake Oconee shoreline, anchored by an 18-hole Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish golf course. ### Athens, GA - [Athens, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/athens/): Athens' golf-living market is small but genuine, split between two structurally different clubs: Athens Country Club, an old-line, invitation-only city club with real architectural pedigree but no purpose-built residential development attached, and The Georgia Club, a private, developer-built golf-residential community in nearby Statham with a confirmed University of Georgia Alumni Association tie. #### Golf Clubs in Athens - [Athens Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/athens/athens-country-club/): Athens Country Club is a private, invitation-only club in Athens (Clarke County) founded in 1921, built around an 18-hole course originally designed by George Sargent in 1921-22 and substantially redesigned by Donald Ross in 1925, plus a 9-hole North course by George Cobb. - [The Georgia Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/athens/the-georgia-club/): The Georgia Club is a 27-hole Denis Griffiths golf course in Statham (Barrow County), just outside Athens, anchoring a roughly 1,100-acre master-planned residential community. #### Golf Communities in Athens - [The Georgia Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/athens/the-georgia-club-community/): The Georgia Club is a roughly 1,100-acre, ~900-lot master-planned golf-residential community in Statham, Barrow County, minutes from downtown Athens, built around a private 27-hole Denis Griffiths golf course. ### Northeast Georgia Mountains, GA - [Northeast Georgia Mountains, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northeast-georgia-mountains/): The Northeast Georgia Mountains market covers Rabun, Habersham, Stephens, and Hart counties -- a mountain-and-lake corridor distinct from both the exurban-commuter character of Lake Lanier to the south and the flagship-resort scale of Lake Oconee to the southeast. #### Golf Clubs in Northeast Georgia Mountains - [Waterfall Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northeast-georgia-mountains/waterfall-club/): Clayton, GA: A private, gated golf-and-lake community on Lake Burton in Rabun County built around an 18-hole Scott Pool mountain course whose signature 2nd hole plays over a 215-ft waterfall; many homesites/homes include a non-equity golf or social membership at purchase. - [Currahee Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northeast-georgia-mountains/currahee-club/): Toccoa, GA: A private, gated golf-and-lake community on Lake Hartwell in Stephens County, built around a Jim Fazio championship course ranked among Golfweek's Top 200 Residential Golf Courses, with a real, named membership-tier structure keyed to residency distance. - [Cateechee Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northeast-georgia-mountains/cateechee-golf-club/): A Mike Young-designed, Audubon Signature course on Lake Hartwell explicitly marketed by its own club as 'unencumbered by real estate development' -- a genuine golf destination, not a residential-bundled community. - [The Orchard Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northeast-georgia-mountains/the-orchard-golf-country-club/): A private, gated country club (24-hour security) anchoring a 1,100-acre master-planned community in Clarkesville (Habersham County), built around a Dan Maples-designed 18-hole course, marketed on at least one specialist site as a top-rated retirement community. #### Golf Communities in Northeast Georgia Mountains - [Waterfall at Lake Burton](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northeast-georgia-mountains/waterfall-at-lake-burton/): Clayton, GA: A private, gated mountaintop community above Lake Burton in Rabun County, organized around the Waterfall Club golf course, where many (not all) homesite/home purchases include a non-equity golf or social club membership at no extra cost. - [Currahee Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northeast-georgia-mountains/currahee-club-community/): A 1,200-acre gated golf-and-lake community on Lake Hartwell near Toccoa, organized around the Currahee Club (Jim Fazio course), with roughly 3 miles of private shoreline and a real, tiered club membership structure. - [The Orchard](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northeast-georgia-mountains/the-orchard-community/): A 1,100-acre, gated (24-hour security) master-planned private country club community in Clarkesville, Habersham County, built around a Dan Maples-designed 18-hole course, established 1989 and opened for play in 1991. ### Lake Lanier, GA - [Lake Lanier, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-lanier/): Lake Lanier's golf-residential identity centers on the exurban corridor north of Atlanta -- Gainesville, Dawsonville, and Buford -- and reads as genuinely distinct from both the Northeast Georgia Mountains' golf-and-lake hybrid pattern and metro Atlanta's suburban golf-community belt. #### Golf Clubs in Lake Lanier - [Chattahoochee Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-lanier/chattahoochee-golf-club/): A historic Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed public course (since 1960) on Lake Sidney Lanier, with a real reciprocal-privilege relationship for members of the separate, private, member-owned Chattahoochee Country Club (est. 1950) -- the course itself is not private, but the untangled relationship documented here explains the genuine golf-residential connection in this part of Gainesville. - [Chestatee Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-lanier/chestatee-golf-club/): Dawsonville, GA: An 18-hole Denis Griffiths links-style course anchoring the 550-acre Chestatee community on Lake Sidney Lanier, with a 160-slip marina and swim/tennis center; golf membership is optional for property owners. #### Golf Communities in Lake Lanier - [Chattahoochee Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-lanier/chattahoochee-country-club-area/): A private, member-owned country club (est. 1950) directly on Lake Sidney Lanier north of Gainesville -- tennis, pool, dining, and a marina, with no on-site golf course of its own. - [Chestatee](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/lake-lanier/chestatee/): A 550-acre golf-and-marina community on Lake Sidney Lanier near Dawsonville, built around the Chestatee Golf Club (Denis Griffiths, 18 holes) with a 160-slip private marina; golf membership is optional for residents. ### North Atlanta Suburban Belt, GA - [North Atlanta Suburban Belt, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/): The North Atlanta suburban golf-community belt -- running along the GA-400 and I-85/Peachtree Industrial corridors through Alpharetta, Milton, Johns Creek, Roswell, Cumming/Forsyth County, Duluth, and Suwanee -- is a dense, newer (1970s-2000s) tier of private and semi-private clubs more explicitly tied to residential subdivisions than Atlanta's historic in-town clubs. #### Golf Clubs in North Atlanta Suburban Belt - [Country Club of the South](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/country-club-of-the-south/): Johns Creek, GA: A Jack Nicklaus Signature course (1987) frequently cited as the flagship example of a north Atlanta 'golf community,' operating as an invitation-based private club inside a 900-acre, three-gate gated community of 730+ homes that shares its name; the club and the neighborhood HOA are confirmed separate organizations, and club membership is not required to buy a home there. - [St. Marlo Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/st-marlo-country-club/): A semi-private Denis Griffiths course (1995) in Duluth (physically in Forsyth County, ZIP 30097) operating as public-welcoming daily-fee golf with an optional paid-membership program, sitting inside a separately-branded, covenant-protected, HOA-governed gated neighborhood that shares the 'St. - [Golf Club of Georgia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/golf-club-of-georgia/): An invitation-only, 36-hole (Lakeside and Creekside) private club in Alpharetta, originally Arthur Hills-designed and refined by Bob Cupp, under confirmed common ownership with its sister club Horseshoe Bend Country Club since 2014, with reciprocal privileges bundled into GCOG membership. - [Horseshoe Bend Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/horseshoe-bend-country-club/): A privately-owned 18-hole club inside the roughly 1,200-home Horseshoe Bend community in Roswell, with tiered non-equity membership optional for residents, and confirmed formal common ownership (since 2014, owner Ben Kenny) with sister club Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta. - [St. Ives Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/st-ives-country-club/): A Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole course (1989) with a 45,000-sq-ft English-manor-style clubhouse, anchoring a 24-hour gated community of 750+ luxury homes in Johns Creek; club membership (Full, Sports, Social, Junior Executive, Family tiers) draws from well beyond the resident base. - [TPC Sugarloaf](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/tpc-sugarloaf/): A 27-hole Greg Norman design on the PGA Tour's TPC Network, set on 1,200 acres inside the gated Sugarloaf Country Club residential community in Duluth (Gwinnett County); 'TPC Sugarloaf' and 'Sugarloaf Country Club' name the same integrated golf-and-community product, resolved here to one canonical anchor with the alternate name noted rather than duplicated. - [Berkeley Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/berkeley-hills-country-club/): A member-owned private club since 1964 in Duluth (Gwinnett County), with an 18-hole Ron Kirby/Gary Player-designed course and a full tiered membership program, sitting at the center of a residential subdivision that shares its exact name. - [The Manor Golf and Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/the-manor-golf-and-country-club/): Georgia's only Tom Watson-designed 18-hole course, anchoring an approximately 450-home guard-gated community on 800 acres in Milton, with a confirmed mandatory Social Membership ($10,000 initiation, $340/month dues) tied to homeownership; full golf membership is a further optional upgrade. - [White Columns Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/white-columns-country-club/): A Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole private club (1995) in Milton, recently transferred from ClubCorp/Invited to Arcis Golf (June 2025) with a reported renovation underway; the surrounding 129-home gated neighborhood and the club are confirmed separate organizations, with club membership optional. - [Atlanta National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/atlanta-national-golf-club/): A Pete Dye/P.B. Dye-designed 18-hole private club (6,966 yards, par 72) operated by Invited; mailing address uses an Alpharetta ZIP code, but the club's own operator and local sources place its physical municipality in Milton, resolving a discovery-pass ambiguity. - [Polo Golf and Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/polo-golf-and-country-club/): A Joe Lee-designed 18-hole, par-72 course (1989) operated by Invited, anchoring the Polo Golf and Country Club neighborhood in Cumming; club membership is confirmed optional, with only a separate, modest HOA fee (~$400-$600/year) mandatory for homeowners. - [The River Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/the-river-club/): A Greg Norman-designed par-72 course inside a 625-acre, 24/7 guard-gated Suwanee community (roughly 350 homes at full build-out), with a confirmed mandatory Sports Membership (fitness, pools, tennis, pickleball) for all residents, while Golf Membership itself remains a separate, optional purchase open to residents and non-residents alike. #### Golf Communities in North Atlanta Suburban Belt - [Country Club of the South (neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/country-club-of-the-south-community/): A 900-acre, three-gate gated neighborhood of 730+ homes in Johns Creek that shares its name and setting with the Jack Nicklaus-designed Country Club of the South golf club, but is governed by a separate HOA; club membership is optional and not included in HOA dues. - [St. Marlo (covenant-protected community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/st-marlo-community/): A gated, deed-covenant-governed residential neighborhood spanning over 900 acres in the Duluth-postal (Forsyth County) area, built around the semi-private St. Marlo Country Club golf course; the community's own HOA-oriented website is a separate web presence from the golf club's operating site. - [Horseshoe Bend](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/horseshoe-bend-community/): A roughly 1,200-home residential community along the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, built around Horseshoe Bend Country Club; the golf club is privately owned and separate from the community association, with optional membership. - [St. Ives](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/st-ives-community/): A 24-hour secure-gated community of 750+ European-style luxury homes in Johns Creek, established 1989 around the Tom Fazio-designed St. Ives Country Club golf course. - [Sugarloaf Country Club (community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/sugarloaf-country-club-community/): Duluth, GA: The 1,200-acre gated residential community surrounding TPC Sugarloaf, governed by its own residential property owners association (mandatory ~$2,500/year fee) separate from the golf club's own optional membership program. - [The Manor (Milton)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/the-manor-community/): An approximately 450-home, guard-gated luxury community on 800 acres in Milton, built by Loudermilk Homes around Georgia's only Tom Watson-designed golf course; a mandatory (non-golf) Social Membership applies to every homeowner in addition to HOA dues. - [Polo Golf and Country Club (neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/polo-golf-and-country-club-community/): A residential neighborhood in Cumming sharing its name with and built around Polo Golf and Country Club; HOA dues (~$400-$600/year) are mandatory, but club membership remains a separate, optional cost. - [The River Club (Suwanee)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-atlanta-suburban-belt/the-river-club-community/): A 625-acre, 24/7 guard-gated community along the Chattahoochee River in Suwanee, planned for roughly 350 homes, built around the Greg Norman-designed River Club golf course; every resident is required to hold a Sports Membership (not golf). ### North Georgia Mountains & Exurb, GA - [North Georgia Mountains & Exurb, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains-exurb/): The North Georgia mountains/exurb market is Atlanta's gated, lower-density second-home and retirement golf belt -- roughly 30 to 75 minutes north (and, at its western edge, northwest) of the city. #### Golf Clubs in North Georgia Mountains & Exurb - [Big Canoe Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains-exurb/big-canoe-golf-club/): A 27-hole, three-nine (Creek/Choctaw/Cherokee) golf facility inside the 8,000+ acre gated Big Canoe mountain community, notable for selling absolutely no outside membership -- property ownership is the sole path to eligibility, and even then golf is a separately purchased a la carte amenity, not an automatic perk of the home price. - [Lake Arrowhead Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains-exurb/lake-arrowhead-yacht-country-club/): Waleska, GA: The Highlands Golf Course (opened 2008, 'Best Golf Course in Cherokee County' 2010) anchors the 8,000-acre gated Lake Arrowhead lake-and-mountain community; property owners get a preferential membership tier, though the course is also independently bookable by the general public -- a genuine mixed public/resident access model. - [Achasta Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains-exurb/achasta-golf-club/): A Jack Nicklaus Signature 18-hole course (6,995 yards, par 72) along the Chestatee River, the centerpiece of the 750-acre gated Achasta community in Dahlonega -- the only Nicklaus design in the North Georgia mountains, with tiered Social and Full Golf membership options separate from HOA dues. - [The Legends Golf Club at Chateau Elan](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains-exurb/the-legends-golf-club-chateau-elan/): A fully private, invitation/application members-only golf club (opened 1992-93) within the larger Chateau Elan resort-and-residential estate in Braselton, designed with input from golf legends Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Kathy Whitworth, entity-distinct from Chateau Elan's two public daily-fee resort courses. - [Governors Towne Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains-exurb/governors-towne-club/): A gated golf-and-country-club community in Acworth built around a Curtis Strange-designed 18-hole course (opened 2004, ~7,250-7,291 yards), with a real tiered membership structure; multiple (not yet independently confirmed) real-estate sources describe a base Athletic/Social membership as mandatory for homeowners, with full golf access a separate, optional, higher-cost tier. #### Golf Communities in North Georgia Mountains & Exurb - [Big Canoe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains-exurb/big-canoe-community/): Big Canoe, GA: An 8,000+ acre gated mountain community spanning Pickens and Dawson counties, roughly 60 minutes north of Atlanta, home to about 3,000 residents (60% full-time). - [Lake Arrowhead](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains-exurb/lake-arrowhead-community/): An 8,000-acre gated lake-and-mountain community in Waleska (Cherokee County), roughly 40 minutes north of Atlanta, built around a 540-acre private lake and the 18-hole Highlands Golf Course, marketed as family-friendly and all-ages despite some third-party retirement-aggregator mislabeling as 55+. - [Achasta](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains-exurb/achasta-community/): A 750-acre gated golf-and-river community in Dahlonega with roughly 400 households, built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course on the Chestatee River; homes range from about $700K to north of $4M, with HOA dues explicitly excluding golf and clubhouse amenities. - [Chateau Elan Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains-exurb/chateau-elan-estates/): A 3,500-acre gated winery-resort-residential estate in Braselton designed to eventually include up to 2,000 home sites, combining luxury real estate with a full resort (winery, spa, equestrian center) and two distinct golf products: public daily-fee resort courses and the separate private Legends club. - [Governors Towne Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains-exurb/governors-towne-club-neighborhood/): A gated golf-and-country-club neighborhood in Acworth built between 2003 and the present, organized entirely around the Governors Towne Club golf course and clubhouse amenities. ### Savannah Metro, GA - [Savannah Metro, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/savannah-metro/): Savannah's golf-residential landscape splits into two genuinely different models rather than one template. On Skidaway Island and in Richmond Hill, golf is woven directly into large, gated, developer-built residential communities -- The Landings (six courses, roughly 4,000-plus homes) and The Ford Plantation (one Pete Dye course, roughly 400 homes, mandatory equity membership for every owner). #### Golf Clubs in Savannah Metro - [The Landings Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/savannah-metro/the-landings-club/): A private six-course golf and athletic club (two Arnold Palmer designs, plus Willard Byrd, Arthur Hills, and Tom Fazio courses) woven through The Landings, a roughly 4,000-residence gated community on Skidaway Island, 12 miles from downtown Savannah. - [The Ford Field & River Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/savannah-metro/ford-field-and-river-club/): Richmond Hill, GA: A private, 1,800-acre golf and sporting club on the Ogeechee River, the former winter estate of Henry Ford, where every property owner in The Ford Plantation community is required to become an equity member. - [The Savannah Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/savannah-metro/the-savannah-golf-club/): A private, invitation-based club at 1661 E President St in Savannah, tracing its lineage to a golf club founded in 1794 -- among the oldest in North America on a non-continuous basis -- with the present club refounded in 1899 and its Donald Ross-designed course opened in 1926-27. - [Savannah Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/savannah-metro/savannah-country-club/): A private club on Wilmington Island whose 18-hole course dates to 1927 (attributed to Donald Ross) and originated as the General Oglethorpe Golf Course tied to the General Oglethorpe Hotel. #### Golf Communities in Savannah Metro - [The Landings](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/savannah-metro/the-landings-skidaway-island/): A large, gated, master-planned community occupying most of Skidaway Island, roughly 12 miles southeast of downtown Savannah, built out by the Branigar Organization starting in 1972. - [The Ford Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/savannah-metro/the-ford-plantation/): A gated, 1,800-acre golf and sporting community on the Ogeechee River in Richmond Hill, roughly 400 homes, the former winter estate of Henry Ford. ### Sea Island, GA - [Sea Island, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/sea-island/): US Golf Living has researched 4 golf anchors in the Sea Island golf market, in Glynn County, including the Sea Island Golf Club's Seaside, Plantation, and Retreat courses and The Cloister resort. #### Golf Clubs in Sea Island - [Sea Island Golf Club - Seaside Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/sea-island/sea-island-golf-club-seaside-course/): Seaside is Sea Island Golf Club's flagship championship course -- a 1929 Colt & Alison design updated by Tom Fazio in 1999 -- and has hosted the PGA Tour's RSM Classic every year since the event's 2010 debut. - [Sea Island Golf Club - Plantation Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/sea-island/sea-island-golf-club-plantation-course/): Plantation is one of Sea Island Golf Club's three courses, originally opened as a 9-hole course in 1928 and substantially reworked by Davis Love III and his brother Mark Love; it has co-hosted the PGA Tour's RSM Classic alongside Seaside every year since 2015. - [Sea Island Golf Club - Retreat Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/sea-island/sea-island-golf-club-retreat-course/): Retreat is the third Sea Island Golf Club course, redesigned by Davis Love III and Mark Love in 2001. Geographically separate from Seaside and Plantation (south end of St. Simons Island, off the Frederica Road/Kings Way roundabout), it directly anchors the Island Club at Retreat residential neighborhood and shares the same island-wide Sea Island Club membership structure. - [The Cloister at Sea Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/sea-island/the-cloister-sea-island/): The Cloister is Sea Island's historic flagship resort hotel (with sister property The Lodge), owned since 2016 by the Broadmoor-Sea Island Company (a subsidiary of the Anschutz Corporation). #### Golf Communities in Sea Island - [Sea Island (Homesites, Cottages & Condominiums)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/sea-island/sea-island-homesites/): Sea Island's core residential product -- roughly 500 single-family homes, cottages, and condominiums on a privately owned, unincorporated barrier island in Glynn County, reached by causeway from St. Simons Island. - [Cloister Ocean Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/sea-island/cloister-ocean-residences/): A 22-unit deeded quarter-share (fractional ownership) property at The Cloister, and the one Sea Island real-estate product with fully automatic, bundled Sea Island Club membership -- the strongest real-estate-to-club-membership bundling case found anywhere in the Sea Island ecosystem. - [Island Club at Retreat](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/sea-island/island-club-at-retreat/): A gated neighborhood on the south end of St. Simons Island (physically -- not Sea Island itself) built around and directly anchored by the Sea Island Golf Club Retreat course. - [The Reserve at Sea Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/sea-island/the-reserve-at-sea-island/): The Reserve at Sea Island is a distinct, unusual real-estate offering: a roughly 50-acre enclave of largely undisturbed land and marsh between the Black Banks River and the Atlantic Ocean, marketed as a rare multi-generational family-compound opportunity for 'a select few families' rather than a conventional multi-owner subdivision. ### St. Simons Island, GA - [St. Simons Island, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/st-simons-island/): St. Simons Island, in Glynn County on Georgia's Golden Isles coast, offers a genuinely varied golf-residential landscape distinct from its more uniformly exclusive neighbor, Sea Island. #### Golf Clubs in St. Simons Island - [Frederica Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/st-simons-island/frederica-golf-club/): A Tom Fazio-designed, non-equity private golf club anchoring the gated Frederica community on the north end of St. Simons Island -- independently owned by the Huizenga family (Frederica Development Group LLC) since December 2010, not Sea Island Company, despite the community's own marketing describing it as 'a private Sea Island neighborhood.' - [Sea Palms Golf & Tennis Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/st-simons-island/sea-palms-golf-tennis-resort/): A George Cobb-designed course (1967, renovated 2019) at the center of Sea Palms, St. Simons Island's largest volume golf-residential community (a 340-home POA plus villa/condo regimes); golf operations have been managed by Troon since 2022 under the 'The Club at Sea Palms' brand, with Aimbridge Hospitality operating the resort side. - [The King and Prince Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/st-simons-island/king-and-prince-golf-club/): St. Simons Island's historically public/resort golf course (a 1989 Joe Lee design, formerly marketed as 'Home of the Hampton Club'), acquired by South Street Partners/TPG Real Estate in August 2024 and, as of September 2026, mid-conversion into a fully private club: closed for a $7M Beau Welling redesign, with membership sales launched May 2026 and reopening now targeted for November 2026. #### Golf Communities in St. Simons Island - [Frederica](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/st-simons-island/frederica/): A gated golf-and-equestrian community on the far north end of St. Simons Island, capped at roughly 300 homes and centered on the private Frederica Golf Club (Tom Fazio design). - [Sea Palms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/st-simons-island/sea-palms/): St. Simons Island's largest single golf-residential community -- a 340-home Property Owners Association plus separate villa and condo regimes, split by Frederica Road into Sea Palms East and Sea Palms West -- built around the semi-private Club at Sea Palms golf course. - [Hampton Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/st-simons-island/hampton-plantation/): A gated, roughly 320-homesite residential community (Hampton Plantation Property Owners Association) on St. Simons Island's north end, bordering the Joe Lee-designed King and Prince Golf Club -- formerly marketed as 'The King and Prince Golf Course, Home of the Hampton Club' -- between the Marshes of Glynn and the Hampton River. ### West Georgia / South Atlanta Exurbs, GA - [West Georgia / South Atlanta Exurbs, GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/west-georgia-south-atlanta-exurbs/): The West Georgia / South Atlanta Exurbs market covers three distinct but complementary small-city golf pockets on the south/southwest edge of the Atlanta metro area: LaGrange (Troup County), Newnan (Coweta County), and Peachtree City (Fayette County). #### Golf Clubs in West Georgia / South Atlanta Exurbs - [Highland Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/west-georgia-south-atlanta-exurbs/highland-country-club/): Highland Country Club is LaGrange's historic private equity-share club, built on an 18-hole Donald Ross design that opened in 1922 and was later renovated by Joe Finger, with published 2026 annual dues of $4,875 for a primary adult member -- one of Georgia's older Donald Ross courses still in private-club operation. - [Newnan Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/west-georgia-south-atlanta-exurbs/newnan-country-club/): Newnan Country Club is Coweta County's traditional private country club, continuously operating since 1919, requiring member sponsorship and Board approval for admission, and offering unlimited golf with no green fee alongside swimming, tennis, pickleball and dining. - [The Clubs of Peachtree City & Newnan](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/west-georgia-south-atlanta-exurbs/the-clubs-of-peachtree-city-and-newnan/): The Clubs of Peachtree City & Newnan in Peachtree City, Fayetteville, Newnan and Sharpsburg: researched non equity membership and residential communities. ### North Georgia Mountains (Blue Ridge, Jasper & Young Harris), GA - [North Georgia Mountains (Blue Ridge, Jasper & Young Harris), GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains/): This is a loose grouping of three separate small North Georgia mountain towns -- Blue Ridge (Fannin County), Jasper (Pickens County), and Young Harris (Towns County) -- roughly 45 minutes to over an hour apart from one another and each with its own standalone town identity, not a single contiguous or commutable market. #### Golf Clubs in North Georgia Mountains (Blue Ridge, Jasper & Young Harris) - [Bent Tree Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains/bent-tree-country-club/): A private golf club (1972, Joe Lee/David Johnson design) in Jasper, Pickens County, inside the gated Bent Tree residential community. - [Old Toccoa Farm](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains/old-toccoa-farm/): A 24-hour guard-gated residential golf community on the Toccoa River near Blue Ridge (Fannin County), built around an 18-hole Dave Axland/Dan Proctor ('Bunker Hill Golf') design ranked the 8th-best new course in America by Golf Digest in 2020. #### Golf Communities in North Georgia Mountains (Blue Ridge, Jasper & Young Harris) - [Bent Tree Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains/bent-tree-community/): A gated residential golf community near Jasper, GA (Pickens County), governed together with Bent Tree Country Club under a single entity, Bent Tree Community, Inc. Golf and tennis costs are funded through a mandatory property-owner assessment applicable to every resident. - [Old Toccoa Farm](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/north-georgia-mountains/old-toccoa-farm-community/): A 400+ acre, 24-hour guard-gated residential golf community on the Toccoa River near Blue Ridge (Fannin County), built around the Old Toccoa Farm golf course. ### Northwest Georgia (Cartersville, Adairsville & Rome), GA - [Northwest Georgia (Cartersville, Adairsville & Rome), GA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northwest-georgia/): Cartersville and Adairsville (both Bartow County) sit along the I-75 corridor roughly 10 miles apart, with Rome (Floyd County) a further 20-25 minutes west -- geographically coherent enough to treat as one grouping. #### Golf Clubs in Northwest Georgia (Cartersville, Adairsville & Rome) - [Barnsley Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northwest-georgia/barnsley-resort/): A historic-estate golf resort in Adairsville built around the 19th-century Barnsley Gardens ruins, with a Fazio-designed course ranked #1 in Georgia by Golf Advisor and a real, tiered membership program (initiation ~$5,500; monthly dues $455-$515; a 'Platinum' destination-member tier requiring residence 35+ miles away). - [Cartersville Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northwest-georgia/cartersville-country-club/): A private, member-only club in Cartersville, Bartow County, operating since 1954, with tennis, pool, and full clubhouse amenities. - [Coosa Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/georgia/northwest-georgia/coosa-country-club/): A private, member-owned club in Rome (Floyd County), founded in 1909 -- the club describes itself as the 6th oldest club in Georgia and one of the most sought-after private clubs in the Southeast. ## Texas - [Texas Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/): Independent research on 103 golf clubs and 76 residential golf communities across 26 Texas golf markets, including Austin Metro, Texas Hill Country / Horseshoe Bay and Park Cities / Preston Hollow / North Dallas: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Texas Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Texas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 7 Texas golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Escondido Golf and Lake Club, Rockin' J Ranch / Vaaler Creek Golf Club, Stonebriar Country Club, Emerald Bay Club and Bluejack National. - [Private Golf Communities in Texas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 96 private Texas golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Barton Creek Resort & Country Club, Austin Country Club, Spanish Oaks Golf Club, Lost Creek Country Club and Onion Creek Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in Texas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 9 Texas golf resort ecosystems, including Barton Creek Resort & Country Club, Onion Creek Club, Horseshoe Bay Resort, Omni PGA Frisco Resort / Fields Ranch and Memorial Park Golf Course. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Texas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 17 private Texas golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Austin Country Club, Horseshoe Bay Resort, Bent Tree Country Club, Gleneagles Country Club and River Crest Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Texas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 10 Texas golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Great Hills Country Club, Horseshoe Bay Resort, The Club at Comanche Trace, Brookhaven Country Club and Prestonwood Country Club. ### Texas Comparisons - [Carlton Woods vs. Woodlands Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/club-at-carlton-woods-vs-the-woodlands-country-club/): Compare access, cost, and bundling at The Club at Carlton Woods and The Woodlands Country Club, the two qualifying golf anchors in The Woodlands, TX. ### Austin Metro, TX - [Austin Metro, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/): US Golf Living has researched 11 golf anchors in the Austin Metro golf market, in Travis and Williamson and Hays Countyies, including Barton Creek Resort & Country Club, Austin Country Club, Spanish Oaks Golf Club and Lost Creek Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Austin Metro - [Barton Creek Resort & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/barton-creek-resort-country-club/): Austin's flagship golf-resort-residential ecosystem: four championship courses (Fazio Foothills, Fazio Canyons, Coore & Crenshaw Cliffside, and the remote Palmer Lakeside on Lake Travis) split across a public-facing Omni resort operation and a separate member-owned country club ("The Owners Club") inside a ~4,000-acre gated community. - [Austin Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/austin-country-club/): Founded in 1899, one of the oldest clubs in Texas and the home club of legendary teaching pro Harvey Penick. Private, invitation-only membership on a Pete Dye-designed 18 along the Colorado River near Pennybacker Bridge, embedded within the Davenport Ranch neighborhood about 10 miles west of downtown Austin. - [Spanish Oaks Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/spanish-oaks-golf-club/): Bee Cave, TX: One of Austin's most exclusive private clubs: membership capped at roughly 300, granted only by sponsorship and board approval, on a Bobby Weed-designed 18 (2004) ranked among Texas's top courses by Golf Digest and Golfweek. - [Lost Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/lost-creek-country-club/): Private, Invited-managed club established 1970 in West Austin, offering full golf, sports, and social membership tiers. Currently mid-rebrand: Invited's own newsroom describes Lost Creek "becoming Westlake Country Club" as part of the largest club/course transformation in the company's 65-year history (started 2022); some listings still use the Lost Creek name. - [Onion Creek Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/onion-creek-club/): 225-acre gated country-club community in South Austin founded in 1974 by three-time Masters champion Jimmy Demaret -- the only course he designed. - [Balcones Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/balcones-country-club/): Private, invitation-only club in Northwest Austin offering Golf, Junior Executive, Tennis, and Social membership tiers, with a sponsor required for membership. - [Great Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/great-hills-country-club/): Member-owned private club in Northwest Austin (established 1973, member-owned since 1985) offering Social-to-Full-Golf membership tiers. - [University of Texas Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/university-of-texas-golf-club/): A private golf club in the Steiner Ranch master-planned community in Northwest Austin, owned and operated by The University of Texas Golf Club, Ltd. (a Texas limited partnership) and licensed by the University of Texas -- NOT a university-owned facility. - [Twin Creeks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/twin-creeks-country-club-cedar-park-tx/): Private, Arcis-managed club in Cedar Park (Austin metro) on a Fred Couples-designed 18, offering Golf, Junior Executive, Social, Community, and Corporate membership tiers. - [Cimarron Hills Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/cimarron-hills-golf-country-club/): Private, Jack Nicklaus-designed 18-hole club (founded 2003) inside the Cimarron Hills residential community in Georgetown, part of Austin's northern exurban ring. - [The Club at Berry Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/berry-creek-country-club/): Private club (founded 1986), the organizing golf amenity of the Berry Creek residential community in northern Georgetown. - [The Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/the-hills-country-club-lakeway/): 72 holes across four courses (Live Oak, Yaupon, Flintrock Falls, and the Signature Course -- all four now named) inside the gated Hills of Lakeway golf community on Lake Travis, about 25-30 minutes west of downtown Austin. - [Driftwood Golf & Ranch Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/driftwood-golf-ranch-club/): Driftwood Golf & Ranch Club is a Discovery Land Company development on 800+ acres in Hays County, roughly 25-45 minutes southwest of downtown Austin. #### Golf Communities in Austin Metro - [Barton Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/barton-creek-community/): A roughly 4,000-acre gated master-planned community in Southwest Austin (with the separate, smaller Barton Creek Lakeside enclave near the Palmer Lakeside course in Spicewood), comprising 16-20 named sub-neighborhoods, each with its own HOA, built around Barton Creek Resort & Country Club. - [Spanish Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/spanish-oaks-community/): Gated, master-planned residential community in Bee Cave built around and marketed together with Spanish Oaks Golf Club, explicitly positioned as "Austin's most exclusive residential golf community." - [Davenport Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/davenport-ranch/): Established, upscale West Austin neighborhood along the Colorado River, roughly 10 miles west of downtown, that Austin Country Club's roughly 180-acre property sits embedded within. - [Onion Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/onion-creek-community/): 225-acre gated country-club community in South Austin built around Onion Creek Club, the Jimmy Demaret-founded course that hosted the Legends of Golf from 1978-1989. - [Cimarron Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/cimarron-hills-community/): Residential community in Georgetown (northern Austin exurban ring) built around Cimarron Hills Golf & Country Club's Jack Nicklaus-designed 18, with an explicit resident golf-membership tier. - [Berry Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/berry-creek-community/): Residential community in northern Georgetown anchored by The Club at Berry Creek (founded 1986). - [The Hills of Lakeway](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/hills-of-lakeway-community/): Established gated golf community in Lakeway on Lake Travis (~25-30 minutes west of downtown Austin), built around The Hills Country Club's four courses (Live Oak, Yaupon, Flintrock Falls, and the Signature Course). - [Steiner Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/steiner-ranch-community/): Steiner Ranch is a large master-planned community in Northwest Austin overlooking Lake Austin, within which the privately-owned University of Texas Golf Club operates its own gated section (University Club Drive). - [Driftwood Golf & Ranch Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/austin-metro/driftwood-community/): Driftwood Golf & Ranch Club's residential community is an 800+ acre, gated Discovery Land Company development in Hays County, planned for 300+ home sites (villas, cabins, bungalows, and custom estate lots) organized entirely around the club's Tom Fazio championship course. ### Texas Hill Country / Horseshoe Bay, TX - [Texas Hill Country / Horseshoe Bay, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-hill-country-horseshoe-bay/): The Texas Hill Country / Horseshoe Bay market is the state's genuinely distinct golf-resort-and-lake destination, separate in character from Austin's in-town and suburban private clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Texas Hill Country / Horseshoe Bay - [Horseshoe Bay Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-hill-country-horseshoe-bay/horseshoe-bay-resort/): Horseshoe Bay Resort is a AAA Four-Diamond golf-and-lake resort on Lake LBJ (Llano/Burnet county line) built around four 18-hole courses -- three Robert Trent Jones Sr. designs (Slick Rock, Apple Rock, Ram Rock) forming the resort/member-guest rotation, plus the Jack Nicklaus Signature Summit Rock, which is members-only and sits apart from the general rotation. - [Escondido Golf and Lake Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-hill-country-horseshoe-bay/escondido-golf-and-lake-club/): Escondido Golf and Lake Club is a member-owned club on Lake LBJ near Horseshoe Bay built around a Tom Fazio-designed course (2006). - [The Club at Comanche Trace](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-hill-country-horseshoe-bay/comanche-trace/): The Club at Comanche Trace is a private, non-equity club ("no assessments" per the club's own positioning) inside a 1,300-acre master-planned community in Kerrville, offering 27 holes across three nines -- The Hills, The Valleys (Tom Kite), and The Creeks (Jay & Carter Morrish). - [Rockin' J Ranch / Vaaler Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-hill-country-horseshoe-bay/rockin-j-ranch-vaaler-creek-golf-club/): Rockin' J Ranch is a 1,064-acre ranch-scale land development in Blanco, Blanco County, roughly an hour north of San Antonio and south of Austin, built around Blanco County's first 18-hole (par-72) course, Vaaler Creek Golf Club (designed by Michael Lowry, opened July 2009). #### Golf Communities in Texas Hill Country / Horseshoe Bay - [Applehead Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-hill-country-horseshoe-bay/applehead-island-horseshoe-bay/): Applehead Island is a residential peninsula/island enclave within the Horseshoe Bay resort area on Lake LBJ. At least some listed properties there are marketed with a Horseshoe Bay Resort club membership initiation-fee waiver, subject to Club approval -- a real but property-specific, non-automatic benefit, not a blanket bundled-golf structure. - [Horseshoe Bay Resort Villas & Lakeside Condominiums](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-hill-country-horseshoe-bay/horseshoe-bay-resort-villas-condominiums/): A general term for Horseshoe Bay Resort's residential real estate stock beyond single-family homes -- villas and lakeside condominiums built around the resort's golf, marina, and Lake LBJ waterfront amenities. - [Escondido](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-hill-country-horseshoe-bay/escondido-lake-lbj/): Escondido is a roughly 380-homesite, Mediterranean-style golf-and-lake community on Lake LBJ near Horseshoe Bay, built around the Tom Fazio-designed Escondido golf course. - [Comanche Trace](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-hill-country-horseshoe-bay/comanche-trace-community/): Comanche Trace is a 1,300-acre master-planned residential community in Kerrville built around The Club at Comanche Trace's 27-hole golf facility. - [Rockin' J Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-hill-country-horseshoe-bay/rockin-j-ranch-community/): Rockin' J Ranch is a 1,064-acre ranch-scale residential land development in Blanco, Blanco County, built around Vaaler Creek Golf Club -- Blanco County's first 18-hole course. ### Park Cities / Preston Hollow / North Dallas, TX - [Park Cities / Preston Hollow / North Dallas, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/): US Golf Living has researched 13 golf anchors in the Park Cities / Preston Hollow / North Dallas market, Dallas's oldest and most prestigious private-club belt, including Preston Trail Golf Club, Northwood Club, Dallas Country Club, and Trinity Forest Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in Park Cities / Preston Hollow / North Dallas - [Preston Trail Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/preston-trail-golf-club/): An extremely exclusive, invitation-only men's private club in Far North Dallas, opened 1965 (Ralph Plummer design). Hosted the PGA Tour's Dallas Open/Byron Nelson Classic 1968-1982. - [Northwood Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/northwood-club/): A private, invitation-only club founded 1946 in North Dallas, host of the 1952 U.S. Open -- the first major championship played in Texas. - [Brook Hollow Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/brook-hollow-golf-club/): A historic, invitation-only private club in Dallas, founded 1920 on an A.W. Tillinghast design and inducted into the Texas Golf Hall of Fame's historic-course category in 2010. - [Dallas Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/dallas-country-club/): Dallas's oldest country club, founded 1896 (Tom Bendelow design, later Jay Morrish renovation), sitting on Turtle Creek in the heart of Highland Park. - [Trinity Forest Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/trinity-forest-golf-club/): A modern flagship private club in South Dallas (2014, Coore & Crenshaw design on a former landfill), invitation-only, hosted the PGA Tour's AT&T Byron Nelson in 2018 and 2019. - [Royal Oaks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/royal-oaks-country-club-dallas-tx/): A private, invitation-only, member-owned club in the Vickery Meadow area of Dallas (7915 Greenville Ave), founded 1969 on a Don January/Billy Martindale design. - [Lakewood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/lakewood-country-club/): A historic, not-for-profit, member-owned private club in the Lakewood neighborhood of East Dallas, founded 1912 (Tom Bendelow design, later Ralph Plummer redesign and Coore/Crenshaw revitalizations). - [Brookhaven Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/brookhaven-country-club-farmers-branch/): A large, Invited-operated private club in Farmers Branch (adjacent to North Dallas), private since 1957, with three championship 18-hole golf courses (54 holes total) and the largest private racquet-sports complex in DFW (68 courts for tennis, pickleball, and padel). - [Bent Tree Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/bent-tree-country-club-dallas-tx/): A private, invitation-only club at 5201 Westgrove Drive in Far North Dallas, opened 1974 (Desmond Muirhead design) as the centerpiece of a 700-acre residential development. - [Prestonwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/prestonwood-country-club/): A two-campus, Invited-operated private club: 'The Creek' in North Dallas (founded 1968, 15909 Preston Road) and 'The Hills' in West Plano (added 1986, 600 Columbine Way), sharing one membership across both locations (36 holes total). - [Dallas Athletic Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/dallas-athletic-club/): A private club founded in 1919, relocated to a 317-acre site in Mesquite in 1954. Two Jack Nicklaus-redesigned championship courses (Blue and Gold, of the original Ralph Plummer layouts). - [Dallas National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/dallas-national-golf-club/): A private club at 1515 Knoxville Rd in southwest Dallas (Oak Cliff area), founded 2002 on a Tom Fazio design. Reported initiation fee in the $100,000-$160,000 range across third-party sources; no bundled residential community identified. - [Maridoe Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/maridoe-golf-club/): A private, non-equity club in Carrollton (2525 Honors Club Drive), established 2017 on the former Columbian Club of Dallas site. #### Golf Communities in Park Cities / Preston Hollow / North Dallas - [Bent Tree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/park-cities-preston-hollow-north-dallas/bent-tree-neighborhood-dallas-tx/): A cluster of North Dallas neighborhoods (Bent Tree North, Bent Tree Village, Bent Tree West, Old Bent Tree, Bent Tree Royal, Lakes of Bent Tree) built around and named for Bent Tree Country Club, near Addison and the Dallas North Tollway. ### North Dallas Suburbs (Plano / Frisco / McKinney / Allen / Prosper), TX - [North Dallas Suburbs (Plano / Frisco / McKinney / Allen / Prosper), TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/): The North Dallas suburbs -- Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Allen and Prosper, strung along the US-75/Dallas North Tollway growth corridor north of the historic in-town Dallas private-club belt -- are where Texas's golf-residential bundling pattern shows up most explicitly. #### Golf Clubs in North Dallas Suburbs (Plano / Frisco / McKinney / Allen / Prosper) - [Stonebriar Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/stonebriar-country-club-frisco-tx/): 36-hole private club in Frisco (Club Course by Joe Finger/Ken Dye, 1998; Fazio Course by Tom Fazio, 2000), operated by Invited, with a confirmed bundled-social-membership relationship at the adjacent Corvalla condominium community. - [TPC Craig Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/tpc-craig-ranch-mckinney-tx/): Private club (Tom Weiskopf/D.A. Weibring, 2004; Lanny Wadkins-led $22M renovation completed 2026) at the center of McKinney's 2,500-acre Craig Ranch master-planned community, and the current PGA Tour Byron Nelson host through 2030. - [Gleneagles Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/gleneagles-country-club-plano-tx/): 36-hole private club (King's/Queen's courses) in west Plano's Willow Bend area, operated by Invited, with Full Golf/Social/Family/Single membership tiers and the surrounding Willow Bend residential neighborhood built around it. - [The Golf Club at Twin Creeks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/twin-creeks-country-club-allen-tx/): The Golf Club at Twin Creeks (commonly called 'Twin Creeks Country Club' locally) is an Arnold Palmer Signature-designed 18-hole daily-fee facility, Arcis Golf-operated, at the center of Allen's master-planned Twin Creeks neighborhood, with an optional 'Arcis Players' Membership' program distinct from home purchase. - [Old American Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/old-american-golf-club-the-colony-tx/): Semi-private, Golfweek-recognized 'Best Residential Course' (Tripp Davis/Justin Leonard design, 2010) on Lake Lewisville in The Colony, offering residential golf memberships including a new-homeowner trial period. - [Gentle Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/gentle-creek-country-club-prosper-tx/): D.A. Weibring-designed private club operated by Arcis, on 235 acres in Prosper, forming the physical and social center of the Gentle Creek Estates neighborhood. - [Omni PGA Frisco Resort / Fields Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/omni-pga-frisco-resort-fields-ranch-tx/): PGA of America's national headquarters campus in Frisco: two Gil Hanse/Beau Welling-designed courses (Fields Ranch East/West), the Omni PGA Frisco Resort, the private Club 1916 membership, and The Preserve, a gated luxury residential enclave built onto the golf-course frontage. #### Golf Communities in North Dallas Suburbs (Plano / Frisco / McKinney / Allen / Prosper) - [The Corvalla](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/the-corvalla-frisco-tx/): A luxury gated condominium community adjacent to Stonebriar Country Club in Frisco, whose HOA/condo dues bundle in a complimentary Stonebriar social membership (fitness, dining, pool, putting green) -- one of the clearest confirmed golf-bundling relationships found in this market. - [Craig Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/craig-ranch-mckinney-tx/): A 2,500-acre master-planned community in McKinney built around TPC Craig Ranch, offering single-family homes, luxury townhomes and ranch-style homes from multiple builders, plus a large non-golf amenity slate (fitness/spa, sports complexes, trails). - [Twin Creeks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/twin-creeks-neighborhood-allen-tx/): A master-planned Allen neighborhood built around the Arnold Palmer-designed Twin Creeks Golf Club, with homes generally $600,000-$800,000 (largest estates near $4M) and HOA fees varying by subdivision ($60-$400/month). - [Gentle Creek Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/gentle-creek-estates-prosper-tx/): An upscale ~630-acre neighborhood of roughly 200-300 single-family homes (3,500-6,000+ sq ft) in Prosper, built directly around Gentle Creek Country Club, with many homeowners having direct golf-cart access to the club from their properties. - [Willow Bend](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/willow-bend-plano-tx/): An established, upscale west-Plano collection of neighborhoods -- large estate homes (commonly 6,000-11,000 sq ft on half-acre to 3-plus-acre lots) -- built around Gleneagles Country Club and near the Shops at Willow Bend. - [The Preserve at Fields](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/north-dallas-suburbs/the-preserve-frisco-tx/): A guard-gated, ultra-luxury residential enclave within the Fields master-planned development, built directly on the frontage of PGA Frisco's Fields Ranch golf courses; Phase 1 includes 233 homes from 10 North Texas luxury builders. ### Las Colinas / Irving, TX - [Las Colinas / Irving, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/las-colinas-irving/): Las Colinas is a 12,000-acre master-planned mixed-use district within Irving, Texas, founded in 1973 and built out over the following decades into one of the Dallas-Fort Worth area's most recognizable urban-center developments -- a mix of corporate office towers along Lake Carolyn, high-rise condos, canal-front retail, and several distinct golf-anchored residential pockets. #### Golf Clubs in Las Colinas / Irving - [The Nelson Golf & Sports Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/las-colinas-irving/nelson-golf-and-sports-club/): Private club in Irving's Las Colinas district operating the former TPC Las Colinas course, renamed after Century Golf Partners/HKI America bought the property in Dec. - [Cottonwood Valley Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/las-colinas-irving/cottonwood-valley-golf-course/): Irving, TX: Private 18-hole course (par 71) adjoining the Nelson Golf & Sports Club under the same post-2022 Century Golf Partners/HKI America ownership. - [Hackberry Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/las-colinas-irving/hackberry-creek-country-club/): Private, Invited-operated country club (Joe Finger/Byron Nelson design, 1985) that is the centerpiece of the guard-gated, 1,249-home Hackberry Creek master-planned community in Las Colinas. - [Las Colinas Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/las-colinas-irving/las-colinas-country-club/): Private, Invited-operated country club founded in 1963 (Joe Finger design) in Irving's Las Colinas area. Offers Full Golf, Sports, Social, and Family membership tiers; not identified as the bundled amenity of a single named residential development. #### Golf Communities in Las Colinas / Irving - [Enclave at TPC Las Colinas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/las-colinas-irving/enclave-at-tpc-las-colinas/): Guard-gated residential community situated on the Nelson Golf & Sports Club's TPC-legacy course in southern Las Colinas, in the 75038 zip code, near the Enclave at Windsor Ridge. - [The Residences of Las Colinas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/las-colinas-irving/the-residences-of-las-colinas/): Boutique new-construction development of luxury one-story golf villas (roughly 2,000-3,000 sq ft, elevator-accessible) built directly on the Nelson Golf & Sports Club's course, overlooking the 17th and 18th holes, adjacent to the Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas. - [Cottonwood Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/las-colinas-irving/cottonwood-valley-community-irving-tx/): Guard-gated, ~465-home community in southwest Las Colinas built around Cottonwood Valley Golf Course, sharing property with the Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas resort. - [Hackberry Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/las-colinas-irving/hackberry-creek-community-irving-tx/): 1,249-home, guard-gated master-planned community in Las Colinas built around Hackberry Creek Country Club, with homes generally built from the mid-1980s through the early 2000s. ### Fort Worth, TX - [Fort Worth, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/fort-worth/): Fort Worth's golf-living identity is built almost entirely on old-money, century-adjacent private clubs rather than newer bundled residential products -- the opposite emphasis from the gated-community corridor just northeast of it (Westlake/Southlake/Trophy Club). #### Golf Clubs in Fort Worth - [Colonial Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/fort-worth/colonial-country-club-fort-worth-tx/): Fort Worth, TX: Colonial Country Club is a private, 18-hole, invitation-tradition club founded in 1936 by Marvin Leonard (John Bredemus/Perry Maxwell design), the first Texas course with bentgrass greens. - [Shady Oaks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/fort-worth/shady-oaks-country-club-fort-worth-tx/): Shady Oaks Country Club, in Westworth Village adjacent to Fort Worth, was built by Marvin Leonard (Robert Trent Jones Sr. design) and opened in 1958; Ben Hogan joined at founding and made it his home club for roughly 40 years, practicing daily on its 'Little Nine' practice area into his retirement. - [River Crest Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/fort-worth/river-crest-country-club-fort-worth-tx/): River Crest Country Club, opened May 6, 1911 (Tom Bendelow design), is Fort Worth's oldest private club and was Texas's eighth country club at founding. - [Ridglea Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/fort-worth/ridglea-country-club-fort-worth-tx/): Ridglea Country Club, opened 1954, is the only Fort Worth country club with two 18-hole courses (a North/Family course and a South/Championship course) and one of the largest member-owned clubs in the area at roughly 1,600 members. - [Mira Vista Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/fort-worth/mira-vista-country-club-fort-worth-tx/): Mira Vista, opened 1987, was the first new Fort Worth country club in over 15 years at the time and is described consistently across multiple sources as the city's only 24-hour, gated golf-course community. - [Bluejack Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/fort-worth/bluejack-ranch-aledo-tx/): Bluejack Ranch is a 914-acre private residential golf and working-ranch club in Aledo (Parker County), roughly 20 miles southwest of Fort Worth -- a sister development to Bluejack National (Montgomery County, near Houston) from the same developer, Andy and Kristin Mitchell, and the same Tiger Woods/TGR Design/Beau Welling design team. #### Golf Communities in Fort Worth - [Rivercrest](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/fort-worth/rivercrest-fort-worth-tx/): Rivercrest is one of Fort Worth's most affluent, established neighborhoods, on bluffs above the Trinity River, built up around River Crest Country Club since the club's 1911 founding (which included an original sale of surrounding home sites). - [Ridglea Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/fort-worth/ridglea-country-club-estates-fort-worth-tx/): Fort Worth, TX: Ridglea Country Club Estates is a single-family neighborhood built largely 1960-1980 around Ridglea Country Club, southeast of Bomber Heights and southwest of Ridglea Hills, and named directly for the club. - [Mira Vista](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/fort-worth/mira-vista-fort-worth-tx/): Mira Vista is a 700-acre, 24-hour manned-gate community in southwest Fort Worth built in 1987 around Mira Vista Country Club -- consistently described as the only such gated golf community in the city. - [Bluejack Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/fort-worth/bluejack-ranch-community-aledo-tx/): Bluejack Ranch is a 914-acre, gated, pre-opening private residential community in Aledo (Parker County), planned for approximately 500-550 low-density custom homes around a Tiger Woods-designed course, from the developer of Bluejack National near Houston. ### Westlake / Southlake / Trophy Club, TX - [Westlake / Southlake / Trophy Club, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/westlake-southlake-trophy-club/): The Westlake / Southlake / Trophy Club corridor is northeast Tarrant County (spilling into southern Denton County) at its most explicitly golf-residential: four private clubs, each built as the deliberate centerpiece of a gated or golf-oriented residential development rather than a freestanding in-town club. #### Golf Clubs in Westlake / Southlake / Trophy Club - [Vaquero Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/westlake-southlake-trophy-club/vaquero-club/): Ultra-exclusive Discovery Land Company gated golf community in Westlake, developed from 2001 on the former Circle T Ranch. - [Timarron Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/westlake-southlake-trophy-club/timarron-country-club/): Guard-gated master-planned community in Southlake established in 1994 around a private, Byron Nelson-designed golf course now operated by Invited. - [Trophy Club Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/westlake-southlake-trophy-club/trophy-club-country-club/): Private, Invited-operated 36-hole club (Hogan Course and Whitworth Course) in the incorporated town of Trophy Club, Texas — the town's namesake and founding amenity. - [The Lakes at Castle Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/westlake-southlake-trophy-club/the-lakes-at-castle-hills/): Private 18-hole club (Jay Morrish design) inside Castle Hills, a 2,900-acre master-planned community in Lewisville, Denton County. #### Golf Communities in Westlake / Southlake / Trophy Club - [Vaquero](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/westlake-southlake-trophy-club/vaquero-westlake/): Gated Discovery Land Company golf community in Westlake built around Vaquero Club; roughly 350-400 luxury home sites on the former Circle T Ranch, among the most tightly secured gated communities in DFW. - [Timarron](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/westlake-southlake-trophy-club/timarron-southlake/): Guard-gated master-planned community established 1994 in Southlake, spanning fifteen Southlake neighborhoods plus two in Colleyville, built around Timarron Country Club's Byron Nelson-designed course. - [Hogan's Glen](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/westlake-southlake-trophy-club/hogans-glen-trophy-club/): A guard-gated, golf-course-fronting custom-home neighborhood within the town of Trophy Club, sited directly along Trophy Club Country Club. - [Castle Hills (Lewisville)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/westlake-southlake-trophy-club/castle-hills-lewisville/): A 2,900-acre master-planned, mixed-use community in Lewisville (Denton County) developed since 1998, home to more than 4,300 homes and The Lakes at Castle Hills private golf club. - [The Villas at Castle Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/westlake-southlake-trophy-club/the-villas-at-castle-hills/): A gated enclave of patio homes within the larger Castle Hills master-planned community in Lewisville; home purchase here is confirmed to include a Social Membership to The Lakes at Castle Hills golf club. ### Cedar Creek Lake, TX - [Cedar Creek Lake, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/cedar-creek-lake/): Cedar Creek Lake, roughly an hour southeast of Dallas near Kemp, Mabank, and Gun Barrel City, is a large reservoir lake-escape market for DFW buyers. #### Golf Clubs in Cedar Creek Lake - [Old Mine Club at Long Cove](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/cedar-creek-lake/long-cove-cedar-creek-lake-tx/): Old Mine Club is Long Cove's invitation-only private golf club, created exclusively for homeowners at the 1,200-acre gated Long Cove community on Cedar Creek Lake. #### Golf Communities in Cedar Creek Lake - [Long Cove](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/cedar-creek-lake/long-cove-community-cedar-creek-lake-tx/): Long Cove is a 1,200-acre gated lakefront community on Cedar Creek Lake near Malakoff, developed by Don McNamara (Cityplace, West Village) since 2012, with $650M+ in cumulative sales across 230+ homes. ### Tyler / Lake Palestine, TX - [Tyler / Lake Palestine, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/tyler-lake-palestine/): Tyler and neighboring Lake Palestine form East Texas's real golf-living corridor in the Piney Woods, and a live-source research pass has now resolved the market's central open questions. #### Golf Clubs in Tyler / Lake Palestine - [Emerald Bay Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/tyler-lake-palestine/emerald-bay-club-bullard-tx/): Emerald Bay Club is a gated, member-owned private golf community on Lake Palestine near Bullard, TX (Smith County) -- 355 acres with 600+ single-family homes, townhouses, and duplexes, roughly 12 miles from Tyler. - [Eagle's Bluff Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/tyler-lake-palestine/eagles-bluff-country-club-bullard-tx/): Eagle's Bluff Country Club anchors a gated, 650-acre golf-and-lake community on Lake Palestine's east shore near Bullard, TX. - [Cascades Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/tyler-lake-palestine/cascades-country-club-tyler-tx/): Cascades Country Club (Tyler, TX; established 1950s) is a private, members-only club (386 acres, 18-hole PGA-designed course, indoor tennis, multiple dining venues) surrounded by several genuine, independently-verified named residential developments -- 'The Stretford at the Cascades' condos ($495K-$675K), 'Cascades Lake Towers,' and 'Cascades Estates' -- clustered around Lake Bellwood. - [Hollytree Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/tyler-lake-palestine/hollytree-country-club-tyler-tx/): Hollytree Country Club is a private, George Cobb-designed 18-hole club in South Tyler, TX, founded 1983 (28,000 sq ft clubhouse), that gives its name to and physically anchors the surrounding Hollytree neighborhood of custom estate homes. #### Golf Communities in Tyler / Lake Palestine - [Emerald Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/tyler-lake-palestine/emerald-bay-bullard-tx/): Emerald Bay is a gated, member-owned waterfront and golf-course residential community on Lake Palestine near Bullard, TX -- 355 acres with 600+ single-family homes, townhouses, and duplexes. - [Eagle's Bluff](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/tyler-lake-palestine/eagles-bluff-bullard-tx/): Eagle's Bluff is a gated, 650-acre golf-and-lake residential community on the east shore of Lake Palestine near Bullard, TX, anchored by the private Eagle's Bluff Country Club (Carlton Gipson design, 1999). - [The Cascades](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/tyler-lake-palestine/cascades-tyler-tx/): The Cascades is a cluster of named residential developments in Tyler, TX -- including 'The Stretford at the Cascades' (a condo building, 2BR units roughly $495K-$675K), 'Cascades Lake Towers' (adjacent lakefront single-family homes), and 'Cascades Estates' (a further nearby neighborhood) -- physically clustered around the private Cascades Country Club and Lake Bellwood, about five miles from downtown Tyler. - [Hollytree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/tyler-lake-palestine/hollytree-tyler-tx/): Hollytree is a South Tyler, TX neighborhood of custom estate homes (ranch-style and Spanish Revival villas on large, pine-shaded lots) that surrounds and takes its name from the private Hollytree Country Club (George Cobb design, founded 1983). ### Lufkin / Angelina County, TX - [Lufkin / Angelina County, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lufkin-angelina-county/): Lufkin/Angelina County remains a small, honest one-anchor East Texas market: Crown Colony Country Club (also currently marketed as 'The Golf Club at Crown Colony'), which anchors the 750-acre gated Crown Colony Improvement Association community. #### Golf Clubs in Lufkin / Angelina County - [Crown Colony Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lufkin-angelina-county/crown-colony-country-club-lufkin-tx/): Crown Colony Country Club (also currently marketed as 'The Golf Club at Crown Colony') is a semi-private club in Lufkin, TX (Angelina County) that anchors the 750-acre, gated Crown Colony Improvement Association -- a purpose-built residential community with its own HOA governance (est. 1978), reportedly a 1979 Robert von Hagge/Bruce Devlin design. #### Golf Communities in Lufkin / Angelina County - [Crown Colony](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lufkin-angelina-county/crown-colony-lufkin-tx/): Crown Colony is a 750-acre gated community in Lufkin, TX governed by the Crown Colony Improvement Association (est. 1978), purpose-built around Crown Colony Country Club (also marketed as 'The Golf Club at Crown Colony,' reportedly a 1979 Robert von Hagge/Bruce Devlin design). ### Texas Gulf Coast, TX - [Texas Gulf Coast, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-gulf-coast/): The Texas Gulf Coast is a genuinely smaller and thinner golf-residential market than Florida's or Georgia's coastal golf destinations, exactly as this project's statewide discovery pass predicted. #### Golf Clubs in Texas Gulf Coast - [River Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-gulf-coast/river-hills-country-club-corpus-christi-tx/): River Hills Country Club anchors the River Hills residential area of Corpus Christi (HOA history dating to 1967). The club's own membership page states that homeowners within the community are required to maintain at least Social membership -- a genuine mandatory-membership, gated golf-residential pattern, the clearest of its kind found on the Texas Gulf Coast. - [Rockport Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-gulf-coast/rockport-country-club/): Rockport Country Club (Bill Coore/Jimmy Demaret design, 1983) anchors a real 530-acre golf-residential community in Rockport -- custom homes, resales, condos, and townhomes built along the course, with its own dedicated HOA (Rockport Country Club Estates Homeowners Association). - [South Padre Island Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-gulf-coast/south-padre-island-golf-club-laguna-vista-tx/): South Padre Island Golf Club, despite its name, is physically in Laguna Vista on the mainland, across the causeway from South Padre Island itself. #### Golf Communities in Texas Gulf Coast - [River Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-gulf-coast/river-hills-community-corpus-christi-tx/): River Hills is a gated golf-residential community in Corpus Christi built around River Hills Country Club, whose own membership terms require homeowners to maintain at least Social membership. - [Rockport Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-gulf-coast/rockport-country-club-estates-rockport-tx/): Rockport Country Club Estates is a 530-acre residential community of custom homes, resales, condominiums, and townhomes built along the Rockport Country Club golf course, administered by its own dedicated homeowners association. - [South Padre Island Golf Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/texas-gulf-coast/south-padre-island-golf-club-community-laguna-vista-tx/): A 1,800-acre gated community in Laguna Vista built directly around South Padre Island Golf Club, with automatic HOA membership for owners and a large, actively growing new-construction expansion (Gallery Homes, 375 homesites approved October 2025) directly linked to the club on its own website. ### Houston In-Town / River Oaks / Memorial, TX - [Houston In-Town / River Oaks / Memorial, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/houston-in-town-river-oaks-memorial/): This market covers Houston's historic, prestige, in-town private-club belt inside and near Loop 610: River Oaks, Tanglewood, west Houston, and the Alief area, plus the city's flagship municipal course. #### Golf Clubs in Houston In-Town / River Oaks / Memorial - [River Oaks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/houston-in-town-river-oaks-memorial/river-oaks-country-club/): Founded in 1923, River Oaks Country Club is Houston's archetypal historic, invitation-flavored private club, its Donald Ross-designed course (renovated by Rees Jones in 1990 and Tom Fazio's firm in 2015) sitting inside the city's most storied prestige neighborhood. - [Houston Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/houston-in-town-river-oaks-memorial/houston-country-club/): Chartered in 1908 and relocated to Tanglewood in 1957, Houston Country Club is a member-owned, invitation-flavored private club with a Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed course and a multi-year sponsorship waitlist; Forbes ranked it among the nation's top-20 country clubs in 2021-22. - [Lakeside Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/houston-in-town-river-oaks-memorial/lakeside-country-club/): Founded in 1951 on Buffalo Bayou in west Houston, Lakeside Country Club is an invitation-only private club whose Ralph Plummer-designed course was restored by Ron Prichard after Hurricane Harvey flooding in 2017. - [Royal Oaks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/houston-in-town-river-oaks-memorial/royal-oaks-country-club-houston-tx/): Royal Oaks Country Club in Houston's Alief area is a Fred Couples-designed 18-hole course built as the centerpiece of a purpose-developed, guard-gated luxury subdivision (development began 1999 on the former Andrau Airpark site) -- the first country club built inside Houston's city limits in 50 years. - [Memorial Park Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/houston-in-town-river-oaks-memorial/memorial-park-golf-course/): Memorial Park Golf Course is a City of Houston municipal course inside the 1,500-acre Memorial Park, first opened for WWI-era soldiers in 1912 and rebuilt by John Bredemus in 1935. #### Golf Communities in Houston In-Town / River Oaks / Memorial - [River Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/houston-in-town-river-oaks-memorial/river-oaks-neighborhood-houston/): River Oaks is Houston's best-known historic prestige neighborhood, developed around and named for River Oaks Country Club (founded 1923). - [Tanglewood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/houston-in-town-river-oaks-memorial/tanglewood-houston/): Tanglewood is an established, centrally located Houston neighborhood near the Galleria, home to Houston Country Club since the club's 1957 relocation there. - [Royal Oaks Country Club (subdivision)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/houston-in-town-river-oaks-memorial/royal-oaks-subdivision-houston-tx/): The Royal Oaks Country Club subdivision is a guard-gated, masonry-walled luxury community built (starting 1999) directly around the Fred Couples-designed Royal Oaks Country Club golf course on the former Andrau Airpark site in Houston's Alief area. ### Kingwood / Humble, TX - [Kingwood / Humble, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/kingwood-humble/): US Golf Living has researched 2 golf anchors in the Kingwood/Humble golf market in northeast Houston: Kingwood Country Club (The Clubs of Kingwood, including Deerwood Golf Club) and Golf Club of Houston, a former PGA Tour venue now hosting LIV Golf Houston. #### Golf Clubs in Kingwood / Humble - [Kingwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/kingwood-humble/kingwood-country-club/): The Clubs of Kingwood (marketed as one of the world's largest private country clubs) comprises the Forest, Island, and Lake courses plus the historically distinct Deerwood Golf Club, operated by Invited (formerly ClubCorp) within Houston's large Kingwood master-planned community. - [Golf Club of Houston](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/kingwood-humble/golf-club-of-houston/): Golf Club of Houston, near Humble, is a two-course facility (private Member Course + public Tournament Course) formerly known as Redstone Golf Club until a December 2013 rebrand under new owner Escalante Golf. #### Golf Communities in Kingwood / Humble - [Kingwood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/kingwood-humble/kingwood-master-planned-community/): Kingwood, nicknamed 'The Livable Forest,' is a roughly 14,000-acre master-planned community in northeast Houston developed since 1971 -- Harris County's largest master-planned community. - [Barrington](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/kingwood-humble/barrington-kingwood/): Barrington is a gated, 200-plus-acre enclave within Kingwood that is physically surrounded by the Lakes Course at Kingwood Country Club -- the clearest on-course residential relationship found within the broader Kingwood community. ### The Woodlands, TX - [The Woodlands, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/the-woodlands/): The Woodlands is a large, master-planned community developed since 1974 roughly 30 miles north of downtown Houston, spanning mostly Montgomery County with a smaller portion in Harris County. #### Golf Clubs in The Woodlands - [The Club at Carlton Woods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/the-woodlands/club-at-carlton-woods/): A private, gated 36-hole club (Jack Nicklaus Signature course plus a Tom Fazio course at the Creekside section) that is the organizing amenity of the Carlton Woods luxury gated community in The Woodlands. - [The Woodlands Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/the-woodlands/the-woodlands-country-club/): The Woodlands, TX: A freestanding, established-1978 semi-private club with 99 holes across five courses threaded through many Woodlands villages. - [Bluejack National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/the-woodlands/bluejack-national/): Tiger Woods' first American golf-course design (opened 2015), anchoring a private, gated resort-residential community hard-capped at 420 residences and 550 memberships in Montgomery, north of The Woodlands/Lake Conroe. #### Golf Communities in The Woodlands - [Carlton Woods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/the-woodlands/carlton-woods/): A 24-hour manned-gate luxury custom-home community in The Woodlands, organized around the private Club at Carlton Woods (Nicklaus Signature course; Fazio course at the Creekside section). - [The Woodlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/the-woodlands/the-woodlands-mpc/): The Woodlands, TX: The large, non-gated master-planned community north of Houston that gives the market its name -- an umbrella of dozens of named villages (e.g. Grogan's Mill, Panther Creek, Cochran's Crossing, Alden Bridge, Sterling Ridge, Creekside Park) built up since 1974. - [Player Vista](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/the-woodlands/player-vista/): Player Vista in The Woodlands: researched golf access, housing and costs, and what buyers should independently verify before purchasing. - [Bluejack National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/the-woodlands/bluejack-national-community/): The gated residential community built around Bluejack National's Tiger Woods-designed course near Montgomery, north of The Woodlands/Lake Conroe. ### Cypress / Spring / Northwest Houston, TX - [Cypress / Spring / Northwest Houston, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/cypress-spring-northwest-houston/): The Cypress/Spring/Northwest Houston market runs along the Highway 249 and Grand Parkway corridor in northwest Harris County and reaches out to Hockley, roughly 35 miles from downtown Houston. #### Golf Clubs in Cypress / Spring / Northwest Houston - [Champions Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/cypress-spring-northwest-houston/champions-golf-club/): Private 36-hole club in northwest Houston (Cypress Creek and Jackrabbit courses) founded by Jack Burke Jr. and Jimmy Demaret. - [Northgate Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/cypress-spring-northwest-houston/northgate-country-club/): Private, invitation-only club (est. 1983, Devlin/von Hagge design) in Northgate Forest, Houston, explicitly marketed by its operator as the community's centerpiece. - [Houston Oaks Country Club & Retreat](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/cypress-spring-northwest-houston/houston-oaks-country-club-retreat/): 950-acre private ranch-resort-retreat in Hockley (~35 mi NW of Houston) founded by three Houston families on former Tenneco land. #### Golf Communities in Cypress / Spring / Northwest Houston - [Oaks at Houston Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/cypress-spring-northwest-houston/oaks-at-houston-oaks/): Tuscan-style custom-home enclave on part of the 950-acre Houston Oaks Country Club & Retreat property in Hockley, built by several named builders (Kickerillo Companies, Jeff Paul Homes, Matt Powers Custom Homes, Morning Star Builders, William David Homes). - [Northgate Forest](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/cypress-spring-northwest-houston/northgate-forest/): Upscale Houston neighborhood explicitly marketed by Northgate Country Club's operator as being organized around the club, which functions as the community's centerpiece. ### Sugar Land / Katy / Fort Bend, TX - [Sugar Land / Katy / Fort Bend, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/sugar-land-katy-fort-bend/): The Sugar Land/Katy/Fort Bend market covers the fast-growing southwest Houston corridor across Fort Bend County and Katy's cross-county sprawl. #### Golf Clubs in Sugar Land / Katy / Fort Bend - [Sweetwater Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/sugar-land-katy-fort-bend/sweetwater-country-club/): Private 36-hole Sugar Land club (est. 1982); acquired by Sculptor Real Estate in 2024 and renamed TPC Houston in March 2026 after joining the PGA Tour's TPC Network. - [Riverbend Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/sugar-land-katy-fort-bend/riverbend-country-club/): Traditional, member-owned, invitation-only private club in Sugar Land (est. 1957, Press Maxwell design, carved out of a pecan orchard). - [Weston Lakes Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/sugar-land-katy-fort-bend/weston-lakes-country-club/): 1,600-acre guard-gated master-planned community in Fulshear (Fort Bend County) where every homesite requires mandatory membership in Weston Lakes Country Club, an 18-hole Hale Irwin/Carlton Gipson design. - [Willow Fork Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/sugar-land-katy-fort-bend/willow-fork-country-club/): Private, members-and-guests-only club in Katy (est. 1984; course by Dave Marr and Jay Riviere, par 72, 6,949 yards), not gated, surrounded by the established Kelliwood and Cinco Ranch neighborhoods. #### Golf Communities in Sugar Land / Katy / Fort Bend - [Weston Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/sugar-land-katy-fort-bend/weston-lakes/): 1,600-acre, 24-hour guard-gated master-planned community in unincorporated Fort Bend County (near Fulshear) where every homesite requires mandatory membership in Weston Lakes Country Club. ### Lake Conroe / Montgomery, TX - [Lake Conroe / Montgomery, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lake-conroe-montgomery/): Lake Conroe, a roughly 21,000-acre reservoir just north of The Woodlands and Houston, is home to a genuinely distinct north-exurb lake-and-golf pattern: three long-established, gated or semi-gated communities -- Walden, April Sound, and Bentwater -- each built directly around a private golf club rather than golf being a later add-on to an existing subdivision. #### Golf Clubs in Lake Conroe / Montgomery - [Walden on Lake Conroe Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lake-conroe-montgomery/walden-on-lake-conroe-golf-club/): Walden on Lake Conroe Golf Club is the founding golf course of the large, Lake Conroe-front Walden community in Montgomery, Texas -- an 18-hole Bruce Devlin/Robert von Hagge design opened in 1976 that anchors a community platted for roughly 5,300 homes. - [April Sound Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lake-conroe-montgomery/april-sound-country-club/): April Sound Country Club is a 27-hole private club (established in the early 1970s, operated today by Invited) on the southern shore of Lake Conroe, anchoring the gated April Sound community in Montgomery, Texas. - [Bentwater Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lake-conroe-montgomery/bentwater-yacht-and-country-club-montgomery-tx/): Bentwater Yacht & Country Club anchors a roughly 1,400-acre gated waterfront community on Lake Conroe in Montgomery, Texas, marketed as the only private, gated waterfront community in Texas with three 18-hole championship golf courses (54 holes total), plus a marina, yacht club, spa, and fitness center. #### Golf Communities in Lake Conroe / Montgomery - [Walden on Lake Conroe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lake-conroe-montgomery/walden-on-lake-conroe/): Walden on Lake Conroe is a large Lake Conroe community in Montgomery, Texas, platted for roughly 5,300 dwellings ranging from estate homes to condominiums, built and marketed around Walden on Lake Conroe Golf Club since 1976. - [April Sound](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lake-conroe-montgomery/april-sound/): April Sound is a gated Lake Conroe community in Montgomery, Texas, built around April Sound Country Club, governed by the April Sound Property Owners Association (ASPOA). - [Bentwater](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lake-conroe-montgomery/bentwater/): Bentwater is a gated, roughly 1,400-acre master-planned waterfront community along 12.5 miles of Lake Conroe shoreline in Montgomery, Texas, built around Bentwater Yacht & Country Club's three 18-hole golf courses and marina. ### Clear Lake / League City, TX - [Clear Lake / League City, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/clear-lake-league-city/): League City sits on Clear Lake southeast of Houston, between the bay-front NASA/Clear Lake area and Galveston Bay. Golf-oriented residential development here is small and honestly thin by design -- this market rests on two clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Clear Lake / League City - [South Shore Harbour Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/clear-lake-league-city/south-shore-harbour-country-club/): South Shore Harbour Country Club is a 27-hole private club (three nine-hole courses) in League City, Texas, anchoring the roughly 2,200-acre South Shore Harbour master-planned waterfront community on Clear Lake, though club membership operates as a separate business from the community's HOA rather than as a bundled homeowner benefit. - [Magnolia Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/clear-lake-league-city/magnolia-creek-golf-club/): Research Magnolia Creek Golf Club, a 27-hole League City, TX course operated by Invited on a semi-private, membership-optional model. #### Golf Communities in Clear Lake / League City - [South Shore Harbour](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/clear-lake-league-city/south-shore-harbour/): South Shore Harbour is a roughly 2,200-acre master-planned waterfront community on Clear Lake in League City, Texas, established in the early 1980s around a large private marina (opened 1983) and South Shore Harbour Country Club's 27-hole golf club. - [Magnolia Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/clear-lake-league-city/magnolia-creek/): Magnolia Creek is a master-planned community in League City, Texas, built in the early 2000s around Magnolia Creek Golf Club, with homes generally reported from the $300s to $500s. ### San Antonio, TX - [San Antonio, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/): San Antonio is, on the evidence gathered so far, a real but genuinely smaller private-club market than Dallas-Fort Worth or Houston -- exactly what the research brief expected going in, and what this batch's research confirms rather than pads around. #### Golf Clubs in San Antonio - [The Dominion Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/the-dominion-country-club/): Private country club at the center of The Dominion, a guard-gated community of roughly 1,500-1,600 acres (sources vary) and 4,000+ residents in north-central San Antonio. - [TPC San Antonio](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/tpc-san-antonio/): Two-course golf complex (The Oaks by Greg Norman, The Canyons by Pete Dye) at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort, host of the PGA Tour's Valero Texas Open every year since 2010. - [San Antonio Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/san-antonio-country-club/): Private club founded in 1904 at 4100 N. New Braunfels Ave, San Antonio (Alamo Heights vicinity), one of Texas's oldest private clubs, with an NRHP-listed Spanish Colonial clubhouse and a multi-time host of the Texas Amateur Championship. - [Oak Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/oak-hills-country-club/): Private, invitation-only, member-owned club founded 1921 (originally Alamo Country Club) at 5403 Fredericksburg Rd in San Antonio's Medical Center-area 'Oak Hills' neighborhood; A.W. Tillinghast design. - [The Clubs of Cordillera Ranch (Jack Nicklaus Golf Club)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/cordillera-ranch-golf-club/): Jack Nicklaus Signature course (2006), one of seven member clubs (golf, social, tennis/swim, equestrian, rod & gun, spa, river) within Cordillera Ranch, a ~8,700-acre gated community in Boerne, TX. - [Fair Oaks Ranch Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/fair-oaks-ranch-golf-and-country-club/): 36-hole club (two Gary Player-designed courses, opened 1978) managed by Invited Clubs. The namesake anchor of the incorporated city of Fair Oaks Ranch, at the Kendall/Bexar county line northwest of San Antonio. - [The Club at Sonterra](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/the-club-at-sonterra/): Private, 36-hole club (North Course 1985, South Course 1954) amid Sonterra, San Antonio's first large master-planned community (est. 1985) in the North Central corridor. #### Golf Communities in San Antonio - [The Dominion](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/the-dominion/): A guard-gated master-planned community of ~1,500-1,600 acres (sources vary) and 4,000+ residents across roughly 15 sub-neighborhoods in north-central San Antonio, built around The Dominion Country Club. - [Cibolo Canyons](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/cibolo-canyons/): A ~2,100-acre guard-gated master-planned community in far north San Antonio (Loop 1604/Hwy 281 corridor), built around the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and TPC San Antonio. - [Sonterra](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/sonterra/): San Antonio, TX: Confirmed as Bexar County's first master-planned community, established in 1985 by developer Dan Parman, in the North Central corridor, with multiple named subsections (The Fairways, The Oaks, La Cierra, etc.), built around The Club at Sonterra's 36 holes. - [Cordillera Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/cordillera-ranch/): A ~8,700-acre gated master-planned community in Boerne, TX (Kendall County), organized around seven member clubs including a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course, plus equestrian, rod & gun, tennis/swim, social, spa, and river clubs. - [Fair Oaks Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-antonio/fair-oaks-ranch/): The incorporated city of Fair Oaks Ranch, at the Kendall/Bexar/Comal county lines northwest of San Antonio, takes its name and identity directly from Fair Oaks Ranch Golf & Country Club. ### Lubbock, TX - [Lubbock, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lubbock/): Lubbock's golf-residential landscape splits into two eras. LakeRidge Country Club, established 1977, represents the older model: a private club that gave its name to and anchors a large (1,200-plus-home), long-established neighborhood. #### Golf Clubs in Lubbock - [Red Feather Golf & Social Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lubbock/red-feather-golf-social-club/): A brand-new, private, gated 65-acre golf and residential community in Lubbock built around a King-Collins-designed course; still in active build-out, with roughly 75 of a planned ~200 home sites platted in Phase 1 and 56 reported sold as of the discovery-stage source. - [LakeRidge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lubbock/lakeridge-country-club/): A private club (Don January/Billy Martindale design, established 1977) anchoring the 625-acre, 1,200+ home LakeRidge Country Club Estates neighborhood in Lubbock; homes reported averaging roughly $450K. - [Lubbock Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lubbock/lubbock-country-club/): A member-owned, invitation/sponsor-based private club in Lubbock operating continuously since 1921, with an 18-hole championship course. #### Golf Communities in Lubbock - [Red Feather Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lubbock/red-feather-estates/): Lubbock, TX: A brand-new 65-acre gated master-planned community built around Red Feather Golf & Social Club; ~200 home sites planned, ~75 platted in Phase 1 with 56 reported sold as of the discovery-stage source. - [LakeRidge Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lubbock/lakeridge-country-club-estates/): Lubbock, TX: Established 1977, 625-acre, 1,200+ home neighborhood anchored by LakeRidge Country Club; homes reported averaging roughly $450K. - [Lubbock Country Club Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/lubbock/lubbock-country-club-neighborhood/): A neighborhood surrounding Lubbock Country Club's golf course, independently recognized as a distinct area by real estate portals (Zillow tags roughly 764 homes for sale under a 'Lubbock Country Club Neighborhood' label). ### Amarillo, TX - [Amarillo, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/amarillo/): Amarillo's golf market centers on Tascosa Golf Club, whose Trails at Tascosa development is explicitly marketed as the Texas Panhandle's premier golf-residential product — 36 holes across two courses and 500-plus home sites spanning a wide price range. #### Golf Clubs in Amarillo - [Tascosa Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/amarillo/tascosa-golf-club/): A private, 36-hole golf club in Amarillo explicitly marketed as the Texas Panhandle's premier golf-residential development, with 500+ home sites priced from the upper-$200Ks into the millions. - [Amarillo Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/amarillo/amarillo-country-club/): A private, stockholding-membership club in Amarillo (4800 Bushland Blvd) with an 18-hole course, tennis, fitness, pool, and dining. #### Golf Communities in Amarillo - [The Trails at Tascosa](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/amarillo/trails-at-tascosa/): Amarillo, TX: A 500-plus-home-site residential development built around Tascosa Golf Club's two 18-hole courses, marketed as the Texas Panhandle's premier golf-residential community. ### Midland / Odessa, TX - [Midland / Odessa, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/midland-odessa/): Midland and Odessa, the twin cities of the Permian Basin, are treated as one combined market given their shared geography and the fact that at least one candidate club (Ranchland Hills) explicitly markets itself as serving both cities. #### Golf Clubs in Midland / Odessa - [Green Tree Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/midland-odessa/green-tree-country-club/): A private, member-only 27-hole club anchoring the Green Tree Country Club Estates/Green Tree North neighborhood in Midland since 1980; homes reported at $700K-$1.4M, HOA roughly $42/month. - [Odessa Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/midland-odessa/odessa-country-club/): A private, member-owned club in Odessa with two 18-hole courses (the Old Course, built 1939 by John Bredemus, and the Links Course), memberships by invitation only, sited immediately east of Country Club Estates, Odessa's highest-median-price residential neighborhood. #### Golf Communities in Midland / Odessa - [Green Tree Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/midland-odessa/green-tree-country-club-estates/): Midland, TX: Upscale neighborhood (also known as Green Tree North) anchored by Green Tree Country Club since 1980; homes reported $700K-$1.4M, HOA ~$42/month. - [Country Club Estates (Odessa)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/midland-odessa/country-club-estates-odessa/): A neighborhood immediately east of Odessa Country Club (per the club's own history page), roughly 5 miles from downtown Odessa. ### El Paso, TX - [El Paso, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/el-paso/): El Paso's golf-residential landscape is anchored by Coronado Country Club, a private club since 1957 in the Franklin Mountains foothills explicitly described as the organizing feature of one of the city's premier Westside neighborhoods. #### Golf Clubs in El Paso - [Coronado Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/el-paso/coronado-country-club-el-paso-tx/): A private club in El Paso's Franklin Mountains foothills, operating since 1957, that anchors one of the city's premier Westside residential neighborhoods. ### Brazos Valley (College Station / Bryan), TX - [Brazos Valley (College Station / Bryan), TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/brazos-valley/): The Brazos Valley -- College Station and Bryan, home to Texas A&M University -- remains the densest, most genuinely golf-residential-bundled sub-market found anywhere in this territory. #### Golf Clubs in Brazos Valley (College Station / Bryan) - [Traditions Club and Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/brazos-valley/traditions-club-and-community-bryan-tx/): Traditions Club and Community is a private, Jack Nicklaus- and Jack Nicklaus II-designed golf club anchoring a 900-acre gated community in Bryan, TX. - [Miramont Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/brazos-valley/miramont-country-club-bryan-tx/): Miramont Country Club is a private, invitation-only club in Bryan, TX with a Robert Trent Jones II-designed, 18-hole, par-72, 7,127-yard course (opened mid-2000s, ranked among Golf Digest's top 10 in Texas) and a reported 93,000-square-foot clubhouse with four dining venues. - [Pebble Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/brazos-valley/pebble-creek-country-club-college-station-tx/): Pebble Creek Country Club is a private golf club (per its own site, correcting a prior semi-private classification) in College Station, TX, anchoring the Pebble Creek subdivision -- a 1,400+ home community on roughly 1,348 acres, marketed as 'College Station's only country club and golfing community.' #### Golf Communities in Brazos Valley (College Station / Bryan) - [Traditions Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/brazos-valley/traditions-community-bryan-tx/): Traditions is a 900-acre gated master-planned community in Bryan, TX built around Traditions Club's Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course, with luxury homes on golf-course lots and a connected senior-living component (The Parc at Traditions). - [Miramont](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/brazos-valley/miramont-community-bryan-tx/): Miramont is a country-club community in Bryan, TX anchored by Miramont Country Club's Robert Trent Jones II-designed course, with reported home prices from roughly $730,000 to $2.3 million. - [Pebble Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/brazos-valley/pebble-creek-community-college-station-tx/): Pebble Creek is a 1,400+ home subdivision on roughly 1,348 acres in College Station, TX, marketed as the city's only country club and golfing community, anchored by Pebble Creek Country Club. ### San Angelo, TX - [San Angelo, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-angelo/): San Angelo's golf-residential market centers on Bentwood Country Club, explicitly marketed as 'San Angelo's premier master-planned golf-course community,' with a reported city ordinance permitting golf-cart-accessible streets through the surrounding neighborhood. #### Golf Clubs in San Angelo - [Bentwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-angelo/bentwood-country-club-san-angelo-tx/): Bentwood Country Club, designed by William Martindale, anchors Bentwood Country Club Estates -- marketed as 'San Angelo's premier master-planned golf-course community' -- with a reported city ordinance permitting golf-cart-accessible streets through the surrounding neighborhood. - [San Angelo Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-angelo/san-angelo-country-club/): San Angelo Country Club is a private, member-owned equity club (Resident Stockholder membership model) along the Concho River in San Angelo, TX, designed by John Bredemus and reputationally regarded as among the best courses in West Texas. #### Golf Communities in San Angelo - [Bentwood Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-angelo/bentwood-country-club-estates-san-angelo-tx/): Bentwood Country Club Estates is San Angelo's premier master-planned golf-course community, anchored by Bentwood Country Club, with reported home prices from the mid-$200Ks (townhomes) to $600K+ (golf-front) and golf-cart-accessible streets. - [Country Club (San Angelo)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/san-angelo/country-club-neighborhood-san-angelo-tx/): 'Country Club' is a real-estate-portal-recognized residential neighborhood/demographic boundary in San Angelo, TX, surrounding San Angelo Country Club. ### Abilene, TX - [Abilene, TX Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/abilene/): Abilene's clearest golf-residential story is Abilene Country Club, a private club operating since 1921 with two 18-hole courses (36 holes total), whose surrounding Chimney Rock-area neighborhoods are explicitly described as having been built around the club. #### Golf Clubs in Abilene - [Abilene Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/texas/abilene/abilene-country-club/): Abilene Country Club: private 36-hole club since 1921, Abilene, TX. Includes the former Fairway Oaks Country Club, acquired and merged in 2006. ## California - [California Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/): Independent research on 148 golf clubs and 79 residential golf communities across 28 California golf markets, including Indian Wells, La Quinta and LA Westside — Old-Guard Clubs: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### California Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in California](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 11 California golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Birnam Wood Golf Club, Moraga Country Club, Rossmoor Golf Courses (Dollar Ranch & Creekside), The Madison Club and Silverado Resort and Spa. - [Private Golf Communities in California](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 123 private California golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Valley Club of Montecito, Montecito Club, La Cumbre Country Club, Torrey Pines Golf Course and La Jolla Country Club. - [55+ Golf Communities in California](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/guides/55-plus-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 3 California golf anchors connected to age-restricted (55+) residential communities, including Rossmoor Golf Courses (Dollar Ranch & Creekside), Oakmont Golf Club and The Villages Golf & Country Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in California](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 13 California golf resort ecosystems, including Torrey Pines Golf Course, La Quinta Resort & Club, SilverRock Resort, Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill Golf Course. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in California](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 26 private California golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Copper River Country Club, Round Hill Country Club, The Citrus Club, Braemar Country Club and Annandale Golf Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in California](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 15 California golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Orinda Country Club, Braemar Country Club, Porter Valley Country Club, Silverado Resort and Spa and Sonoma Golf Club. ### California Comparisons - [Pebble Beach Golf Links vs Cypress Point Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/pebble-beach-golf-links-vs-cypress-point-club/): A researched comparison of Pebble Beach Golf Links and Cypress Point Club: two Monterey Peninsula icons with near-opposite golf access models. - [Tehama Golf Club vs Santa Lucia Preserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/tehama-golf-club-vs-santa-lucia-preserve/): A researched comparison of Tehama Golf Club and Santa Lucia Preserve above Carmel, CA -- two clubs where golf membership is explicitly separate from real estate purchase. - [Silverado Resort vs Mayacama Golf Club | Napa/Sonoma Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/silverado-resort-vs-mayacama-for-golf-living/): Compare Silverado Resort and Spa and Mayacama Golf Club: two flagship but structurally very different golf-residential communities in Napa and Sonoma. - [Big Canyon vs. Shady Canyon: Comparing Two OC Flagship Golf Communities](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/big-canyon-country-club-vs-shady-canyon-golf-club/): Compare Big Canyon Country Club (Newport Beach) and Shady Canyon Golf Club (Irvine) on access, cost, and community setting for golf-oriented Orange County buyers. - [Palm Springs vs Rancho Mirage for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/palm-springs-vs-rancho-mirage-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage, CA for golf-oriented homebuyers: private-club survival, bundled golf, tournament pedigree, and price positioning. - [Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club vs. Fairbanks Ranch Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/rancho-santa-fe-golf-club-vs-fairbanks-ranch-country-club/): Compare membership eligibility and access models at two private Rancho Santa Fe, CA golf clubs. - [South Bay / Palos Verdes Peninsula vs Thousand Oaks / Conejo Valley for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/south-bay-palos-verdes-vs-thousand-oaks-conejo-valley-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of two small Los Angeles-basin golf markets: municipal resident-priority access on the Palos Verdes Peninsula vs. Sherwood Country Club's PGA Tour pedigree in Thousand Oaks/Conejo Valley. - [Monterey Peninsula vs Santa Barbara for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach-vs-central-coast-santa-barbara-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Pebble Beach/Monterey Peninsula and Santa Barbara/Montecito, CA: destination golf tourism vs. old-money private-club culture. - [La Quinta vs Palm Desert for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/la-quinta-vs-palm-desert-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of La Quinta and Palm Desert, CA for golf-oriented homebuyers: property-owner-only clubs, mandatory and partial bundling, and name-collision risk. - [San Francisco/Peninsula vs South Bay/Silicon Valley for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/san-francisco-peninsula-vs-south-bay-silicon-valley-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of San Francisco/Peninsula and South Bay/Silicon Valley, CA golf markets: old-guard invitation-only clubs vs. one confirmed bundled 55+ community and a resort/hybrid membership model. - [Rancho Santa Fe & North County vs Coastal San Diego for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/rancho-santa-fe-north-county-vs-coastal-san-diego-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Rancho Santa Fe & North County and Coastal San Diego/La Jolla, CA: an inland private-club cluster with varied bundling models vs. a coastal market with none. - [The Vintage Club vs BIGHORN Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-vintage-club-vs-bighorn-golf-club/): Compare The Vintage Club (Indian Wells) and BIGHORN Golf Club (Palm Desert): two property-owner-only Coachella Valley clubs with different price floors and public character. - [La Quinta Country Club vs La Quinta Resort & Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/la-quinta-country-club-vs-la-quinta-resort-and-club/): A researched comparison clarifying two similarly-named but unrelated La Quinta, CA golf entities: the private, member-owned La Quinta Country Club and the historic public resort La Quinta Resort & Club. - [Corral de Tierra CC vs TPC Monterey at Pasadera](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/corral-de-tierra-country-club-vs-tpc-monterey-at-pasadera/): A researched comparison of two inland Monterey County private clubs -- Corral de Tierra Country Club and TPC Monterey at Pasadera -- and how their residential-golf models differ. ### Central Coast / Santa Barbara, CA - [Central Coast / Santa Barbara, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/central-coast-santa-barbara/): The Central Coast/Santa Barbara golf market pairs Montecito and Santa Barbara's old-guard private-club scene -- Valley Club of Montecito, La Cumbre Country Club, and Montecito Club -- with one clean, mandatory-membership residential-golf community (Birnam Wood) and a historic Santa Ynez Valley guest-ranch resort with a distinctive land-lease residential structure (Alisal Ranch, Solvang). #### Golf Clubs in Central Coast / Santa Barbara - [Valley Club of Montecito](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/central-coast-santa-barbara/valley-club-of-montecito/): Valley Club of Montecito is a private, invitation-only golf club in Montecito, California, built in 1928 to a design by Alister MacKenzie and Robert Hunter and restored by Tom Doak in 1999. - [Birnam Wood Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/central-coast-santa-barbara/birnam-wood-golf-club/): Birnam Wood Golf Club anchors the 152-lot, guard-gated Birnam Wood residential community in Montecito. Per this project's discovery-stage research, corporate club membership is mandatory for every residential lot owner, with a separate HOA and Club (golf club) governance structure formalized in late 2023. - [Montecito Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/central-coast-santa-barbara/montecito-club/): Montecito Club (920 Summit Road, Santa Barbara/Montecito) is a private club originally built in 1918 (as Montecito Country Club, designed by Max Behr), later acquired by Ty Warner and redesigned by Jack Nicklaus; it markets itself today as 'Montecito Club 1918,' asserting direct lineage back to the 1918 club. - [La Cumbre Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/central-coast-santa-barbara/la-cumbre-country-club/): La Cumbre Country Club is a private golf club in Santa Barbara, designed by George C. Thomas Jr. and opened in 1920, described in secondary sourcing as the region's principal private membership club. - [Alisal Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/central-coast-santa-barbara/alisal-ranch/): Alisal Ranch is a dude-ranch-style destination resort in Solvang, CA, known from general background knowledge to include two golf courses (River Course and Ranch Course). #### Golf Communities in Central Coast / Santa Barbara - [Birnam Wood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/central-coast-santa-barbara/birnam-wood/): Birnam Wood is a small, guard-gated residential enclave in Montecito built around Birnam Wood Golf Club, reported at 152 residential lots with a separate HOA and Club (golf) governance structure formalized in late 2023. - [Alisal Ranch Homes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/central-coast-santa-barbara/alisal-ranch-homes/): Alisal Ranch Homes is the small residential enclave within the historic Alisal Ranch resort in Solvang, distinctive for its land-lease ownership structure -- homes are built on land leased directly from the ranch rather than owned fee-simple, with golf and tennis access available to residents via membership. ### Coastal San Diego / La Jolla / Coronado, CA - [Coastal San Diego / La Jolla / Coronado, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/coastal-san-diego/): The Coastal San Diego / La Jolla / Coronado market covers San Diego's high-profile coastal core -- La Jolla and, by market-routing convention, the geographically separate South Bay/Chula Vista submarket -- rather than the county's larger, more residentially bundled golf-community belt further north (covered in US Golf Living's separate Rancho Santa Fe & North County guide). #### Golf Clubs in Coastal San Diego / La Jolla / Coronado - [Torrey Pines Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/coastal-san-diego/torrey-pines-golf-course/): Torrey Pines Golf Course is a two-course (North and South) municipal facility owned and operated by the City of San Diego on the coastal bluffs of La Jolla. - [La Jolla Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/coastal-san-diego/la-jolla-country-club/): La Jolla Country Club is a private, invitation-only golf club in the coastal La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego. The club does not publish membership pricing or advertise itself publicly; joining reportedly requires a member sponsor and multiple letters of recommendation. - [San Diego Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/coastal-san-diego/san-diego-country-club/): Chula Vista, CA: San Diego Country Club, founded in 1897, is San Diego's first country club and, per its own history, the only private country club in South San Diego County. ### Davis / Yolo County, CA - [Davis / Yolo County, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/davis-yolo-county/): Davis/Yolo County is a small, honest one-anchor golf market. El Macero Country Club, a private, member-owned club whose course physically meanders through the surrounding ~410-residence El Macero community, is the only qualifying candidate. #### Golf Clubs in Davis / Yolo County - [El Macero Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/davis-yolo-county/el-macero-country-club-davis-ca/): El Macero Country Club is a private, member-owned club in unincorporated Yolo County whose course physically meanders through the surrounding ~410-residence El Macero development -- the clearest bundled-community pattern found in Davis/Yolo County. #### Golf Communities in Davis / Yolo County - [El Macero](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/davis-yolo-county/el-macero-yolo-county-ca/): El Macero is an unincorporated Yolo County community of roughly 410 residences built directly around and into El Macero Country Club's golf course, immediately southeast of Davis -- the clearest bundled golf-residential pattern found in this batch. ### Northern San Joaquin Valley, CA - [Northern San Joaquin Valley, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/northern-san-joaquin-valley/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Northern San Joaquin Valley golf market, in San Joaquin and Stanislaus Countyies, including Del Rio Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Northern San Joaquin Valley - [Del Rio Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/northern-san-joaquin-valley/del-rio-country-club-modesto-ca/): Del Rio Country Club is a private club roughly 7 miles north of Modesto, founded in 1946, reported at 27 holes across ~325 acres with a modest monthly-dues structure (~$225-$360/month, unconfirmed this session). #### Golf Communities in Northern San Joaquin Valley - [Del Rio](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/northern-san-joaquin-valley/del-rio-neighborhood-modesto-ca/): Del Rio is an upscale Modesto neighborhood built around Del Rio Country Club's 27-hole golf course, including a gated sub-pocket (Rancho Del Rio), with home values well above the city average. ### Fresno Metro, CA - [Fresno Metro, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/fresno-metro/): Fresno Metro is this batch's densest market: Copper River Country Club and Fort Washington Golf & Country Club now qualify as residential_integration on the strength of real, confirmed golf-residential development (Copper River Ranch and the Country Club III/Country Club at the Fort enclaves, respectively). #### Golf Clubs in Fresno Metro - [Fort Washington Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/fresno-metro/fort-washington-golf-and-country-club-fresno-ca/): Fort Washington Golf & Country Club is a private, standalone club in northeast Fresno operating since 1923, with a reported (unconfirmed) history of hosting 1980 PGA Tour qualifying-school play. - [Copper River Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/fresno-metro/copper-river-country-club-fresno-ca/): Copper River Country Club is a private, upscale club in north Fresno (since 1995, per discovery-pass research) associated with the Copper River Ranch residential neighborhood -- the strongest residential-integration candidate found in the Fresno market, though the exact home-purchase-to-membership relationship remains unconfirmed. #### Golf Communities in Fresno Metro - [Copper River Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/fresno-metro/copper-river-ranch-fresno-ca/): Copper River Ranch is a north Fresno residential neighborhood referenced alongside Copper River Country Club in discovery-pass research -- the exact nature of the club-to-neighborhood relationship remains unconfirmed. - [Country Club III / Country Club at the Fort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/fresno-metro/fort-washington-country-club-enclaves-fresno-ca/): Named, gated residential enclaves (Country Club III, Country Club II Estates, Country Club at the Fort) directly surrounding Fort Washington Golf & Country Club in northeast Fresno. ### Bakersfield / Kern County, CA - [Bakersfield / Kern County, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/bakersfield-kern-county/): Bakersfield/Kern County has a real three-candidate cluster of private clubs. Bakersfield Country Club and Seven Oaks Country Club now qualify as residential_integration on the strength of real, confirmed golf-residential development (the Bakersfield Country Club neighborhood and the guard-gated Grand Island at Seven Oaks enclave, respectively). #### Golf Clubs in Bakersfield / Kern County - [Bakersfield Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/bakersfield-kern-county/bakersfield-country-club-bakersfield-ca/): Bakersfield Country Club is a private, standalone club operating since 1950, the most historically prominent Bakersfield-area club found, with a reported (unconfirmed) history hosting the PGA Tour's Bakersfield Open Invitational (1961-62). - [Seven Oaks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/bakersfield-kern-county/seven-oaks-country-club-bakersfield-ca/): Seven Oaks Country Club is a private, standalone club in Bakersfield operating since 1952, reported at 27 holes across three combinable nine-hole courses per discovery-pass research. #### Golf Communities in Bakersfield / Kern County - [Bakersfield Country Club Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/bakersfield-kern-county/bakersfield-country-club-neighborhood-bakersfield-ca/): The Bakersfield Country Club neighborhood is an established northeast Bakersfield community built directly around and named for Bakersfield Country Club, with golf-course-frontage homes on large lots. - [Grand Island at Seven Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/bakersfield-kern-county/grand-island-at-seven-oaks-bakersfield-ca/): Grand Island at Seven Oaks is a guard-gated, ultra-luxury enclave with golf-course frontage along Seven Oaks Country Club, in southwest Bakersfield. ### East Bay, CA - [East Bay, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/): US Golf Living has researched 13 golf anchors in the East Bay golf market, spanning Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, including Claremont Country Club, Sequoyah Country Club, Blackhawk Country Club, and Ruby Hill Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in East Bay - [Claremont Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/claremont-country-club-oakland-ca/): One of California's oldest golf clubs (founded 1897 as Oakland Golf Club), redesigned by Alister MacKenzie in 1926 on its present Rockridge/Oakland hills site. - [Sequoyah Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/sequoyah-country-club-oakland-ca/): A private, member-owned (365 proprietary members) equity club founded in 1913 in the Oakland hills, host of the Oakland Open (1938-1944) during the early careers of Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, and Byron Nelson. - [Orinda Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/orinda-country-club-ca/): A private family country club founded in 1924 in the Orinda hills, with a golden-age William Watson golf course and tennis, aquatics, fitness, and pickleball amenities. - [Moraga Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/moraga-country-club-ca/): Moraga, CA: A genuinely bundled golf community of 521 private residences where purchasing a home automatically grants Owner Member status and access to all club facilities -- 18-hole golf course, 10 tennis courts, pool, spa, fitness center, and clubhouse. - [Round Hill Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/round-hill-country-club-alamo-ca/): A private 18-hole club in Alamo, originally founded in 1959 as a combined golf-and-luxury-housing development. Today, per the Round Hill Property Owners Association's own description, the POA is a separate and distinct entity from the club -- membership is not bundled to surrounding homes despite the historical joint origin. - [Blackhawk Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/blackhawk-country-club-danville-ca/): A 36-hole (Lakeside and Falls courses, both Devlin/von Hagge designs), fully private club central to the identity of the guard-gated, roughly 4,800-acre Blackhawk community in Danville, but organizationally and financially separate from the Blackhawk Homeowners Association -- homeowners are not automatic members. - [Diablo Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/diablo-country-club-ca/): A private, fully gated club founded in 1914 in the small unincorporated town of Diablo -- the only course in the world combining separate-nine designs from Jack Neville (Pebble Beach) and William Watson (Olympic Club). - [Crow Canyon Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/crow-canyon-country-club-danville-ca/): An 18-hole, par-69 private club (recently acquired by Bay Club from Invited/ClubCorp in August 2023) that anchors and gives its name to the gated Crow Canyon Country Club Estates neighborhood in Danville, built 1976-1984 by Broadmoor Homes. - [The Club at Castlewood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/castlewood-country-club-pleasanton-ca/): A private, 36-hole club (Hacienda and Valley courses) in the Pleasanton hills, Troon-affiliated in management listings, at 707 Country Club Circle, Pleasanton. - [Contra Costa Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/contra-costa-country-club-pleasant-hill-ca/): A private club founded in 1925 in Pleasant Hill, with an A. Vernon Macan-designed course recently renovated by Robert Trent Jones Jr. Play limited to members. - [Ruby Hill Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/ruby-hill-golf-club-pleasanton-ca/): A Jack Nicklaus-designed 18-hole course, Arcis Golf-operated, at the center of Pleasanton's gated, roughly 850-home Ruby Hill community. - [Rossmoor Golf Courses (Dollar Ranch & Creekside)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/rossmoor-golf-courses-walnut-creek-ca/): 27 NCGA-rated holes (Dollar Ranch and Creekside courses) exclusively for residents of Rossmoor, a large 55+ community in Walnut Creek, with golf access included in the single monthly community fee alongside clubhouses, pools, fitness, security, and transportation. #### Golf Communities in East Bay - [Blackhawk](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/blackhawk-community-danville-ca/): A large, guard-gated master-planned community (widely cited at roughly 4,800 acres) in Danville, home to Blackhawk Country Club's 36 holes of golf, though the club is organizationally and financially separate from the community's own Homeowners Association. - [Ruby Hill](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/ruby-hill-community-pleasanton-ca/): A gated, approximately 850-home luxury community on roughly 225 acres in the Livermore Valley wine country near Pleasanton, built around the Jack Nicklaus-designed Ruby Hill Golf Club. - [Crow Canyon Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/crow-canyon-country-club-estates-danville-ca/): A gated Danville neighborhood built 1976-1984 by Broadmoor Homes around Crow Canyon Country Club, comprising smaller-lot Fairway Villas and larger Country Estates single-family homes. - [Moraga Country Club (community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/moraga-country-club-community-moraga-ca/): A 521-home private residential community in Moraga where purchasing a home automatically grants Owner Member status and access to the Moraga Country Club's 18-hole golf course, tennis, pool, spa, fitness center, and clubhouse. - [Rossmoor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/rossmoor-walnut-creek-ca/): A large, established 55+ age-restricted community in Walnut Creek with two resident-exclusive golf courses (27 NCGA-rated holes), 5 pools, multiple clubhouses, and 180+ clubs and activities -- all included in one monthly community fee. - [Round Hill (Roundhill) Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/east-bay/round-hill-neighborhood-alamo-ca/): A cluster of neighborhoods (Roundhill Oaks, Windsor Green, Regina Woods, and others) in and around Round Hill Country Club in Alamo, governed by the Round Hill Property Owners Association (396 residences) -- explicitly confirmed as a separate, distinct organization from the country club. ### Indian Wells, CA - [Indian Wells, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indian-wells/): Indian Wells is a small, affluent resort city in the Coachella Valley wedged between Palm Desert and La Quinta, and it punches well above its size in private-club density and golf history. #### Golf Clubs in Indian Wells - [The Vintage Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indian-wells/the-vintage-club/): The Vintage Club is a 712-acre, gated, residents-only community in Indian Wells built around two Tom Fazio-designed championship golf courses and roughly 511 homes. - [Eldorado Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indian-wells/eldorado-country-club-indian-wells/): Eldorado Country Club is a historic, equity, member-owned private club in Indian Wells that played its first round on November 22, 1957, hosted the 1959 Ryder Cup, and counted President Dwight Eisenhower as an honorary member and winter resident after he left office. - [Indian Wells Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indian-wells/indian-wells-country-club/): Indian Wells Country Club, founded in 1956, is a semi-private club (today operated by Invited, formerly ClubCorp) offering both equity and non-equity membership. - [Toscana Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indian-wells/toscana-country-club/): Toscana Country Club is a private Indian Wells club offering both resident and non-resident membership tiers -- resident golf membership reported at $180,000 initiation plus roughly $3,720/month dues, resident sports membership at $120,000 plus roughly $1,590/month, and non-resident golf membership at approximately $125,000 plus roughly $3,070/month. - [Desert Horizons Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indian-wells/desert-horizons-country-club/): Desert Horizons Country Club is a guard-gated, Ted Robinson-designed 18-hole private club community in Indian Wells where every home purchase carries a mandatory Social Membership; golf access itself is a separate, optional upgrade (Golf Membership, $25,000 initiation, ~$1,250/month dues). - [The Reserve Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indian-wells/the-reserve-club-indian-wells/): The Reserve Club is a private, guard-gated 780-acre golf community in Indian Wells (built 1998, Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish design, par 72, 7,000+ yards) with just 250 homes and an equity golf membership capped at roughly 250-260, available exclusively to Reserve homeowners -- a genuine ownership-tied membership structure distinct from most Valley clubs. #### Golf Communities in Indian Wells - [The Vintage Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indian-wells/vintage-club-community/): The Vintage Club is a 712-acre, gated, residents-only community in Indian Wells with roughly 511 single-family homes built around two Tom Fazio-designed golf courses. - [Toscana Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indian-wells/toscana-country-club-community/): A residential community in Indian Wells marketed under the Toscana Country Club name, distinguished by offering a lower-priced resident membership tier at the associated private golf club alongside a separate, non-resident membership option for outside buyers. ### Indio / Bermuda Dunes, CA - [Indio / Bermuda Dunes, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indio-bermuda-dunes/): Indio and the adjoining unincorporated community of Bermuda Dunes sit at the eastern, more affordable end of the Coachella Valley's golf-and-second-home corridor, east of Palm Desert, Indian Wells, and La Quinta. #### Golf Clubs in Indio / Bermuda Dunes - [Bermuda Dunes Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indio-bermuda-dunes/bermuda-dunes-country-club/): Bermuda Dunes Country Club is a private, gated, equity-membership club in the unincorporated Coachella Valley community of Bermuda Dunes, opened in 1958 (Billy Bell design, 27 holes) and long associated with the Bob Hope Classic. - [Indian Palms Country Club & Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indio-bermuda-dunes/indian-palms-country-club-resort/): Indian Palms Country Club & Resort is a semi-private, 27-hole golf facility in Indio (on the historic Cochran-Odlum Ranch site) offering both public daily-fee play and a genuine paid membership program (Individual golf membership ~$4,150/yr). #### Golf Communities in Indio / Bermuda Dunes - [Bermuda Dunes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indio-bermuda-dunes/bermuda-dunes-community/): Bermuda Dunes is a gated, unincorporated Riverside County community of roughly 1,400 homes (single-family and condo) organized around Bermuda Dunes Country Club, split across 17 separate HOAs plus The Dunes Residence Club. - [Indian Palms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indio-bermuda-dunes/indian-palms/): Indian Palms is the residential complex of 19 separate HOAs built around Indian Palms Country Club & Resort on the historic Cochran-Odlum Ranch site in Indio, mixing single-family homes and condo/fractional-ownership product. - [Trilogy at The Polo Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/indio-bermuda-dunes/trilogy-at-the-polo-club/): Trilogy at The Polo Club is a Shea Homes 55+ gated community in Indio, on Avenue 52 at the border of Indio and La Quinta, near the Empire Polo Club grounds -- distinct from the separate Trilogy at La Quinta community (same developer brand, different property). ### La Quinta, CA - [La Quinta, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/): La Quinta, in Riverside County's Coachella Valley, is the Palm Springs area's single densest concentration of golf-branded private clubs and golf-residential communities -- and, per this platform's own California research manifest, the highest-priority internal name-collision cluster found anywhere in the state's research. #### Golf Clubs in La Quinta - [The Madison Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/the-madison-club/): Ultra-exclusive private club and 500-acre gated community in La Quinta capped at 225 property-owner memberships; membership is limited to owners, making it one of the platform's clearest membership-is-ownership stories. - [PGA West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/pga-west/): Large private/resort-hybrid golf development in La Quinta: six branded golf courses (Stadium, Nicklaus Tournament, Nicklaus Private, Palmer Private, Weiskopf Private, Greg Norman) confirmed this session, owned since January 2020 by a Century Golf Partners/Hankuk Industry joint venture that also owns The Citrus Club's three courses as one 'PGA WEST Portfolio.' - [The Citrus Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/the-citrus-club/): Private club membership tied to the PGA West/La Quinta Resort golf ecosystem, built around three Pete Dye-designed courses (Citrus, Mountains, Dunes). - [La Quinta Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/la-quinta-country-club/): Private, member-owned equity club founded 1959, distinct from the separate, much more recently branded La Quinta Resort & Club (1926 resort) a short distance away. - [La Quinta Resort & Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/la-quinta-resort-and-club/): Historic 1926 resort hotel that gave La Quinta its name -- distinct from La Quinta Country Club, a separate member-owned club founded decades later, and distinct from PGA West/The Citrus Club's ownership. - [Rancho La Quinta Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/rancho-la-quinta-country-club/): La Quinta, CA: Association-owned private club whose social/racquet membership is included with homeownership in the Master and Casitas Associations, with golf itself a separate, optional paid tier reported at roughly 50% homeowner uptake -- a clean partial-bundling example. - [Mountain View Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/mountain-view-country-club-la-quinta/): Private club in La Quinta with an Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay-designed course (opened 2003) and a surrounding community of roughly 488-500 homes. - [The Quarry at La Quinta](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/the-quarry-at-la-quinta/): Private, invitation-only club in La Quinta, CA, capped at 250 members (corrected this session), with a 1994 Tom Fazio course reported to carry 'America's 100 Greatest' recognition. - [Andalusia Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/andalusia-country-club/): La Quinta, CA: Private club developed by the Sunrise Company around a Rees Jones-designed course. A Resident Sports Club membership (reported $563/month, included in HOA dues) is mandatory for every owner and covers non-golf amenities; golf membership is separate and paid ($60,000 initiation/$2,240 monthly, confirmed via the club's own site this session). - [The Hideaway](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/the-hideaway-la-quinta/): La Quinta, CA: Private, member-owned club since a 2021 conversion from Discovery Land Company ownership; approximately 434-446 residences and two courses (Clive Clark, Pete Dye). - [Tradition Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/tradition-golf-club-la-quinta/): Private, invitation-only-feel club in La Quinta capped at 210 golf members, built around an 18-hole Arnold Palmer course plus a 9-hole par-3, with a reported no-tee-time model. - [SilverRock Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/silverrock-resort/): Public, City of La Quinta-owned municipal golf resort managed by Landmark Golf, built around an Arnold Palmer-designed Classic Course. #### Golf Communities in La Quinta - [Rancho La Quinta](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/rancho-la-quinta/): Gated master-planned community organized as Master and Casitas Associations in La Quinta; every homeowner reportedly receives a social/racquet-tier membership in Rancho La Quinta Country Club, with golf as a separate optional paid tier. - [Andalusia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-quinta/andalusia/): Gated community in La Quinta developed by the Sunrise Company around Andalusia Country Club's Rees Jones course; a Resident Sports/Social membership is reported included in HOA dues, with golf membership separate and paid. ### San Fernando Valley, CA - [San Fernando Valley, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-fernando-valley/): US Golf Living has researched 5 golf anchors in the San Fernando Valley golf market, Los Angeles County, including Braemar Country Club, El Caballero Country Club, Woodland Hills Country Club, and Porter Valley Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in San Fernando Valley - [Braemar Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-fernando-valley/braemar-country-club/): Private, Invited Clubs-network country club in Tarzana with a 27-hole layout split into three named nines (Uplands, Western, Canyon), founded in 1959. - [El Caballero Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-fernando-valley/el-caballero-country-club/): Private, invitation-only club in Tarzana founded in 1957 on part of the former Tarzana Ranch (associated with Edgar Rice Burroughs), designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and renovated by Rees Jones in 2021. - [Woodland Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-fernando-valley/woodland-hills-country-club/): Private, member-owned equity club in Woodland Hills, opened in 1925 to a William P. Bell design (Bell also designed Bel-Air CC and La Cumbre). - [Porter Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-fernando-valley/porter-valley-country-club/): Private, Invited Clubs-network club in Northridge/Porter Ranch built around an 18-hole Ted Robinson Sr. course. Unusually, the surrounding ~809-home residential tract itself carries the club's name (Porter Valley Country Club), platted directly around the course in the late 1960s under a Cal Fed Bank development as one of the Valley's first master-planned golf communities. #### Golf Communities in San Fernando Valley - [Braemar Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-fernando-valley/braemar-country-club-estates/): A small (29-home), guard-gated luxury enclave in Tarzana built starting around 2000 directly adjacent to Braemar Country Club, with large estate homes averaging roughly 5,262 sq ft. - [Porter Valley Country Club (residential tract)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-fernando-valley/porter-valley-country-club-neighborhood/): An ~809-home residential tract in Northridge/Porter Ranch, platted directly around Porter Valley Country Club's golf course in the late 1960s under a Cal Fed Bank development -- one of the San Fernando Valley's earliest golf-course-centered master-planned neighborhoods. ### Pasadena / San Gabriel Valley, CA - [Pasadena / San Gabriel Valley, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/pasadena-san-gabriel-valley/): Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley (including Glendale and La Cañada Flintridge) form a market of five old-guard, freestanding private clubs rather than developer-bundled golf communities. #### Golf Clubs in Pasadena / San Gabriel Valley - [Annandale Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/pasadena-san-gabriel-valley/annandale-golf-club/): Private, invitation-only club in Pasadena's San Rafael Hills, established in 1906, historically associated with prominent families (Gamble, Kellogg, Weyerhaeuser) and site of the 1967 U.S. Women's Amateur final. - [San Gabriel Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/pasadena-san-gabriel-valley/san-gabriel-country-club/): One of California's oldest private clubs, established 1904 in the San Gabriel Valley. 18-hole course originally by Norman Macbeth, renovated by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1962. - [Chevy Chase Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/pasadena-san-gabriel-valley/chevy-chase-country-club/): Private, 9-hole executive club (par 67, 5,200 yards) established 1925 to a William P. Bell design in Glendale's Chevy Chase Canyon. - [Oakmont Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/pasadena-san-gabriel-valley/oakmont-country-club-glendale/): Private, members-only club in Glendale founded in 1922, requiring an initiation fee plus dues per its own site (oakmontcc.com). - [La Cañada Flintridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/pasadena-san-gabriel-valley/la-canada-flintridge-country-club/): Private, family-oriented club (est. 1920s) in La Cañada Flintridge with an 18-hole, par-70 course, 6 lighted tennis courts, and a pool. #### Golf Communities in Pasadena / San Gabriel Valley - [San Rafael Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/pasadena-san-gabriel-valley/san-rafael-hills-pasadena/): An exclusive hillside neighborhood surrounding Annandale Golf Club in Pasadena, with architect-designed homes spanning contemporary, mid-century, and English Tudor Revival styles. - [Chevy Chase Canyon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/pasadena-san-gabriel-valley/chevy-chase-canyon-glendale/): One of Glendale's most historic hillside neighborhoods, built loosely around Chevy Chase Country Club's open golf-course space; the club's clubhouse and pool function as the neighborhood's informal social center, per the Chevy Chase Estates residents' association's own site. - [Oakmont (Glendale neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/pasadena-san-gabriel-valley/oakmont-neighborhood-glendale/): The Glendale neighborhood directly surrounding Oakmont Country Club, split between older, oak-shaded lower streets and the newer hillside Oakmont 5 tract, bordered by La Crescenta Ave. and Country Club Dr. - [Country Club (La Cañada Flintridge neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/pasadena-san-gabriel-valley/la-canada-flintridge-country-club-neighborhood/): One of La Cañada Flintridge's officially recognized named neighborhoods ('Country Club'), sited directly around La Cañada Flintridge Country Club's fairways, with homes ranging from traditional estates to updated contemporary properties. ### LA Westside — Old-Guard Clubs, CA - [LA Westside — Old-Guard Clubs, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-westside-old-guard-clubs/): The LA Westside is home to the single densest concentration of nationally significant, old-money private golf clubs on this platform to date. #### Golf Clubs in LA Westside — Old-Guard Clubs - [Los Angeles Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-westside-old-guard-clubs/los-angeles-country-club-los-angeles-ca/): Los Angeles Country Club is an extraordinarily exclusive, invitation-only private club on Wilshire Boulevard with two 18-hole courses; its North Course hosted the 2023 U.S. Open, the first U.S. Open in Los Angeles since Riviera hosted in 1948. - [Bel-Air Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-westside-old-guard-clubs/bel-air-country-club-los-angeles-ca/): Los Angeles, CA: Bel-Air Country Club is an invitation-only private club opened in 1926, designed by George C. Thomas Jr. and William P. Bell, laid out across four steep canyons in the Bel-Air neighborhood and connected in places by a tunnel, an elevator, and the club's famous suspension bridge over the par-3 10th. - [Riviera Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-westside-old-guard-clubs/riviera-country-club-pacific-palisades-ca/): Riviera Country Club is a George C. Thomas Jr.-designed private club (opened 1927) in Pacific Palisades, celebrated for hosting the PGA Tour's Genesis Invitational (formerly the Los Angeles Open, dating to 1926) and scheduled to host golf at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. - [Wilshire Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-westside-old-guard-clubs/wilshire-country-club-los-angeles-ca/): Wilshire Country Club, founded in 1919 with a Norman Macbeth-designed course opening in 1920, sits adjacent to the Hancock Park and Larchmont areas of Los Angeles. - [Brentwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-westside-old-guard-clubs/brentwood-country-club-los-angeles-ca/): Brentwood Country Club is a private, member-and-invited-guest-only club in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, established in the early 1940s. - [Hillcrest Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-westside-old-guard-clubs/hillcrest-country-club-los-angeles-ca/): Hillcrest Country Club, founded in 1920 in the Cheviot Hills area, was Los Angeles's first Jewish country club, created after Jewish residents were excluded from the city's elite social clubs. - [Lakeside Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/la-westside-old-guard-clubs/lakeside-golf-club-toluca-lake-ca/): Lakeside Golf Club is a strictly private, member-only club founded in 1924 in Burbank's Toluca Lake area, between the Warner Bros. and Universal Studios lots. ### Monterey Peninsula / Pebble Beach, CA - [Monterey Peninsula / Pebble Beach, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/): The Monterey Peninsula, anchored by Pebble Beach, is arguably the single most golf-significant stretch of residential coastline in the United States -- and the clearest possible platform-wide illustration that golf fame and residential demand do not require, or imply, homeowner golf access. #### Golf Clubs in Monterey Peninsula / Pebble Beach - [Pebble Beach Golf Links](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/pebble-beach-golf-links/): The single most famous golf course in America: a Pebble Beach Company-owned, pay-to-play resort course on the Del Monte Forest coastline. - [Spyglass Hill Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/spyglass-hill-golf-course/): A second, independently significant Pebble Beach Company resort course (opened 1966, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr.), consistently ranked among the toughest and best public-access courses in the country. - [The Links at Spanish Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/links-at-spanish-bay/): A links-style Pebble Beach Company resort course opened in 1987, a collaboration between architect Robert Trent Jones Jr., five-time Open Championship winner Tom Watson, and former USGA president Sandy Tatum. - [Del Monte Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/del-monte-golf-course/): Monterey, CA: A Pebble Beach Company resort course, the oldest golf course in continuous operation west of the Mississippi (opened 1897). - [Cypress Point Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/cypress-point-club/): Pebble Beach, CA: Extraordinarily exclusive, invitation-only private club founded in 1928 and designed by Alister MacKenzie with Robert Hunter, widely reported at roughly 250 members -- among the smallest membership rolls of any major American private club. - [Monterey Peninsula Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/monterey-peninsula-country-club/): A 36-hole (Dunes Course + Shore Course) private, invitation-only club established in 1925 in Pebble Beach, genuinely distinct from both the Pebble Beach Company's resort courses and Cypress Point Club. - [Tehama Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/tehama-golf-club/): A private, invitation-only club developed by Clint Eastwood above Carmel Valley, designed by Jay Morrish and opened in 1999 (6,506 yards, overlooking the Pacific). - [The Preserve Golf Club at Santa Lucia Preserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/santa-lucia-preserve-golf-club/): A Tom Fazio-designed private course (7,067 yards, par 72) inside the roughly 20,000-acre Santa Lucia Preserve conservation community in Carmel Valley -- only Preserve property owners are eligible to apply for Golf Club membership, but eligibility to apply is not automatic membership; owners must separately apply and be approved. - [Quail Lodge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/quail-lodge-golf-club/): A semi-private resort golf course in Carmel Valley (18 holes, par 71, ~6,464-6,500 yards), originally designed by Robert Muir Graves (1964) with a 2013-2015 refresh by Todd Eckenrode as part of a $28 million property-wide restoration. - [TPC Monterey at Pasadera](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/pasadera-tpc-monterey/): A private club at the center of the gated Pasadera residential community near Monterey, designed by Jack Nicklaus (opened 2000; 6,673 yards, par 71). - [Corral de Tierra Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/corral-de-tierra-country-club/): A private, member-owned 18-hole championship golf club (par 72, ~7,000 yards, designed by Bob E. Baldock) at 81 Corral de Tierra Road, in the unincorporated community of Corral de Tierra, Monterey County, between Salinas and Monterey off Highway 68. - [Pasatiempo Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/pasatiempo-golf-club/): Santa Cruz, CA: A historic Alister MacKenzie design (1929), Pasatiempo operates as a semi-private, shareholder-owned club: members purchase a Share of Stock for a one-time $27,500 capital fee (per the club's own 2023 documentation) plus annual dues, alongside limited public tee-time access. #### Golf Communities in Monterey Peninsula / Pebble Beach - [Pebble Beach / Del Monte Forest (17-Mile Drive)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/pebble-beach-del-monte-forest/): The broad, Pebble Beach Company-influenced residential area along the 17-Mile Drive scenic toll road in Del Monte Forest, encompassing homes near Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill, The Links at Spanish Bay, Del Monte Golf Course, Cypress Point Club, and Monterey Peninsula Country Club. - [Tehama](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/tehama-community/): A roughly 90-homesite gated residential community in the hills above Carmel, developed by Clint Eastwood around Tehama Golf Club. - [Santa Lucia Preserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/santa-lucia-preserve-community/): A roughly 20,000-acre conservation-oriented residential community in Carmel Valley (roughly 300 homesites) built around extensive protected open space and The Preserve Golf Club. - [Pasadera](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/pasadera-community/): A gated, 565-acre, ~255-home community near Monterey built around the golf course now operating as TPC Monterey at Pasadera (renamed from The Club at Pasadera in July 2025 under Concert Golf Partners). - [Pasatiempo](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/pasatiempo-neighborhood/): A roughly 300-home residential neighborhood in Santa Cruz, wrapped around the historic Alister MacKenzie-designed Pasatiempo Golf Club and governed by its own homeowners' association (the Pasatiempo Property Owners Association) -- confirmed as a genuine, distinct residential community this session, correcting a prior draft that found no evidence of a specific associated development. - [Corral de Tierra](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach/corral-de-tierra-neighborhood/): An unincorporated Monterey County neighborhood of large estate homes on individually gated lots (reported roughly $660K-$10.5M), between Salinas and Monterey off Highway 68, built around Corral de Tierra Country Club. ### Napa / Sonoma (Wine Country + North Bay), CA - [Napa / Sonoma (Wine Country + North Bay), CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/): Napa and Sonoma Counties -- California's two best-known Wine Country destinations -- host a small but genuinely varied set of golf anchors, from a PGA Tour resort-residential complex (Silverado) to an ultra-exclusive gated fractional-ownership enclave (Mayacama) to old-guard invitation-only clubs founded in the 1910s-1920s (Napa Valley Country Club, Meadow Club, Sonoma Golf Club). #### Golf Clubs in Napa / Sonoma (Wine Country + North Bay) - [Silverado Resort and Spa](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/silverado-resort-and-spa/): Silverado Resort and Spa is a ~1,200-acre resort-residential golf community in Napa with two 18-hole championship courses (North and South). - [Napa Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/napa-valley-country-club/): Napa Valley Country Club, founded in 1915 (incorporated 1923), is the only private 18-hole golf course in Napa Valley, set on 181 oak-studded acres in the Coombsville AVA about three miles east of downtown Napa. - [Mayacama Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/mayacama-golf-club/): Mayacama is a gated, low-density private golf and residential community in the hills above Santa Rosa, built around a Jack Nicklaus-designed championship course ranked among Golfweek's top residential courses in the country. - [Sonoma Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/sonoma-golf-club/): Sonoma Golf Club, designed in 1928 by Sam Whiting (also the architect of The Olympic Club in San Francisco), is a historic private club on 177 acres in the Sonoma Valley. - [Fountaingrove Golf & Athletic Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/fountaingrove-golf-and-athletic-club/): Fountaingrove Golf & Athletic Club (The Fountaingrove Club) is Sonoma County's only member-owned, private 18-hole club, sited in the hills above Santa Rosa and rebuilt from the ground up after the 2017 Tubbs Fire. - [Oakmont Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/oakmont-golf-club/): Oakmont Golf Club is a member-owned (Oakmont-resident-owned, for-profit) facility with two 18-hole Ted Robinson-designed courses at the center of Oakmont Village, a 55-and-over community of roughly 4,700 residents in Santa Rosa. - [Meadow Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/meadow-club/): Meadow Club is a private golf club founded in 1927 in a high mountain meadow in Fairfax, Marin County, about 30 minutes north of San Francisco -- notable as the first American golf course designed by Alister MacKenzie, restored to his original intent by Michael DeVries between 1998-2005. - [Marin Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/marin-country-club/): Marin Country Club is a private, full-service club in Novato with an 18-hole golf course, tennis, three pools, and a fitness center, about 35 minutes north of San Francisco. #### Golf Communities in Napa / Sonoma (Wine Country + North Bay) - [Silverado Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/silverado-community/): Silverado Community is the roughly 1,200-acre residential area surrounding Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, made up of nine named HOA neighborhoods (including The Grove, Mansion Estates, Cottage Drive, and Oak Creek East) with housing ranging from 1970s-90s ranch and Mediterranean-influenced single-family homes to golf-course-view condo/townhouse units. - [Mayacama](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/mayacama/): Mayacama is a gated, low-density luxury residential community in the Sonoma County hills above Santa Rosa, built around Mayacama Golf Club. - [Marin Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/marin-country-club-estates/): Marin Country Club Estates is south Novato's premium single-family neighborhood, built around and named for Marin Country Club. - [Fountaingrove](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/fountaingrove/): Fountaingrove is an upscale Santa Rosa hills neighborhood built around Fountaingrove Golf & Athletic Club, heavily damaged in the 2017 Tubbs Fire and substantially rebuilt since (roughly 1,130 homes rebuilt or under construction as of recent reporting, about 70% of what was lost). - [Oakmont Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/napa-sonoma-north-bay/oakmont-village/): Oakmont Village is a 55-and-over active-adult community of roughly 4,700 residents in Santa Rosa, built around Oakmont Golf Club's two 18-hole courses. ### Newport Beach / Big Canyon, CA - [Newport Beach / Big Canyon, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/newport-beach-big-canyon/): US Golf Living has researched 4 golf anchors in the Newport Beach/Big Canyon golf market, in Orange County: Big Canyon Country Club, Newport Beach Country Club, Santa Ana Country Club, and Pelican Hill Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in Newport Beach / Big Canyon - [Big Canyon Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/newport-beach-big-canyon/big-canyon-country-club/): Big Canyon Country Club is a private, invitation-only, member-owned club (Robert Trent Jones Jr., 1971) that anchors the guard-gated Big Canyon estate community in Newport Beach, just across from Newport Center/Fashion Island. - [Newport Beach Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/newport-beach-big-canyon/newport-beach-country-club/): Newport Beach Country Club, designed by William F. Bell and opened in 1954 as Irvine Coast Country Club (renamed in 1985), is a private, invitation-only club and the longest-running host site on the PGA Tour Champions -- the Hoag Classic (formerly the Toshiba Classic) has been played there annually for 29 consecutive years as of 2026. - [Santa Ana Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/newport-beach-big-canyon/santa-ana-country-club/): Newport Beach, CA: Santa Ana Country Club is Orange County's oldest golf club, tracing to the 1901 Santiago Golf Club, and has occupied its current site since 1923. - [Pelican Hill Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/newport-beach-big-canyon/pelican-hill-golf-club/): Newport Beach, CA: Pelican Hill Golf Club, part of the ultra-luxury Resort at Pelican Hill in Newport Coast, features two Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole oceanview courses (Ocean North, Ocean South), both ranked among Golf Digest's America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses. #### Golf Communities in Newport Beach / Big Canyon - [Big Canyon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/newport-beach-big-canyon/big-canyon-newport-beach/): Big Canyon is a 24-hour guard-gated enclave of large custom estate homes in central Newport Beach, built around Big Canyon Country Club starting in the early 1970s, on the east side of Upper Newport Bay across from Newport Center/Fashion Island. - [Newport Coast -- Pelican Neighborhoods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/newport-beach-big-canyon/newport-coast-pelican-neighborhoods/): Newport Beach, CA: Five 24-hour guard-gated Newport Coast neighborhoods -- Pelican Hill, Pelican Ridge, Pelican Crest, Pelican Ridge Estates, and Pelican Point -- sit adjacent to and are branded around Pelican Hill Golf Club, with HOA-covered clubhouse, pool, and tennis amenities separate from the golf club's own paid membership. ### South Orange County, CA - [South Orange County, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-orange-county/): South Orange County is a genuinely residential-bundled golf tier, distinct in character from the old-guard freestanding clubs of coastal Newport Beach: Coto de Caza and Dove Canyon are both purpose-built, gated master-planned communities where the golf club gave the development its name and organizing identity, even though club membership itself remains a separate paid program in both cases. #### Golf Clubs in South Orange County - [Coto de Caza Golf & Racquet Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-orange-county/coto-de-caza-golf-racquet-club/): Coto de Caza Golf & Racquet Club -- the first private 36-hole country club in Orange County, two Robert Trent Jones Jr. courses, a 44,000-sq-ft clubhouse, 10-court racquet club and aquatic center -- anchors and gives its name to the 5,000-acre, dual guard-gated Coto de Caza master-planned community of roughly 4,000-5,000 homes in unincorporated South Orange County. - [Dove Canyon Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-orange-county/dove-canyon-golf-club/): Dove Canyon Golf Club (marketed historically as Dove Canyon Country Club) is the only private Jack Nicklaus signature golf course in Orange County, anchoring the gated, roughly 1,200-home Dove Canyon residential community in eastern Rancho Santa Margarita/Trabuco Canyon. - [Mission Viejo Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-orange-county/mission-viejo-country-club/): Mission Viejo Country Club, opened April 1967 on a Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed 165-acre, 18-hole course, is a private, member-owned equity club with invitation-only, sponsor-based membership. - [Shady Canyon Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-orange-county/shady-canyon-golf-club/): Shady Canyon Golf Club, a Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole course opened in 2002 on a 300-acre site within the 800-acre Shady Canyon development, anchors the guard-gated, Irvine Company-developed Shady Canyon community of 400 custom-estate homes in Irvine's Turtle Rock area. #### Golf Communities in South Orange County - [Coto de Caza](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-orange-county/coto-de-caza/): Coto de Caza is a 5,000-acre, dual guard-gated master-planned community of roughly 4,000-5,000 homes in unincorporated South Orange County, developed 1986-2003, organized around Coto de Caza Golf & Racquet Club, with equestrian facilities and trails as additional signature amenities. - [Dove Canyon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-orange-county/dove-canyon-rancho-santa-margarita/): Dove Canyon is a 24-hour guard-gated community of roughly 1,200 single-family homes and about 5,000 residents in eastern Rancho Santa Margarita/Trabuco Canyon, built around Dove Canyon Golf Club (the only private Jack Nicklaus signature course in Orange County). - [Shady Canyon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-orange-county/shady-canyon-irvine/): Shady Canyon is a 400-home, guard-gated, Irvine Company-developed custom-estate community in Irvine's Turtle Rock area, organized into the Masters Collection, Sycamore, and Villas of Shady Canyon sub-collections, built around Shady Canyon Golf Club and bordered by the 16,000-acre Bommer/Shady Canyon nature preserve. ### Palm Desert, CA - [Palm Desert, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/): Palm Desert is the largest single-city cluster of private golf clubs in the Coachella Valley — a dense band of guard-gated country club communities running along Country Club Drive and the base of the Santa Rosa Mountains between Rancho Mirage and Indian Wells. #### Golf Clubs in Palm Desert - [Bighorn Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/bighorn-golf-club/): Ultra-luxury, guard-gated Palm Desert golf community where BIGHORN Golf Club membership is restricted entirely to the 570 homeowners inside the gates — two Tom Fazio-designed courses (Mountains, Canyons), an 80,000 sq. ft. clubhouse, and a non-equity, non-transferable membership structure available to property owners only. - [Indian Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/indian-ridge-country-club/): Private, gated Palm Desert community of roughly 1,068 homes/condos surrounding two Arnold Palmer-designed 18-hole courses, reportedly offering equity membership options — carried forward from discovery-stage research and not yet independently re-verified with a first-party source. - [Ironwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/ironwood-country-club/): Established 1974 private, member-owned Palm Desert club with 36 holes across two courses; membership is available by application with two-member sponsorship but is explicitly not required to own a home in the surrounding Ironwood community — a clear proximity-does-not-equal-access example confirmed directly from the club's own site. - [Marrakesh Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/marrakesh-country-club/): Hollywood-Regency/Moroccan-themed private Palm Desert community where all new homeowners are required to join the club (social & golf) at time of purchase, with a mandatory one-time affiliation fee paid through escrow — one of the clearest mandatory-bundling structures found in this market. - [Palm Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/palm-valley-country-club/): Private, invitation-membership Palm Desert club with 1,274 condo homes around 36 holes of Ted Robinson-designed golf and a large racquet-sports/spa complex — carried forward from discovery-stage research, not yet independently re-verified. - [The Lakes Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/the-lakes-country-club/): 380-acre gated Palm Desert community of 902 condominium homes around a 27-hole Ted Robinson course; every owner automatically becomes a Resident Social Member at close of escrow via the HOA, with golf offered as a separate, optional, additionally-paid membership tier — a genuine, confirmed partial-bundling structure. - [Desert Falls Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/desert-falls-country-club/): Semi-private, ClubCorp-affiliated Palm Desert club (est. 1994) with roughly 1,100 homes surrounding its 18-hole course — carried forward from discovery-stage research, not yet independently re-verified. - [Stone Eagle Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/stone-eagle-golf-club/): Private, invitation-only Palm Desert club known for a distinctive dues-only access model (no traditional initiation fee; a flat, reportedly ~$18,000/year renewable membership) and a roughly 3-year waitlist, on a Tom Doak-designed course. #### Golf Communities in Palm Desert - [Bighorn (Mountains & Canyons)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/bighorn-community/): Palm Desert, CA: 570-home guard-gated community built around BIGHORN Golf Club's two courses in the foothills of the Santa Rosa Mountains, developed beginning in 1991-92; club membership is restricted to residents here. - [Indian Ridge Country Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/indian-ridge-community/): Palm Desert, CA: Reportedly ~1,068 homes/condos inside the gated Indian Ridge Country Club community — carried forward from discovery, not independently re-verified this session. - [Ironwood Country Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/ironwood-community/): Palm Desert, CA: Residential neighborhood surrounding Ironwood Country Club's 36 holes; homeownership here does not require or include club membership. - [Marrakesh Country Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/marrakesh-community/): Palm Desert, CA: Moroccan/Hollywood-Regency-themed gated community where club membership (social & golf) is mandatory for every new homeowner at purchase. - [Palm Valley Country Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/palm-valley-community/): Palm Desert, CA: Reportedly 1,274 condo homes inside the gated Palm Valley Country Club community — carried forward from discovery, not independently re-verified this session. - [The Lakes Country Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/the-lakes-community/): Palm Desert, CA: 902 condominium homes on 380 acres; HOA dues automatically include Resident Social Club membership (fitness, tennis, clubhouse) at close of escrow, with golf sold separately. - [Desert Falls Country Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-desert/desert-falls-community/): Palm Desert, CA: Reportedly ~1,100 homes surrounding Desert Falls Country Club's 18-hole course — carried forward from discovery, not independently re-verified this session. ### Palm Springs, CA - [Palm Springs, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-springs/): Palm Springs is the Coachella Valley's original golf-and-celebrity destination -- the city where the desert's golf-resort identity was born in the 1950s and '60s -- but it is not, today, a market defined by dense private-club golf the way its down-valley neighbors (Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, La Quinta) are. #### Golf Clubs in Palm Springs - [O'Donnell Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-springs/odonnell-golf-club/): The oldest golf course in the Coachella Valley (built 1926 by oil magnate Thomas O'Donnell, inspired by St. Andrews), O'Donnell Golf Club is a small, private, member-only 9-hole club in downtown Palm Springs with no public tee sheet. - [Mission Lakes Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-springs/mission-lakes-country-club/): A planned single-family and condominium community in Desert Hot Springs built around a Ted Robinson-designed championship course, where HOA dues genuinely include unlimited golf for two deeded owners per home -- a clean bundled-golf example. #### Golf Communities in Palm Springs - [Mission Lakes Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/palm-springs/mission-lakes-country-club-community/): A planned single-family and condominium community in Desert Hot Springs surrounding the Mission Lakes Country Club golf course, with HOA dues that include bundled golf for two deeded owners per home. ### Rancho Mirage, CA - [Rancho Mirage, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-mirage/): Rancho Mirage is the Coachella Valley's original golden-age golf-and-celebrity address -- the city where Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and much of 1950s-60s Hollywood built their winter golf clubs, and where two of them (Tamarisk and Thunderbird) still operate today as genuinely private, invitation/sponsor-based country clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Rancho Mirage - [Tamarisk Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-mirage/tamarisk-country-club/): Rancho Mirage, CA: A private, member-sponsor country club founded in 1952 as a more inclusive alternative to Thunderbird Country Club's early restrictive membership policy; founding members included Jack Benny, George Burns, and the Marx Brothers, with Ben Hogan as its first golf professional. - [Thunderbird Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-mirage/thunderbird-country-club/): Rancho Mirage, CA: Founded in 1954 by Johnny Dawson and Desi Arnaz, Thunderbird Country Club was the Coachella Valley's first 18-hole course; early investors included Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. - [Mission Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-mirage/mission-hills-country-club/): Rancho Mirage, CA: A private, Invited (formerly ClubCorp)-operated club established in 1971, with three courses (Dinah Shore Tournament Course, Arnold Palmer Course, Pete Dye Challenge Course) anchoring a 1,760-acre master-planned private residential complex. - [Sunrise Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-mirage/sunrise-country-club-rancho-mirage/): A private, member-owned club (established 1974) built into a 740-plus-condo community in Rancho Mirage, with a Ted Robinson-designed par-64 executive course and Equity/Social membership tiers open to both residents and non-residents. - [The Springs Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-mirage/the-springs-country-club/): Founded in 1975, The Springs Country Club is an 817-home private community in Rancho Mirage whose HOA dues bundle a non-golf 'community membership' (dining, social, racquet sports, fitness) automatically; golf membership itself is a separate, optional paid tier. #### Golf Communities in Rancho Mirage - [Tamarisk Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-mirage/tamarisk-country-club-community/): The residential neighborhood surrounding Tamarisk Country Club's private golf course in Rancho Mirage. - [Thunderbird Country Club Neighborhoods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-mirage/thunderbird-country-club-community/): Several named residential neighborhoods (Heights, Terrace, Villas, North, Palms East, West, Cove) surrounding the private Thunderbird Country Club course in Rancho Mirage. - [Mission Hills Country Club Residential Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-mirage/mission-hills-country-club-community/): A 1,760-acre private master-planned residential complex in Rancho Mirage anchored by Mission Hills Country Club, comprising roughly 1,500 golf-course homes across several named sub-neighborhoods including Oakhurst, Mira Vista, and Mission Haciendas. - [Sunrise Country Club Condominiums](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-mirage/sunrise-country-club-community/): A 740-plus-unit condominium community in Rancho Mirage built around Sunrise Country Club's executive golf course. - [The Springs Country Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-mirage/the-springs-country-club-community/): An 817-home private, gated community in Rancho Mirage where HOA dues automatically bundle a non-golf community membership; golf is a separate, optional paid tier. ### Rancho Santa Fe & North County, CA - [Rancho Santa Fe & North County, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/): US Golf Living has researched 12 golf anchors in the Rancho Santa Fe & North County golf market, in San Diego County, including The Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe, Fairbanks Ranch Country Club, Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club and The Farms Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in Rancho Santa Fe & North County - [The Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/the-bridges-at-rancho-santa-fe/): Private 18-hole Robert Trent Jones II golf club anchoring its own 540-acre guard-gated community of 240 homes in Rancho Santa Fe; golf membership is sold separately from home purchase. - [Fairbanks Ranch Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/fairbanks-ranch-country-club/): Rancho Santa Fe, CA: Private 27-hole Ted Robinson Sr.-designed Troon Privé club that anchors the gated Fairbanks Ranch community; membership is private and explicitly not included with homeownership. - [Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/rancho-santa-fe-golf-club/): Historic 1929 Max Behr-designed private course whose membership is available exclusively to property owners within the Covenant of Rancho Santa Fe via the Rancho Santa Fe Association — eligibility is bundled to Covenant ownership, but membership itself still requires a separate fee. - [The Farms Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/the-farms-golf-club/): Rancho Santa Fe, CA: 100%-private, golf-exclusive club (no pool or tennis) opened in 1988 with an original Pete Dye/Perry Dye/Tommy Jacobs design later reworked by John Fought/Tom Lehman (2000) and Tim Liddy (2025); membership capped at 350. - [La Valle Coastal Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/la-valle-coastal-club/): Private 27-hole member club in Rancho Santa Fe, most recently renamed La Valle Coastal Club after a ~$50M Meriwether Companies renovation completed 2023-2026; the same property operated previously as Morgan Run Club & Resort (1993-2023) and, originally, Whispering Palms Country Club (1965-1993). - [Del Mar Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/del-mar-country-club/): Private, guard-gated golf club (Joseph Lee design, per carried-forward discovery research) anchoring its own small estate community of roughly 100 custom homes in Rancho Santa Fe. - [The Santaluz Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/the-santaluz-club/): San Diego, CA: Private Rees Jones-designed club inside the gated Santaluz community; golf membership is optional (roughly 80% of residents join per the club), while the Hacienda fitness/pool/tennis tier is explicitly restricted to Santaluz residents only. - [The Crosby Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/the-crosby-club/): Rancho Santa Fe, CA: Private, non-equity Fred Couples/Brian Curley-designed club (2001) whose own membership page states residency does not include club access; National members must live 200+ miles from the club and are capped at 32 rounds/year. - [Lomas Santa Fe Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/lomas-santa-fe-country-club/): Private, Troon Privé-managed club in Solana Beach (opened 1968, William F. Bell design) with golf and social membership tiers; the adjacent 152-unit Lomas Santa Fe Country Club Villas condo community is a separate HOA, not automatic club membership. - [Country Club of Rancho Bernardo](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/country-club-of-rancho-bernardo/): Private, member-owned equity club in San Diego's Rancho Bernardo area, opened 1967 (William F. Bell design, later updated by Ted Robinson); initiation reported at $75,000 with annual dues around $10,000. - [The Heights Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/the-heights-golf-club/): The Heights Golf Club (formerly Bernardo Heights Country Club, renamed in the 2022 ClubCorp-to-Invited rebrand) is a fully gated, members/invited-guests-only private club in the Rancho Bernardo area of San Diego -- an 18-hole 1983 Ted Robinson design with tiered Golf, Limited Golf, and Social memberships. - [Aviara Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/aviara-golf-club/): Arnold Palmer-designed resort course at the Park Hyatt Aviara that gives its name to the 1,000-acre master-planned Aviara community in Carlsbad; full club access requires a separate paid membership even for Aviara homeowners, and the course also takes resort-guest/public play. - [Omni La Costa Resort & Spa](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/omni-la-costa-resort-and-spa/): Resort-public golf destination (Champions and Legends courses) in Carlsbad that has hosted the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Golf Championships in 2024, 2025, and 2026, with a longer history of PGA Tour/LPGA event hosting; no bundled homeowner golf access was found — this is a pure resort-public model whose prestige nonetheless shapes the surrounding 'La Costa' neighborhoods' identity. #### Golf Communities in Rancho Santa Fe & North County - [The Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/the-bridges-rsf-community/): 540-acre guard-gated community of 240 estate homes built around The Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe golf club; HOA dues (~$350/mo) cover security and grounds, separate from optional golf club membership. - [Fairbanks Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/fairbanks-ranch-community/): Gated community (North and South staffed sections) in Rancho Santa Fe built around Fairbanks Ranch Country Club; club membership is explicitly private and not included with homeownership. - [The Covenant of Rancho Santa Fe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/the-covenant-of-rancho-santa-fe/): The historic, large, Rancho Santa Fe Association-governed district at the core of Rancho Santa Fe; a genuinely association-governed area with multiple entrances rather than a single walled community. - [Whispering Palms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/whispering-palms-rsf/): Rancho Santa Fe neighborhood that gave its original name to the golf property now known as La Valle Coastal Club (formerly Morgan Run Club & Resort, originally Whispering Palms Country Club). - [Del Mar Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/del-mar-country-club-estates/): Rancho Santa Fe, CA: Small guard-gated estate community (~100 custom homes, per discovery-stage research) anchored by the private Del Mar Country Club golf course. - [Santaluz](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/santaluz-community/): Gated master-planned community in San Diego built around The Santaluz Club; golf membership is optional (about 80% of residents join per the club) while the resident-only Hacienda tier provides fitness/pool/tennis access exclusively to Santaluz residents. - [Lomas Santa Fe Country Club Villas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/lomas-santa-fe-cc-villas/): 152-unit single-level condo community with golf-course views adjacent to Lomas Santa Fe Country Club in Solana Beach; HOA is separate from and does not include club membership. - [Aviara](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/rancho-santa-fe-north-county/aviara-community/): Roughly 1,000-acre master-planned community in Carlsbad (Osprey, Summits, Meadows neighborhoods, per discovery-stage research) built around the Park Hyatt Aviara and Aviara Golf Club; a Four Seasons Residence Club component also sits within it. ### Sacramento / Fair Oaks / El Dorado Hills, CA - [Sacramento / Fair Oaks / El Dorado Hills, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/sacramento-fair-oaks-el-dorado-hills/): Sacramento's private-golf scene is a modest, largely old-money tier rather than a dense resort or bundled-community market: a handful of freestanding, invitation-based city and suburban clubs (Del Paso Country Club, North Ridge Country Club) sit alongside two real golf-driven residential developments further out toward the Sierra foothills (Rancho Murieta, Serrano). #### Golf Clubs in Sacramento / Fair Oaks / El Dorado Hills - [Swallows Nest Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/sacramento-fair-oaks-el-dorado-hills/swallows-nest-country-club/): Small, members-only 9-hole executive course in Sacramento's Willow Creek neighborhood, operated under the Swallows Nest Country Club HOA (sncchoa.org) -- a genuine, if small-scale, HOA-affiliated golf facility. - [Rancho Murieta Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/sacramento-fair-oaks-el-dorado-hills/rancho-murieta-country-club/): Private club with two 18-hole courses (North and South) at the center of Rancho Murieta, a gated unincorporated town of roughly 6,000 residents in Sacramento County, whose own development history is tied directly to the golf club. - [Serrano Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/sacramento-fair-oaks-el-dorado-hills/serrano-country-club/): Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed private course anchoring Serrano, a gated master-planned village in El Dorado Hills; the state research brief characterizes this directly as a genuine bundled golf community. #### Golf Communities in Sacramento / Fair Oaks / El Dorado Hills - [Rancho Murieta](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/sacramento-fair-oaks-el-dorado-hills/rancho-murieta-community/): An unincorporated, gated town of roughly 6,000 residents in Sacramento County, built around Rancho Murieta Country Club's North and South 18-hole courses -- the whole town is effectively organized around the golf community. - [Serrano](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/sacramento-fair-oaks-el-dorado-hills/serrano-community/): A gated master-planned village in El Dorado Hills with roughly 1,000 acres of open space and 24-hour security, organized around Serrano Country Club's Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed course -- the state research brief describes the club-community relationship as a genuine bundled golf community. - [Swallows Nest / Willow Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/sacramento-fair-oaks-el-dorado-hills/swallows-nest-willow-creek-community/): Sacramento, CA: The Willow Creek-area HOA community (sncchoa.org) affiliated with Swallows Nest Country Club's members-only 9-hole executive course. ### Placer County, CA - [Placer County, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/placer-county/): Placer County -- Roseville, Rocklin, Granite Bay, Lincoln, and Auburn -- is the densest, most residentially-integrated golf submarket in the Sacramento region: several courses here were explicitly built as the centerpiece of a specific master-planned community (Whitney Oaks in Rocklin, Catta Verdera at Twelve Bridges in Lincoln, Granite Bay Golf Club's small purpose-built enclave) rather than standing alone. #### Golf Clubs in Placer County - [Granite Bay Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/placer-county/granite-bay-golf-club/): Private, ClubCorp/Invited-operated 18-hole course in Granite Bay designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. and Kyle Phillips, originally conceived alongside a purpose-built enclave of roughly 170 homes. - [Morgan Creek Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/placer-county/morgan-creek-golf-and-country-club/): An 18-hole course in Roseville with a genuinely conflicting discovery-stage access signal -- one source describes HOA-bundled membership for the surrounding 546-acre master-planned community, another describes the course as open to the public. - [Whitney Oaks Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/placer-county/whitney-oaks-golf-club/): Semi-private, Johnny Miller-designed course that anchors Whitney Oaks, a roughly 1,900-home master-planned community in Rocklin. - [Catta Verdera Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/placer-county/catta-verdera-country-club/): Private, gated golf community at Twelve Bridges in Lincoln, self-described as 'Lincoln's premier luxury golf community,' with homes on 1/3-to-1+ acre lots overlooking the course. - [Sun City Lincoln Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/placer-county/sun-city-lincoln-hills-golf-club/): Del Webb 55+ active-adult community (6,783 homes) in Lincoln with two Billy Casper/Greg Nash-designed 18-hole courses; mandatory-vs-optional club membership status for homeowners not confirmed this session. #### Golf Communities in Placer County - [Whitney Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/placer-county/whitney-oaks-community/): A roughly 1,900-home, ~5,000-resident master-planned community in Rocklin organized around the Johnny Miller-designed Whitney Oaks Golf Club, under the Whitney Oaks HOA. - [Catta Verdera at Twelve Bridges](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/placer-county/catta-verdera-twelve-bridges-community/): A gated luxury golf community at Twelve Bridges in Lincoln, self-described as 'Lincoln's premier luxury golf community,' with homes on 1/3-to-1+ acre lots overlooking Catta Verdera Country Club's course and valley. - [Granite Bay Golf Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/placer-county/granite-bay-golf-club-estates-community/): A small, purpose-built enclave of roughly 170 homes developed alongside Granite Bay Golf Club's original 18-hole course concept. - [Sun City Lincoln Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/placer-county/sun-city-lincoln-hills-community/): A large Del Webb active-adult (55+) community in Lincoln with 6,783 homes, built around two Billy Casper/Greg Nash-designed 18-hole golf courses; mandatory-vs-optional club membership status for homeowners not confirmed this session. - [Morgan Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/placer-county/morgan-creek-community/): A 546-acre master-planned community in Roseville surrounding Morgan Creek Golf & Country Club, whose access model (HOA-bundled vs. open to the public) is genuinely unresolved. ### Lake Tahoe / Truckee, CA - [Lake Tahoe / Truckee, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/lake-tahoe-truckee/): Lake Tahoe/Truckee is a small, single-anchor standalone market created per the state market manifest's routing resolution: Martis Camp, a confirmed modern ultra-high-end private golf community in the Martis Valley near Truckee (Placer County), has no home in any of this state's other geography-based research clusters and is researched here rather than folded into Sacramento proper. #### Golf Clubs in Lake Tahoe / Truckee - [Martis Camp](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/lake-tahoe-truckee/martis-camp/): Tom Fazio-designed private golf course at the center of Martis Camp, a modern, gated ultra-high-end real-estate and club community in the Martis Valley near Truckee -- widely regarded within the golf industry as among California's top private clubs. #### Golf Communities in Lake Tahoe / Truckee - [Martis Camp](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/lake-tahoe-truckee/martis-camp-community/): A modern, gated ultra-high-end real-estate and private-club community in the Martis Valley near Truckee, built together with its Tom Fazio-designed golf course as a single project. ### San Francisco / Peninsula, CA - [San Francisco / Peninsula, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/): San Francisco and the northern Peninsula make up one of the oldest, most concentrated old-money private-club scenes in American golf, but they are not a bundled-golf real estate market in the way Florida or Arizona buyers might expect. #### Golf Clubs in San Francisco / Peninsula - [The Olympic Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/the-olympic-club/): A historic invitation-only private athletic club founded in 1860, with two 18-hole courses (Lake and Ocean) in southwest San Francisco. - [San Francisco Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/san-francisco-golf-club/): Founded in 1895 and moved to its present Ingleside site in 1915, San Francisco Golf Club is an invitation-only private club whose A.W. Tillinghast-designed course is consistently ranked among the best in the country. - [Lake Merced Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/lake-merced-golf-club/): A private club in Daly City established in 1922, with design contributions from Willie Locke, Alister MacKenzie, Rees Jones, and a recent Gil Hanse renovation. - [California Golf Club of San Francisco](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/california-golf-club-of-san-francisco/): Founded in 1918 and incorporated in San Francisco (source of its name), California Golf Club of San Francisco -- 'Cal Club' -- has been physically located on ~425 acres in South San Francisco since the mid-1920s. - [TPC Harding Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/tpc-harding-park/): A City and County of San Francisco-owned municipal course that is nonetheless the only municipal facility in the TPC Network (joined 2010) and a genuine major-championship venue: 2015 WGC Match Play, 2020 PGA Championship, and 2025 Presidents Cup, under a 2014 partnership between the PGA TOUR, PGA of America, and the City. - [Presidio Golf & Concordia Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/presidio-golf-club/): A currently-operating private social and golf club, formed by the 2016 merger of the historic Presidio Golf Club (founded 1895 on Presidio grounds) and the Concordia-Argonaut Club (San Francisco's oldest Jewish social club, founded 1864). - [Burlingame Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/burlingame-country-club/): Hillsborough, CA: Founded in 1893, Burlingame Country Club is recognized as the first/oldest continuously operating country club west of the Mississippi River. - [Menlo Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/menlo-country-club/): A private, member-owned, fully gated club established in 1904 at 2300 Woodside Road in Woodside, drawing much of its membership from Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Atherton. - [Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/sharon-heights-golf-country-club/): A private club established in the early 1960s in Menlo Park, designed by Jack Fleming, par 72 at 6,853 yards. Draws heavily from Silicon Valley's technology and professional community and maintains a relatively low public profile. - [Peninsula Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/peninsula-golf-country-club/): San Mateo, CA: Originally founded as The Beresford Country Club in 1911; golf-course architect Donald Ross completely redesigned the course in 1920, making it the only Donald Ross course on the West Coast. - [Green Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/san-francisco-peninsula/green-hills-country-club/): A private Millbrae club with three historical names: opened in 1930 as the Union League Golf and Country Club of San Francisco, reorganized as Millbrae Country Club in 1933 after Depression-era financial trouble ('the Six Sixty Boys,' paying $6.60/month dues), and renamed Green Hills Country Club in a final 1945 reorganization. ### South Bay / Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA - [South Bay / Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-palos-verdes-peninsula/): The Palos Verdes Peninsula, in southwestern Los Angeles County, is a small but genuinely distinctive golf-living market defined by two very different clubs rather than a dense private-club scene. #### Golf Clubs in South Bay / Palos Verdes Peninsula - [Rolling Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-palos-verdes-peninsula/rolling-hills-country-club/): Rolling Hills Country Club is a private, member-owned club in Rolling Hills Estates on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, rebuilt in 2018 around a new 18-hole David McLay Kidd course carved from a former sand quarry. - [Palos Verdes Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-palos-verdes-peninsula/palos-verdes-golf-club/): Palos Verdes Golf Club is a historic (1924) municipal course in Palos Verdes Estates, owned by the city and operated under a concession agreement. #### Golf Communities in South Bay / Palos Verdes Peninsula - [The Residences at Rolling Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-palos-verdes-peninsula/the-residences-at-rolling-hills-country-club/): Rolling Hills Estates, CA: A 228-acre, 114-home private enclave built 2019-2022 by the Chadmar Group and Toll Brothers directly overlooking Rolling Hills Country Club's David McLay Kidd course. - [Palos Verdes Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-palos-verdes-peninsula/palos-verdes-estates/): Palos Verdes Estates is the original, Olmsted Brothers-planned city core of the 1920s Palos Verdes Project. Verified property owners get documented priority access to Palos Verdes Golf Club. ### Thousand Oaks / Conejo Valley, CA - [Thousand Oaks / Conejo Valley, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/thousand-oaks-conejo-valley/): Thousand Oaks and the surrounding Conejo Valley, in eastern Ventura County, hold two of the most golf-significant private clubs in the Los Angeles basin. #### Golf Clubs in Thousand Oaks / Conejo Valley - [Sherwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/thousand-oaks-conejo-valley/sherwood-country-club/): Sherwood Country Club is a private, invitation-only, member-owned club in Lake Sherwood, Ventura County, built around a Jack Nicklaus-designed 18-hole course. - [North Ranch Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/thousand-oaks-conejo-valley/north-ranch-country-club/): North Ranch Country Club is a private, member-owned equity club in Thousand Oaks with a 27-hole complex (Valley, Oaks, Lakes) originally designed by Ted Robinson in 1974 and renovated in 2024. #### Golf Communities in Thousand Oaks / Conejo Valley - [Lake Sherwood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/thousand-oaks-conejo-valley/lake-sherwood/): Lake Sherwood is an exclusive, guard-gated community of roughly 660 residences in the Santa Monica Mountains, comprising a golf-club tract, several separately gated enclaves, and lake-view homes, built up around Sherwood Country Club. - [North Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/thousand-oaks-conejo-valley/north-ranch/): North Ranch is a roughly 4,700-acre network of established luxury neighborhoods in Thousand Oaks, developed from the 1970s-80s onward around North Ranch Country Club's golf course frontage. ### South Bay / Silicon Valley, CA - [South Bay / Silicon Valley, CA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-silicon-valley/): US Golf Living has researched 6 golf anchors in the South Bay / Silicon Valley golf market, in Santa Clara County, including San Jose Country Club, Almaden Golf & Country Club, Los Altos Golf and Country Club and Saratoga Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in South Bay / Silicon Valley - [San Jose Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-silicon-valley/san-jose-country-club-san-jose-ca/): A private member club founded in 1899 in San Jose (originally Linda Vista Country Club), one of the founding clubs of the Northern California Golf Association. - [Almaden Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-silicon-valley/almaden-golf-country-club/): A private, member-owned club in San Jose's Almaden Valley (course opened 1956) offering Proprietary and Executive membership tiers. - [Los Altos Golf and Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-silicon-valley/los-altos-golf-country-club/): An invitation-only private club in Los Altos, CA (est. 1923); membership requires sponsorship by four current Proprietary members and Board approval. - [Saratoga Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-silicon-valley/saratoga-country-club/): A private club in Saratoga, CA (est. 1958; Robert Muir Graves-designed course opened 1962), described as an 'executive' course in the Santa Cruz Mountains foothills. - [The Villages Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-silicon-valley/the-villages-golf-country-club-san-jose-ca/): A genuine 55+ age-restricted, golf-bundled community in San Jose's Evergreen foothills: 2,536 homes across 13 named villages on roughly 1,200 acres, where home purchase automatically includes membership in The Villages Golf and Country Club (18-hole championship course plus 9-hole par-3 course) as part of the all-inclusive monthly assessment. - [CordeValle](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-silicon-valley/cordevalle/): A Rosewood-operated luxury golf resort in San Martin (southern Santa Clara County), built around a Robert Trent Jones II-designed championship course on a roughly 1,700-acre property. #### Golf Communities in South Bay / Silicon Valley - [The Villages](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-silicon-valley/the-villages-san-jose-ca/): A 2,536-home, 55+ age-restricted, guard-gated community in San Jose's Evergreen foothills built around The Villages Golf and Country Club; membership is automatic with home purchase and folded into the all-inclusive monthly assessment. - [CordeValle Vineyard Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/california/south-bay-silicon-valley/cordevalle-vineyard-estates/): A luxury single-family home neighborhood in San Martin, CA sharing the 'CordeValle' name with the adjacent Rosewood golf resort; no confirmed golf-club-access relationship. ## Nevada - [Nevada Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/): Independent research on 20 golf clubs and 21 residential golf communities across 4 Nevada golf markets, including Henderson, Las Vegas / Summerlin and Lake Tahoe, Nevada: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Nevada Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Nevada](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 19 private Nevada golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including DragonRidge Country Club, Anthem Country Club, SouthShore Country Club, The Summit Club and TPC Summerlin. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Nevada](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 3 private Nevada golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Anthem Country Club, Hidden Valley Country Club and Red Hawk Golf and Resort -- Hills Course. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Nevada](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 4 Nevada golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Anthem Country Club, The Summit Club, Red Rock Country Club and Hidden Valley Country Club. ### Nevada Comparisons - [The Summit Club vs. Southern Highlands Golf Club — Las Vegas Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-summit-club-vs-southern-highlands-golf-club/): Compare The Summit Club and Southern Highlands Golf Club, two flagship private golf communities in the Las Vegas / Summerlin market, on access model, price, and scale. - [Montreux vs. ArrowCreek: Reno Golf Community Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/montreux-vs-arrowcreek-for-golf-living/): Compare access models, golf, and pricing between South Reno's two largest gated golf communities, Montreux and ArrowCreek. ### Henderson, NV - [Henderson, NV Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/henderson/): US Golf Living has researched 4 golf anchors in the Henderson, NV golf market, including DragonRidge Country Club, Anthem Country Club, SouthShore Country Club, and Desert Willow Golf Course. #### Golf Clubs in Henderson - [DragonRidge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/henderson/dragonridge-country-club-henderson-nv/): DragonRidge Country Club is the private, 18-hole (Jay Morrish/David Druzisky, opened 2000) golf club at the center of MacDonald Highlands, a 1,200-acre guard-gated hillside luxury community in Henderson with sweeping Las Vegas Valley views. - [Anthem Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/henderson/anthem-country-club-henderson-nv/): Anthem Country Club: the only private, member-owned equity golf club in the Las Vegas Valley, invitation-only, in Henderson, NV. - [SouthShore Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/henderson/southshore-country-club-lake-las-vegas/): Henderson, NV: SouthShore Country Club is the private, members-only golf club at Lake Las Vegas, built around Nevada's first Jack Nicklaus Signature course (opened 1996). - [Desert Willow Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/henderson/desert-willow-golf-course-henderson-nv/): Henderson, NV: Desert Willow is an 18-hole executive course (Billy Casper/Greg Nash design, par 60, roughly 3,800-3,811 yards) owned by the Sun City MacDonald Ranch homeowners association. #### Golf Communities in Henderson - [MacDonald Highlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/henderson/macdonald-highlands-henderson-nv/): MacDonald Highlands is a 1,200-acre guard-gated luxury hillside community in Henderson with 700+ home sites across 23 villages, custom-home pricing roughly $2.5M-$25M+, and DragonRidge Country Club as its (separately-membershipped) golf anchor. - [Anthem Country Club (community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/henderson/anthem-country-club-community-henderson-nv/): The guard-gated, non-age-restricted residential community surrounding Anthem Country Club in Henderson -- roughly 1,510-1,700 custom/semi-custom homes on just under 2,000 acres, developed by Del Webb 1998-2010. - [SouthShore at Lake Las Vegas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/henderson/southshore-lake-las-vegas-henderson-nv/): SouthShore is the guard-gated, roughly 400-home custom-home enclave on the south shore of Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, organized into eight named subdivisions (Siena, Monaco, Capri, Biarritz, Barcelona, Marseilles, Marseilles Deux, Mantova) around the private SouthShore Country Club. - [Sun City MacDonald Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/henderson/sun-city-macdonald-ranch-henderson-nv/): Sun City MacDonald Ranch is a 55+ Del Webb community in Henderson (roughly 2,500 homes, built 1996-2001) whose $74/month HOA fee is reported by multiple independent sources to include access to the HOA-owned Desert Willow Golf Course -- a genuine bundled-golf exception among Nevada's Del Webb Sun City communities. - [Sun City Anthem](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/henderson/sun-city-anthem-henderson-nv/): Sun City Anthem is a 7,000+-home, 55+ Del Webb community in Henderson. This research confirms golf is NOT bundled into HOA dues: the community has no golf course of its own, and residents instead get preferred tee times and discounted (not free) green fees at the adjacent, independently-owned-and-operated Revere Golf Club (Lexington and Concord courses). ### Las Vegas / Summerlin, NV - [Las Vegas / Summerlin, NV Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/): Las Vegas / Summerlin is Nevada's largest and most golf-residential-dense market by a wide margin, but it is not one golf neighborhood — it is a loose federation of very different private-club models spread across a mostly built-out desert valley. #### Golf Clubs in Las Vegas / Summerlin - [The Summit Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/the-summit-club/): Las Vegas, NV: Ultra-private, 610-acre guard-gated golf community in Summerlin developed by Discovery Land Company and Howard Hughes Corporation around an 18-hole Tom Fazio course; club membership is exclusive to homeowners and treated as required for residents, not a separate optional amenity. - [TPC Summerlin](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/tpc-summerlin/): Las Vegas, NV: Private, equity-membership PGA TOUR Network club in Summerlin that anchors the guard-gated Tournament Hills community; former 42-year host of the PGA Tour's Shriners Children's Open, which ended after the 2024 season. - [Southern Highlands Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/southern-highlands-golf-club/): Private, 360-member-capped golf club co-designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Jr. (one of the elder Jones's final works), anchoring the 2,300-acre, 9-village Southern Highlands master-planned community in southwest Las Vegas. - [Spanish Trail Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/spanish-trail-country-club/): Las Vegas, NV: Private, member-only 27-hole Robert Trent Jones Sr. club anchoring Spanish Trail, the original 640-acre, 11-neighborhood guard-gated luxury community in Spring Valley, adjacent to Summerlin. - [Red Rock Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/red-rock-country-club-las-vegas-nv/): Las Vegas, NV: Guard-gated, 738-acre Summerlin community built around two Arnold Palmer-designed 18-hole courses: the private, membership-gated Mountain Course and the public/daily-fee Arroyo Course, under one club name. - [Canyon Gate Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/canyon-gate-country-club/): Private, Invited/ClubCorp-network club (Ted Robinson Sr. design) in the 160-acre guard-gated Canyon Gate community near Sahara/Durango, Las Vegas; membership draws from across the valley and is not exclusive to Canyon Gate residents. - [Amara Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/amara-golf-club/): Formerly Bear's Best Las Vegas, a public Jack Nicklaus composite design; closed June 2025 for a $300M rebuild and scheduled to reopen ~October 2026 as Amara Golf Club, an ultra-exclusive private club capped at 250 members ($250,000 initiation, $4,000/month dues) anchoring The Ridges community in Summerlin. - [Las Vegas Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/las-vegas-country-club-winchester-nv/): Old-guard, full-equity private country club established 1967 (equity conversion 1984) on an Ed Ault-designed course in Winchester, NV — an unincorporated Clark County pocket near the Strip, not Henderson or Summerlin. #### Golf Communities in Las Vegas / Summerlin - [The Summit Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/the-summit-club-community/): Las Vegas, NV: The 610-acre guard-gated community built around The Summit Club's Tom Fazio golf course, with roughly 262 planned residences and 146 custom lots. - [Tournament Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/tournament-hills/): Las Vegas, NV: A 132-home guard-gated community of custom residences built along TPC Summerlin's fairways. - [Southern Highlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/southern-highlands/): A 2,300-acre, nine-village master-planned community in southwest Las Vegas anchored by Southern Highlands Golf Club, spanning entry townhomes to guard-gated luxury estates. - [Spanish Trail](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/spanish-trail/): The original Las Vegas guard-gated luxury master-planned community: 640 acres, 11 neighborhoods, 1,200+ homes, anchored by Spanish Trail Country Club's 27-hole course. - [Red Rock Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/red-rock-country-club-community/): Las Vegas, NV: A 738-acre guard-gated Summerlin community built around Red Rock Country Club's two Arnold Palmer courses (private Mountain Course, public Arroyo Course). - [Canyon Gate](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/canyon-gate/): Las Vegas, NV: A 160-acre guard-gated community of roughly 550 homes near Sahara/Durango, built around Canyon Gate Country Club; club membership is open valley-wide and not tied to community residency. - [The Ridges](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/the-ridges/): A 793-acre, 12-enclave guard-gated Summerlin community at the neighborhood's highest elevation, whose on-site golf course is mid-rebuild from the public Bear's Best Las Vegas into the private Amara Golf Club (targeting ~October 2026 reopening). - [Las Vegas Country Club Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/las-vegas-summerlin/las-vegas-country-club-neighborhood/): The older, in-town on-course neighborhood surrounding Las Vegas Country Club in Winchester, NV, mixing 1960s–70s-era condos with larger custom homes. ### Reno / Sparks, NV - [Reno / Sparks, NV Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/reno-sparks/): Reno/Sparks is Nevada's second-largest golf-residential market after Las Vegas/Henderson, and a genuinely distinct one in character: a smaller, higher-elevation, foothills-and-mountain-terrain market rather than a desert one, with five researched golf anchors that together read as a compact, honest cluster rather than a padded roster. #### Golf Clubs in Reno / Sparks - [Montreux Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/reno-sparks/montreux-golf-and-country-club/): Private, member-owned equity club that is the social and golf hub of the 726-acre, guard-gated Montreux community in south Reno. - [The Club at ArrowCreek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/reno-sparks/the-club-at-arrowcreek/): Private club with two 18-hole championship courses (the Arnold Palmer-designed Legends Course and the Fuzzy Zoeller/John Harbottle III Challenge Course) inside the 3,200-acre, guard-gated ArrowCreek community in southwest Reno's foothills. - [Somersett Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/reno-sparks/somersett-golf-and-country-club/): Private, members-only 7,200-yard championship course in west Reno's Somersett master-planned community. The club sells no public tee times; the only outside access is a limited afternoon-round arrangement through a third-party group (Golf the High Sierra). - [Hidden Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/reno-sparks/hidden-valley-country-club-reno-nv/): Founded in 1956, Hidden Valley Country Club is Nevada's first private club -- an 18-hole, William F. Bell-designed course (renovated 2024) in east Reno with no public tee times. - [Red Hawk Golf and Resort -- Hills Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/reno-sparks/red-hawk-golf-and-resort-hills-course/): Hale Irwin-designed semi-private course (opened 1999) reserved for members and resort guests, part of Red Hawk Golf and Resort in Sparks/Wingfield Springs. #### Golf Communities in Reno / Sparks - [Montreux](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/reno-sparks/montreux-reno/): A 726-acre, 24-hour guard-gated luxury community in south Reno with roughly 540-550 home sites, built around Montreux Golf & Country Club's Jack Nicklaus Signature course beginning in 1997. - [ArrowCreek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/reno-sparks/arrowcreek-reno/): A 3,200-acre, guard-gated master-planned community in southwest Reno's foothills with roughly 1,000-1,090 home sites, built around The Club at ArrowCreek's two 18-hole courses. - [Somersett](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/reno-sparks/somersett-reno/): Reno's largest master-planned community (3,000-plus homes across roughly 2,700 acres in west Reno), mostly not gated overall (aside from smaller gated sub-enclaves like Canyon9), built around the private Somersett Golf & Country Club. - [Hidden Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/reno-sparks/hidden-valley-neighborhood-reno-nv/): An older, largely non-gated east Reno neighborhood of ranch-style and custom homes on larger lots (0.25-1+ acre), developed from the 1970s onward around Hidden Valley Country Club -- one of Nevada's first golf-course-anchored residential areas. - [Wingfield Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/reno-sparks/wingfield-springs-sparks/): A roughly 1,660-acre, ~2,000-home master-planned community in Sparks' Spanish Springs Valley, not gated, whose homeowners receive a documented $5,000 credit toward membership at the adjacent Red Hawk Hills Course. ### Lake Tahoe, Nevada, NV - [Lake Tahoe, Nevada, NV Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/lake-tahoe-nevada/): US Golf Living has researched 3 golf anchors in the Lake Tahoe, Nevada golf market, across Carson City, Douglas, and Washoe counties, including Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course, Incline Village Golf Courses (IVGID), and Clear Creek Tahoe. #### Golf Clubs in Lake Tahoe, Nevada - [Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/lake-tahoe-nevada/edgewood-tahoe-golf-course/): A George Fazio-designed, lakefront daily-fee resort course on Lake Tahoe's south shore in Stateline, NV -- host of the 1985 U.S. Senior Open and the annual American Century Championship celebrity pro-am since 1990, and rated among Golf Digest's Top 100 Courses. - [Incline Village Golf Courses (IVGID)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/lake-tahoe-nevada/incline-village-golf-courses/): Two 18-hole courses -- the Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed Championship Course and the more accessible Mountain Course -- operated by the Incline Village General Improvement District (IVGID), a Nevada quasi-municipal public agency. - [Clear Creek Tahoe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/lake-tahoe-nevada/clear-creek-tahoe/): A private Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw-designed golf club (opened 2009) anchoring a 1,576-acre private golf-residential community on the eastern slope of the Carson Range near Carson City. #### Golf Communities in Lake Tahoe, Nevada - [The Lodge at Edgewood Tahoe (Fractional Residences)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/lake-tahoe-nevada/lodge-at-edgewood-tahoe-residences/): A 154-room luxury lodge with 40 fractional-ownership residences at Edgewood Tahoe Resort, opened in 2017 after 2012 Tahoe Regional Planning Agency approval -- the one confirmed residential real-estate product directly tied to Edgewood Companies' Stateline, NV golf and resort footprint. - [Incline Village / Crystal Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/lake-tahoe-nevada/incline-village-crystal-bay/): Not a single gated subdivision but the entire Incline Village/Crystal Bay district on Lake Tahoe's north shore, where every parcel owner pays a mandatory IVGID Recreation Facility Fee via their Washoe County property tax bill, funding resident-preferred discounted access to two golf courses plus Diamond Peak, beaches, and other district recreation amenities. - [Clear Creek Tahoe (Community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nevada/lake-tahoe-nevada/clear-creek-tahoe-community/): The 1,576-acre private gated community built alongside Clear Creek Tahoe's Coore & Crenshaw golf course on the eastern slope of the Carson Range near Carson City -- marketed by the club itself as 'Tahoe's most exciting private community.' ## Tennessee - [Tennessee Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/): Independent research on 38 golf clubs and 25 residential golf communities across 7 Tennessee golf markets, including Chattanooga, Franklin & Brentwood / Williamson County and Knoxville: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Tennessee Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Tennessee](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 36 private Tennessee golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Black Creek Club, Council Fire Golf Club, Chattanooga Golf & Country Club, Signal Mountain Golf & Country Club and Valleybrook Golf & Country Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Tennessee](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 10 private Tennessee golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Chattanooga Golf & Country Club, Signal Mountain Golf & Country Club, Westhaven Golf Club, Golf Club of Tennessee and Holston Hills Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Tennessee](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 5 Tennessee golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Holston Hills Country Club, The Club at Gettysvue, Old Hickory Country Club, Rarity Bay Country Club and Avalon Country Club. ### Tennessee Comparisons - [The Grove vs Troubadour for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-grove-vs-troubadour-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of The Grove and Troubadour Golf & Field Club, College Grove, TN's two flagship mandatory-membership golf communities: membership structure, cost, course pedigree, and scale. - [TPC Southwind vs. Colonial Country Club | Memphis Golf Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/tpc-southwind-vs-colonial-country-club-memphis/): Compare TPC Southwind and Colonial Country Club, Memphis's two flagship private golf clubs, including tournament pedigree, access model, and residential development. - [Tellico Village vs Rarity Bay for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/tellico-village-vs-rarity-bay-golf-access-models/): A researched comparison of Tellico Village and Rarity Bay's very different golf-access models on Tellico Lake, TN. - [WindRiver vs Avalon for Golf Living in Lenoir City, TN](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/windriver-vs-avalon-lenoir-city-golf-living/): A researched comparison of WindRiver and Avalon Country Club, two Lenoir City, TN golf communities with opposite club-membership rules. ### Chattanooga, TN - [Chattanooga, TN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/chattanooga/): US Golf Living has researched 5 golf anchors in the Chattanooga golf market, in Hamilton County, including Black Creek Club, Council Fire Golf Club, Chattanooga Golf & Country Club, Signal Mountain Golf & Country Club, and Valleybrook Golf & Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Chattanooga - [Black Creek Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/chattanooga/black-creek-club-chattanooga-tn/): Black Creek Club is a private, 18-hole Brian Silva-designed golf course (opened 2000, par 72, 7,204 yards) at the center of Black Creek, a gated master-planned residential community in Lookout Valley about 10 minutes from downtown Chattanooga. - [Council Fire Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/chattanooga/council-fire-golf-club-chattanooga-tn/): Council Fire Golf Club is a private, 18-hole Bob Cupp-designed course (roughly 7,000 yards) in East Brainerd, Chattanooga, at the center of a real residential community built by the same development group (the KPH Principals). - [Chattanooga Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/chattanooga/chattanooga-golf-and-country-club-chattanooga-tn/): Chattanooga Golf & Country Club, established in 1896, is one of the oldest golf clubs in the South on its original site. - [Signal Mountain Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/chattanooga/signal-mountain-golf-and-country-club-signal-mountain-tn/): Signal Mountain Golf & Country Club, designed by Donald Ross and opened in 1922, is a private club atop Signal Mountain requiring member sponsorship, with a reported $15,000 full-golf initiation fee and $660/month dues. - [Valleybrook Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/chattanooga/valleybrook-golf-and-country-club-hixson-tn/): Hixson, TN: Valleybrook Golf & Country Club, established in 1963 as one of the first 18-hole residential golf-course communities in the US, went fully private on October 11, 2025 under owner Urban Story Ventures after decades as a semi-private club. #### Golf Communities in Chattanooga - [Black Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/chattanooga/black-creek-chattanooga-tn/): Black Creek is a gated, master-planned golf-residential community in Lookout Valley, Chattanooga, established in 2000 around the Brian Silva-designed Black Creek Club. - [Council Fire](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/chattanooga/council-fire-chattanooga-tn/): Council Fire is a residential community in East Brainerd, Chattanooga, developed by the KPH Principals around Council Fire Golf Club. - [Riverview](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/chattanooga/riverview-chattanooga-tn/): Riverview is one of Chattanooga's most historic in-town neighborhoods, developed alongside Chattanooga Golf & Country Club since the early 1900s. - [Signal Mountain](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/chattanooga/signal-mountain-tn/): Signal Mountain is a distinct incorporated town atop Signal Mountain, near Chattanooga, with median home prices reported roughly $677K-$837K (sources conflict on the exact figure) -- roughly double greater Chattanooga's broader median. - [Valleybrook](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/chattanooga/valleybrook-hixson-tn/): Valleybrook is an established Hixson neighborhood built around Valleybrook Golf & Country Club, one of the first residential golf-course communities in the US (1963). ### Franklin & Brentwood / Williamson County, TN - [Franklin & Brentwood / Williamson County, TN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/): Franklin and Brentwood, the twin cities anchoring Williamson County south of Nashville, form Tennessee's single densest and fastest-growing golf-residential market. #### Golf Clubs in Franklin & Brentwood / Williamson County - [The Governors Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/the-governors-club-brentwood-tn/): A guard-gated, 600-acre private golf community in Brentwood built around an Arnold Palmer Signature 18-hole course, with 438 custom home sites developed in phases beginning in 1997. - [Vanderbilt Legends Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/vanderbilt-legends-club/): A private 36-hole club in Franklin, home to Vanderbilt University's golf teams and a regular LPGA/Korn Ferry Tour and USGA qualifying host, with both courses co-designed by Bob Cupp and Tom Kite. - [Nashville Golf & Athletic Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/nashville-golf-athletic-club/): A freestanding private 18-hole club on 200 acres in Brentwood, originally built in 1971-72 as Crockett Springs National with U.S. Open ambitions, on land tracing to an 18th-century land grant. - [The Grove](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/the-grove-college-grove/): A 1,100-acre guard-gated community in College Grove built around a Greg Norman Signature course that hosted 2024 LIV Golf Nashville; every homeowner must carry at least a mandatory Sports Membership, with Golf Membership a separately priced upgrade. - [Troubadour Golf & Field Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/troubadour-golf-field-club/): An ultra-exclusive Discovery Land Company private community on 908 acres between College Grove and Arrington, built around a Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole course, with 375 planned homesites and mandatory, board-approved club membership. - [Westhaven Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/westhaven-golf-club/): A Troon Prive-managed, members-only private club within the large Westhaven master-planned community in Franklin, built around a 7,000-yard Arthur Hills-designed course. - [Temple Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/temple-hills-country-club/): A 27-hole private club in Franklin managed by Invited (formerly ClubCorp), designed by Leon Howard, at the center of the five-phase Temple Hills residential community. - [Brentwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/brentwood-country-club/): An old-guard, 24-hour gated 215-acre private club in Brentwood established in 1955, with the course originally designed by Gary Roger Baird and later refined by Bob Cupp (1999), and a small residential enclave physically inside its gates. - [Old Natchez Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/old-natchez-country-club/): The oldest country club in continuous operation in the Franklin/Brentwood area, an 18-hole Gary Roger Baird design along the Harpeth River, recently acquired by Heritage Golf Group (announced September 2026) as its 49th club nationwide. - [Golf Club of Tennessee](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/golf-club-of-tennessee/): A private, Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole club in Kingston Springs (Cheatham County), founded in 1988 by Nashville businessmen Bronson Ingram, Toby Wilt, and George N. Gillett Jr., historically ranked among Golf Digest's 200 Greatest and currently rated Tennessee's #2 course in state. #### Golf Communities in Franklin & Brentwood / Williamson County - [The Governors Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/the-governors-club-brentwood-tn-community/): A 438-home-site, 600-acre guard-gated custom-home community in Brentwood built around The Governors Club's Arnold Palmer Signature golf course. - [The Grove](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/the-grove-college-grove-community/): A 1,100-acre guard-gated golf and equestrian community in College Grove with roughly 500 homes built to date, anchored by The Grove's Greg Norman-designed golf course. - [Troubadour](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/troubadour-golf-field-club-community/): A 375-homesite ultra-luxury Discovery Land Company community on 908 acres in College Grove, built around Troubadour's Tom Fazio-designed golf course. - [Westhaven](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/westhaven-community/): A large master-planned residential community in Franklin with its own HOA-funded pool and tennis amenities, separate from the adjacent, membership-optional Westhaven Golf Club. - [Temple Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/temple-hills-community/): A five-phase golf-course residential community in Franklin (Temple Hills, Temple Hills West, The Links, Deercrest, The Reserve) built around Temple Hills Country Club's 27 holes. - [Brentwood Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/brentwood-country-club-community/): A small, 24-hour gated residential enclave on three streets inside Brentwood Country Club's 215-acre property, surrounded by the golf course. - [Gardens of Old Natchez](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/old-natchez-country-club-community/): A luxury golf-course residential community in Franklin's equestrian country, built directly around Old Natchez Country Club's 18 holes. - [The Golf Club (Kingston Springs)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/franklin-brentwood-williamson/golf-club-of-tennessee-community/): A gated Kingston Springs neighborhood, dating to 1996, marketed by real-estate sources under the Golf Club of Tennessee name -- its precise relationship to the golf club is not fully confirmed (see the golf-club-of-tennessee anchor's buyer_notes). ### Knoxville, TN - [Knoxville, TN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/knoxville/): US Golf Living has researched 4 golf anchors in the Knoxville golf market, in Knox County, including Holston Hills Country Club, Cherokee Country Club, Fox Den Country Club, and The Club at Gettysvue. #### Golf Clubs in Knoxville - [Holston Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/knoxville/holston-hills-country-club/): A private, Donald Ross-designed 1927 golf course on Knoxville's east side, now owned by McConnell Golf, wrapped by the historic Holston Hills residential neighborhood that was developed alongside it in the same era. - [Cherokee Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/knoxville/cherokee-country-club-knoxville-tn/): An old-guard, invitation-only Donald Ross club founded in 1907 on a bend of the Tennessee River, adjacent to Knoxville's historic Sequoyah Hills neighborhood. - [Fox Den Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/knoxville/fox-den-country-club/): A member-owned private club in Farragut (est. 1968-69, Willard Byrd design, 2004 Bill Bergin redesign) that anchors the Fox Den residential neighborhood, with many homes backing directly onto the course. - [The Club at Gettysvue](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/knoxville/the-club-at-gettysvue/): A private club at the center of a gated, 300-acre planned golf community in west Knoxville, built on the historic Gettysvue Farm site with an equestrian/polo heritage, now owned by Heritage Golf Group. #### Golf Communities in Knoxville - [Holston Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/knoxville/holston-hills-neighborhood/): A historic east-Knoxville neighborhood platted in the 1920s specifically as a golf-centered residential area around Holston Hills Country Club, bordered by the Holston River and Highway 11. - [Sequoyah Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/knoxville/sequoyah-hills/): One of Knoxville's oldest and most established affluent neighborhoods, a roughly 1,000-acre Tennessee River peninsula developed from the 1920s-1930s, immediately adjacent to Cherokee Country Club. - [Fox Den](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/knoxville/fox-den-neighborhood/): One of Farragut's oldest established neighborhoods, built out alongside Fox Den Country Club with villas and semi-custom homes, many backing directly onto the course. - [Gettysvue](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/knoxville/gettysvue/): A gated, roughly 300-acre planned golf community in west Knoxville built on the historic Gettysvue Farm site, organized around The Club at Gettysvue. ### Memphis, TN - [Memphis, TN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/): US Golf Living has researched 8 golf anchors in the Memphis golf market, in Shelby County, including TPC Southwind, Colonial Country Club, Spring Creek Ranch and Memphis National Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in Memphis - [TPC Southwind](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/tpc-southwind/): Memphis, TN: TPC Southwind is the PGA Tour's only private TPC Network club in Tennessee and the continuous host of the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the opening event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, since 1989. - [Colonial Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/colonial-country-club-memphis-tn/): Colonial Country Club, in Cordova, is Memphis's fourth entity to carry the widely-reused 'Colonial Country Club' name nationally, confirmed genuinely distinct from clubs of the same name in Fort Myers, FL and Fort Worth, TX. - [Ridgeway Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/ridgeway-country-club/): Ridgeway Country Club, on Poplar Avenue in Germantown, is a private club with a golf course dating to 1971 (Ellis Maples and Ed Seay) built on a site that has hosted club golf since 1919. - [Memphis Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/memphis-country-club/): Memphis Country Club, founded in 1905 and expanded to 18 holes by Donald Ross in 1915, is one of Memphis's oldest and most selective private clubs, sited in a historic in-town neighborhood closely identified with the club's name. - [Spring Creek Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/spring-creek-ranch/): Spring Creek Ranch is a private Jack Nicklaus Signature golf club (1999) at the center of an 820-acre master-planned residential community in Collierville's rural preserve area, developed by Boyle Investment Company and organized into distinct residential sub-neighborhoods built around the course. - [Memphis National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/memphis-national-golf-club/): Memphis National Golf Club, in Collierville, is an invitation-only, 36-hole private club (Legends and Champions courses) with The Fairways, a purpose-built gated neighborhood of 103 luxury homes, sited directly within the golf property. - [Windyke Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/windyke-country-club/): Windyke Country Club, operating since 1962 in southeast Memphis's 38125 zip code (shared with TPC Southwind), is a private, family-oriented club with two George Cobb-designed 18-hole courses. - [Chickasaw Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/chickasaw-country-club/): Chickasaw Country Club, founded in 1922 in East Memphis, is an old-guard private social and golf club with an 18-hole course originally designed by William Langford and restored in 2018 by Bill Bergin. #### Golf Communities in Memphis - [Southwind](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/southwind-memphis/): Southwind is an unincorporated, gated and guarded residential community in far southeast Shelby County, home to TPC Southwind and widely regarded as one of the Memphis area's more prestigious addresses. - [The Legacy at Colonial](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/legacy-at-colonial-cordova-tn/): The Legacy at Colonial (also referenced in Memphis development coverage as The Legacy at Countrywood) is a roughly $400 million, 170-acre mixed-use community built on Colonial Country Club's former North Course in Cordova, TN, with 541 planned single-family lots, a senior-living campus, multifamily housing, retail and a hotel. - [Spring Creek Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/spring-creek-ranch-residential/): Spring Creek Ranch is an 820-acre master-planned residential community in Collierville, TN, built around a private Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course, organized into several distinct sections developed by Boyle Investment Company. - [The Fairways at Memphis National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/memphis/the-fairways-at-memphis-national/): The Fairways at Memphis National is a private, gated neighborhood of 103 luxury homes built directly within the Memphis National Golf Club property in Collierville, TN, many with golf-course frontage. ### Nashville Proper & Old-Guard Clubs, TN - [Nashville Proper & Old-Guard Clubs, TN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/nashville-proper-old-guard-clubs/): Nashville's old-guard private clubs are a genuinely different animal from the new-build, gated-community golf of Williamson County a few miles south. #### Golf Clubs in Nashville Proper & Old-Guard Clubs - [Belle Meade Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/nashville-proper-old-guard-clubs/belle-meade-country-club/): Founded in 1901 as the Nashville Golf and Country Club, Belle Meade Country Club is a private, member-owned 18-hole club on Nashville's affluent west side, its Donald Ross-rooted course reworked across a century by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Gary Roger Baird. - [Richland Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/nashville-proper-old-guard-clubs/richland-country-club/): Richland Country Club, chartered as the Nashville Golf Club in 1901 (the same founding lineage as Belle Meade Country Club) and renamed Richland in 1920, is an invitation-only private club whose current site opened in 1988 with a Jack Nicklaus-designed course, renovated by Bill Bergin in 2021. - [Hillwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/nashville-proper-old-guard-clubs/hillwood-country-club/): Founded in 1953 on Nashville's west side, Hillwood Country Club is a private 18-hole club originally designed by Dick Wilson, refined by Bob Cupp in 1987 and later renovated twice more by Bruce Hepner (2003, 2011). - [Old Hickory Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/nashville-proper-old-guard-clubs/old-hickory-country-club/): Built in 1926, Old Hickory Country Club is a private 18-hole club in the historic riverside village of Old Hickory, TN -- genuinely distinct from the neighboring public Hermitage Golf Course. - [Stones River Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/nashville-proper-old-guard-clubs/stones-river-country-club/): Established in the late 1940s in Murfreesboro (Rutherford County), Stones River Country Club is a private 18-hole club along the Stones River, freshly renovated by Bill Bergin in October 2025. #### Golf Communities in Nashville Proper & Old-Guard Clubs - [Belle Meade](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/nashville-proper-old-guard-clubs/belle-meade-neighborhood/): Belle Meade is an established, open (non-gated) historic neighborhood on Nashville's west side, widely regarded as the city's most prestigious residential address, anchored socially and recreationally by Belle Meade Country Club without any formal bundling of club membership to home ownership. - [Riverview Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/nashville-proper-old-guard-clubs/riverview-park-murfreesboro/): A no-HOA subdivision of all-brick estate homes in Murfreesboro, TN with course frontage along Stones River Country Club; golf membership is purchased entirely separately from home ownership. ### Sumner County / Old Hickory Lake, TN - [Sumner County / Old Hickory Lake, TN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/sumner-county-old-hickory-lake/): Sumner County's golf-residential story on Old Hickory Lake is a genuine identity-resolution case, not a simple rename. Two separate private clubs -- The Club at Fairvue Plantation and Foxland Harbor Golf and Country Club -- each anchored their own gated, lakefront residential community in Gallatin, about 30 minutes northeast of downtown Nashville. #### Golf Clubs in Sumner County / Old Hickory Lake - [Tennessee Grasslands Golf and Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/sumner-county-old-hickory-lake/tennessee-grasslands-golf-and-country-club/): Tennessee Grasslands Golf and Country Club is the current, authoritative name of the 36-hole private club on Old Hickory Lake in Gallatin, TN, formed by a 2018 merger of the previously separate Fairvue Plantation and Foxland Harbor clubs. #### Golf Communities in Sumner County / Old Hickory Lake - [Fairvue Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/sumner-county-old-hickory-lake/fairvue-plantation/): A large, gated lakefront community on Old Hickory Lake in Gallatin, TN, ranging from age-restricted attached homes to large estate lots, with the 36-hole Tennessee Grasslands Golf and Country Club (formerly its own dedicated Fairvue Plantation Country Club) as its headline shared amenity. - [Foxland Harbor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/sumner-county-old-hickory-lake/foxland-harbor/): A lakeside community on Old Hickory Lake in Gallatin, TN, formerly anchored by its own independent Foxland Harbor Golf and Country Club, now sharing the merged 36-hole Tennessee Grasslands Golf and Country Club membership with the neighboring Fairvue Plantation community. ### Tellico Lake Region, TN - [Tellico Lake Region, TN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/tellico-lake-region/): The Tellico Lake Region -- centered on Loudon and Monroe counties, roughly midway between Knoxville and Chattanooga -- is Tennessee's densest cluster of genuine golf-residential lake communities, anchored by Tellico Village, a ~5,000-acre, three-course planned community that is one of the largest golf-oriented developments in the state. #### Golf Clubs in Tellico Lake Region - [Tellico Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/tellico-lake-region/tellico-village/): A ~5,000-acre Cooper Communities-developed planned community on Tellico Lake (Loudon/Monroe counties) where a mandatory ~$189/month property-owner assessment includes membership rights to all three courses (Tanasi, Toqua, Kahite) and the Yacht Club with no initiation fee, though golf itself is priced pay-as-you-play on top. - [Rarity Bay Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/tellico-lake-region/rarity-bay-country-club/): A 960-acre gated golf-and-equestrian community on its own Tellico Lake peninsula near Vonore, with a mandatory ~$50,000 Social club initiation for all residents plus an optional ~$75,000 Golf add-on, and a turbulent developer history (Rarity Communities bankruptcy, resident takeover, sale to Salem Pointe Capital). - [WindRiver](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/tellico-lake-region/windriver-golf-club-lenoir-city-tn/): A gated, single-developer lakefront golf community in Lenoir City on Tellico Lake, with a mandatory ~$330/month Club Social Membership on top of community assessments, an 18-hole Bob Cupp-designed Audubon Signature course, and a private marina. - [Avalon Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/tellico-lake-region/avalon-country-club-lenoir-city-tn/): A gated, 430-acre golf community in Lenoir City (marketed as 'Maryville' despite its actual municipal location) with an 18-hole Joseph L. Lee course and a confirmed-optional club membership -- the HOA's covenants explicitly prohibit mandatory golf membership. - [Tennessee National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/tennessee/tellico-lake-region/tennessee-national-golf-club/): A fully gated, 1,492-acre Greg Norman-designed golf and marina community on Watts Bar Lake in Loudon, TN, sold in a $10 million 2021 ownership change; club membership is confirmed optional, layered on top of a $150/month HOA fee. ## Virginia - [Virginia Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/): Independent research on 52 golf clubs and 48 residential golf communities across 12 Virginia golf markets, including Charlottesville, Loudoun County and Prince William County / Haymarket-Gainesville (+ Fairfax): how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Virginia Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Virginia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 4 Virginia golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Creighton Farms, Dominion Valley Country Club, Mariners Landing Golf & Country Club and Two Rivers Country Club. - [Private Golf Communities in Virginia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 48 private Virginia golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Farmington Country Club, Keswick Hall / Full Cry at Keswick Club, Glenmore Country Club, Spring Creek Golf Club and Wintergreen Resort. - [55+ Golf Communities in Virginia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/guides/55-plus-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 5 Virginia golf anchors connected to age-restricted (55+) residential communities, including Dominion Valley Country Club, Heritage Hunt Golf Club, The Golf Club at The Highlands, Colonial Heritage Club and The Club at Viniterra. - [Golf Resort Communities in Virginia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 5 Virginia golf resort ecosystems, including Keswick Hall / Full Cry at Keswick Club, Wintergreen Resort, Bay Creek Resort & Club, The Golf Club at Lansdowne and Kingsmill Resort. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Virginia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 16 private Virginia golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Keswick Hall / Full Cry at Keswick Club, James River Country Club, Elizabeth Manor Golf & Country Club, The Golf Club at Lansdowne and Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Virginia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 10 Virginia golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Farmington Country Club, Glenmore Country Club, Dominion Valley Country Club, Heritage Hunt Golf Club and Springfield Golf & Country Club. ### Virginia Comparisons - [Farmington Country Club vs Keswick Hall / Full Cry](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/farmington-country-club-vs-keswick-hall-full-cry/): A researched comparison of Farmington Country Club and Keswick Hall's Full Cry course for golf-oriented homebuyers in Charlottesville, VA: access model, course pedigree, residential scale, and lifestyle. - [Princess Anne CC vs Norfolk Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/princess-anne-country-club-vs-norfolk-yacht-and-country-club/): A researched comparison of Hampton Roads' two oldest private clubs -- history, admission process, setting, and what buyers should verify before joining either. - [Hampton Roads vs Eastern Shore (Bay Creek) for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/hampton-roads-vs-eastern-shore-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Hampton Roads' old-guard private-club market and the Eastern Shore's single gated golf-resort community, Bay Creek. - [River Creek Club vs Belmont Country Club | Loudoun County Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/river-creek-club-vs-belmont-country-club-ashburn/): A researched comparison of River Creek Club (Leesburg) and Belmont Country Club (Ashburn), VA: how each bundles club membership to homeownership, golf membership costs, and community scale. - [Robert Trent Jones Golf Club vs. Dominion Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/robert-trent-jones-golf-club-vs-dominion-valley-country-club/): A researched comparison of Robert Trent Jones Golf Club and Dominion Valley Country Club in Prince William County, VA: access models, tournament pedigree, community scale, and cost. - [Kinloch Golf Club vs. Country Club of Virginia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/kinloch-golf-club-vs-country-club-of-virginia/): A researched comparison of Kinloch Golf Club and The Country Club of Virginia -- Richmond's two most prestigious private clubs -- for golf-oriented homebuyers. - [Richmond's West End/Goochland vs. Chesterfield Golf Clusters](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/richmond-goochland-west-end-vs-chesterfield-golf-clusters/): A researched comparison of Richmond's two golf-residential pockets: Goochland/West End's prestige cluster and Chesterfield/south side's established member-owned clubs. - [Ballyhack Golf Club vs. The Virginian Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/ballyhack-golf-club-vs-the-virginian-golf-club/): A researched comparison of Ballyhack Golf Club (Roanoke) and The Virginian Golf Club (Bristol), Virginia's two most significant private golf-residential anchors in the Blue Ridge/Southwest corridor. - [The Waterfront CC vs. The Water's Edge CC for Golf Living at Smith Mountain Lake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-waterfront-cc-vs-the-waters-edge-cc-smith-mountain-lake/): A researched comparison of Smith Mountain Lake's two flagship private golf clubs: The Waterfront Country Club and The Water's Edge Country Club. - [Kingsmill Resort vs Ford's Colony Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/kingsmill-resort-vs-fords-colony-country-club/): A researched comparison of Kingsmill Resort and Ford's Colony Country Club in Williamsburg, VA: golf pedigree, resort vs. residential character, scale, and membership structure. - [Governor's Land at Two Rivers vs Colonial Heritage](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/governors-land-at-two-rivers-vs-colonial-heritage/): A researched comparison of Governor's Land at Two Rivers and Colonial Heritage in Williamsburg, VA: mandatory vs. optional golf membership, price, and buyer profile. - [Spring Creek vs Glenmore | Charlottesville-Area Golf Communities](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/spring-creek-vs-glenmore-for-golf-living/): Comparing Spring Creek (Zion Crossroads) and Glenmore (Keswick), the Charlottesville market's two gated golf-course communities -- access model, construction status, amenities, and what buyers should verify. ### Charlottesville, VA - [Charlottesville, VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/charlottesville/): Charlottesville's golf-residential identity is old-guard and Jefferson-adjacent rather than resort-scale: this is a market defined by a handful of invitation-only and tiered-membership clubs woven into Albemarle County's historic country-estate landscape, not by large master-planned golf subdivisions. #### Golf Clubs in Charlottesville - [Farmington Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/charlottesville/farmington-country-club-charlottesville-va/): Farmington Country Club is an invitation-only private club in Charlottesville built around a circa-1802-1803 Thomas Jefferson-designed clubhouse wing added to an older Albemarle County estate house. - [Keswick Hall / Full Cry at Keswick Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/charlottesville/keswick-hall-full-cry-keswick-va/): Full Cry is the Pete Dye-designed private golf course at Keswick Hall, a luxury resort east of Charlottesville, renovated in 2025 under architect Scot Sherman and used as a U.S. Open local qualifying site in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. - [Glenmore Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/charlottesville/glenmore-country-club-keswick-va/): Glenmore Country Club is an 18-hole John LaFoy-designed course (1992) anchoring Glenmore, a 1,300-acre gated golf-and-equestrian community of 824 homesites about 8 miles east of Charlottesville. - [Spring Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/charlottesville/spring-creek-golf-club-zion-crossroads-va/): Spring Creek Golf Club is an Ed Carton-designed (2006) 18-hole, par-72 course in Zion Crossroads that was a Golf Digest Top-100 Public Course honoree in 2021-2023 before converting to a fully private club on May 1, 2024 under Heritage Golf Group ownership. #### Golf Communities in Charlottesville - [Farmington](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/charlottesville/farmington-charlottesville-va/): Farmington is a long-established residential enclave in the Ivy area of Charlottesville, built up in waves since the 1920s around the private, invitation-only Farmington Country Club. - [Keswick Estate](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/charlottesville/keswick-estate-keswick-va/): Keswick Estate is a 600-acre gated community of only 121 homes and homesites (2-6 acres each) developed in the 1990s by the Orient-Express Company on the grounds of Keswick Hall, bordering the Full Cry golf course. - [Glenmore](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/charlottesville/glenmore-keswick-va/): Glenmore is a 1,300-acre gated golf-and-equestrian community in Keswick, VA, built out since 1992 around an 824-homesite plan and the John LaFoy-designed Glenmore Country Club golf course. - [Spring Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/charlottesville/spring-creek-zion-crossroads-va/): Spring Creek is a 950-acre gated golf-course community in Zion Crossroads (Louisa County), built around Spring Creek Golf Club, with active new-home construction from at least nine builders including a dedicated 55+ villa-home enclave. ### Wintergreen, VA - [Wintergreen, VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/wintergreen/): Wintergreen is a single-anchor market built entirely around Wintergreen Resort, an 11,000-acre four-season mountain community in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Nelson County, about 40 minutes south of Charlottesville. #### Golf Clubs in Wintergreen - [Wintergreen Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/wintergreen/wintergreen-resort-nelson-va/): Wintergreen Resort: a Blue Ridge Mountains four-season resort community in Nelson County, VA with two golf courses (Devils Knob, Stoney Creek) -- how POA dues, club membership, and homeownership actually connect. #### Golf Communities in Wintergreen - [Wintergreen Mountain](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/wintergreen/wintergreen-mountain/): Wintergreen Mountain is the peaks-and-ridges neighborhood of Wintergreen Resort, home to more than 1,100 condominium and townhouse units surrounding the ski area and the members/resort-guest-only Devils Knob golf course, governed by the mandatory Wintergreen Property Owners Association alongside the all-volunteer Wintergreen Mountain Association. - [Stoney Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/wintergreen/stoney-creek-wintergreen/): Stoney Creek is the roughly 3,000-acre valley neighborhood of Wintergreen Resort, with just under 600 single-family homes, townhomes, and homesites on generally larger lots surrounding the public, year-round Stoney Creek golf course and Lake Monocan, represented by the all-volunteer Wintergreen Valley Association alongside mandatory WPOA membership. ### Hampton Roads / Virginia Beach, VA - [Hampton Roads / Virginia Beach, VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/hampton-roads-virginia-beach/): Hampton Roads is a dense, historic, Navy-and-shipbuilding metro area spread across seven independent cities on Virginia's southeastern coast -- Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Newport News, Suffolk, and Hampton -- rather than a single golf-community submarket. #### Golf Clubs in Hampton Roads / Virginia Beach - [Princess Anne Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/hampton-roads-virginia-beach/princess-anne-country-club/): Private club founded in 1916 by a group of Norfolk businessmen, two blocks from the Virginia Beach oceanfront at 3800 Pacific Ave. One of Hampton Roads' oldest and most prestigious social/country clubs, with golf, tennis, pool, and dining, but functions as a classic old-guard club rather than the anchor of a built-for-golf residential development. - [Norfolk Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/hampton-roads-virginia-beach/norfolk-yacht-and-country-club/): Private yacht and country club on the Lafayette River in Norfolk, founded in 1896. Renamed 'Norfolk Country Club' in 1927 and then 'Norfolk Yacht & Country Club' in January 1936 when the club leaned into its waterfront/marina identity. - [James River Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/hampton-roads-virginia-beach/james-river-country-club/): Private club founded in 1932 along the James River in Newport News, with an 18-hole course designed by William Flynn (also the architect of Shinnecock Hills). - [Elizabeth Manor Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/hampton-roads-virginia-beach/elizabeth-manor-golf-and-country-club/): Private 18-hole club founded in 1948 along the Elizabeth River in Portsmouth, sold by its membership in 2019/2020 to private owner Dwight Schaubach, who has invested heavily in renovations (with input from Ben Crenshaw). - [Greenbrier Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/hampton-roads-virginia-beach/greenbrier-country-club-chesapeake-va/): Private 18-hole club in Chesapeake, established circa 1930 with a course rebuilt/redesigned by Rees Jones that opened in 1987. #### Golf Communities in Hampton Roads / Virginia Beach - [Riverside](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/hampton-roads-virginia-beach/riverside-newport-news/): Established Newport News residential neighborhood directly bordering James River Country Club, with housing ranging from ranch homes and Cape Cods to waterfront colonials and estates near the James River. - [Elizabeth Manor (Portsmouth Neighborhood)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/hampton-roads-virginia-beach/elizabeth-manor-neighborhood-portsmouth-va/): The Portsmouth residential neighborhood surrounding Elizabeth Manor Golf & Country Club, sharing its name. Includes the adjoining Green Acres subdivision (1950s-60s homes) directly behind the clubhouse and the nearby Park Manor waterfront area. ### Eastern Shore (Bay Creek), VA - [Eastern Shore (Bay Creek), VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/eastern-shore/): Virginia's Eastern Shore is a rural peninsula across the Chesapeake Bay from Hampton Roads, reachable from Virginia Beach only via the roughly 17-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. #### Golf Clubs in Eastern Shore (Bay Creek) - [Bay Creek Resort & Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/eastern-shore/bay-creek-resort-and-club/): 1,720-acre gated golf-resort community in Cape Charles on Virginia's Eastern Shore, with 27 total holes across a Palmer-designed course and a Nicklaus-designed course (reduced from 18 to 9 holes by new ownership in 2020), Troon Prive-managed private club amenities, a private 2-mile Chesapeake Bay beach, a marina, and ten named residential neighborhoods. #### Golf Communities in Eastern Shore (Bay Creek) - [Bay Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/eastern-shore/bay-creek-community/): 1,720-acre gated master-planned community in Cape Charles built around Bay Creek Resort & Club's two golf courses, with ten named neighborhoods, a private 2-mile Chesapeake Bay beach, a marina, and a mandatory community association. ### Loudoun County, VA - [Loudoun County, VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/): Loudoun County is Virginia's most affluent and golf-residential-dense market, anchored by the Dulles technology corridor in its east and Blue Ridge-foothills hunt country in its west. #### Golf Clubs in Loudoun County - [Trump National Golf Club Washington DC](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/trump-national-golf-club-washington-dc-sterling-va/): Trump National Golf Club Washington DC is an 800-acre private club on the Potomac River in Sterling (Potomac Falls), Loudoun County, with two 18-hole courses. - [River Creek Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/river-creek-club/): River Creek Club is a private, gated golf-residential community on 600 acres at the confluence of the Potomac River and Goose Creek in Leesburg, opened in 1997. - [Belmont Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/belmont-country-club-ashburn-va/): Belmont Country Club is a private, gated Arnold Palmer Signature course club in Ashburn, Loudoun County, operated by Invited (formerly ClubCorp), anchoring a Toll Brothers-built community of 2,100+ homes. - [Creighton Farms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/creighton-farms/): Creighton Farms is an ultra-private, 900-acre gated estate community in Aldie, Loudoun County, built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course. - [The Golf Club at Lansdowne](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/the-golf-club-at-lansdowne/): The Golf Club at Lansdowne is a 45-hole private/resort golf complex (Greg Norman and Robert Trent Jones Jr. designs) on the Potomac River in Leesburg, part of the AAA Four-Diamond Lansdowne Resort and Spa. - [Beacon Hill Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/beacon-hill-golf-club/): Leesburg, VA: Beacon Hill Golf Club is a private club on a Johnny Miller-designed course (originally opened 2001 as The Golf Club of Virginia at Beacon Hill, closed 2006) that reopened around 2024-2025 after a Tom Clark-led redesign. - [Stoneleigh Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/stoneleigh-golf-club/): Stoneleigh Golf Club is a private course with limited public play, designed by Lisa Maki in 1992, in Round Hill, western Loudoun County. #### Golf Communities in Loudoun County - [River Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/river-creek-community/): River Creek is a gated, golf-anchored community in Leesburg at the confluence of the Potomac River and Goose Creek, opened 1997. - [Belmont](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/belmont-ashburn-community/): Belmont is a large, Toll Brothers-built gated golf community in Ashburn, Loudoun County, organized into several named 'villages' with more than 2,100 homes, anchored by the historic 1790s Belmont Manor House and Belmont Country Club. - [Creighton Farms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/creighton-farms-community/): Creighton Farms is a 900-acre, ultra-private gated estate community in Aldie with only 184 custom country-manor homes on 3-6 acre lots, built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course. - [Beacon Hill](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/beacon-hill-community/): Beacon Hill is a 1,100-acre luxury estate community of 225 homes atop Catoctin Mountain west of Leesburg, once the weekend retreat of broadcaster Arthur Godfrey. - [Stoneleigh](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/stoneleigh-community/): Stoneleigh is a roughly 140-home enclave of custom single-family homes on 1.7-2.1 acre lots, built directly around Stoneleigh Golf Club in Round Hill, western Loudoun County, beginning in 1993. - [Lansdowne](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/lansdowne-community/): Lansdowne is a mixed residential community in Leesburg surrounding the Lansdowne Resort and Spa and The Golf Club at Lansdowne, offering condos, townhomes, and single-family homes. - [The Estates at Lowes Island / Cascades](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/loudoun-county/estates-at-lowes-island/): Sterling, VA: Lowes Island is the portion of the roughly 2,500-acre, 6,500-home Cascades/Potomac Falls planned community centered on Trump National Golf Club Washington DC (formerly the Lowes Island Club). ### Prince William County / Haymarket-Gainesville (+ Fairfax), VA - [Prince William County / Haymarket-Gainesville (+ Fairfax), VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/): US Golf Living has researched 8 golf anchors in the Haymarket-Gainesville and Fairfax golf market, in Prince William and Fairfax counties, including Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Dominion Valley Country Club, Piedmont Club, and Army Navy Country Club's Fairfax campus. #### Golf Clubs in Prince William County / Haymarket-Gainesville (+ Fairfax) - [Robert Trent Jones Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/robert-trent-jones-golf-club-gainesville-va/): Private, invitation-only Robert Trent Jones Sr. design on Lake Manassas in Gainesville, host of the first four U.S.-held Presidents Cups and the 2024 Solheim Cup; sits inside the gated Lake Manassas community but does not bundle membership to any home purchase. - [Dominion Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/dominion-valley-country-club-haymarket-va/): 36-hole, two-course Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay-designed club at the center of Haymarket's roughly 2,500-home Dominion Valley gated community; all homeowners are automatically enrolled as Social Members with limited golf access, and can upgrade to unlimited Full Golf Membership. - [Piedmont Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/piedmont-club-haymarket-va/): Tom Fazio-designed private club operated by Invited, anchoring the 1,619-home gated Piedmont community in Haymarket; golf membership is optional for homeowners (not required), though most homeowners reportedly join. - [Evergreen Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/evergreen-country-club-haymarket-va/): Haymarket, VA: Private, member-owned club founded in 1968 by Manassas-area investors explicitly seeking an exclusive club; a real barrier to entry is confirmed, and Evergreen Farms -- a 110-home subdivision established in 1975 on larger lots -- was built directly around the club, resolving the residential-relevance question the prior batch left open. - [Heritage Hunt Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/heritage-hunt-golf-club-gainesville-va/): Arthur Hills-designed private course anchoring Heritage Hunt, a 750+-acre gated 55+ community in Gainesville. Confirmed: golf membership is optional and available to residents and non-residents alike, not bundled to homeownership -- only the separate, mandatory HOA assessment applies to every homeowner. - [Army Navy Country Club (Fairfax)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/army-navy-country-club-fairfax-va/): Private, member-owned club founded in 1924 for military officers, operating a Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed course at its Fairfax campus (acquired 1958); membership is restricted to active/retired military officers (plus a civilian cohort) rather than tied to residency, though two established neighborhoods (Country Club Hills, Fairfax Country Club Estates) sit directly adjacent to the course. - [Country Club of Fairfax](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/country-club-of-fairfax-va/): Private, member-owned club founded in 1947 on 121 acres in Fairfax County, with the Country Club View neighborhood directly across the street explicitly oriented around it. - [Springfield Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/springfield-golf-and-country-club-va/): Springfield, VA: Private, member-owned club founded in 1960 on 157 acres in Fairfax County, with 720 current memberships. Real-estate sourcing describes the Rhygate neighborhood as 'surrounded by' the club -- genuine residential integration by proximity, though no bundled membership arrangement was found. #### Golf Communities in Prince William County / Haymarket-Gainesville (+ Fairfax) - [Lake Manassas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/lake-manassas-gainesville-va/): Gated luxury residential community in Gainesville built around man-made Lake Manassas, adjacent to (but administratively separate from) the private Robert Trent Jones Golf Club and the public Stonewall Golf Club. - [Dominion Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/dominion-valley-haymarket-va/): Roughly 2,500-home gated master-planned community in Haymarket built around Dominion Valley Country Club's 36 holes; includes the age-restricted Regency at Dominion Valley sub-community. - [Regency at Dominion Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/regency-at-dominion-valley-haymarket-va/): Haymarket, VA: 55+ age-restricted, gated sub-community of Dominion Valley, anchored by the Regency (par-62) course. A confirmed, genuine bundling exception: at minimum, homeowners must hold a Social Membership (or higher) with the country club, and even that minimum tier includes full access to the Regency Course. - [Piedmont](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/piedmont-community-haymarket-va/): 1,619-home gated community in Haymarket comprising the main Piedmont Gated Golf neighborhood, Old Carolina Estates, and Piedmont Riding Club, built around Piedmont Club's Tom Fazio-designed course. - [Heritage Hunt](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/heritage-hunt-community-gainesville-va/): 750+-acre, gated, entirely age-restricted (55+) community in Gainesville anchored by the on-site Heritage Hunt Golf Club (Arthur Hills design). - [Country Club Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/country-club-hills-fairfax-va/): Roughly 315-home neighborhood in the City of Fairfax, built in the 1950s directly adjacent to Army Navy Country Club's Fairfax campus, with larger-than-average lots and mature trees. - [Fairfax Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/fairfax-country-club-estates-fairfax-va/): Neighborhood bordering Army Navy Country Club's Fairfax campus, with some homes backing directly onto the golf course and reportedly no HOA requirement. - [Country Club View](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/country-club-view-fairfax-va/): Established, family-friendly neighborhood in Fairfax County directly across the street from Country Club of Fairfax. - [Rhygate](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/rhygate-springfield-va/): Neighborhood in Springfield, Fairfax County, described by real-estate sourcing as genuinely 'surrounded by' Springfield Golf & Country Club. - [Evergreen Farms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/prince-william-haymarket-gainesville/evergreen-farms-haymarket-va/): A 110-home subdivision on larger lots in Haymarket, established in 1975 directly around Evergreen Country Club. ### Richmond, VA - [Richmond, VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/): US Golf Living has researched 10 golf anchors in the Richmond golf market -- spanning Goochland/western Henrico's old-guard and newest-money cluster, Chesterfield/south-side clubs, and the Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania seam -- plus 3 residential communities with a researched relationship to at least one of these clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Richmond - [Kinloch Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/kinloch-golf-club/): Manakin-Sabot, VA: Kinloch Golf Club is an invitation-only private club (est. 1999, Lester George with Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw input) at the center of a 645-acre custom-home development in eastern Goochland County -- ranked Golf Digest's #1 Best New Private Club in America in 2001. - [Hermitage Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/hermitage-country-club-manakin-sabot-va/): Hermitage Country Club, founded in 1900 and relocated to Manakin-Sabot in 1977, is a private 36-hole club (Manakin + Sabot courses) best known for hosting the 1949 PGA Championship -- the only men's major golf championship ever played in Virginia -- and, later, the PGA Tour Champions' Crestar Classic (1983-1990), Arnold Palmer's last professional win among its history. - [The Country Club of Virginia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/the-country-club-of-virginia/): The Country Club of Virginia is Richmond's largest and most historically significant private club: two campuses (Westhampton, James River), 54 holes across three courses, and roughly 7,400+ members. - [The Dominion Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/the-dominion-club-glen-allen-va/): The Dominion Club is a private, ~800-member, non-equity country club (Curtis Strange/Bill Love design, 1992) at the center of the Wyndham master-planned community in Glen Allen, Henrico County, now owned and operated by Heritage Golf Group. - [The Federal Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/the-federal-club-glen-allen-va/): The Federal Club is a private, membership-based club (Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay/Harrison Minchew design, 2007) in Glen Allen, Henrico County, that will host the PGA TOUR's Korn Ferry Tour Championship -- the tour's 2026 season finale and PGA TOUR Card Ceremony -- October 5-11, 2026. - [Salisbury Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/salisbury-country-club-midlothian-va/): Salisbury Country Club is a private, member-owned 27-hole club in Midlothian, Chesterfield County. It draws membership from across the broader Richmond metro rather than exclusively from the surrounding Salisbury subdivision -- an important proximity-is-not-access distinction for anyone considering a home in Salisbury specifically for club access. - [Willow Oaks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/willow-oaks-country-club/): Willow Oaks Country Club, on the James River in the City of Richmond since 1957 (William F. Gordon design, Keith Foster 2004 renovation), is a private, member-based club that has hosted the Virginia State Open eleven times. - [Stonehenge Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/stonehenge-golf-country-club/): Stonehenge Golf & Country Club is a private, member-owned (equity) club in North Chesterfield, founded 1972 (Ed Ault design), that returned to independent self-management in 2025 after leaving national operator Invited. - [Meadowbrook Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/meadowbrook-country-club/): Meadowbrook Country Club is a private, member-owned club founded in 1957 on the historic Meadowbrook Farm estate in North Chesterfield. - [Fawn Lake Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/fawn-lake-country-club-spotsylvania-va/): Spotsylvania, VA: Fawn Lake Country Club (Arnold Palmer design, 1997) is the private golf, tennis, and lakeside dining club at the center of Fawn Lake, a gated, 2,300-acre lake community roughly 12 miles west of Fredericksburg. - [Lake Chesdin Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/lake-chesdin-golf-club-chesterfield-va/): A semi-private, member-owned club (~150 members) in Chesterfield County, now managed by Acumen Golf (since November 2024) with a reciprocal-access program under development alongside Birkdale and Brandermill. - [The Golf Club at The Highlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/the-highlands-golf-club-chesterfield-va/): A semi-private, 18-hole course in Chesterfield County with a real membership program ($0 initiation, $265-320/month dues per the club's own site) alongside public pay-to-play access. #### Golf Communities in Richmond - [Kinloch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/kinloch-residential-community-manakin-sabot-va/): Manakin-Sabot, VA: Kinloch is a 645-acre custom-home development in eastern Goochland County (up to 350 home sites on 0.75-1.5+ acre lots around a 70-acre lake), developed alongside -- but administratively separate on membership from -- the invitation-only Kinloch Golf Club that sits on the same land. - [Wyndham](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/wyndham-glen-allen-va/): Wyndham is a large master-planned community in Glen Allen, Henrico County, built around The Dominion Club at its geographic center. - [Fawn Lake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/fawn-lake-spotsylvania-va/): Fawn Lake is a gated, 2,300-acre lake and golf community roughly 12 miles west of Fredericksburg in Spotsylvania County, built around a private 288-acre lake and the Arnold Palmer-designed Fawn Lake Country Club golf course. - [Chesdin Landing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/chesdin-landing-chesterfield-va/): A waterfront community on Lake Chesdin in Chesterfield County, marketed as 'Richmond's Premiere Golf Course & Lakefront Community,' built around Lake Chesdin Golf Club. - [The Highlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/the-highlands-community-chesterfield-va/): A 3,100-acre master-planned community in Chesterfield County with home sites from one to five acres, organized around The Golf Club at The Highlands as its namesake amenity, governed by the Highlands Community Association (HCA). - [Lake Margaret at The Highlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/richmond/lake-margaret-at-the-highlands-chesterfield-va/): A 62-home, 55+ active-adult sub-neighborhood within The Highlands, Chesterfield County, with its own HOA. Marketing describes residents 'enjoying' the adjacent 18-hole golf course, but golf access is confirmed a separate paid product, not bundled to home purchase. ### Roanoke / Blue Ridge, VA - [Roanoke / Blue Ridge, VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/roanoke-blue-ridge/): US Golf Living has researched golf anchors in the Roanoke/Blue Ridge market, including Ballyhack Golf Club, Hunting Hills Country Club, Roanoke Country Club, and Blacksburg Country Club (New River Valley). #### Golf Clubs in Roanoke / Blue Ridge - [Ballyhack Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/roanoke-blue-ridge/ballyhack-golf-club-roanoke-va/): A private Dormie Network destination club in the Blue Ridge Mountains outside Roanoke, Ballyhack pairs a highly-ranked Lester George course with a small, gated on-site residential development (The Estates at Ballyhack and The Clubhouse Villas) added after the club's 2016 change of ownership. - [Hunting Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/roanoke-blue-ridge/hunting-hills-country-club-roanoke-va/): A member-owned private club in Roanoke, founded in 1971 with an explicit, club-documented vision of building homes around its Raymond F. Loving Jr.-designed golf course -- a genuine, purpose-built residential-golf integration rather than an incidental proximity claim. - [Roanoke Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/roanoke-blue-ridge/roanoke-country-club-roanoke-va/): Roanoke's oldest private club (association traces to 1899, incorporated 1900), a 27-hole equity club (three combinable nines) with holes designed by Alexander Findlay (1908) and A.W. Tillinghast (1920 18-hole addition). - [Blacksburg Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/roanoke-blue-ridge/blacksburg-country-club-blacksburg-va/): A private club in Blacksburg's Ellett Valley (Montgomery County, New River Valley), founded 1956, with four confirmed membership categories and real fees ($0-$2,500 initiation / $0-$5,000 dues, varying by category). 'Blacksburg Country Club Estates,' a genuinely named neighborhood of newer homes with golf views, is built around the club, resolving the prior batch's open residential-integration question. #### Golf Communities in Roanoke / Blue Ridge - [The Estates at Ballyhack](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/roanoke-blue-ridge/the-estates-at-ballyhack-roanoke-va/): Roanoke, VA: A small, gated residential neighborhood of minimum one-acre lots along the perimeter of Ballyhack Golf Club's front nine, part of a 40-lot residential real estate package included in the club's 2016 sale. - [Hunting Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/roanoke-blue-ridge/hunting-hills-neighborhood-roanoke-va/): Roanoke, VA: The residential neighborhood built concurrently with Hunting Hills Country Club at its 1971 founding, per the club's own history -- founder Gordon Willis Sr.'s explicit intent was homes woven around the golf course. - [Villa Heights](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/roanoke-blue-ridge/villa-heights-roanoke-va/): One of Roanoke's oldest neighborhoods (first subdivided 1910), in Northwest Roanoke, surrounding Roanoke Country Club since the club relocated there in 1908. - [Blacksburg Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/roanoke-blue-ridge/blacksburg-country-club-estates-va/): A neighborhood of newer homes, many with golf views, built directly around Blacksburg Country Club just east of Blacksburg's town limits. ### Bristol / Southwest Virginia, VA - [Bristol / Southwest Virginia, VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/bristol-southwest-virginia/): US Golf Living has researched The Virginian Golf Club, a private, gated 1,500+ acre golf and lifestyle community in Bristol, VA. #### Golf Clubs in Bristol / Southwest Virginia - [The Virginian Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/bristol-southwest-virginia/the-virginian-golf-club-bristol-va/): A private, gated, 1,500+ acre golf and lifestyle community in Bristol, VA, built around a 1993 Tom Fazio course, with a 44,000 sq ft clubhouse and a club-documented membership structure where every tier includes full gate access to the community itself -- Southwest Virginia's clearest barrier-to-entry-plus-residential-integration golf anchor. #### Golf Communities in Bristol / Southwest Virginia - [The Virginian](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/bristol-southwest-virginia/the-virginian-community-bristol-va/): Bristol, VA: The 1,500+ acre gated residential community built around The Virginian Golf Club's Tom Fazio course since 1993, ranging from turn-key cottages to large estate homes. ### Shenandoah Valley, VA - [Shenandoah Valley, VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/shenandoah-valley/): The Shenandoah Valley is Virginia's I-81 corridor between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountain ranges, running from Winchester in the north through Front Royal, Luray, Harrisonburg, and Staunton. #### Golf Clubs in Shenandoah Valley - [Winchester Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/shenandoah-valley/winchester-country-club/): Traditional private membership club organized in 1923 on a former 250-acre dairy farm in Winchester. Offers a distinct Dining Membership tier alongside full golf membership. #### Golf Communities in Shenandoah Valley - [Country Club Circle](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/shenandoah-valley/country-club-circle-winchester/): An established, ungated residential neighborhood immediately adjacent to and named for Winchester Country Club in the City of Winchester. ### Smith Mountain Lake, VA - [Smith Mountain Lake, VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/smith-mountain-lake/): Smith Mountain Lake -- a roughly 20,600-acre reservoir on the Roanoke River spanning Bedford, Franklin, and Pittsylvania counties, about 25-30 miles southeast of Roanoke -- is Virginia's clearest example of a genuine lake-community golf market distinct from a nearby city's own private-club scene, directly analogous to how this platform treats Tennessee's Tellico Lake Region separately from Knoxville. #### Golf Clubs in Smith Mountain Lake - [The Waterfront Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/smith-mountain-lake/the-waterfront-country-club/): The oldest club at Smith Mountain Lake (holes opened 1981), a private 18-hole George Dillon/Fazio Group-designed course anchoring the 750-acre Waterfront residential community, with private-club membership open by application to both Waterfront residents and Smith Mountain Lake residents living elsewhere. - [The Water's Edge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/smith-mountain-lake/the-waters-edge-country-club/): A private, members-only 18-hole R.F. Loving Jr.-designed course (1988, renovated 2007 by Richard Mandell) anchoring a 712-acre, 13.5-mile-shoreline residential development on the south side of Smith Mountain Lake, now a McConnell Golf property -- the same operator behind Tennessee's Holston Hills and Fox Den Country Clubs. - [Mariners Landing Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/smith-mountain-lake/mariners-landing-golf-country-club/): A Robert Trent Jones Sr./Mark McCumber-designed (opened 1993) 18-hole course at a roughly 1,000-acre Smith Mountain Lake resort-residential community (single-family homes, townhomes, condos, golf villas). #### Golf Communities in Smith Mountain Lake - [The Waterfront](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/smith-mountain-lake/the-waterfront-community/): The original golf-anchored residential community at Smith Mountain Lake, built around The Waterfront Country Club since the early 1980s, spanning 750 acres and 8.5 miles of shoreline with a mix of condos, townhomes, and single-family homes. - [The Water's Edge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/smith-mountain-lake/the-waters-edge-community/): A 712-acre, 13.5-mile-shoreline residential development on the south side of Smith Mountain Lake, built around The Water's Edge Country Club, offering waterfront homes, townhomes, condos, and golf-course homes plus a 36-acre equestrian center. - [Mariners Landing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/smith-mountain-lake/mariners-landing-community-huddleston-va/): A roughly 1,000-acre resort-residential community on Smith Mountain Lake with single-family homes, townhomes, condos, and golf villas, governed by the mandatory Mariners Landing Community Association (MLCA), whose dues bundle golf green fees. ### Williamsburg / James City County, VA - [Williamsburg / James City County, VA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/): Williamsburg is Virginia's colonial-tourism/resort-golf market -- a genuinely different character from the old-guard social clubs of Richmond or the Navy-metro clubs of Hampton Roads. #### Golf Clubs in Williamsburg / James City County - [Kingsmill Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/kingsmill-resort/): Williamsburg, VA: Kingsmill Resort is a 2,900-acre resort and gated residential community on the James River in James City County, three championship courses (River/Pete Dye, Plantation/Arnold Palmer, Woods/Tom Clark) built around a ~2,350-2,400-home community (Kingsmill on the James). - [Ford's Colony Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/fords-colony-country-club/): Williamsburg, VA: Ford's Colony Country Club is a 54-hole, three-course (Dan Maples) semi-private club at the center of Ford's Colony, a 3,200-acre gated community in James City County with roughly 2,850+ homes and 5,700 residents. - [Two Rivers Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/two-rivers-country-club/): Williamsburg, VA: Two Rivers Country Club is a private, member-owned, Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole club that anchors Governor's Land at Two Rivers, a roughly 650-732-homesite community at the confluence of the James and Chickahominy Rivers in James City County. - [Colonial Heritage Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/colonial-heritage-club/): Colonial Heritage Club is the 18-hole Arthur Hills golf course and 25,000-square-foot clubhouse at the center of Colonial Heritage, a gated 55+ community of roughly 1,800 homes in Williamsburg. - [The Club at Viniterra](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/the-club-at-viniterra/): The Club at Viniterra is an 18-hole Rees Jones golf course (2009) in New Kent County, the centerpiece of the Viniterra residential development and marketed as an amenity for the adjacent 55+ communities Four Seasons at New Kent Vineyards and The Groves at New Kent. #### Golf Communities in Williamsburg / James City County - [Kingsmill on the James](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/kingsmill-on-the-james/): Williamsburg, VA: Kingsmill on the James is the ~2,350-2,400-home gated residential community built around Kingsmill Resort in James City County, spanning roughly 2,900 acres along the James River. - [Ford's Colony](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/fords-colony/): Williamsburg, VA: Ford's Colony is a 3,200-acre gated master-planned community in James City County with roughly 2,850+ homes and about 5,700 residents, built around Ford's Colony Country Club's three Dan Maples-designed courses. - [Governor's Land at Two Rivers](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/governors-land-at-two-rivers/): Williamsburg, VA: Governor's Land at Two Rivers is a roughly 650-732-homesite community (sources vary) at the confluence of the James and Chickahominy Rivers, built around Two Rivers Country Club. - [Colonial Heritage](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/colonial-heritage/): Colonial Heritage is a gated, age-restricted (55+) community of roughly 1,800 homes in Williamsburg, built around Colonial Heritage Club's Arthur Hills golf course. - [Viniterra](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/viniterra/): Viniterra is the upscale residential development in New Kent County built around The Club at Viniterra golf course and the New Kent Winery. - [Four Seasons at New Kent Vineyards](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/four-seasons-at-new-kent-vineyards/): Four Seasons at New Kent Vineyards is a K. Hovnanian 55+ active-adult community near the Viniterra development in New Kent County (first section ~155 low-maintenance homes). - [The Groves at New Kent](https://www.usgolfliving.com/virginia/williamsburg-james-city-county/the-groves-at-new-kent/): The Groves at New Kent is a 55+ community of one-level homes and villas in New Kent County, originally developed by K. Hovnanian and completed by Ryan Homes, near the Viniterra development. ## Colorado - [Colorado Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/): Independent research on 44 golf clubs and 43 residential golf communities across 8 Colorado golf markets, including Aspen / Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado Springs and Denver Metro / Front Range: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Colorado Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Colorado](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 42 private Colorado golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Maroon Creek Club, Aspen Glen Club, Roaring Fork Club, Snowmass Club and Boulder Country Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in Colorado](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 4 Colorado golf resort ecosystems, including The Broadmoor, The Country Club of Colorado, Kissing Camels Golf Club and Telluride Golf Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Colorado](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 9 private Colorado golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Boulder Country Club, Lake Valley Golf Club, The Broadmoor, The Country Club of Colorado and Colorado Springs Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Colorado](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 13 Colorado golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Maroon Creek Club, Ptarmigan Country Club, Fox Hill Club, The Country Club of Colorado and Colorado Springs Country Club. ### Colorado Comparisons - [Maroon Creek Club vs Roaring Fork Club | Golf Living Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/maroon-creek-club-vs-roaring-fork-club/): Compare Maroon Creek Club (Aspen) and Roaring Fork Club (Basalt) for golf-oriented home buyers: access, fees, legal status, and residential models. - [Snowmass Club vs Aspen Glen Club | Golf Living Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/snowmass-club-vs-aspen-glen-club/): Compare Snowmass Club (Snowmass Village) and Aspen Glen Club (Carbondale) for golf-oriented home buyers: membership models, setting, and price tier. - [Heron Lakes vs Water Valley for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/heron-lakes-vs-water-valley-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Heron Lakes (Berthoud) and Water Valley (Windsor), CO for golf-oriented homebuyers: golf access models, tournament pedigree, price positioning and community character. - [The Broadmoor vs. Flying Horse Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-broadmoor-vs-flying-horse-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of The Broadmoor and The Club at Flying Horse in Colorado Springs, CO: golf pedigree, membership access, fees, and residential structure. - [Cherry Hills CC vs. Castle Pines Golf Club | Golf Living Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/cherry-hills-country-club-vs-castle-pines-golf-club-for-golf-living/): Compare Cherry Hills Country Club and Castle Pines Golf Club: championship pedigree, residential structure, access model, and location for golf-oriented buyers. - [Castle Pines Golf Club vs. Country Club at Castle Pines | Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/castle-pines-golf-club-vs-country-club-at-castle-pines-for-golf-living/): Compare Castle Pines Golf Club and The Country Club at Castle Pines -- two distinct Nicklaus-designed clubs inside the same gated Village at Castle Pines. - [Summit County vs Steamboat Springs for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/summit-county-vs-steamboat-springs-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Summit County and Steamboat Springs, Colorado for golf-oriented homebuyers: private vs. public access models, residential integration, and design pedigree. - [Red Sky Golf Club vs The Club at Cordillera](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/red-sky-golf-club-vs-the-club-at-cordillera/): A researched comparison of Red Sky Golf Club and The Club at Cordillera for Vail Valley, Colorado golf-oriented homebuyers: access model, course count, ownership history, and residential integration. - [Cornerstone Club vs. Glacier Club: Western Slope Golf Clubs Compared](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/cornerstone-club-vs-glacier-club/): A researched comparison of Cornerstone Club (Montrose) and Glacier Club (Durango), Colorado's two flagship Western Slope golf-real-estate clubs -- ownership history, real estate inventory, membership, and pricing. ### Aspen / Roaring Fork Valley, CO - [Aspen / Roaring Fork Valley, CO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/aspen-roaring-fork-valley/): The Aspen / Roaring Fork Valley golf market runs along Highway 82 from Aspen down through Snowmass Village, Basalt, and Carbondale to Glenwood Springs -- a corridor that shares one regional real-estate identity even though its towns differ enormously in scale and price. #### Golf Clubs in Aspen / Roaring Fork Valley - [Maroon Creek Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/aspen-roaring-fork-valley/maroon-creek-club/): Private Tom Fazio-designed (1995) golf and tennis club on Aspen's southern edge, ground-leased from the City of Aspen and anchoring one of the Roaring Fork Valley's most expensive purpose-built residential enclaves. - [Aspen Glen Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/aspen-roaring-fork-valley/aspen-glen-club/): Private, Nicklaus/Nicklaus II-designed (1997) golf club operated by Invited, layered as an optional membership overlay on the gated Aspen Glen residential community in Carbondale along the Roaring Fork River. - [Roaring Fork Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/aspen-roaring-fork-valley/roaring-fork-club/): Private golf-and-fishing club near Basalt (on the Eagle County side of the town per its own address) with a Jack Nicklaus/Bruce Borland-designed 18-hole course (1999), private stretches of the Roaring Fork, Fryingpan, and Colorado rivers for fly fishing, and an on-site residential enclave of cabins, fractional lodge residences, and full-ownership homes. - [Snowmass Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/aspen-roaring-fork-valley/snowmass-club/): Private club with resort ties in Snowmass Village, centered on a Jim Engh-designed golf course, offering Platinum Golf and Platinum Athletic membership with an explicitly limited/capped number of memberships still available for local residents. - [Ironbridge Golf Club & Mountain Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/aspen-roaring-fork-valley/ironbridge-golf-club-mountain-community/): Semi-private 18-hole golf course (Arthur Hills design, refined by Tom Lehman in 2014) anchoring a purpose-built Glenwood Springs residential development. #### Golf Communities in Aspen / Roaring Fork Valley - [Maroon Creek Club Residential Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/aspen-roaring-fork-valley/maroon-creek-club-residential-community/): Master-planned luxury residential community (roughly 48 single-family home sites plus townhome/condo product on three additional lots) built around Maroon Creek Club's golf course on Aspen's southern edge, dating to a 1980s master plan. - [Aspen Glen](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/aspen-roaring-fork-valley/aspen-glen/): Gated golf-course community between Carbondale and Glenwood Springs, anchored by Aspen Glen Club, with Roaring Fork River frontage and an optional (not mandatory) club-membership overlay. - [Roaring Fork Club Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/aspen-roaring-fork-valley/roaring-fork-club-residences/): On-site residential collection at the Roaring Fork Club near Basalt: log cabins, fractional (partnership) cabins, fractional lodge residences, and full-ownership homes built directly into the club's golf-and-fishing property. - [The Residences at Snowmass Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/aspen-roaring-fork-valley/residences-at-snowmass-club/): Snowmass Village, CO: A 40-unit, member-owned fractional-ownership condominium development on 210 acres surrounding the Snowmass Club golf course, where amenity access (including golf, the Athletic Club, pools, and tennis) is included as part of ownership. - [Ironbridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/aspen-roaring-fork-valley/ironbridge/): A purpose-built golf-course residential community south of Glenwood Springs, organized around the Arthur Hills-designed (Tom Lehman-refined) Ironbridge Golf Club, with three home enclaves and a mandatory POA-Club agreement that bundles a Club Membership -- including golf -- into every homeowner's monthly assessment. ### Boulder / Northern Colorado, CO - [Boulder / Northern Colorado, CO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/): Boulder / Northern Colorado is really two distinct golf-living clusters bound together into one market guide because neither is large enough on its own to avoid feeling like an appendage of a bigger metro area, while together they form a genuinely coherent, self-contained region along the US-36/I-25 corridor north of Denver. #### Golf Clubs in Boulder / Northern Colorado - [Boulder Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/boulder-country-club/): Boulder's old-guard private club: founded 1920, member-owned nonprofit, moved to its current Gunbarrel-area site in 1964. - [Lake Valley Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/lake-valley-golf-club/): A private, links-styled Press Maxwell course (1964/65) three miles north of Boulder in Niwot, open only to members and tournament bookings; the surrounding Lake Valley Estates neighborhood of 300+ homes is named for and sits adjacent to the club, though membership is not included with a home purchase. - [Ptarmigan Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/ptarmigan-country-club/): Fort Collins' first private country club: a Jack Nicklaus-designed 18-hole course (front nine opened 1987, back nine 1988) with roughly 400 members, acquired by national operator Heritage Golf Group in December 2024. - [Fort Collins Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/fort-collins-country-club/): One of Northern Colorado's oldest private clubs, at 1920 Country Club Rd in Fort Collins, offering full golf and non-golf 'Sports' memberships. - [TPC Colorado at Heron Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/tpc-colorado-heron-lakes-berthoud-co/): An 865-acre lakefront, golf-anchored master-planned community in Berthoud centered on the TPC-network TPC Colorado course, host of the Korn Ferry Tour's season-ending championship (played annually since 2019, currently branded The Blue Championship). - [Pelican Lakes Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/pelican-lakes-golf-country-club/): A 27-hole semi-private facility (Ted Robinson Sr.-designed 18-hole Lakes Course plus a 9-hole Pelican Falls Course) at the center of Windsor's Water Valley master-planned community, with the most shoreline of any golf course in the U.S. per its own marketing. - [Greeley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/greeley-country-club/): Greeley, CO: Northern Colorado's oldest continuously operating private club, opened in 1920 with a Tom Bendelow-designed front nine and expanded with a Press Maxwell-designed back nine and renovation in the 1960s. - [Fox Hill Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/fox-hill-club-longmont-co/): A private club opened in 1972 (Frank Hummel design) in Longmont, described as the premier private club in Northern Colorado; the adjacent, low-density Fox Hill subdivision (built starting 1973, not gated) grew up around it, and the newer Highlands at Fox Hill townhome development includes a complimentary one-year social (non-golf) club membership with each home purchase. #### Golf Communities in Boulder / Northern Colorado - [Lake Valley Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/lake-valley-estates-niwot-co/): An unincorporated Boulder County neighborhood of 300+ homes adjacent to and named for Lake Valley Golf Club, surrounded on three sides by open space between Boulder and Longmont. - [Heron Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/heron-lakes-berthoud-co/): An 865-acre lakefront, golf-anchored master-planned community in west Berthoud built around TPC Colorado, with custom golf-course estates, villas and patio homes generally priced from roughly $1.95M to $3M+. - [Water Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/water-valley-windsor-co/): A large master-planned community in Windsor built around Pelican Lakes Golf & Country Club and five community lakes, combining golf, lake recreation and family amenities across multiple housing types and price points. - [Ptarmigan](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/ptarmigan-neighborhood-fort-collins-co/): A Fort Collins neighborhood built starting in the 1990s around Ptarmigan Country Club's Jack Nicklaus-designed course, described by real estate sources as a gated golf-course community with larger lots backing directly onto the course. - [Highlands at Fox Hill](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/highlands-at-fox-hill-longmont-co/): A Landmark Homes townhome development adjacent to Fox Hill Club in Longmont; buyers receive a complimentary one-year social (non-golf) membership to the club as part of their purchase. - [Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/boulder-northern-colorado/country-club-estates-boulder-co/): A Gunbarrel-area Boulder neighborhood of custom homes adjacent to Boulder Country Club, along with the nearby Gunbarrel Green neighborhood; golf-course-adjacent homes here carry a documented price premium, but club membership is a separate application, not a purchase benefit. ### Colorado Springs, CO - [Colorado Springs, CO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/colorado-springs/): Colorado Springs is a genuinely distinct golf market from Denver, about an hour south via I-25, built around one of American golf's most historically significant resorts -- The Broadmoor -- plus a smaller cluster of private clubs with very different access models. #### Golf Clubs in Colorado Springs - [The Broadmoor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/colorado-springs/the-broadmoor/): A Forbes Five-Star resort in Colorado Springs whose East and West golf courses (Donald Ross, 1918, with Robert Trent Jones Sr. additions) have hosted the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Women's Open, and U.S. Senior Open -- including two future U.S. Senior Opens already awarded (2031, 2037) -- making it Colorado's clearest destination-exception golf anchor even though membership is invitation-only. - [The Club at Flying Horse](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/colorado-springs/flying-horse-club/): A gated, master-planned golf community in northern Colorado Springs built around two private 18-hole championship courses (Tom Weiskopf's original Flying Horse course and Phil Smith's Flying Horse North); membership is a separate purchase from any home in the community, with tiered initiation fees that were raised effective September 1, 2026. - [The Country Club of Colorado](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/colorado-springs/country-club-of-colorado/): Colorado Springs, CO: A Pete Dye-designed course -- his first west of the Mississippi -- operated as the private country club arm of Cheyenne Mountain Resort (a Hyatt property); access requires either an overnight resort stay or Golf/Recreation club membership. - [Kissing Camels Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/colorado-springs/kissing-camels-golf-club/): Colorado Springs, CO: A 27-hole private facility (three nines: North, South, West -- 18 originally by J. Press Maxwell plus a newer nine by Mark Rathert) at Garden of the Gods Club and Resort, adjacent to Garden of the Gods Park; access is limited to members, member-guests, and resort overnight guests. - [Colorado Springs Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/colorado-springs/colorado-springs-country-club/): Colorado Springs' only member-owned private country club (chartered 1954; 18-hole course by Willie Watson and Dick Phelps, opened 1957), centrally located near Palmer Park. #### Golf Communities in Colorado Springs - [Broadmoor Resort Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/colorado-springs/broadmoor-resort-community/): Colorado Springs, CO: A 24-hour-gated, roughly 573-acre luxury neighborhood at the base of Cheyenne Mountain with 200-plus single-family homes and 63 villas/townhomes, built around and adjacent to The Broadmoor resort and golf club. - [Flying Horse](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/colorado-springs/flying-horse/): A gated, master-planned community in northern Colorado Springs organized around The Club at Flying Horse's two 18-hole golf courses, spanning multiple home villages from the $700s to multi-million-dollar homes, plus a K-12 academic campus. - [Flying Horse North](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/colorado-springs/flying-horse-north/): Colorado Springs, CO: A custom-homesite section of the Flying Horse development (2.5-5 acre lots), marketed together with eligibility for the Signature Golf membership tier at the Phil Smith-designed Flying Horse North course. - [Colorado Springs Country Club Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/colorado-springs/colorado-springs-country-club-neighborhood/): An established, club-named residential neighborhood surrounding Colorado Springs Country Club along Templeton Gap Road, independently recognized by multiple real-estate listing portals -- not a single planned development with its own HOA/developer, but a genuine, long-established neighborhood identity. ### Denver Metro / Front Range, CO - [Denver Metro / Front Range, CO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/): The Denver Metro / Front Range market is Colorado's largest and most golf-residential-dense region, and the research for this guide found a real split in character between two very different clusters operating under one metro identity. #### Golf Clubs in Denver Metro / Front Range - [Cherry Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/cherry-hills-country-club/): Cherry Hills Village, CO: Founded in 1922 and designed by William Flynn, Cherry Hills Country Club is Colorado's most tournament-storied private club: three men's U.S. Opens (1938, 1960, 1978), two PGA Championships (1941, 1985), a U.S. Women's Open (2005), a U.S. Senior Open (1993), and three U.S. Amateurs (1990, 2012, 2023). - [Castle Pines Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/castle-pines-golf-club/): Castle Rock, CO: Jack Nicklaus's 1981 design hosted the PGA Tour's "The International" every year from 1986 to 2006, then returned to the national spotlight when a five-year Nicklaus-led restoration made it the host of the 2024 BMW Championship, a FedEx Cup Playoff event won by Keegan Bradley. - [The Country Club at Castle Pines](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/the-country-club-at-castle-pines/): Castle Rock, CO: A Jack Nicklaus-designed private club inside the gated Village at Castle Pines, genuinely distinct from the tournament-caliber Castle Pines Golf Club next door. - [Colorado Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/colorado-golf-club/): Parker, CO: A 2007 Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw design on 1,700 acres of Douglas County foothills, host of the 2010 Senior PGA Championship and the 2013 Solheim Cup. - [Ravenna Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/ravenna-golf-club/): Jay Morrish's last design (his final project before his death) anchors a 634-acre, gated luxury community of just 243 homesites south of Littleton, near Waterton Canyon. - [Denver Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/denver-country-club/): Founded in 1887 as the Overland Park Club, Denver Country Club is the oldest country club west of the Mississippi River. - [Cherry Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/cherry-creek-country-club/): A Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II design (founded 2001, opened 2002) whose 7,450-yard course, with water in play on 11 of 18 holes, forms the literal centerpiece of a 24-hour gated community near Denver's Cherry Creek North district. - [Red Rocks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/red-rocks-country-club-morrison-co/): Morrison, CO: Opened in 1977 as Willow Springs Country Club, the club's original clubhouse burned down and residents were awarded the club's assets in 1993, forming a new board and bylaws under the current name, Red Rocks Country Club. - [Meridian Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/meridian-golf-club/): A 1984 Jack Nicklaus design in Englewood with a deliberately capped membership (the club limits its own maximum member count to keep tee times readily available) and guest play restricted to once per month -- an unusually tight access model for a Denver-metro private club not attached to a single named luxury gated community. - [The Pinery Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/the-pinery-country-club/): A 27-hole David Bingham-designed club (Lake, Mountain, Valley nines) in Parker's established The Pinery community, offering tiered private membership (Full Golf, Sports, Social, Junior Executive) plus a reciprocal 'Summit' dual membership with its sister club, The Club at Pradera, both owned by Arcis Golf. - [The Club at Pradera](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/the-club-at-pradera/): A Jim Engh-designed course (built 2004) that forms the centerpiece of Pradera, a roughly 1,500-acre master-planned luxury community in Parker with mostly 1-3 acre lots and homes from around 3,000 to 9,500+ square feet. - [Blackstone Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/blackstone-country-club/): A Jay Morrish-designed private club in Aurora (opened 2007, sold by Toll Brothers to ClubCorp in 2014, now part of the Invited network) whose membership is shared with the separate Black Bear Golf Club in Parker under a single 'one membership, two clubs' structure. - [Black Bear Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/black-bear-golf-club/): A Jeff Brauer-designed private club in Parker, run by ClubCorp's Invited brand alongside the physically separate Blackstone Country Club in Aurora under one shared membership. - [Heritage Eagle Bend Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/heritage-eagle-bend-golf-club/): A gated, age-restricted (55+) Aurora community of 1,442 homes built around an 18-hole golf course whose access is confirmed genuinely bundled into HOA fees -- a real, verified exception to the usual non-bundled pattern found at most 55+ golf communities in this market. #### Golf Communities in Denver Metro / Front Range - [Cherry Hills Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/cherry-hills-village/): Cherry Hills Village, CO: An affluent incorporated town south of Denver (population historically in the low thousands), incorporated in 1945 in part to protect the character of the area that had grown up around Cherry Hills Country Club since the 1920s -- large-lot, open-street, non-gated municipality rather than a purpose-built subdivision. - [The Village at Castle Pines](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/the-village-at-castle-pines/): Castle Rock, CO: A roughly 4,300-acre guard-gated community (the Homes Association renamed it from 'Castle Pines Village' to 'The Village at Castle Pines' in 2018) containing two genuinely separate private golf clubs -- Castle Pines Golf Club and The Country Club at Castle Pines -- neither of which is required for or automatically included with residency. - [Ravenna](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/ravenna-community-littleton-co/): A 634-acre gated luxury community south of Littleton, capped at 243 homesites, built around the Jay Morrish-designed Ravenna Golf Club. - [Country Club Historic District](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/country-club-historic-district-denver/): A City of Denver-landmarked historic district (designated 1990, 380 residences), developed in association with Denver Country Club starting in the early 1900s. - [Cherry Creek Country Club (residential community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/cherry-creek-country-club-community/): A gated community near Denver's Cherry Creek North district, built as a single master-planned project directly around Cherry Creek Country Club's Nicklaus-designed course, with 24-hour secured access at the main entrance. - [Willow Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/willow-springs-morrison-co/): The premier foothills neighborhood immediately surrounding Red Rocks Country Club in Jefferson County, near Morrison -- luxury custom homes and some townhomes back directly to the course; the club takes its origins from the neighborhood's original name, Willow Springs. - [Colorado Golf Club (residential community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/colorado-golf-club-community/): Parker, CO: A roughly 1,700-acre, 24/7-monitored gated community built entirely around Colorado Golf Club, including a distinct patio-home enclave (The Village at Colorado Golf Club) within the larger gated perimeter. - [Pradera](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/pradera-parker-co/): A roughly 1,500-acre master-planned luxury community in Parker, generally on 1-3 acre lots, built around The Club at Pradera's Jim Engh-designed course. - [The Pinery](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/the-pinery-co/): Parker, CO: An established, non-gated unincorporated community in Douglas County, developed substantially from the 1970s onward around The Pinery Country Club, which it is directly named for. - [Canterberry Crossing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/canterberry-crossing-parker-co/): Part of the larger Villages of Parker residential area in south Parker, reported in real-estate sourcing as located on the Black Bear Golf Club course itself, distinguishing it from the separate, non-golf-anchored Stroh Ranch neighborhood nearby. - [Blackstone](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/blackstone-aurora-co/): A Toll Brothers-developed single-family neighborhood in Aurora, built directly around Blackstone Country Club's Jay Morrish-designed course. - [Heritage Eagle Bend](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/denver-metro/heritage-eagle-bend-community/): A gated, age-restricted (55+) Aurora community of 1,442 homes where HOA fees are confirmed to include access to the community's own 18-hole golf course -- a genuine, directly-verified bundled-golf case, managed day to day by OB Sports. ### Summit County, CO - [Summit County, CO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/summit-county/): US Golf Living has researched 4 golf facilities in the Summit County, Colorado golf market -- Silverthorne, Keystone, Breckenridge, and Copper Mountain -- including Raven Golf Club at Three Peaks, the market's one anchor with a genuine semi-private membership program. #### Golf Clubs in Summit County - [Raven Golf Club at Three Peaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/summit-county/raven-golf-club-at-three-peaks/): Semi-private, 18-hole Michael Hurdzan/Tom Lehman design in Silverthorne, built into the Eagle's Nest residential subdivision; open to the public with a real, non-refundable-initiation-fee membership program that carries no confirmed homeowner-specific advantage over the general public offer. #### Golf Communities in Summit County - [Eagle's Nest](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/summit-county/eagles-nest-silverthorne-co/): Large custom-home subdivision in Silverthorne built directly around Raven Golf Club at Three Peaks, governed by the master Eagle's Nest Property Homeowners Association (ENPHA) with multiple sub-associations, some sited directly on the golf course. ### Steamboat Springs, CO - [Steamboat Springs, CO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/steamboat-springs/): Steamboat Springs' golf market is small but has one genuine flagship: Catamount Ranch & Club, the only private golf course in the Yampa Valley, built around a Tom Weiskopf-designed course and a 530-acre private lake inside a large gated development a few miles south of downtown. #### Golf Clubs in Steamboat Springs - [Catamount Ranch & Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/steamboat-springs/catamount-ranch-club/): Steamboat Springs' only private golf club: a Tom Weiskopf-designed 18-hole course plus a 530-acre private lake, anchoring the gated Catamount Ranch and Catamount Lake residential enclaves, with a real tiered membership (2026 Premier dues $17,300; Lake Membership currently sold out, waitlist active). #### Golf Communities in Steamboat Springs - [Catamount Ranch (enclave)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/steamboat-springs/catamount-ranch-enclave/): Steamboat Springs, CO: The golf-oriented residential enclave within the gated Catamount Ranch & Club development, generally 6-8+ acre estate parcels built around the Tom Weiskopf-designed course. - [Catamount Lake (enclave)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/steamboat-springs/catamount-lake-enclave/): Steamboat Springs, CO: The lake-oriented residential enclave within the gated Catamount Ranch & Club development, built around the community's 530-acre private lake. - [One Steamboat Place](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/steamboat-springs/one-steamboat-place/): A ski-base-area private-residence-club condominium project in downtown Steamboat Springs (not physically part of Catamount) whose owners can optionally add Catamount Ranch & Club membership to their purchase. - [Alpine Mountain Ranch & Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/steamboat-springs/alpine-mountain-ranch-club-steamboat-co/): Steamboat Springs, CO: A 1,216-acre, 63-homesite luxury residential development bordering Catamount Ranch & Club, with its own non-golf amenity club (Alpine Mountain Summit Club) -- NOT a golf community and not bundled with Catamount membership. ### Vail Valley, CO - [Vail Valley, CO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/vail-valley/): The Vail Valley is Colorado's most concentrated private-golf-and-real-estate corridor, running along the Eagle River from Vail through Avon, Beaver Creek, Edwards and Wolcott. #### Golf Clubs in Vail Valley - [Red Sky Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/vail-valley/red-sky-golf-club/): Red Sky Golf Club is an invitation-only, two-course private club in Wolcott built around Tom Fazio's Fazio Course and Greg Norman's Norman Course, both regularly ranked among Colorado's top-rated courses. - [Sonnenalp Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/vail-valley/sonnenalp-golf-club/): Despite its Vail-branded hotel name, the Sonnenalp Golf Club (formerly Singletree Golf Club) is physically located in Edwards, not Vail town. - [The Club at Cordillera](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/vail-valley/the-club-at-cordillera/): The Club at Cordillera is a private, Troon-owned and Troon Prive-managed club in Edwards operating three 18-hole courses -- Valley (Tom Fazio), Mountain (Hale Irwin) and Summit (Jack Nicklaus) -- at the center of the large, real-estate-integrated Cordillera community. - [Country Club of the Rockies](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/vail-valley/country-club-of-the-rockies/): Country Club of the Rockies is a member-owned, Jack Nicklaus-designed private club in Edwards, built as the golf anchor of the gated Arrowhead at Vail residential community. - [Beaver Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/vail-valley/beaver-creek-golf-club/): Beaver Creek Golf Club is a Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed, seasonal (May-Oct) semi-private course at the heart of Beaver Creek Resort in Avon. #### Golf Communities in Vail Valley - [Red Sky Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/vail-valley/red-sky-ranch/): Red Sky Ranch is the roughly 800-acre former-ranchland residential development in Wolcott built around Red Sky Golf Club's two courses. - [Singletree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/vail-valley/singletree-edwards-co/): Singletree is the Edwards neighborhood built around what was originally Singletree Golf Club (opened 1980), now branded Sonnenalp Golf Club. - [Cordillera](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/vail-valley/cordillera-community/): Cordillera is a roughly 7,000-acre golf-and-mountain-lifestyle community above Edwards, organized around The Club at Cordillera's three courses (Valley, Mountain, Summit) plus a separately CPOA-owned 9-hole Short Course. - [Arrowhead at Vail](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/vail-valley/arrowhead-at-vail/): Arrowhead at Vail is the gated residential community in Edwards conceived in 1980 alongside Country Club of the Rockies, its golf anchor. - [Beaver Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/vail-valley/beaver-creek-avon-co/): Beaver Creek is the master ski-and-golf resort community in Avon anchored by Beaver Creek Golf Club. A layered structure of separate, property-owner-only amenity clubs (Beaver Creek Club, Bachelor Gulch Club, Arrowhead Alpine Club) provides ski/social privileges on top of the resort, but these are distinct from golf access and were researched and excluded as independent golf anchors this pass. ### Western Slope, CO - [Western Slope, CO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/): The Western Slope is Colorado's most geographically scattered golf-residential market: Telluride/Mountain Village, Durango, Montrose, and Ridgway sit hours apart from each other across the state's southwestern mountains and mesas, tied together only by shared remoteness from the Front Range rather than a shared commute or a single regional identity. #### Golf Clubs in Western Slope - [Telluride Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/telluride-golf-club/): An 18-hole, par-70 course teeing off at 9,417 feet in Mountain Village -- among the highest-elevation golf courses in the world -- open only to Telluride Ski & Golf Club members, their guests, and guests of The Peaks Resort & Spa. - [Glacier Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/glacier-club-durango/): A private, two-course (Mountain and Valley) mountain club in Durango with a four-tier Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum membership structure and homes built directly on and around both courses, ranging roughly $1 million to $5 million-plus. - [Dalton Ranch Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/dalton-ranch-golf-club/): A semi-private, Ken Dye-designed 18-hole course in Durango's Animas Valley with a waitlisted full-membership tier and two genuine, HOA-governed residential neighborhoods -- North Dalton Ranch and South Dalton Ranch -- built along its fairways. - [Cornerstone Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/cornerstone-club-montrose/): A private, Greg Norman-designed club community on nearly 4,800 acres outside Montrose, once closed during the Great Recession and reopened in 2019 by a group of member-owner families, now under a major Reef Capital Partners-led expansion announced in 2026 -- confirmed currently open and actively investing, not dormant. - [Divide Ranch & Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/divide-ranch-club-fairway-pines/): A semi-private 18-hole course (opened 1993, designed by Brian Coker) on Log Hill Mesa near Ridgway, organizing the Fairway Pines Estates residential community that is literally built around and named for it. #### Golf Communities in Western Slope - [Fairmont Heritage Place, Franz Klammer Lodge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/franz-klammer-lodge-mountain-village/): A fractional-deeded-ownership lodge in Mountain Village where the deed itself includes a Telluride Ski & Golf Club membership -- a confirmed, specific example of golf access bundled to a residential purchase in this market. - [Glacier Club Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/glacier-club-residences-durango/): Durango, CO: The on-course cabins, townhomes, and estates built directly along Glacier Club's Mountain and Valley courses, with prices from roughly $1 million to $5 million-plus. - [North Dalton Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/north-dalton-ranch/): Durango, CO: A 38-townhome ("Enclave") neighborhood with direct fairway frontage on Dalton Ranch Golf Club, governed by its own HOA. - [South Dalton Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/south-dalton-ranch/): Durango, CO: A residential neighborhood where every home overlooks Dalton Ranch Golf Club's front nine, governed by its own HOA. - [Cornerstone Club Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/cornerstone-club-residences-montrose/): Montrose, CO: Cornerstone Club's residential component: 392 total platted homesites across nearly 4,800-5,000 acres, currently a mix of raw homesites ($350K-$1.075M) and a small number of semi-custom homes for sale. - [Fairway Pines Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/colorado/western-slope/fairway-pines-estates-ridgway/): A golf-course residential subdivision on Log Hill Mesa near Ridgway, built directly around and named for the Divide Ranch & Club course. ## New Jersey - [New Jersey Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/): Independent research on 58 golf clubs and 24 residential golf communities across 6 New Jersey golf markets, including Bergen / Essex / Passaic (NYC Suburbs), Greater Princeton and Jersey Shore / Monmouth County: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### New Jersey Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in New Jersey](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 58 private New Jersey golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Ridgewood Country Club, Essex County Country Club, Mountain Ridge Country Club, Arcola Country Club and Preakness Hills Country Club. - [55+ Golf Communities in New Jersey](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/guides/55-plus-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 11 New Jersey golf anchors connected to age-restricted (55+) residential communities, including Cherry Valley Country Club, Greenbriar Oceanaire Golf & Country Club, Greenbriar Golf Club at Whittingham, Four Seasons Spa & Country Club and Renaissance Golf Club at Manchester. - [Golf Resort Communities in New Jersey](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 5 New Jersey golf resort ecosystems, including Liberty National Golf Club, Plainfield Country Club, Crystal Springs Resort, Baltusrol Golf Club and Seaview. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in New Jersey](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 15 private New Jersey golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Glen Ridge Country Club, Springdale Golf Club, Cherry Valley Country Club, Bedens Brook Club and Due Process Stable Country Club. ### New Jersey Comparisons - [Ridgewood Country Club vs Essex County Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/ridgewood-country-club-vs-essex-county-country-club/): A researched comparison of Ridgewood Country Club (Paramus) and Essex County Country Club (West Orange), NJ's two flagship old-guard private clubs: championship pedigree, design history, and access. - [Liberty National Golf Club vs Ridgewood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/liberty-national-golf-club-vs-ridgewood-country-club/): A researched comparison of Liberty National Golf Club (Jersey City) and Ridgewood Country Club (Paramus), NJ: modern PGA Tour destination vs. old-guard suburban institution, tournament pedigree, and access. - [Springdale Golf Club vs TPC Jasna Polana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/springdale-golf-club-vs-tpc-jasna-polana/): A researched comparison of Springdale Golf Club and TPC Jasna Polana, Princeton NJ's two flagship private golf clubs: history, ownership, course design, admission, and residential context. - [Due Process Stable vs. Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/due-process-stable-vs-trump-national-colts-neck/): Compare Due Process Stable and Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck, two separate private clubs in Colts Neck, NJ. - [Hollywood Golf Club vs. Deal Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/hollywood-golf-club-vs-deal-golf-and-country-club/): Compare Hollywood Golf Club and Deal Golf & Country Club, two historic private clubs sharing Deal, NJ. - [Crystal Springs Resort vs Panther Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/crystal-springs-resort-vs-panther-valley-country-club/): A researched comparison of Crystal Springs Resort and Panther Valley Country Club, New Jersey's two flagship Skylands-region golf anchors: scale, membership cost, and how golf connects to homeownership at each. - [Baltusrol vs Trump National Bedminster for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/baltusrol-vs-trump-national-bedminster-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Baltusrol Golf Club and Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, NJ: championship pedigree, access model, residential connection, and cost. - [Fiddler's Elbow vs Somerset Hills CC for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/fiddlers-elbow-vs-somerset-hills-cc-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Fiddler's Elbow Country Club and Somerset Hills Country Club, NJ: scale, design pedigree, access model, and cost. - [Galloway National Golf Club vs. Seaview](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/galloway-national-golf-club-vs-seaview/): A researched comparison of two Galloway Township, NJ golf anchors: Galloway National's hard-barrier private club model versus Seaview's resort access and current LPGA Tour pedigree. - [Galloway National Golf Club vs. Stone Harbor Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/galloway-national-golf-club-vs-stone-harbor-golf-club/): A researched comparison of two South Jersey private clubs: Galloway National's golf-only model versus Stone Harbor Golf Club's genuine on-course residential community, Stone Harbor Lakes. ### Bergen / Essex / Passaic (NYC Suburbs), NJ - [Bergen / Essex / Passaic (NYC Suburbs), NJ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/): The Bergen/Essex/Passaic corridor is New Jersey's densest concentration of old-guard, private, member-owned golf clubs -- the direct legacy of the New York metro area's early-20th-century country club boom, when New York-adjacent New Jersey towns like Paramus, Tenafly, Oradell, West Orange, Montclair, and Glen Ridge each grew their own private club as part of an emerging commuter-suburb identity. #### Golf Clubs in Bergen / Essex / Passaic (NYC Suburbs) - [Ridgewood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/ridgewood-country-club-paramus-nj/): A.W. Tillinghast's 27-hole, three-nine masterpiece (East, Center, West), completed in 1929 in Paramus, Bergen County. Traces its roots to 1890 in nearby Ho-Ho-Kus and took the Ridgewood name after a stop in Ridgewood/Glen Rock before settling permanently at its current Paramus site. - [Essex County Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/essex-county-country-club-west-orange-nj/): West Orange, NJ: Founded 1887 as a hunt club on the former Orange Springs Hotel property; added golf in 1898. New Jersey's oldest country club and the 6th-oldest in the United States, and one of the 25 founding member clubs of the USGA. - [Mountain Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/mountain-ridge-country-club-west-caldwell-nj/): West Caldwell, NJ: A private, members-only Donald Ross design that opened in 1931 (Clifford Wendehack clubhouse, dedicated with Ross in attendance) after the club relocated from West Orange. - [Arcola Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/arcola-country-club-paramus-nj/): Founded 1909 as Paramus Golf Club, renamed Arcola Country Club in 1916 (after the Battle of Arcole). Herbert Haydn Barker's original design was altered in 1930 for Route 4 and redesigned in 1950 by Robert Trent Jones Sr. following Garden State Parkway construction. - [Preakness Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/preakness-hills-country-club-wayne-nj/): Founded 1926 by eight local businessmen on the historic Preakness farm estate in Wayne. Donald Ross design (7,161 yards, slope 139), restored by Ron Prichard in 2000. - [Upper Montclair Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/upper-montclair-country-club-clifton-nj/): Clifton, NJ: Founded 1901 when a small group of golfers on a Montclair meadow merged with the social 'Upper Ten Club.' A.W. Tillinghast-designed course opened with a new clubhouse in 1928; Robert Trent Jones Sr. later renovated it to today's 27-hole championship configuration in the 1950s. - [North Jersey Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/north-jersey-country-club-wayne-nj/): Wayne, NJ: Play began in 1895 as Paterson Golf Club, renamed North Jersey Country Club in 1896 and incorporated in 1897 under founding president Garret A. Hobart, who went on to serve as U.S. Vice President. - [Knickerbocker Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/knickerbocker-country-club-tenafly-nj/): Founded December 1914 in Tenafly by Malcolm MacKay and associates. Donald Ross personally supervised construction on site (unusual for his commissions), with subsequent input from Herbert Strong. - [Edgewood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/edgewood-country-club-river-vale-nj/): River Vale, NJ: Founded 1956 by local businessmen on the former Kessler Estate (300 acres purchased by John Handwerg Sr. in 1940). Family-oriented private club with 27 holes across three nine-hole courses, six har-tru tennis courts, a heated pool, and a fitness center. - [White Beeches Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/white-beeches-golf-country-club-haworth-nj/): Haworth, NJ: Course origins date to 1902 as a nine-hole layout; expanded to 18 holes and reorganized in 1918 under the White Beeches Golf & Country Club name, with a 1920 Walter Travis redesign. - [Hackensack Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/hackensack-golf-club-oradell-nj/): Founded 1899; moved to its current Oradell site in 1928 with a Seth Raynor design built out by construction associate Charles Banks, including a Redan, Biarritz, and punchbowl green among its signature holes. - [Green Brook Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/green-brook-country-club-north-caldwell-nj/): Member-owned club atop the Caldwell Mountains in North Caldwell, designed by Robert White (opened 1923, 6,510 yards) with a 1948 Robert Trent Jones Sr. update. - [Montclair Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/montclair-golf-club-west-orange-nj/): West Orange, NJ: Founded 1893, generally considered the 13th-oldest golf club in America. Tom Bendelow designed the first 18-hole course (1899); Donald Ross was commissioned in 1920 to design 27 holes across the first three nines; a fourth nine, designed by Charles Banks, was added by 1928, giving the club its current 36-hole, four-nine footprint. - [Glen Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/glen-ridge-country-club-glen-ridge-nj/): Glen Ridge, NJ: Founded by 14 charter members on October 10, 1894 (initiation fee then: $1.00; annual dues: $3.00) -- one of the first 100 golf clubs in the United States and probably the fourth in New Jersey. - [Liberty National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/liberty-national-golf-club-jersey-city-nj/): An extremely exclusive (invitation-only, reportedly ~300 members), architecturally dramatic private club on a remediated former industrial waterfront site in Jersey City, opened 2006, with direct Statue of Liberty and Manhattan skyline views from its signature holes. #### Golf Communities in Bergen / Essex / Passaic (NYC Suburbs) - [Glen Ridge Historic District](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/bergen-essex-passaic/glen-ridge-historic-district-nj/): A National Register-listed historic district (1982, expanded twice since) covering more than 90% of the small, entirely residential Essex County borough of Glen Ridge. ### Greater Princeton, NJ - [Greater Princeton, NJ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/): Greater Princeton is New Jersey's most University-shaped golf market -- and, despite the name, it is not confined to Mercer County. #### Golf Clubs in Greater Princeton - [Springdale Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/springdale-golf-club-princeton-nj/): One of New Jersey's first private clubs (formed 1895), Springdale Golf Club sits on land owned by Princeton University and leased long-term to the club; membership is capped at roughly 400 and admitted by sponsor referral, open to both private members and Princeton University students/faculty. - [TPC Jasna Polana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/tpc-jasna-polana/): Princeton, NJ: A private, Gary Player-designed golf club (opened 1998) built on the 222-acre former private estate of Johnson & Johnson heir J. Seward Johnson Sr. and Barbara Piasecka Johnson, licensed under the PGA Tour's TPC Network and acquired by Concert Golf Partners in July 2024. - [Cherry Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/cherry-valley-country-club/): An Invited (formerly ClubCorp)-operated private club anchoring the Cherry Valley Country Club planned community in Skillman (Montgomery Township, Somerset County) -- roughly 495 single-family homes plus the age-restricted Clubside at Cherry Valley sub-community -- on a Rees Jones-designed 18-hole course dating to 1991. - [Bedens Brook Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/bedens-brook-club/): Research Bedens Brook Club in Skillman (Montgomery Township), NJ: its invitation-only membership, 1965 founding, and the residential development genuinely tied to the club's land. - [Plainfield Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/plainfield-country-club/): A historic, member-owned Donald Ross design in Edison (Middlesex County) that has hosted the 1978 U.S. Amateur, the 1987 U.S. Women's Open, and the 2025 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball, with the 2031 U.S. Senior Women's Open and 2038 U.S. Senior Open already awarded. - [Forsgate Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/forsgate-country-club/): A 36-hole (Banks and Palmer courses), non-equity private country club in Monroe Township (Middlesex County) that gives its name to Forsgate, a U.S. Census-designated place of roughly 318 homes across three planned neighborhoods built on former club/farm land. #### Golf Communities in Greater Princeton - [Cherry Valley Country Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/cherry-valley-country-club-community/): A planned development of roughly 495 single-family homes in Skillman (Montgomery Township, Somerset County) built around Cherry Valley Country Club's 18-hole golf course, dating to the mid-1990s. - [Clubside at Cherry Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/clubside-at-cherry-valley/): An age-restricted (55+) enclave of 89 stand-alone homes, established 1999, within the larger Cherry Valley Country Club planned community in Skillman. - [Forsgate Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/forsgate-community/): A U.S. Census-designated place (pop. 2,056, 2020 census) in Monroe Township made up of three residential neighborhoods -- The Greens, Fairway's Edge, and Pine Run -- built on former Forsgate Farms/Forsgate Country Club land, governed by the Forsgate Community Association. - [Western Section (Princeton)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/princeton-western-section/): A historic, park-like Princeton neighborhood of large homes west and south of Elm Road, directly bordering Springdale Golf Club and University-owned open space -- not a purpose-built golf community, and not tied to Springdale club membership. - [Bedens Brook Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/greater-princeton/bedens-brook-estates/): A cluster of large (roughly 4,195-4,750 sq ft) single-family homes built out around 1999 along Bedens Brook Road in Skillman (Montgomery Township), directly along the same road corridor as Bedens Brook Club's own address -- the specific, named neighborhood behind the club's own history-page statement that its founding land tract's surrounding ground 'has been developed into residential use.' ### Jersey Shore / Monmouth County, NJ - [Jersey Shore / Monmouth County, NJ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/): US Golf Living has researched 15 golf anchors in the Jersey Shore / Monmouth County golf market, spanning Monmouth, Ocean, and (for two Middlesex County active-adult outliers) Middlesex counties, including Hollywood Golf Club, Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck, Metedeconk National Golf Club and Due Process Stable Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Jersey Shore / Monmouth County - [Hollywood Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/hollywood-golf-club/): Private, invitation-only 1917 Walter Travis design in Deal, restored by Tom Doak in 2014, widely regarded as one of the Jersey Shore's most prestigious clubs. - [Deal Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/deal-golf-and-country-club/): Private club founded in 1898 as the Deal Golf Club, reorganized as Deal Golf & Country Club, with a 1915 Donald Ross redesign; holds New Jersey's oldest continuously-used clubhouse. - [Navesink Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/navesink-country-club/): Private, family-oriented full-amenity club (golf, tennis, pool, ice hockey) on the Navesink River in Middletown, NJ, operating on its current site since 1963. - [Spring Lake Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/spring-lake-golf-club/): Historic private club (founded 1892) in Spring Lake, NJ with design work by Willie Norton, George C. Thomas Jr., and A.W. Tillinghast; membership is by invitation through a current member and applications are currently paused due to high membership levels. - [Manasquan River Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/manasquan-river-golf-club/): Private, member-owned club founded 1922 on Manasquan River waterfront in Brielle, NJ, designed by Robert White; reported ~$75,000 initiation fee and a large current waitlist. - [Rumson Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/rumson-country-club/): Private club formed in 1908 through the consolidation of Rumson's golf, polo, and yacht clubs; combines golf with a marina, tennis, and platform tennis in the affluent borough of Rumson, NJ. - [Due Process Stable Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/due-process-stable-country-club/): Membership-by-invitation club in Colts Neck combining an 18-hole Johnny Miller-designed golf course (1995) with equestrian stables; reported among the highest private-club initiation fees in the country. - [Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/trump-national-golf-club-colts-neck-nj/): Private country club in Colts Neck, NJ; opened 2005 as Shadow Isle Golf Club (Jerry Pate design), acquired by the Trump Organization out of foreclosure in 2008 and renovated by Tom Fazio. - [Metedeconk National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/metedeconk-national-golf-club/): Invitation-only, 27-hole Robert Trent Jones Sr./Roger Rulewich private club in Jackson Township, Ocean County -- host to state and regional championships for decades and set to host the 2029 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball, its first USGA championship. - [Suneagles Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/suneagles-golf-club/): Eatontown, NJ: Historic 1926 A.W. Tillinghast course on former Fort Monmouth Army land, sold to Martelli Development and converted to fully private membership around 2024 as part of a $29 million redevelopment that also built the adjacent Ridge at Suneagles residential townhomes. - [Greenbriar Oceanaire Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/greenbriar-oceanaire-golf-and-country-club/): An 18-hole Arthur Hills (2004) course on-site within Greenbriar Oceanaire, a gated, 1,425-home active-adult community in Waretown, Ocean County; golf membership is optional for residents, not required. - [Greenbriar Golf Club at Whittingham](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/greenbriar-golf-club-at-whittingham/): A private 9-hole course (opened 1996) on-site within Greenbriar at Whittingham, an active-adult community in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, NJ. - [Four Seasons Spa & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/four-seasons-spa-and-country-club-lakewood/): A Tom Fazio-designed course (1997) within the K. Hovnanian Four Seasons at Lakewood active-adult community in Ocean County, NJ; sources conflict on hole count (9 vs. 18) and exact private/semi-private status. - [Renaissance Golf Club at Manchester](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/renaissance-golf-club-at-manchester/): Manchester Township, NJ: An on-site 18-hole executive golf course within Renaissance at Manchester, a K. Hovnanian active-adult community in Ocean County, NJ; residents may join for an additional membership fee, which is not automatically included with home purchase. - [Regency at Monroe Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/regency-at-monroe-golf-and-country-club/): A Toll Brothers 55+ active-adult community in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, NJ, built around an on-site 9-hole Arnold Palmer-designed executive golf course. #### Golf Communities in Jersey Shore / Monmouth County - [Due Process Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/due-process-estates/): A neighborhood of large estate homes bordering the western edge of the Due Process Stable golf course in Colts Neck, NJ. - [The Ridge at Suneagles](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/the-ridge-at-suneagles/): Eatontown, NJ: A 60-unit townhome development (plus a 15-unit affordable-housing building) under construction on former Fort Monmouth land, built by Martelli Development as part of the same redevelopment that preserved the adjacent Suneagles Golf Club under a 40-year deed restriction. - [Greenbriar Oceanaire](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/greenbriar-oceanaire/): A gated, 1,425-home active-adult community in Waretown, Ocean County, NJ, built around an on-site 18-hole Arthur Hills golf course with optional resident membership. - [Greenbriar at Whittingham](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/greenbriar-at-whittingham/): An active-adult community in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, NJ, built around an on-site private 9-hole golf course. - [Four Seasons at Lakewood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/four-seasons-at-lakewood/): A K. Hovnanian active-adult community of 1,319 homes (built 1994-1999) in Lakewood, Ocean County, NJ, built around the on-site Four Seasons Spa & Country Club golf course. - [Renaissance at Manchester](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/renaissance-at-manchester/): A K. Hovnanian active-adult community in Manchester Township, Ocean County, NJ, built around an on-site 18-hole executive golf course with optional, fee-based resident membership. - [Regency at Monroe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/jersey-shore-monmouth-county/regency-at-monroe/): A Toll Brothers 55+ active-adult community in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, NJ, built around an on-site 9-hole Arnold Palmer-designed golf course. ### Northwest New Jersey (Skylands), NJ - [Northwest New Jersey (Skylands), NJ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/skylands/): The Skylands region of Sussex and Warren counties is New Jersey's rural northwest corner -- rolling Appalachian foothills roughly an hour to an hour and a half from New York City, a genuinely different character from the state's denser NYC-suburb and Jersey Shore golf markets. #### Golf Clubs in Northwest New Jersey (Skylands) - [Crystal Springs Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/skylands/crystal-springs-resort/): Research Crystal Springs Resort in Hamburg, NJ: six championship golf courses, the 2026 South Street Partners acquisition, membership tiers, and The Estates at Crystal Springs residential community. - [Panther Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/skylands/panther-valley-country-club/): A private, Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed (1969) 18-hole club at the center of Panther Valley, a large gated residential community in Allamuchy Township (Warren County). - [Lake Mohawk Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/skylands/lake-mohawk-golf-club/): A private, member-owned 18-hole club in Sparta (Sussex County), founded in 1929 and capped at 245 bondholder members, with a real historical role in building the surrounding Lake Mohawk community. - [Hawk Pointe Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/skylands/hawk-pointe-golf-club/): A private, non-equity, 18-hole club (Kelly Blake Moran, opened 2000) in Washington Township, Warren County, built as part of a roughly 325-acre planned real-estate project developed by the same managing partner (Richard C. Cotton) who also leads the surrounding residential development. #### Golf Communities in Northwest New Jersey (Skylands) - [The Estates at Crystal Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/skylands/estates-at-crystal-springs/): Hamburg, NJ: A 284-unit community of single-family homes, townhomes, and condominiums built by Ryan Homes directly on Crystal Springs Resort's grounds, with golf-course and mountain views. - [Panther Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/skylands/panther-valley-community/): A large gated residential community in Allamuchy Township built around Panther Valley Country Club, governed by the nonprofit Panther Valley Property Owners Association (PVPOA), which every homeowner automatically joins. - [The Meadows at Panther Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/skylands/the-meadows-at-panther-valley/): Allamuchy, NJ: A 312-unit, 55+ age-restricted townhome enclave built by Baker Residential within the larger gated Panther Valley community. - [Lake Mohawk](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/skylands/lake-mohawk-community/): A roughly 2,500-acre lake community in Sparta Township (about 2,700 households) that grew up around Lake Mohawk Golf Club starting in 1929. - [Reserve at Hawk Pointe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/skylands/reserve-at-hawk-pointe/): A 120-home, 55+ active-adult community built between 2003 and 2006 in Washington Township, Warren County, with some homes backing directly onto Hawk Pointe Golf Club's course. - [Hawk Pointe Towns](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/skylands/hawk-pointe-towns/): A now-sold-out market-rate townhome phase (Ryan Homes, under the Asbury Farms Urban Renewal LLC entity) within the broader ~325-acre Hawk Pointe planned development in Washington Township, Warren County. ### Somerset Hills / Morris County, NJ - [Somerset Hills / Morris County, NJ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/): US Golf Living has researched 14 golf anchors in the Somerset Hills/Morris County golf market, spanning Somerset, Morris, and Union counties, including Baltusrol Golf Club, Somerset Hills Country Club, Fiddler's Elbow Country Club, and Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. #### Golf Clubs in Somerset Hills / Morris County - [Baltusrol Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/baltusrol-golf-club/): Baltusrol Golf Club is a private, invitation-only, two-course (Upper/Lower) club in Springfield, Union County, and one of American golf's most significant championship venues: 7 U.S. Opens, 2 PGA Championships, and the 2023 KPMG Women's PGA Championship, with the 2029 PGA Championship and the 2046 U.S. Open already on the calendar. - [Somerset Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/somerset-hills-country-club/): Somerset Hills Country Club is a private, historic A.W. Tillinghast course (1918) in Bernardsville, restored by Hanse Golf Course Design in 2018 and regarded as one of the most authentic remaining Tillinghast layouts in existence. - [Fiddler's Elbow Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/fiddlers-elbow-country-club/): Fiddler's Elbow Country Club is New Jersey's largest private golf facility -- three 18-hole courses (54 holes total) in Bedminster, opened in 1965 and expanded to full size by 1994, offering both equity and non-equity membership. - [Trump National Golf Club Bedminster](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/trump-national-golf-club-bedminster-nj/): Trump National Golf Club Bedminster is a private, 36-hole club (Old Course, Tom Fazio, 2004; New Course, Tom Fazio II, 2008) on 600-plus acres in Bedminster, Somerset County, that hosted the 2017 U.S. Women's Open. - [Canoe Brook Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/canoe-brook-country-club/): Canoe Brook Country Club is a private, member-owned club straddling Summit and Short Hills (Union County), founded in 1901, with 36 holes across a Walter Travis/Rees Jones North Course and a Charles H. Alison South Course. - [Spring Brook Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/spring-brook-country-club/): Spring Brook Country Club is a private club founded in 1921 in Morristown, with an 18-hole course formally attributed to Walter J. Travis (confirmed by The Travis Society in 2008) and hosts the NJSGA Open Championship. - [Morris County Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/morris-county-golf-club/): Morris County Golf Club is a private, invitation-only club on 175 acres in Convent Station (Morris Township), founded in 1894 and notable as a club originally established and run by women, with an 18-hole course credited to C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor. - [Roxiticus Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/roxiticus-golf-club/): Roxiticus Golf Club is a private, boutique family club in Mendham (built 1965, Hal Purdy/Robert McNeil design) offering golf, tennis, and swim membership in a family-oriented setting. - [Mendham Golf & Tennis Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/mendham-golf-and-tennis-club/): Mendham Golf & Tennis Club is a private, invitation-only club founded in 1958, adjacent to Jockey Hollow Park, with 320 full golf memberships and family-inclusive access for spouses and children under 24. - [Hamilton Farm Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/hamilton-farm-golf-club/): Hamilton Farm Golf Club is a private, invitation-only, self-described ultra-exclusive club (Hurdzan/Fry design, 1998) on the historic 600-acre Hamilton Farm estate in Peapack-Gladstone, adjacent to the U.S. Equestrian Team's training headquarters. - [Brooklake Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/brooklake-country-club/): Brooklake Country Club is a private club in Florham Park with an 18-hole golf course (Herbert Strong, opened 1942) that also operates a separately marketed, fully public wedding/event catering business under the 'Brooklake Country Club & Events' brand. - [Fairmount Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/fairmount-country-club/): Fairmount Country Club is a private, members-only club founded in 1958 in Chatham with an 18-hole course, tennis, platform tennis, and dining. - [Rockaway River Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/rockaway-river-country-club/): Rockaway River Country Club is a private equity golf facility in Denville built in 1923 (Devereux Emmet design), member-owned with an 'accompanied by member' guest policy. - [Shackamaxon Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/shackamaxon-country-club/): Shackamaxon Country Club is a century-old, A.W. Tillinghast-designed private club in Scotch Plains, Union County, acquired by Heritage Golf Group in 2021 and offering several paid membership categories. #### Golf Communities in Somerset Hills / Morris County - [The Fairways at Bedminster](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/the-fairways-at-bedminster/): The Fairways at Bedminster is a six-lot luxury estate-lot subdivision (roughly 10.84-29.13 acres per lot) directly bordering Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, marketed for custom home construction. - [The Commons at Mendham](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/somerset-hills-morris-county/the-commons-at-mendham/): The Commons at Mendham is a gated, 55+ townhome community (330 units, built 1978-1985) in Mendham Borough that markets proximity to several nearby private golf clubs as a lifestyle amenity, without owning or bundling membership to any of them. ### South Jersey / Pine Barrens, NJ - [South Jersey / Pine Barrens, NJ Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/south-jersey-pine-barrens/): US Golf Living has researched 4 golf anchors in the South Jersey / Pine Barrens golf market, spanning Atlantic, Camden, and Cape May counties, including the world's #1-ranked Pine Valley Golf Club, private Galloway National Golf Club, resort destination Seaview, and Cape May tip's Stone Harbor Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in South Jersey / Pine Barrens - [Pine Valley Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/south-jersey-pine-barrens/pine-valley-golf-club-nj/): Consistently ranked the #1 golf course in the world, Pine Valley is a private, invitation-only club in Pine Hill, Camden County (formerly its own micro-municipality, the Borough of Pine Valley, dissolved into Pine Hill on January 1, 2022). - [Galloway National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/south-jersey-pine-barrens/galloway-national-golf-club/): A private, non-equity golf club in Galloway Township (Tom Fazio design, opened 1995, founded by Ron Jaworski and Allen DeLuca) built intentionally without any housing, hotel, or pool of its own. - [Seaview](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/south-jersey-pine-barrens/seaview-galloway-nj/): A historic 1914 resort in Galloway Township with two courses (Bay Course, 1914, Hugh Wilson/Donald Ross; Pines Course, 1929, William Flynn/Howard Toomey) that continues to host the LPGA Tour's ShopRite LPGA Classic every year, most recently 2024 and 2025, with 2026 already scheduled. - [Stone Harbor Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/south-jersey-pine-barrens/stone-harbor-golf-club/): A private golf club on 350-plus acres in Cape May Court House (Desmond Muirhead design, opened 1987/88), acquired by Heritage Golf Group in June 2023 and undergoing a multi-year renovation. #### Golf Communities in South Jersey / Pine Barrens - [Park Place](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/south-jersey-pine-barrens/park-place-galloway-township/): A Galloway Township neighborhood whose homes directly border several holes of Galloway National Golf Club, including listings cited along the 13th and 18th holes. - [Marriott's Fairway Villas at Seaview](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/south-jersey-pine-barrens/marriotts-fairway-villas-at-seaview/): Galloway Township, NJ: A Marriott Vacation Club timeshare/vacation-ownership condominium development adjacent to the Seaview resort, with owners able to access the resort's recreational facilities. - [Stone Harbor Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-jersey/south-jersey-pine-barrens/stone-harbor-lakes/): Cape May Court House, NJ: A current NVHomes-built residential community of single-family homes, twins, and townhomes marketed as situated within Stone Harbor Golf Club's own grounds, roughly five miles from Stone Harbor's beaches. ## Pennsylvania - [Pennsylvania Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/): Independent research on 70 golf clubs and 22 residential golf communities across 7 Pennsylvania golf markets, including Harrisburg, Hershey, Lancaster & York, Lehigh Valley & Bucks County and The Poconos: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Pennsylvania Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Pennsylvania](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 6 Pennsylvania golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Bridgewater Golf Club, Buck Hill Falls, The Hideout Golf Course, The Club at Nevillewood and Treesdale Golf & Country Club. - [Private Golf Communities in Pennsylvania](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 64 private Pennsylvania golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Toftrees Golf Resort, Centre Hills Country Club, Treasure Lake Golf Club, Hershey Country Club and Country Club of Harrisburg. - [55+ Golf Communities in Pennsylvania](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/guides/55-plus-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 4 Pennsylvania golf anchors connected to age-restricted (55+) residential communities, including Toftrees Golf Resort, Hershey's Mill Golf Club, Inniscrone Golf Club and Indian Valley Country Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in Pennsylvania](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 10 Pennsylvania golf resort ecosystems, including Toftrees Golf Resort, Hershey Country Club, Lancaster Country Club, Saucon Valley Country Club and Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Pennsylvania](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 6 private Pennsylvania golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Colonial Country Club, Regents' Glen Country Club, Lords Valley Country Club, Inniscrone Golf Club and Indian Valley Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Pennsylvania](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 5 Pennsylvania golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Centre Hills Country Club, Regents' Glen Country Club, The Hideout Golf Course, Blue Bell Country Club and Treesdale Golf & Country Club. ### Pennsylvania Comparisons - [Toftrees vs. Centre Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/toftrees-vs-centre-hills-country-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of State College's two qualifying golf anchors: Toftrees' public resort golf vs. Centre Hills Country Club's private membership model. - [Lancaster Country Club vs Hershey Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/lancaster-country-club-vs-hershey-country-club/): A researched comparison of Lancaster Country Club and Hershey Country Club for golf-oriented homebuyers: championship pedigree, access models, and design lineage. - [Country Club of Harrisburg vs Colonial Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/country-club-of-harrisburg-vs-colonial-country-club-harrisburg/): A researched comparison of two Dauphin County, PA clubs with similar names but very different access models: fully private versus semi-private and publicly bookable. - [Saucon Valley Country Club vs. Lehigh Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/saucon-valley-vs-lehigh-country-club/): Compare Saucon Valley Country Club and Lehigh Country Club: scale, USGA championship history, and membership access in the Lehigh Valley. - [Doylestown Country Club vs. Lookaway Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/doylestown-country-club-vs-lookaway-golf-club/): Compare Doylestown Country Club and Lookaway Golf Club: sponsorship vs. equity membership models in Bucks County, PA. - [Buck Hill Falls vs. The Hideout](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/buck-hill-falls-vs-the-hideout/): Compare two Poconos residential-golf models: historic Buck Hill Falls and the modern, HOA-bundled Hideout community. - [Merion Golf Club vs Aronimink Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/merion-golf-club-vs-aronimink-golf-club/): Compare Merion Golf Club and Aronimink Golf Club -- championship pedigree, design lineage, membership scale, and residential relevance for a Main Line golf-oriented homebuyer. - [Blue Bell Country Club vs Hershey's Mill](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/blue-bell-country-club-vs-hersheys-mill/): Compare Blue Bell Country Club and Hershey's Mill -- two different bundled golf-residential models in the Philadelphia suburbs, from age restriction to HOA governance to golf access. - [Philadelphia Cricket Club vs Philadelphia Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/philadelphia-cricket-club-vs-philadelphia-country-club/): Compare Philadelphia Cricket Club and Philadelphia Country Club -- founding history, golf-course scale, U.S. Open pedigree, and amenities for a Main Line golf-oriented homebuyer. - [Oakmont vs Fox Chapel Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/oakmont-country-club-vs-fox-chapel-golf-club/): Compare Oakmont Country Club and Fox Chapel Golf Club -- two private Allegheny County, PA clubs with different qualification bases for golf-oriented buyers. - [Nevillewood vs Treesdale Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/club-at-nevillewood-vs-treesdale-golf-country-club/): Compare The Club at Nevillewood and Treesdale, the Pittsburgh area's two master-planned golf communities designed by Nicklaus and Palmer. - [Laurel Valley vs Nemacolin Woodlands Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/laurel-valley-golf-club-vs-nemacolin-woodlands-resort/): Compare Laurel Valley Golf Club and Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, two very different Laurel Highlands, PA golf anchors for golf-oriented buyers. ### State College & Centre County, PA - [State College & Centre County, PA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/state-college-centre-county/): State College is a genuinely distinct golf-living market: a Penn State University-anchored town roughly 90 minutes from Harrisburg and over two hours from both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, economically and geographically separate from every named region in this platform's Pennsylvania research brief. #### Golf Clubs in State College & Centre County - [Toftrees Golf Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/state-college-centre-county/toftrees-golf-resort/): State College, PA: Pennsylvania's first planned community (built starting in the late 1960s), organized around an 18-hole Ed Ault-designed golf course (1968/1969) with a resort hotel, restaurant, and surrounding townhouses, single-family homes, and apartments. - [Centre Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/state-college-centre-county/centre-hills-country-club/): The only fully private country club in Centre County (founded 1921, 27 holes, 330+ members as of its 2021 centennial), inside the Borough of State College. #### Golf Communities in State College & Centre County - [Toftrees](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/state-college-centre-county/toftrees/): State College, PA: Pennsylvania's first planned community, built from the late 1960s around Toftrees Golf Course, comprising several named associations (Toftrees Homeowners Association, Woodledge Drive Cluster Association) plus apartment product, all organized around the public/daily-fee golf course and the resort hotel at its center. - [The Village at Penn State](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/state-college-centre-county/the-village-at-penn-state/): State College, PA: An age-restricted retirement community sited along the Toftrees golf course, offering single-family homes, condos, and townhomes plus its own community center, pool, and a walking path connecting to Penn State's Arboretum. - [Centre Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/state-college-centre-county/centre-hills/): State College, PA: A residential neighborhood developed by the Kissinger family and named for the adjoining Centre Hills Country Club, whose largest homes carry direct frontage on and views of the club's golf course and Mount Nittany. ### Treasure Lake / DuBois, PA - [Treasure Lake / DuBois, PA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/treasure-lake-dubois/): Treasure Lake / DuBois is a genuinely distinct, single-anchor golf-living market in the Allegheny Mountain foothills of Clearfield County, roughly 2 hours from Pittsburgh and about 75 minutes from State College -- not a sub-market of either. #### Golf Clubs in Treasure Lake / DuBois - [Treasure Lake Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/treasure-lake-dubois/treasure-lake-golf-club/): Two 18-hole courses (Gold and Silver, Tom Palumbo, opened 1983) at the center of Treasure Lake, a 9,000+ acre gated, semi-private, POA-governed lake community near DuBois with roughly 2,400 homes. #### Golf Communities in Treasure Lake / DuBois - [Treasure Lake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/treasure-lake-dubois/treasure-lake/): A 9,000+ acre gated, semi-private lake-and-golf community near DuBois, PA, governed by the Treasure Lake Property Owners Association, with roughly 2,400 homes, two 18-hole golf courses, three lakes, a marina, beaches, pools, and horse stables. ### Harrisburg, Hershey, Lancaster & York, PA - [Harrisburg, Hershey, Lancaster & York, PA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/): US Golf Living has researched 9 golf anchors across the Harrisburg, Hershey, Lancaster & York corridor, spanning Dauphin, Cumberland, Lancaster, and York counties, including Hershey Country Club, Lancaster Country Club, and Regents' Glen Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Harrisburg, Hershey, Lancaster & York - [Hershey Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/hershey-country-club-pa/): Hershey Country Club is the two-course (West, 1930; East, 1969) private club at the heart of the Hershey company town, most famous for hosting the 1940 PGA Championship. - [Country Club of Harrisburg](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/country-club-of-harrisburg-pa/): Founded in 1896, the Country Club of Harrisburg is Central Pennsylvania's oldest private club, built on a William Flynn-designed course in the Fishing Creek Valley northeast of Harrisburg. - [Colonial Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/colonial-country-club-harrisburg-pa/): Colonial Country Club (also marketed as Colonial Golf & Tennis Club) is a Harrisburg club founded in 1910, at its current Linglestown Road site since 1954, with a 2003 Arthur Hills redesign. - [Lancaster Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/lancaster-country-club-pa/): Lancaster Country Club, founded 1900, hosted the U.S. Women's Open in both 2015 and 2024 on its William Flynn-designed course, giving it a national championship pedigree matched by few Pennsylvania clubs. - [Regents' Glen Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/regents-glen-country-club-pa/): Regents' Glen Country Club is a private, Arthur Hills-designed club inside a gated golf community in York -- the corridor's strongest residential-golf integration story -- though club membership is administratively separate from Regents' Glen homeownership, not automatically included. - [Country Club of York](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/country-club-of-york-pa/): Founded in 1899, the Country Club of York is one of Pennsylvania's oldest private clubs, built on a 1927/28 Donald Ross-designed course restored by Ron Forse in 2007, and has hosted four U.S. Women's Amateur Championships historically plus the 2014 and 2023 PA State Opens. - [Meadia Heights Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/meadia-heights-golf-club-pa/): Meadia Heights Golf Club, private since 1922, sits just south of downtown Lancaster and offers Golf, Social, Dining, and Corporate membership tiers with no initiation fee -- an unusual structural feature for a private club in this corridor. - [Carlisle Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/carlisle-country-club-pa/): Carlisle Country Club, founded 1924, is a private, member-owned club in Cumberland County now under new local ownership investing in a multi-year course and clubhouse renovation. - [Bridgewater Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/bridgewater-golf-club-pa/): Bridgewater Golf Club is a renovated 9-hole, par-35 course (replacing the former Springwood Golf Club) in York Township, paired with a driving range, the Bridgewater Public House, and a genuine homeowner golf-membership discount for the surrounding Views at Bridgewater community. #### Golf Communities in Harrisburg, Hershey, Lancaster & York - [Regents Glen Villas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/regents-glen-villas-york-pa/): Regents Glen Villas is a Ryan Homes-built, gated villa-style community inside the Regents' Glen golf community in York, PA, marketed as 'the only resort style golf course community in York County.' - [Royal Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/royal-oaks-york-pa/): Royal Oaks is a roughly 74-home gated sub-neighborhood inside the larger Regents' Glen gated golf community in York, PA, with its own HOA distinct from the broader Regents' Glen Community Association. - [The Views at Bridgewater](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/views-at-bridgewater-york-pa/): The Views at Bridgewater is a planned 535-home Keystone Custom Homes community in York Township built around Bridgewater Golf Club, with a genuine 50%-off resident golf-membership discount. - [The Meadows at Colonial Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/harrisburg-hershey-lancaster-york/meadows-at-colonial-club-harrisburg-pa/): The Meadows at Colonial Club is a small (20-homesite), half-acre-plus McNaughton Homes community on Harrisburg's East Shore, marketed explicitly on its proximity to Colonial Country Club. ### Lehigh Valley & Bucks County, PA - [Lehigh Valley & Bucks County, PA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-valley-bucks-county/): The Lehigh Valley & Bucks County market covers Pennsylvania's industrial-heritage Lehigh Valley (Lehigh and Northampton counties, anchored by Allentown and Bethlehem) and the historic, affluent Bucks County corridor along the Delaware River northwest of Philadelphia. #### Golf Clubs in Lehigh Valley & Bucks County - [Saucon Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-valley-bucks-county/saucon-valley-country-club/): One of the largest private clubs in the United States (three 18-hole championship courses plus a 6-hole beginner course on roughly 850 acres in Bethlehem), founded in 1920 by Bethlehem Steel executives and host to eight USGA championships including three U.S. Senior Opens, with two more already scheduled for 2032 and 2042. - [Lookaway Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-valley-bucks-county/lookaway-golf-club/): Private equity golf club in Buckingham, Bucks County, with roughly 275 partner-members under a deliberate 'no tee times' model, an 18-hole Rees Jones/Greg Muirhead design, and a clubhouse built inside a 1752 manor house. - [Doylestown Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-valley-bucks-county/doylestown-country-club/): The oldest private club in Bucks County (founded 1916), a William S. Flynn-designed 18-hole course in downtown-adjacent Doylestown, with sponsorship-based membership (two active-member sponsors required) and a current $5,000 redeemable membership certificate plus a $250 application fee. - [Jericho National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-valley-bucks-county/jericho-national-golf-club/): Private, members-only golf club in New Hope, Bucks County, founded 1996 (opened 1999) on a Michael Hurdzan/Dana Fry-designed 18-hole course, with a 32,000-square-foot clubhouse -- the Bucks County candidate closest to the Delaware River/New Jersey border. - [Lehigh Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-valley-bucks-county/lehigh-country-club/): Invitation-only private club in Allentown, founded 1908, with an 18-hole William Flynn-designed course plus tennis and a pool -- one of the Lehigh Valley's oldest old-guard clubs. - [Steel Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-valley-bucks-county/steel-club/): Private club on 280 acres in Hellertown with 27 holes across three nines built around a Donald Ross-designed core, an Olympic-sized pool, and time-tiered golf membership categories ($100-$300/month depending on start time) alongside a no-fee dining tier. - [Woodstone Country Club and Lodge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-valley-bucks-county/woodstone-country-club-and-lodge/): Private golf and social club in Danielsville, at the base of Blue Mountain, established 2000 on a converted-quarry 18-hole course, with individual, family, national, young executive, and 'millennial' membership tiers and an on-site 19-room lodge. ### The Poconos, PA - [The Poconos, PA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/the-poconos/): US Golf Living has researched 6 qualifying/destination-exception golf anchors in the Poconos market, spanning Monroe, Pike, and Wayne counties, including Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort, Woodloch Springs, Great Bear Golf Club, and Buck Hill Falls. #### Golf Clubs in The Poconos - [Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/the-poconos/shawnee-inn-and-golf-resort/): Historic 1911 Delaware River-island golf resort in Shawnee-on-Delaware; hosted the 1938 PGA Championship and is widely credited as the birthplace of the PGA of America (founded there in 1916), with a 27-hole A.W. Tillinghast-designed course. - [The Country Club at Woodloch Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/the-poconos/woodloch-springs-country-club/): Championship 18-hole course (GOLF Magazine-recognized, 4.5 Golf Digest stars) at the center of the Woodloch Springs residential community in Hawley -- 400+ townhomes, courtyard homes, and custom homesites developed since 1991 as part of the Woodloch Pines resort family, priced from roughly $259,000 into the millions. - [Great Bear Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/the-poconos/great-bear-golf-club/): Jack Nicklaus Signature-designed 18-hole course (opened 1997) in East Stroudsburg, Monroe County -- corrected from the brief's Lackawaxen/Masthope seed location -- anchoring the 127-home, 450-acre gated Estates at Great Bear community. - [Buck Hill Falls](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/the-poconos/buck-hill-falls/): Buck Hill Falls, PA: Historic private residential golf community in Barrett Township founded around a 27-hole Donald Ross/Robert White course, restored under Rees Jones in 2022; access for non-property-owners requires sponsorship by a current Cottager (resident property owner). - [Lords Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/the-poconos/lords-valley-country-club/): Private, member-owned club (capped near 400 members) located within the Hemlock Farms community in Hawley, Pike County; an 18-hole Norman H. Woods design named to the Platinum Clubs of America list, but explicitly not affiliated with the surrounding Hemlock Farms Community Association. - [The Hideout Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/the-poconos/the-hideout-golf-course/): A 9-hole, ~3,400-yard private course open only to residents and guests of The Hideout, a gated, 3,000+ home residential community in Lords Valley, Pike County -- golf access is bundled directly into annual HOA dues ($1,980-$2,300/year for a developed lot), not a separate club membership. #### Golf Communities in The Poconos - [Woodloch Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/the-poconos/woodloch-springs-community/): Golf-real-estate community surrounding The Country Club at Woodloch Springs in Hawley, with 400+ homes across townhomes, courtyard homes, and custom homesites, developed since 1991 as part of the Woodloch Pines resort family. - [The Estates at Great Bear](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/the-poconos/estates-at-great-bear/): 450-acre, 127-home gated community built directly around Great Bear Golf Club in East Stroudsburg, with its own HOA and 24/7 security, pool, clubhouse, and tennis -- organizationally separate from the golf club's own membership/access structure. - [The Hideout](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/the-poconos/the-hideout-community/): Gated, 3,000+ home residential community in Lords Valley/Lake Ariel, Pike County, with a bundled 9-hole private golf course, private lakes, a ski hill, and racquet sports all covered by annual HOA dues. - [Hemlock Farms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/the-poconos/hemlock-farms/): Large gated residential community in Hawley, Pike County, governed by the Hemlock Farms Community Association (HFCA); Lords Valley Country Club sits within its footprint but is explicitly not formally affiliated with the HFCA. ### Philadelphia Main Line & Suburbs, PA - [Philadelphia Main Line & Suburbs, PA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/): The Philadelphia Main Line and its surrounding Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester County suburbs form Pennsylvania's largest and most golf-residential-dense market by a wide margin. #### Golf Clubs in Philadelphia Main Line & Suburbs - [Merion Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/merion-golf-club-ardmore-pa/): Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Delaware County, is a private, invitation-only club whose East Course has hosted more USGA championships (19, including 5 U.S. Opens, most recently 2013) than any other club in the country. - [Aronimink Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/aronimink-golf-club-newtown-square-pa/): Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Delaware County, is a private, roughly 300-member club built around a 1926 Donald Ross design that hosted the 2020 KPMG Women's PGA Championship and multiple prior PGA Tour and major-caliber events. - [Philadelphia Cricket Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/philadelphia-cricket-club-flourtown-pa/): Philadelphia Cricket Club, founded in 1854, is the oldest country club in the United States. Private, with campuses in Chestnut Hill (St. Martins course, host of the 1907 and 1910 U.S. Opens) and Flourtown (Wissahickon, an A.W. Tillinghast design, and Militia Hill, opened 2002), it is the only U.S. club confirmed to have opened a golf course in each of the last three centuries. - [Philadelphia Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/philadelphia-country-club-gladwyne-pa/): Philadelphia Country Club, founded 1890 in Gladwyne (Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County), was one of the USGA's first six member clubs and hosted the 1939 U.S. Open. - [Gulph Mills Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/gulph-mills-golf-club-king-of-prussia-pa/): Gulph Mills Golf Club, King of Prussia, is a private club founded in 1916 by a group largely drawn from Merion Cricket Club, deliberately capped at 150 members. - [Waynesborough Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/waynesborough-country-club-paoli-pa/): Waynesborough Country Club, Paoli, was founded in 1964-65 by a group of local business/professional men on land leased from the Liggett family estate; George Fazio designed the championship course, which opened in 1965 and later hosted PGA Tour SEI Classic events (2000, 2002) and the 2019 PA State Open. - [Whitemarsh Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/whitemarsh-valley-country-club-lafayette-hill-pa/): Research Whitemarsh Valley Country Club -- a George C. Thomas Jr. design in Lafayette Hill, PA, and 18-year host of the PGA Tour's Philadelphia IVB Classic. - [Sunnybrook Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/sunnybrook-golf-club-plymouth-meeting-pa/): Sunnybrook Golf Club, Plymouth Meeting, was founded in 1913-14 by six members who defected from Philadelphia Cricket Club, with an original Donald Ross-designed course in Flourtown (1915). - [White Manor Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/white-manor-country-club-malvern-pa/): White Manor Country Club, Malvern, founded 1948, operated as a member-owned club for 68 years before a December 2016 recapitalization under Concert Golf Partners (a multi-club management company) paid off $6 million in club debt, cut dues 10-15%, and ended member assessments -- membership grew 47% (324 to 478 members) in the two years following. - [Rolling Green Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/rolling-green-golf-club-springfield-pa/): Rolling Green Golf Club, Springfield Township, is a private, invitation-only, golf-only club (no tennis or pool) requiring sponsorship by at least two existing members. - [Overbrook Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/overbrook-golf-club-villanova-pa/): Overbrook Golf Club, founded 1900 near Lankenau Hospital, relocated to its present 128-acre Villanova (Radnor Township) site in the early 1950s; the new course, recommended by Donald Ross and designed by J.B. McGovern, opened in 1952. - [Llanerch Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/llanerch-country-club-havertown-pa/): Llanerch Country Club, Havertown (Haverford Township, Delaware County), operating under its present name since 1919 (founded 1901), is a private equity club. - [Radnor Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/radnor-valley-country-club-villanova-pa/): Villanova, PA: Private, member-owned club established 1953; Dick Wilson designed the original course, redesigned in 1968 by Bill Gordon. - [St. Davids Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/st-davids-golf-club-wayne-pa/): Wayne, PA: Private club founded 1897, among the oldest in the region; Donald Ross designed the course in the 1920s, later refined by William Flynn (1927). - [Springhaven Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/springhaven-club-wallingford-pa/): Wallingford, PA: Private equity club founded 1896, incorporated 1904 -- one of the oldest golf clubs in the U.S. 'Accompanied by Member' guest policy. - [Applebrook Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/applebrook-golf-club-malvern-pa/): Malvern, PA: Private, deliberately golf-only club (no tennis, pool, or fitness amenities) -- a Gil Hanse design (1999, opened 2001) with one of the Northeast's noted caddie programs, built as a walking course. - [Chester Valley Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/chester-valley-golf-club-malvern-pa/): Malvern, PA: Private club with an unusual origin: built in 1930 by the Pennsylvania Railroad on the 'Smedley Farm' parcel, financed partly by employee-purchased bonds; sold to its own members in 1948, who renamed it Chester Valley Golf Club. - [Concord Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/concord-country-club-chadds-ford-pa/): Private club founded 1927, William Flynn design; located in Chadds Ford Township. NOTE: the discovery pass grouped this club under 'Chester County/Brandywine Valley' -- Chadds Ford Township is in Delaware County, confirmed via its own township Wikipedia entry and PGA.com listing; corrected here. - [Radley Run Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/radley-run-country-club-west-chester-pa/): West Chester, PA: Private club, strictly private though charity/business outings offer indirect access; Alfred H. Tull designed the course, opened 1965. - [Coatesville Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/coatesville-country-club-coatesville-pa/): Private club founded 1921 by local business leaders from Lukens Steel, Parkesburg Iron, and The Coatesville Record; original nine by Alexander H. Findlay, second nine by Cyril Hughes (1922). - [French Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/french-creek-golf-club-elverson-pa/): Elverson, PA: Private, deliberately golf-only club; Gil Hanse design (2003), one of his earliest solo projects. - [Green Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/green-valley-country-club-lafayette-hill-pa/): Lafayette Hill, PA: Private club founded 1919/opened 1921 on 182 acres; William Flynn-designed 18-hole course (present layout dates to 1924). - [Old York Road Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/old-york-road-country-club-spring-house-pa/): Private club, opened 1910 (originally elsewhere), relocated to its present 126-acre Spring House site (former Bennerbrook Farm) in 1963. - [Huntingdon Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/huntingdon-valley-country-club-huntingdon-valley-pa/): Huntingdon Valley, PA: Private, family-oriented club founded 1897; 27 holes by Toomey & Flynn (William Flynn), opened 1928, labeled a 'Super Course' by contemporary press. - [Philmont Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/philmont-country-club-huntingdon-valley-pa/): Huntingdon Valley, PA: Private club founded 1906 by Ellis Gimbel and Philadelphia business leaders; 36 holes across two courses -- the North Course (1923) by Willie Park Jr., built by William Flynn -- with a large (58,000 sq ft) clubhouse and a recent $5M renovation. - [Manufacturers' Golf and Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/manufacturers-golf-country-club-fort-washington-pa/): Fort Washington, PA: Private club founded 1925 (from the earlier Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia, largely textile-industry executives); William Flynn design, Howard Toomey engineering. - [Commonwealth National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/commonwealth-national-golf-club-horsham-pa/): Horsham, PA: Private club with an Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay design (opened July 1990); nearly one-third of the course (46 acres) is water. - [The 1912 Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/the-1912-club-plymouth-meeting-pa/): Plymouth Meeting, PA: Private club founded 1912 as Plymouth Country Club, rebranded 'The 1912 Club' in 2018; Tom Bendelow-rooted routing largely preserved through a 2014 Ron Prichard restoration. - [Blue Bell Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/blue-bell-country-club-whitpain-pa/): Blue Bell Country Club, in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County, is a private Arnold Palmer-designed golf course at the physical center of a 482-acre, 849-home, 14-village gated community built by Toll Brothers (1993-2001). - [Hershey's Mill Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/hersheys-mill-golf-club-west-chester-pa/): Hershey's Mill Golf Club sits inside Hershey's Mill Villages, an 800-acre gated 55+ active-adult community of 1,700+ maintenance-free homes across 25 villages in West Chester, Chester County, active since the late 1970s. - [Applecross Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/applecross-country-club-downingtown-pa/): Applecross Country Club, Downingtown, is a Pulte Homes-developed residential community built around an 18-hole Nicklaus Design course (opened 2010). - [Hartefeld National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/hartefeld-national-avondale-pa/): Hartefeld National, Avondale, is a Tom Fazio-designed golf course built out circa 2002 by Bellevue Homes around a 300+-home detached single-family community. - [Inniscrone Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/inniscrone-golf-club-avondale-pa/): Inniscrone Golf Club, Avondale, is a public, township-owned (London Grove Township), Gil Hanse-designed course, originally built (1998) as an upscale private club before converting to public play. - [Indian Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/indian-valley-country-club-telford-pa/): Indian Valley Country Club, Telford (Franconia Township, Montgomery County), is a 1954 William & David Gordon-designed course directly adjacent to the Indian Valley Greenes 55+ community. #### Golf Communities in Philadelphia Main Line & Suburbs - [Blue Bell Country Club Community Association](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/blue-bell-country-club-community-whitpain-pa/): A gated, 849-home community across 14 villages on 482 acres in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County, built by Toll Brothers 1993-2001, surrounding the private Blue Bell Country Club golf course. - [Hershey's Mill Villages](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/hersheys-mill-villages-west-chester-pa/): An 800-acre gated 55+ active-adult community of 1,700+ maintenance-free homes across 25 independently-HOA'd villages in West Chester, Chester County, active since the late 1970s, built around Hershey's Mill Golf Club (separate paid membership). - [Applecross (Pulte Homes community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/applecross-residential-community-downingtown-pa/): A Pulte Homes single-family community in Downingtown, Chester County, built directly around the Applecross Country Club golf course (Nicklaus Design, opened 2010). - [Hartefeld National (residential community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/hartefeld-national-community-avondale-pa/): A 300+-home detached single-family community in Avondale, Chester County, built out circa 2002 by Bellevue Homes around the Hartefeld National golf course (Tom Fazio design). - [Traditions at Inniscrone](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/traditions-at-inniscrone-avondale-pa/): A less-than-200-home 55+ active-adult community in London Grove Township (Avondale), Chester County, with its own HOA and clubhouse, adjacent to the public Inniscrone Golf Club. - [Indian Valley Greenes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia-main-line-suburbs/indian-valley-greenes-telford-pa/): A 55+ neighborhood in Franconia Township, Telford, Montgomery County, adjacent to Indian Valley Country Club; sources describe residents as able to obtain club memberships, though the precise physical relationship ('within the gates' vs. 'across the street') and membership terms are not conclusively confirmed. ### Pittsburgh Metro & Laurel Highlands, PA - [Pittsburgh Metro & Laurel Highlands, PA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/): US Golf Living has researched 11 golf anchors across the Pittsburgh metro and Laurel Highlands market, spanning Allegheny and Westmoreland counties and extending into the Laurel Highlands resort corridor in Fayette and Somerset counties, including Oakmont Country Club, Allegheny Country Club, Fox Chapel Golf Club and Laurel Valley Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in Pittsburgh Metro & Laurel Highlands - [Oakmont Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/oakmont-country-club-pa/): Oakmont Country Club, in the borough of Oakmont (Allegheny County), has hosted the U.S. Open a record 10 times -- more than any other course in America -- and is a private, invitation-only club designed in 1903 by its founder Henry C. Fownes. - [Allegheny Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/allegheny-country-club-pa/): Allegheny Country Club, in Sewickley Heights (Allegheny County), is a private, invitation-only Donald Ross-designed club that relocated from Pittsburgh in 1902 -- a move documented as the catalyst for Sewickley Heights' development into one of the region's wealthiest estate-housing enclaves. - [Fox Chapel Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/fox-chapel-golf-club/): Fox Chapel Golf Club, in the affluent Fox Chapel borough (Allegheny County), is a private, invitation-only Seth Raynor design (1923) that hosted the 2024 U.S. Senior Women's Open, won by Leta Lindley. - [Sewickley Heights Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/sewickley-heights-golf-club/): Sewickley Heights Golf Club, founded in 1961 by a group including Harton 'Bud' Semple and the Oliver family, is a private, members-only club (par 72) in Sewickley Heights borough, one of the wealthiest municipalities in the Pittsburgh region and also home to Allegheny Country Club. - [Pittsburgh Field Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/pittsburgh-field-club/): Pittsburgh Field Club, founded in 1882 (originally the Pittsburgh Cricket Club) and relocated to present-day Fox Chapel in 1915, is the region's oldest sporting facility and hosted the 1937 PGA Championship, won by Denny Shute. - [Laurel Valley Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/laurel-valley-golf-club/): Laurel Valley Golf Club, in Ligonier Township (Westmoreland County), was co-founded in 1959 by a group including Arnold Palmer and has hosted the 1965 PGA Championship and the 1975 Ryder Cup -- major-championship pedigree with little to no purpose-built residential development tied to the club. - [The Club at Nevillewood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/club-at-nevillewood/): The Club at Nevillewood, in Presto (Collier Township, Allegheny County), is a Jack Nicklaus Signature Course (1992) built as the centerpiece of a purpose-built residential development, with a homeowners association and club membership categories that distinguish resident from non-resident golf members. - [Treesdale Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/treesdale-golf-country-club/): Treesdale Golf & Country Club, in Gibsonia (Allegheny County) spanning into Mars (Butler County), is billed as the first master-planned community in Western Pennsylvania: a 27-hole Arnold Palmer design (1994) at the center of a roughly 1,400-acre, ~1,000-homesite community, with the club itself now managed as part of the Invited/ClubCorp portfolio. - [Diamond Run Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/diamond-run-golf-club/): Diamond Run Golf Club, in Sewickley (Allegheny County), is a Gary Player-designed course (1992) around which a private residential community of custom homesites, also called Diamond Run, has been built and marketed as a neighborhood in its own right. - [Nemacolin Woodlands Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/nemacolin-woodlands-resort/): Farmington, PA: Research Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, a Forbes Five-Star Laurel Highlands resort with two Pete Dye golf courses and a real residential lot subdivision. - [The Highlands Golf Club (Seven Springs / Hidden Valley)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/highlands-golf-club-seven-springs-hidden-valley/): Champion, PA: Research the golf operation at Seven Springs and Hidden Valley resorts in the Laurel Highlands, PA -- a light-touch look at golf-adjacent real estate. #### Golf Communities in Pittsburgh Metro & Laurel Highlands - [Nevillewood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/nevillewood/): Nevillewood is a custom-home community in Presto (Collier Township, Allegheny County) built specifically around the Jack Nicklaus-designed Club at Nevillewood golf course, governed by its own homeowners association. - [Treesdale](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/treesdale/): Treesdale is a roughly 1,400-acre, ~1,000-homesite master-planned community in Gibsonia (Allegheny County)/Mars (Butler County), billed as the first master-planned community in Western Pennsylvania, built around Arnold Palmer's 27-hole Treesdale Golf & Country Club. - [Diamond Run](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/diamond-run-community/): Diamond Run is a private residential neighborhood of custom homesites in Sewickley (Allegheny County), organized around the Gary Player-designed Diamond Run Golf Club. - [Nemacolin Subdivision at The Woodlands Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-metro-laurel-highlands/nemacolin-subdivision-woodlands-golf-club/): A 19-lot residential subdivision in Wharton Township (Farmington, PA mailing address) known as the Nemacolin subdivision of The Woodlands Golf Club, physically tied to Nemacolin Woodlands Resort's golf operation. ## New York - [New York Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/): Independent research on 106 golf clubs and 23 residential golf communities across 10 New York golf markets, including The Hamptons (East End), Long Island Gold Coast (North Shore) and Westchester & Lower Hudson Valley: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### New York Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in New York](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 4 New York golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Birchwood at Spring Lake Golf Course, Leisure Village Golf Course, Pleasantville Country Club and West Hills Country Club. - [Private Golf Communities in New York](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 102 private New York golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Mohawk Golf Club, Schuyler Meadows Club, Shaker Ridge Country Club, The Edison Club and Albany Country Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in New York](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 8 New York golf resort ecosystems, including Whiteface Club & Resort, Lake Placid Club Golf, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, National Golf Links of America and Friar's Head. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in New York](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 10 private New York golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including The Bridge, Bellport Country Club, Garden City Golf Club, The Muttontown Club and North Hempstead Country Club. ### New York Comparisons - [Schuyler Meadows Club vs. Mohawk Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/schuyler-meadows-club-vs-mohawk-golf-club-for-golf-living/): Compare Schuyler Meadows Club and Mohawk Golf Club, two private old-guard golf clubs in New York's Capital Region, on membership access, history, and amenities. - [Whiteface Club & Resort vs. Lake Placid Club Golf](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/whiteface-club-resort-vs-lake-placid-club-golf-for-golf-living/): Compare Whiteface Club & Resort and Lake Placid Club Golf, the two qualifying golf anchors in Lake Placid, NY, on ownership, course pedigree, and real estate. - [Shinnecock Hills vs. National Golf Links of America](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/shinnecock-hills-vs-national-golf-links-of-america/): A researched comparison of Shinnecock Hills Golf Club and National Golf Links of America in Southampton, NY: championship pedigree vs. architectural pedigree, and what each means for nearby buyers. - [Sebonack vs. The Bridge: Golf-Real Estate Integration Compared](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/sebonack-vs-the-bridge-residential-integration/): A researched comparison of how Sebonack Golf Club and The Bridge in Bridgehampton/Southampton, NY each bundle golf with residential real estate -- two different models. - [Bellport Country Club vs. Southward Ho Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/bellport-country-club-vs-southward-ho-country-club/): A researched comparison of Bellport Country Club and Southward Ho Country Club on Long Island's South Shore, NY: a Village-resident-linked access model vs. conventional private membership. - [The Hamlet at Commack vs. Stonebridge Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/hamlet-commack-vs-stonebridge-estates/): A researched comparison of two central Suffolk, NY gated golf communities: The Hamlet at Commack and Stonebridge Estates in Smithtown. - [Leisure Village vs. Birchwood at Spring Lake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/leisure-village-vs-birchwood-at-spring-lake/): A researched comparison of two central Suffolk, NY communities with golf included in the HOA fee: 55+ Leisure Village and all-age Birchwood at Spring Lake. - [Piping Rock Club vs The Creek Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/piping-rock-club-vs-the-creek-club/): A researched comparison of Piping Rock Club and The Creek Club, two founding-era invitation-only clubs on Long Island's Gold Coast in Locust Valley/Lattingtown, NY. - [Garden City Golf Club vs Cherry Valley Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/garden-city-golf-club-vs-cherry-valley-club/): A researched comparison of Garden City Golf Club and Cherry Valley Club, two independently governed private clubs inside the Village of Garden City, NY. - [Bethpage Black vs Piping Rock Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/bethpage-black-vs-piping-rock-club/): A researched comparison of Bethpage Black's public major-championship golf and Piping Rock Club's private Gold Coast exclusivity in Nassau County, NY. - [Winged Foot vs Quaker Ridge for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/winged-foot-vs-quaker-ridge-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Winged Foot Golf Club and Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Westchester County, NY: qualification basis, championship history, course scale, and access. - [Westchester Country Club vs Saint Andrew's Golf Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/westchester-country-club-vs-saint-andrews-golf-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of two different residential-integration models in Westchester County, NY: Westchester Country Club's member apartments and Saint Andrew's adjacent townhome community. - [Pleasantville Country Club vs Trump National Westchester for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/pleasantville-country-club-vs-trump-national-westchester-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of two on-course Westchester County, NY golf communities with very different bundling models: HOA-included membership vs. required-but-separate membership. - [The Tuxedo Club vs West Hills Country Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-tuxedo-club-vs-west-hills-country-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of two very different Mid-Hudson Valley, NY golf-residential models: The Tuxedo Club's historic gated village and West Hills Country Club's modern bundled-membership apartment community. - [Country Club of Buffalo vs Park Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/country-club-of-buffalo-vs-park-country-club/): A researched comparison of Buffalo-Niagara's two flagship old-guard private clubs: The Country Club of Buffalo and Park Country Club, both in Williamsville, NY. - [Oak Hill Country Club vs Locust Hill Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/oak-hill-country-club-vs-locust-hill-country-club/): A researched comparison of Rochester's two major-championship-pedigree clubs: destination-exception Oak Hill Country Club and standard-tier Locust Hill Country Club. ### Capital Region, NY - [Capital Region, NY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/capital-region-ny/): The Capital Region -- Albany, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, and the affluent suburbs between them -- is a genuinely distinct golf-living market built almost entirely around a single, recurring pattern: century-old, member-owned or invitation-only private clubs embedded inside already-established, affluent residential neighborhoods, rather than developer-built golf subdivisions. #### Golf Clubs in Capital Region - [Mohawk Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/capital-region-ny/mohawk-golf-club/): A private, member-owned club founded in 1898 in Niskayuna, offering an 18-hole Devereux Emmet championship course plus a 9-hole 'Wee' course. - [Schuyler Meadows Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/capital-region-ny/schuyler-meadows-club/): An invitation-only private club founded in 1926 by eleven Loudonville residents specifically to be a club 'convenient to their homes.' - [Shaker Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/capital-region-ny/shaker-ridge-country-club/): A private, member-owned club founded in 1929 with roughly 355 members, in the Loudonville/Albany corridor. 18 holes, originally designed by Jim Thompson and since remodeled. - [The Edison Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/capital-region-ny/the-edison-club/): A member-owned private club in Rexford, NY, with a 27-hole Devereux Emmet-designed course (1926) plus swimming, tennis, and dining. - [Albany Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/capital-region-ny/albany-country-club/): A traditional private membership club founded in 1890 in Voorheesville, NY, with an 18-hole Robert Trent Jones-designed course widely considered one of the Capital District's most difficult. - [Saratoga Golf and Polo Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/capital-region-ny/saratoga-golf-and-polo-club/): A private, member-owned club founded in 1896 on a 91-acre property in the heart of Saratoga Springs, with a Victorian-era 9-hole golf course, grass and hard tennis courts, and a pool. - [Van Schaick Island Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/capital-region-ny/van-schaick-island-country-club/): A private, members-only 9-hole club founded in 1895, one of the Capital Region's oldest golf clubs, on Van Schaick Island in Cohoes at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. ### The Adirondacks, NY - [The Adirondacks, NY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-adirondacks/): The Adirondacks market, centered on the village of Lake Placid in Essex County, is a genuinely distinct golf-living market shaped by 19th-century Great Camp/resort history rather than the private-club pattern found in the Capital Region to the south. #### Golf Clubs in The Adirondacks - [Whiteface Club & Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-adirondacks/whiteface-club-and-resort/): A historic (golf tradition dating to the 1880s-1898) lakeside resort on Lake Placid, self-branded a 'Historic Lakeside Resort Community,' selling townhomes, condos, and vacant land alongside its 18-hole golf course, clay tennis courts, marina, and beach. - [Lake Placid Club Golf](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-adirondacks/lake-placid-club-golf/): 45 holes of historic golf (Links Course by Seymour Dunn, 1909; Mountain Course by Alexander Findlay, 1910, redesigned by Alister MacKenzie, 1931; and a 9-hole Pristine short course) on the 900+ acre historic Lake Placid Club property, Lussi-family owned since 1996 alongside a real-estate arm selling condominiums and building lots on the same property and the nearby Grandview Lake Placid hotel. #### Golf Communities in The Adirondacks - [Whiteface Club & Resort Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-adirondacks/whiteface-club-resort-residences/): The residential real-estate side of Whiteface Club & Resort on Lake Placid: existing resort homes, cottages, condominiums, and townhomes, plus vacant land parcels for custom building, several marketed for direct golf-course and lake proximity. - [Lake Placid Club Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-adirondacks/lake-placid-club-residences/): The real-estate arm of the historic, Lussi-family-owned Lake Placid Club property: restored condominiums (including the five-unit 'Sentinel View') and numbered building lots near Mirror Lake, across 900+ acres that also host the Lake Placid Club Golf courses. ### The Hamptons (East End), NY - [The Hamptons (East End), NY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/): The Hamptons' East End golf market is defined by a real split in character. On one side sit the old-guard destination clubs -- Shinnecock Hills and National Golf Links of America foremost among them -- whose national significance rests entirely on golf history, architecture, and USGA pedigree, with no bundled residential product of any kind. #### Golf Clubs in The Hamptons (East End) - [Shinnecock Hills Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/shinnecock-hills-golf-club/): A founding USGA member club in Southampton and five-time U.S. Open host, Shinnecock Hills is one of American golf's most historically important venues -- invitation-only, guest-signed-in-by-member access, with no residential product of its own. - [National Golf Links of America](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/national-golf-links-of-america/): C.B. Macdonald's 1911 founding design in Southampton, sited between Shinnecock Hills and Peconic Bay -- one of the most architecturally significant courses in American golf, invitation-only with no residential product. - [Maidstone Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/maidstone-club/): Founded in 1891, Maidstone is considered one of the five most exclusive clubs in the Hamptons -- invitation-only golf plus extensive tennis, beach, and social amenities, sited within East Hampton's most prestigious residential streets. - [Friar's Head](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/friars-head/): A Coore/Crenshaw design (2003) on a 350-acre Long Island Sound bluff in Baiting Hollow, ranked among America's top ~15 courses -- private, caddie-mandatory, and golf-only with no residential development. - [Sebonack Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/sebonack-golf-club/): A 2006 Nicklaus/Doak design in Southampton whose $650,000 membership tier includes stays at one of 15 four-bedroom on-course cottages -- a genuine residential/lodging integration distinct from its golf-only Shinnecock/NGLA neighbors. - [The Atlantic Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/the-atlantic-golf-club/): Opened 1992 in Bridgehampton -- the first new East End club built in nearly 30 years -- on a former potato field originally eyed for housing by developer Lowell Schulman, who built a Rees Jones golf-only club instead. - [The Bridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/the-bridge/): A private club built on the former Bridgehampton Race Circuit, now paired with "The Residences at The Bridge" -- a 20-lot, 70-acre gated enclave designed by Roger Ferris & Partners, the clearest hard residential-integration case on Long Island's East End. - [Westhampton Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/westhampton-country-club/): Founded 1890 with a Seth Raynor design, Westhampton Country Club is a standalone old-guard private club in Westhampton Beach with no bundled residential development identified. - [Amagansett Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/amagansett-golf-club/): Formerly South Fork Country Club, this Amagansett club expanded to a full 18 holes with a 1999 Gil Hanse addition; private, invitation-only, no bundled residential product identified. - [Noyac Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/noyac-golf-club/): Founded 1963, a selective 144-acre private parkland club in Sag Harbor's Noyac area with a lengthy multi-year membership process. - [Gardiner's Bay Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/gardiners-bay-country-club/): A private club on Shelter Island since 1896, with a Seth Raynor-touched course; membership is by sponsorship and the club functions as a central social institution for the island's seasonal residential community. - [Southward Ho Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/southward-ho-country-club/): Founded 1923 along the Great South Bay in Bay Shore, an A.W. Tillinghast design restored by Gil Hanse in 2000; private, member-owned, with tennis and dining alongside golf. - [Bellport Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/bellport-country-club/): A 19th-century Seth Raynor design in Bellport with a genuinely unusual semi-private model: Incorporated Village of Bellport residents can play by showing a resident ID card, without needing to hold formal club membership, alongside a capped, waitlisted membership program for others. - [Quogue Field Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/quogue-field-club/): A small, private 9-hole course (opened 1887) within the broader Quogue Field Club, a private field/beach/social club serving the Quogue Historic District's residential community. #### Golf Communities in The Hamptons (East End) - [Sebonack Golf Club Cottages](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/sebonack-cottages/): Southampton, NY: 15 four-bedroom, ~3,000-square-foot cottages built around the Sebonack Golf Club course, accessible only as a benefit of the club's premium ($650K) membership tier -- not individually owned real estate. - [Residences at The Bridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/residences-at-the-bridge/): A private, gated 20-lot, 70-acre residential enclave designed by Roger Ferris & Partners, abutting The Bridge golf club on the former Bridgehampton Race Circuit -- the clearest hard residential-integration case in the Hamptons/East End market. - [Incorporated Village of Bellport](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/the-hamptons/village-of-bellport/): The Incorporated Village of Bellport, whose municipal boundaries determine eligibility for resident-ID-card golf access at Bellport Golf Club -- a genuine, documented residency-linked golf benefit distinct from a developer-built community. ### Central Suffolk Golf Communities, NY - [Central Suffolk Golf Communities, NY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/): Central Suffolk's "Hamlet"-branded and similar purpose-built communities pair golf courses directly with HOA-governed residential development -- a genuinely different pattern from the Hamptons' old-guard destination clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Central Suffolk Golf Communities - [The Hamlet Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/hamlet-golf-and-country-club-commack/): A gated, 170-home HOA community built (from 1996) directly around an 18-hole Stephen Kay-designed private course in Commack, NY -- managed today under the Invited (formerly ClubCorp) club platform. - [Hamlet Willow Creek Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/hamlet-willow-creek-golf-and-country-club/): A Stephen Kay-designed 18-hole course in Mount Sinai whose routing runs directly through the 177-home gated "Hamlet at Willow Creek" community; managed under Invited, with golf membership confirmed optional rather than mandatory for residents. - [Stonebridge Golf Links & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/stonebridge-golf-links-and-country-club/): A Gil Hanse/George Bahto-redesigned (2001) semi-private course on Veterans Highway in Smithtown, built on and around the grounds of the gated, 105-home Stonebridge Estates community. - [The Greens Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/the-greens-golf-club-half-hollow/): A private, invitation-visit par-60 executive course built inside The Greens at Half Hollow, a 55+ gated community of roughly 1,200 homes in Melville; a mandatory social membership fee applies community-wide, with golf itself an optional, separately-priced membership. - [Birchwood at Spring Lake Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/birchwood-at-spring-lake-golf-course/): A private 9-hole executive course built inside the 733-unit, 24-hour guard-gated Birchwood at Spring Lake community in Middle Island -- free to residents and included in the HOA maintenance fee. - [Leisure Village Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/leisure-village-ridge-golf-course/): A 55+ guard-gated community of roughly 1,500 attached condo units in Ridge, Suffolk County, established in the 1970s, whose 9-hole par-3 executive golf course is included in the monthly HOA fee -- confirmed as the correct NY property (Ridge, not any other similarly-named Leisure Village elsewhere in the US). #### Golf Communities in Central Suffolk Golf Communities - [The Hamlet at Commack](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/the-hamlet-at-commack/): A gated HOA community of 170 detached and semi-attached homes built starting in 1996 directly around The Hamlet Golf & Country Club's 18-hole course in Commack. - [The Hamlet at Willow Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/the-hamlet-at-willow-creek/): A covenant-controlled gated community of 177 Golf Villa and Estate condominium homes overlooking the Willow Creek Golf & Country Club course in Mount Sinai. - [Stonebridge Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/stonebridge-estates/): A gated luxury community of 105 detached single-family homes (built circa 2002) on 134 acres of the Stonebridge Golf Links & Country Club property in Smithtown. - [The Greens at Half Hollow](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/the-greens-at-half-hollow/): A 55+ gated community of roughly 1,200 condo/attached homes in Melville, developed by the Benjamin Organization and Kabro Associates, built around The Greens Golf Club's private executive course. - [Birchwood at Spring Lake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/birchwood-at-spring-lake/): A 733-unit, 24-hour guard-gated, all-age community in Middle Island whose 9-hole executive golf course is free to residents and included in the monthly HOA maintenance fee. - [Leisure Village (Ridge, NY)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/central-suffolk-golf-communities/leisure-village-ridge/): A 55+ guard-gated community of roughly 1,500 attached condo units established in the 1970s in Ridge, Suffolk County, whose 9-hole par-3 golf course is included in the monthly common charge. ### Long Island Gold Coast (North Shore), NY - [Long Island Gold Coast (North Shore), NY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/): The Long Island Gold Coast -- the North Shore corridor of Nassau County running roughly from Great Neck and Manhasset through Roslyn Harbor, Glen Cove, Locust Valley, and Oyster Bay to Huntington and Cold Spring Harbor -- is the single densest concentration of golf-historic private clubs in US Golf Living's coverage of New York, and arguably in the platform's entire dataset. #### Golf Clubs in Long Island Gold Coast (North Shore) - [Piping Rock Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/piping-rock-club/): Locust Valley, NY: A founding-era (1911) invitation-only club on the North Shore Gold Coast, with an original 18 designed by Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor and a country-club campus that also includes tennis, polo, and swimming facilities. - [The Creek Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/the-creek-club/): Locust Valley, NY: A 1923-founded, clifftop Macdonald/Raynor course over Long Island Sound in Lattingtown, historically nicknamed "The Million Dollar Club" for the wealth of its founding membership; one of the most exclusive clubs on the Gold Coast. - [Meadow Brook Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/meadow-brook-club/): Founded in 1881 as the Meadow Brook Hunt Club, one of the oldest club institutions on Long Island and a founding member of the Metropolitan Golf Association; the club relocated to its current Dick Wilson-designed Jericho course in 1955. - [Deepdale Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/deepdale-golf-club/): Manhasset, NY: Founded by William K. Vanderbilt II in 1924 on his own Lake Success estate, incorporated as a strictly-limited-membership private club; relocated in the 1950s when the Long Island Expressway cut through the original course, with a new Dick Wilson course built on the former Joseph P. Grace Sr. estate. - [Garden City Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/garden-city-golf-club/): Garden City, NY: One of the oldest clubs in American golf (1897/1899), designed by Devereux Emmet, and host of the 1902 U.S. Open, four U.S. Amateurs, and the 1924 Walker Cup; remains one of the last men-only clubs in the country, capped at 399 members. - [Nassau Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/nassau-country-club/): Established in 1896 as one of golf's original USGA founding member clubs; a private course and social club at 30 St. Andrews Lane in Glen Cove. - [Engineers Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/engineers-country-club/): Founded in 1917 by members of the Engineers Club of Manhattan; a Herbert Strong-designed, 140-acre course in Roslyn Harbor that hosted the 1919 PGA Championship and 1920 U.S. Amateur, now operated as part of the Invited (formerly ClubCorp) network. - [The Muttontown Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/the-muttontown-club/): A member-owned equity club on 122 acres in East Norwich, opened in 1962 on the former Fonda family estate, designed by Alfred H. Tull (also the architect of Bethpage's Blue and Yellow courses); recapitalized with Concert Golf Partners in 2017 by a 96-3 member vote. - [Old Westbury Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/old-westbury-golf-and-country-club/): Old Westbury, NY: A member-owned, 27-hole private club formed in 1961 on the former Whitney family estate; the 1942 Whitney mansion serves as the clubhouse. - [Inwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/inwood-country-club/): Inwood, NY: A private golf, tennis, and beach club established in 1901, adjacent to Jamaica Bay near JFK Airport; site of Bobby Jones' first major championship win (1923 U.S. Open) and Walter Hagen's 1921 PGA Championship title. - [Rockville Links Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/rockville-links-club/): Rockville Centre, NY: A private club founded in 1923 with a Devereux Emmet-designed course opened in 1925; celebrated its centennial in 2024 with a fully restored golf course, pool, and clubhouse. - [Fresh Meadow Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/fresh-meadow-country-club/): Originally opened in Queens in 1923 with an A.W. Tillinghast-designed course that hosted the 1930 PGA Championship and 1932 U.S. Open; sold under development pressure in 1946 and relocated to its current Lake Success site (the former Lakeville Golf & Country Club property). - [North Hempstead Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/north-hempstead-country-club/): Port Washington, NY: Established in 1916 with an 18-hole A.W. Tillinghast course, clubhouse by Clifford C. Wendehack, in the Incorporated Village of Flower Hill; the developer-built Country Club Drive neighborhood was constructed specifically bordering the club's grounds. - [North Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/north-hills-country-club/): Founded 1927, relocated in 1961 to a new Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed course through the former Allen-Boggs-Levitt estates, within the low-density Incorporated Village of North Hills; renovated by Rees Jones in 2016. - [The Seawane Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/seawane-country-club/): Hewlett Harbor, NY: Opened in 1927 on the Hewlett Bay estate of John Auerbach, a classic Devereux Emmet links design over reclaimed marsh and meadow land; the original Auerbach mansion served as the first clubhouse. - [The Woodmere Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/woodmere-club/): Woodmere, NY: Founded 1908 as a tennis club, golf added 1910; Robert Trent Jones Sr. built an entirely new back nine in 1949, with further work by Brian Silva in 1987. - [Cherry Valley Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/cherry-valley-club/): A private club in Garden City, NY, whose course opened in 1916 (Walter Travis, Devereux Emmet, and Frank Duane), tracing back to the public Salisbury Links (1907-1916); hosted the 1922 Long Island Golf Association Open. - [Village Club of Sands Point](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/village-club-of-sands-point/): A Village of Sands Point-owned club on a former Guggenheim estate and later IBM corporate retreat (IBM Country Club); the Village purchased the estate in 1994. - [Huntington Crescent Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/huntington-crescent-club/): Descends from the 1884-founded Crescent Athletic Club; after acquiring several Huntington-area estates beginning in 1930, the present club was established in 1963 with a William Mitchell-designed course. - [Huntington Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/huntington-country-club/): Huntington, NY: Founded in 1910 by a group of prominent industrialists and philanthropists on 144 acres; Devereux Emmet designed the original 18-hole course and was made a full Honorary Member in 1911. - [Cold Spring Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/cold-spring-country-club/): Course designed in 1919 by Seth Raynor for financier Otto Kahn's Cold Spring Harbor estate -- then the second-largest estate in the country; formed as Cold Spring Country Club in 1947 by former Willowbrook Country Club members, with the estate's former stables converted into the clubhouse. - [Cedarbrook Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/cedarbrook-club/): A private, mid-century (1961) club in Old Brookville, one of a dozen Long Island clubs built during the 1961-1962 post-war course-building boom; designed by Al Zikorus, renovated 1985 by Ron Garls. - [Bethpage Black Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/bethpage-black/): A state-owned, A.W. Tillinghast-designed public course within the five-course Bethpage State Park complex in Farmingdale; the first municipal/state-owned course to host a U.S. Open (2002), and the first to host a Ryder Cup (2025). #### Golf Communities in Long Island Gold Coast (North Shore) - [Flower Hill Estates (Country Club Drive)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/flower-hill-estates-country-club-drive/): Port Washington, NY: A colonial-style residential enclave built by developer Walter Uhl along Country Club Drive in the Incorporated Village of Flower Hill, constructed specifically bordering North Hempstead Country Club's grounds beginning before World War II. - [Muttontown Estate District](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/muttontown-estate-district/): East Norwich, NY: The identifiable estate neighborhood immediately surrounding The Muttontown Club, whose own grounds include roughly 150 acres zoned residential; homes in the area generally range from about $2 million to $10 million. - [Incorporated Village of Garden City](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/village-of-garden-city/): A historic, planned 19th-century village (developed by A.T. Stewart) that is home to three separate private golf clubs -- Garden City Golf Club, Garden City Country Club, and Cherry Valley Club -- each with its own independent membership. - [Incorporated Village of Sands Point](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/village-of-sands-point/): A grand early-20th-century estate village on Long Island Sound, home to the Village-owned golf club; Village residency is what confers the lower-fee, resident-only membership tier at the Village Club of Sands Point. - [Bethpage / Farmingdale (Park-Adjacent)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/long-island-gold-coast/bethpage-farmingdale-park-adjacent/): The ordinary single-family residential hamlet of Bethpage and adjoining Farmingdale-area streets immediately surrounding Bethpage State Park; "park-side" homes carry a documented price premium over the hamlet-wide median, tied to proximity to the Black Course and the park's other four courses. ### Westchester & Lower Hudson Valley, NY - [Westchester & Lower Hudson Valley, NY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/): Westchester County and the lower Hudson Valley form New York's densest concentration of old-guard private golf clubs outside Long Island's Gold Coast -- a corridor of A.W. Tillinghast, C.B. Macdonald/Seth Raynor, and Devereux Emmet designs built between the 1890s and 1920s for New York City's commuting elite, many still operating on essentially their founding-era private, invitation-only model. #### Golf Clubs in Westchester & Lower Hudson Valley - [Winged Foot Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/winged-foot-golf-club/): A.W. Tillinghast's twin West and East courses in Mamaroneck, opened 1923 on a ~280-acre site. The West Course has hosted six U.S. Opens (most recently 2020) and the club two PGA Championships, giving it one of the deepest major-championship resumes of any American club. - [Quaker Ridge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/quaker-ridge-golf-club/): A.W. Tillinghast design founded 1916 in Scarsdale, hosted the 1997 PGA Championship and a Walker Cup. Originally founded as a Jewish country club at a time when many old-guard clubs excluded Jewish members. - [Sleepy Hollow Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/sleepy-hollow-country-club/): Scarborough-on-Hudson (Briarcliff Manor), NY: Founded 1911 by a board that included John Jacob Astor IV and Cornelius Vanderbilt III; clubhouse is 'Woodlea,' a 140-room former Vanderbilt/Shepard mansion. ~570 members. - [Century Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/century-country-club/): Founded 1898 in Purchase; original Harry Colt/C.H. Alison design with later Robert Trent Jones Sr. work. Private non-equity club structure. - [Westchester Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/westchester-country-club/): A 'Platinum Club' in Rye with two championship 18-hole courses (West, South) plus a 9-hole executive course. Long PGA Tour event host (Westchester Classic/Buick Classic/The Barclays) and hosted the 2011 Senior Players Championship and 2015 KPMG Women's PGA Championship. - [Blind Brook Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/blind-brook-club/): C.B. Macdonald/Seth Raynor design (1915) in Purchase; members and guests only. - [Fenway Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/fenway-golf-club/): Tillinghast-designed club in Scarsdale, renovated under Gil Hanse's supervision. Initiation fee and dues required (figures not published). - [Saint Andrew's Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/saint-andrews-golf-club/): Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Founded 1888 by John Reid ('the father of American golf'), one of five founding USGA member clubs (1894); widely cited as the oldest continuously operating golf club in the U.S. Current 18-hole site since 1897, refurbished by Jack Nicklaus in 1983. - [Pleasantville Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/pleasantville-country-club/): 9-hole Tillinghast-designed course (1926). 'The Townhouses at Pleasantville Golf Club' is a townhome development where the monthly HOA fee explicitly bundles in golf club membership and clubhouse use -- the platform's clearest bundled-to-homeownership case found in this Westchester sweep. - [Trump National Golf Club Westchester](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/trump-national-golf-club-westchester/): Private club in Briarcliff Manor, developed 1996-2005. On-course luxury townhouses (built 2005, 5,000+ sq ft) exist on the property; membership is required for golf/pool/tennis access for residents there. - [Wykagyl Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/wykagyl-country-club/): Private, invitation-only club founded 1898 in New Rochelle; Tillinghast/Donald Ross design. - [Scarsdale Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/scarsdale-golf-club/): Founded 1898, A.W. Tillinghast design. IDENTITY/LOCATION NOTE: despite the name, the club is physically located in Hartsdale (Town of Greenburgh), not the Village of Scarsdale -- confirmed via the club's own site. - [Knollwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/knollwood-country-club/): Private club founded 1894 in Elmsford; family memberships. Club-published estimated dues ~$17K/yr + ~$10K initiation per discovery-pass finding. - [Leewood Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/leewood-golf-club/): Private club in Eastchester; confirmed via directory-level sources. - [Hampshire Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/hampshire-country-club/): Mamaroneck, NY: Private club, membership by nomination/approval; Devereux Emmet design; golf/tennis/swim. - [The Apawamis Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/apawamis-club/): Rye, NY: Founded 1890; Willie Dunn course; also notable for squash. - [GlenArbor Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/glenarbor-golf-club/): Bedford Hills, NY: Members-only club; Gary Player 2001 redesign of a 1955 course. Highly exclusive per multiple directory sources. - [Whippoorwill Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/whippoorwill-club/): Armonk, NY: Capped at ~340 regular/associate members; golf, tennis, and house membership categories. - [Old Oaks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/old-oaks-country-club/): Purchase, NY: Tillinghast design constructed by C.H. Alison and Harry Colt (1927), originally Progress Country Club, merged with Tuckahoe's Oak Ridge Country Club in 1935 to become Old Oaks. - [Ardsley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/ardsley-country-club/): Founded 1895; historic clubhouse modeled on a French abbey. Located in the Ardsley-on-Hudson neighborhood of the Village of Irvington (some sources list Dobbs Ferry/Ardsley). - [Metropolis Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/metropolis-country-club/): White Plains, NY: Founded 1922 (course design dates to Herbert Strong, 1904) with later Tillinghast work; 2013 restoration. - [Bonnie Briar Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/bonnie-briar-country-club/): Larchmont, NY: Founded 1921; Tillinghast/Emmet design; individual and family memberships. - [Bedford Golf and Tennis Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/bedford-golf-and-tennis-club/): Bedford, NY: Founded 1891/1896; private club combining golf and tennis. - [Mount Kisco Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/mount-kisco-country-club/): Mount Kisco, NY: Member-owned club established 1928; 18-hole course, five Har-Tru tennis courts, paddle tennis, pool. - [Waccabuc Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/waccabuc-country-club/): Private 18-hole club (6,489 yards) designed by Alfred H. Tull, opened 1912, in the Waccabuc hamlet near North Salem. - [Rockland Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/rockland-country-club/): Sparkill, NY: Founded 1906, 18 holes, on the Palisades in Orangetown; tennis, pool, dining, social events. - [Paramount Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/paramount-country-club/): 18-hole A.W. Tillinghast design in New City, built in the 1920s as Dellwood Country Club, renamed and restored by Jim Urbina in 2011-2012. - [Highlands Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/highlands-country-club/): Private 9-hole course (~4,600 yards) in Garrison, Putnam County, with a modest published fee structure (~$300 initiation + $3,100-$4,500/yr dues by membership tier, per the club's own site). - [New York Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/new-york-country-club/): 18-hole, par-72 semi-private club (Stephen Kay design, ~6,643 yards, opened mid-1990s) on a ~150-acre property at 103 Brick Church Road, New Hempstead (Town of Ramapo), Rockland County. #### Golf Communities in Westchester & Lower Hudson Valley - [St. Andrews at Hastings on Hudson](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/st-andrews-at-hastings-on-hudson/): Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: An 86-unit gated townhome community built in 1986 on/adjacent to Saint Andrew's Golf Club's grounds, with units ranging roughly 2,500-4,000+ sq ft. Residents receive a complimentary social club membership; full golf membership is available as a separate purchase. - [The Townhouses at Pleasantville Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/the-townhouses-at-pleasantville-golf-club/): A townhome development built around Pleasantville Country Club's 9-hole Tillinghast course, where the monthly HOA fee explicitly includes golf club membership and clubhouse use -- the clearest bundled-to-homeownership golf case documented in Westchester County by this research. - [Trump National Golf Club Westchester Townhouses](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/westchester-lower-hudson-valley/trump-national-westchester-townhouses/): Briarcliff Manor, NY: On-course luxury townhouses (built 2005, 5,000+ sq ft) at Trump National Golf Club Westchester. Membership is required for golf, pool, and tennis access, per real-estate sources. ### Mid-Hudson Valley, NY - [Mid-Hudson Valley, NY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/mid-hudson-valley/): The Mid-Hudson Valley is a new addition to US Golf Living's New York coverage, surfaced not by one of the state's originally-planned research regions but by a statewide cold-check that found a genuine coverage gap in Orange and Dutchess counties. #### Golf Clubs in Mid-Hudson Valley - [The Tuxedo Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/mid-hudson-valley/the-tuxedo-club/): Founded 1886 by Pierre Lorillard IV, who organized both The Tuxedo Club and the Tuxedo Park Association together -- historically, club membership preceded and gatekept property ownership in the Village of Tuxedo Park. - [Quaker Hill Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/mid-hudson-valley/quaker-hill-country-club/): 9-hole Robert Trent Jones Sr. course (opened 1940), founded by Lowell Thomas in the Quaker Hill hamlet of Pawling, Dutchess County. - [Trump National Golf Club Hudson Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/mid-hudson-valley/trump-national-golf-club-hudson-valley/): Private 18-hole club (par 72, 7,693 yards) in Hopewell Junction, Dutchess County, marketed as the premier private club in the county. - [West Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/mid-hudson-valley/west-hills-country-club/): Founded 1899 by 37 prominent citizens of Goshen and Middletown. The club today includes an 18-hole championship course plus a 9-hole River Course. 'Residences at West Hills Country Club,' a 158-unit luxury apartment community built 2022 on the golf course, includes a social club membership in its $159/month community fee. - [The Powelton Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/mid-hudson-valley/powelton-club/): Established 1882 in Balmville (a hamlet just north of Newburgh), golf added in 1892; Devereux Emmet-designed 18-hole course. - [Otterkill Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/mid-hudson-valley/otterkill-golf-country-club/): Private 18-hole club built 1957 (William F. Mitchell design) in Campbell Hall, Orange County. As of early-to-mid 2025, the club's owning entity was in Chapter 7 bankruptcy after two failed Chapter 11 filings, with the property auctioned (minimum bid $4,650,000); the club itself stated it would remain open through the ownership proceedings. #### Golf Communities in Mid-Hudson Valley - [Residences at West Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/mid-hudson-valley/residences-at-west-hills-country-club/): Middletown, NY: A 158-unit luxury apartment community (built 2022, 6 stories, 1-3 bedroom units) situated on West Hills Country Club's golf course. - [Village of Tuxedo Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/mid-hudson-valley/tuxedo-park-village/): Tuxedo Park, NY: An incorporated, gated village in Orange County founded in 1885-86 by Pierre Lorillard IV alongside The Tuxedo Club; more than 250 houses were built in the community's first 30 years, historically only to club members. ### Buffalo-Niagara, NY - [Buffalo-Niagara, NY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/buffalo-niagara/): Buffalo-Niagara's golf-living character is built entirely around old-guard, member-owned private clubs rather than purpose-built golf communities. #### Golf Clubs in Buffalo-Niagara - [The Country Club of Buffalo](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/buffalo-niagara/the-country-club-of-buffalo/): Western New York's oldest continuously operating private club (first organized February 1889), now sited in Williamsville on a Donald Ross course that opened in 1926 after the club relocated from its original Town of Amherst grounds -- the site of the 1912 U.S. Open, which is today the public Grover Cleveland Golf Course, a physically distinct course from the club's current one. - [Park Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/buffalo-niagara/park-country-club/): Private, member-owned club founded in 1903 (originally in Buffalo's Delaware Park area, relocated to Williamsville), on a 175-acre property with a Colt & Alison golf course and a 70,000-square-foot 1927 clubhouse designed by Clifford C. Wendehack; hosted the 1934 PGA Championship. - [Wanakah Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/buffalo-niagara/wanakah-country-club/): Private club founded in 1899 (originally as Wanakah Golf Club) on the shore of Lake Erie in Hamburg, roughly 15 minutes south of downtown Buffalo, with a Donald Ross/Willie Watson-designed course, tennis, and a swimming pool added in 1959. - [Transit Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/buffalo-niagara/transit-valley-country-club/): Private club founded in 1921 in East Amherst, now doing business as 'Transit Valley Club'; par-72 course originally by William Harries, renovated in 1998 by Geoffrey Cornish, and host of the 1989 New York State Amateur Championship. - [Crag Burn Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/buffalo-niagara/crag-burn-golf-club/): Private club in East Aurora widely described by regional golf media (BuffaloGolfer.com) as Western New York's top-ranked private club; opened in 1972 on a former Goodyear family estate (originally stables and polo fields) to a Robert Trent Jones Sr. design, with a practice facility considered among the finest in the country. - [Brookfield Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/buffalo-niagara/brookfield-country-club/): Private, family-oriented club founded in 1927 in Clarence, an affluent Buffalo suburb, with a classic Donald Ross design (6,780 yards, slope 135) and tennis, pool, and dining amenities. - [Niagara Frontier Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/buffalo-niagara/niagara-frontier-country-club/): Private, member-owned club founded in 1930 near Youngstown, Niagara County; play is limited to members and guests, with the club marketing 'affordable private club rates' and a family atmosphere. - [Cloverbank Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/buffalo-niagara/cloverbank-country-club/): Private club in Hamburg with an 18-hole, par-72 course (approx. 7,067 yards) designed by William and David Gordon, offering golf, pool, tennis, dining, and bowling; a comparatively low ($2,000) initiation fee, discounted or waived for members transferring from other WNY private clubs. - [East Aurora Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/buffalo-niagara/east-aurora-country-club/): Member-owned private club established in 1916 in East Aurora, an 18-hole, par-71 course (approx. 6,400 yards) with an all-inclusive dues structure and a historic clubhouse. ### Rochester, NY - [Rochester, NY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/rochester-ny/): Rochester's golf market is defined by one of American golf's genuine national landmarks, Oak Hill Country Club, sitting alongside a strong bench of real, historically significant private clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Rochester - [The Country Club of Rochester](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/rochester-ny/the-country-club-of-rochester/): Private club founded on New Year's Day 1895, spanning the towns of Brighton and Pittsford near Rochester; Donald Ross designed a modern course for the club in 1912, later refined by Robert Trent Jones. - [Oak Hill Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/rochester-ny/oak-hill-country-club/): Private club in Pittsford with two Donald Ross-designed courses (East and West), among the most decorated championship venues in American golf: 3x U.S. Open, 4x PGA Championship (with a 5th announced for 2035), the 1995 Ryder Cup, 2 Senior PGA Championships, a U.S. Senior Open, and an announced 2027 U.S. Amateur. - [Locust Hill Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/rochester-ny/locust-hill-country-club/): Private club spanning Henrietta and Pittsford, founded 1925 as a 9-hole course, expanded to 18 holes in 1931 to a Robert Trent Jones redesign; longtime host of the LPGA's Bankers Trust/Wegmans tour event (1977-2009) and the LPGA Championship major (2010-2013) before that event moved to Monroe Golf Club. - [Irondequoit Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/rochester-ny/irondequoit-country-club/): Private club founded in 1916 by twelve founders, on the hilly East Avenue terrain northeast of downtown Rochester; Donald Ross designed the original 9-hole course, with the clubhouse rebuilt in art deco style after a 1929 fire and renovated multiple times since. - [Midvale Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/rochester-ny/midvale-country-club/): Private club established in 1929 in Penfield, notable as the first golf course designed and built by Robert Trent Jones Sr.; 18 holes, 6,632 yards, slope 132, with dining, an Olympic-size pool, tennis, and platform tennis. ### Finger Lakes, NY - [Finger Lakes, NY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/finger-lakes/): The Finger Lakes region is, as discovery anticipated and this full-depth research confirmed, a genuinely lighter-density golf-living market -- deliberately kept thin here rather than padded to match the density of Buffalo-Niagara or Rochester, following the same honest-thin-market precedent as Colorado's Western Slope and Pennsylvania's Treasure Lake/DuBois. #### Golf Clubs in Finger Lakes - [Geneva Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/finger-lakes/geneva-country-club/): Private, invitation-only 9-hole club (est. 1890) overlooking Seneca Lake in Geneva; the club is actively developing 'The Residences at Geneva Country Club,' a 96-unit, four-floor-plan luxury condo project ($499K-$899K) on the club's current parking lot, branded to and physically adjacent to the club, with proceeds earmarked to fund a new clubhouse and golf course. - [Bristol Harbour](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/finger-lakes/bristol-harbour/): A 450+ acre master-planned residential community (Bristol Harbour Village) on Canandaigua Lake's west shore, built around a Robert Trent Jones Sr. golf course (1972) that closed permanently on January 1, 2022 but has since reopened in reduced form as a private, 13-hole, application-based facility operating seasonally (May-October). - [Skaneateles Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/finger-lakes/skaneateles-country-club/): Private, family-oriented club founded in 1915 on the shore of Skaneateles Lake; has hosted U.S. Open and New York State qualifiers and two NY State Junior Championships, with notable historical guests including Gene Sarazen, Johnny Unitas, and President Bill Clinton. - [Canandaigua Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/finger-lakes/canandaigua-country-club/): Private club founded in 1922 on Canandaigua Lake; the club's own membership page states current membership is full, with new applicants added to a waiting list. - [RaNic Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/finger-lakes/ranic-golf-club/): Private club at 189 Pleasant Grove Rd, Ithaca, founded in 1900 as The Country Club of Ithaca and renamed RaNic Golf Club after a 2020/2021 ownership change (Sean and Jennifer Whittaker, naming it for their children Rachel and Nicholas); operated semi-privately (public play plus optional membership) for several years before transitioning back to a private, membership-only model as of 2025-2026. #### Golf Communities in Finger Lakes - [The Residences at Geneva Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/finger-lakes/the-residences-at-geneva-country-club/): A 96-unit, four-floor-plan luxury condominium development being built on Geneva Country Club's current parking lot, directly adjacent to and branded to the club, with Seneca Lake and/or golf-course views; estimated pricing $499K-$899K. - [Bristol Harbour Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-york/finger-lakes/bristol-harbour-village/): A 450+ acre master-planned residential community on the west shore of Canandaigua Lake, developed by Graywood Companies, offering waterfront condos, golf-side townhouses, patio homes, and custom-build lots, with a private beach and its own homeowners' association separate from the adjacent golf club. ## Maryland - [Maryland Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/): Independent research on 45 golf clubs and 23 residential golf communities across 7 Maryland golf markets, including Baltimore Metro, DC Suburbs and Eastern Shore — Ocean City Corridor: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Maryland Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Maryland](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 3 Maryland golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Leisure World Golf Club, Prospect Bay Country Club and Thousand Acres Golf Club. - [Private Golf Communities in Maryland](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 42 private Maryland golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Baltimore Country Club, Caves Valley Golf Club, The Elkridge Club, The Suburban Club and Country Club of Maryland. - [Golf Resort Communities in Maryland](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 7 Maryland golf resort ecosystems, including Baltimore Country Club, Caves Valley Golf Club, Turf Valley Resort, Congressional Country Club and River Marsh Golf Course. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Maryland](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 8 private Maryland golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Hobbit's Glen Golf Club, Turf Valley Resort, Bulle Rock Golf Course, Hillendale Country Club and River Marsh Golf Course. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Maryland](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 7 Maryland golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Woodholme Country Club, Hillendale Country Club, Woodmont Country Club, Bethesda Country Club and Prospect Bay Country Club. ### Maryland Comparisons - [Baltimore Country Club vs Caves Valley Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/baltimore-country-club-vs-caves-valley-golf-club/): Compare Baltimore Country Club and Caves Valley Golf Club -- tournament pedigree, club model, membership size, and the residential community found at Caves Valley. - [Hobbit's Glen Golf Club vs The Elkridge Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/hobbits-glen-golf-club-vs-elkridge-club/): Compare two opposite Baltimore-area golf access models: Columbia Association's resident-preferential public golf versus The Elkridge Club's classic private membership. - [Turf Valley Resort vs Bulle Rock Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/turf-valley-resort-vs-bulle-rock-golf-course/): Compare Turf Valley Resort and Bulle Rock Golf Course -- two Baltimore-area residential-integration cases with different golf-access economics and residential scale. - [Congressional Country Club vs Chevy Chase Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/congressional-country-club-vs-chevy-chase-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Congressional Country Club and Chevy Chase Club in Maryland's DC suburbs: championship pedigree, founding era, residential relationship, and membership cost. - [Columbia Country Club vs Woodmont Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/columbia-country-club-vs-woodmont-country-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Columbia Country Club (Chevy Chase, MD) and Woodmont Country Club (Rockville, MD): championship history, course design, and setting. - [TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm vs Lake Presidential Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/tpc-potomac-avenel-farm-vs-lake-presidential-beechtree-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm (Avenel, Potomac) and Lake Presidential Golf Club (BeechTree, Upper Marlboro): price, tournament history, and how each connects to its community. - [Prospect Bay CC vs Talbot Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/prospect-bay-country-club-vs-talbot-country-club/): A researched comparison of Prospect Bay Country Club and Talbot Country Club on Maryland's Eastern Shore -- bundled community golf versus a traditional century-old private club. - [Ocean Pines vs GlenRiddle for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/ocean-pines-vs-glenriddle-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Ocean Pines and GlenRiddle near Ocean City, MD -- a large, mature, self-governing community versus a smaller, newer gated golf development. - [GlenRiddle vs River Run for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/glenriddle-vs-river-run-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of GlenRiddle and River Run, two gated golf communities in Berlin, MD near Ocean City. - [Crofton Country Club vs Swan Point Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/crofton-country-club-vs-swan-point-yacht-country-club/): A researched comparison of Crofton Country Club and Swan Point Yacht & Country Club: a planned inland town built around a private club versus a waterfront resort community around a public course. - [Chartwell Golf & Country Club vs The Cannon Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/chartwell-golf-country-club-vs-the-cannon-club/): A researched comparison of Chartwell Golf & Country Club and The Cannon Club, two private Anne Arundel County clubs with genuine surrounding residential communities. ### Baltimore Metro, MD - [Baltimore Metro, MD Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/): Baltimore Metro is Maryland's deepest concentration of old-guard, member-owned private golf clubs -- a legacy of the city's late-19th and early-20th century wealth and its distinctly Baltimore club culture, still visible today in clubs like Elkridge (1878), Green Spring Valley Hunt Club (1892), and Baltimore Country Club (1898). #### Golf Clubs in Baltimore Metro - [Baltimore Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/baltimore-country-club-lutherville-roland-park-md/): Baltimore Country Club is a private, member-owned club with two campuses -- historic Roland Park in Baltimore City and Five Farms in Lutherville -- one of only about a dozen U.S. clubs operating two full campuses. - [Caves Valley Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/caves-valley-golf-club-owings-mills-md/): Caves Valley Golf Club is a member-owned, invitation-only, golf-only club on 962 acres in Owings Mills, capped near 600 members, that has hosted the PGA TOUR's BMW Championship twice (2021, 2025). - [The Elkridge Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/elkridge-club-baltimore-md/): The Elkridge Club is a private, member-only club in Baltimore City's Mount Washington/Poplar Hill area, founded in 1878 as a fox-hunting club and home to a Seth Raynor golf course opened in 1925 on its current site since 1923. - [The Suburban Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/suburban-club-pikesville-md/): The Suburban Club is a private, member-owned club in Pikesville with an early A.W. Tillinghast golf course (opened 1895), plus tennis, pool, and dining amenities on 130 acres. - [Country Club of Maryland](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/country-club-of-maryland-towson-md/): Country Club of Maryland is a private, member-owned club in Towson founded in 1923 (originally as Rodgers Forge County Club), with an 18-hole Herbert Strong-designed course over 164 acres. - [Woodholme Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/woodholme-country-club-pikesville-md/): Woodholme Country Club is a private, member-owned club in Pikesville founded in 1927, with an 18-hole Herbert Strong course (1928) plus 15 tennis courts, a pool, and dining. - [Green Spring Valley Hunt Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/green-spring-valley-hunt-club-owings-mills-md/): Green Spring Valley Hunt Club is a historic private club in Owings Mills (heritage to 1892, golf since 1914) with reciprocal relationships across Baltimore's old-guard club network. - [Sparrows Point Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/sparrows-point-country-club-baltimore-md/): Sparrows Point Country Club is a private club in the Dundalk/Sparrows Point area of Baltimore County, founded in 1925, with a 27-hole course and a private 62-slip marina on Bear Creek -- the only country club marina in the area. - [Maryland Golf & Country Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/maryland-golf-and-country-clubs-bel-air-md/): Bel Air, MD: Maryland Golf & Country Clubs, founded in 1961 on a former thoroughbred horse farm once owned by MLB executive Larry MacPhail, is described as the premier private country club in Harford County. - [Rolling Road Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/rolling-road-golf-club-catonsville-md/): Rolling Road Golf Club is a private, members-only club in Catonsville, founded in 1919 with a Willie Park Jr. design, notable for its no-tee-times walk-on play model. - [Hunt Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/hunt-valley-country-club-phoenix-md/): Hunt Valley Country Club is a private, non-equity club in Phoenix, MD, managed by Arcis Golf, offering golf, tennis, aquatics, and dining on 265 acres. - [Hobbit's Glen Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/hobbits-glen-golf-club-columbia-md/): Hobbit's Glen Golf Club, a par-72 course in Columbia's Hobbit's Glen neighborhood (Harper's Choice village), is operated by the Columbia Association -- Columbia's HOA-like governing body -- and offers materially lower effective membership costs to CA residents, who already pay the mandatory CA annual property charge, than to non-residents. - [Turf Valley Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/turf-valley-resort-ellicott-city-md/): Turf Valley Resort is a 1,000-acre golf resort in Ellicott City with two 18-hole courses, a hotel, and a spa, offering both private golf membership and resort-guest access. - [Bulle Rock Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/bulle-rock-golf-course-havre-de-grace-md/): Bulle Rock Golf Course is a public, top-ranked Pete Dye daily-fee course in Havre de Grace that hosted the LPGA Championship five straight years (2005-2009). - [Hillendale Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/hillendale-country-club-phoenix-md/): Hillendale Country Club, a 1922/1923-founded, William & David Gordon-redesigned (1954) member-owned private club on 147 acres in Phoenix, Baltimore County, closed amid financial distress around Labor Day 2024 and was sold at a $3.05 million foreclosure auction that December. #### Golf Communities in Baltimore Metro - [Residences of Caves Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/residences-of-caves-valley-owings-mills-md/): A gated enclave of custom luxury estate homes on multi-acre lots within Caves Valley Golf Club's 962-acre property in Owings Mills; club membership is reported (by multiple secondary sources) as separate from and not required for homeownership. - [Fairways at Turf Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/fairways-at-turf-valley-ellicott-city-md/): Fairways at Turf Valley is an NVHomes/Keelty townhome community in Ellicott City built specifically around Turf Valley Resort's golf courses and Town Square, marketed for golf-course views and walkable resort access. - [The Residences at Bulle Rock](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/residences-at-bulle-rock-havre-de-grace-md/): The Residences at Bulle Rock is a 2,026-unit purpose-built golf community across 977 acres in Havre de Grace, organized into several named neighborhoods around the public Bulle Rock Golf Course. - [Hobbit's Glen (Columbia)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/hobbits-glen-neighborhood-columbia-md/): Hobbit's Glen is a Tolkien-themed residential neighborhood within Columbia's Harper's Choice village, built around and named for Hobbit's Glen Golf Club, with housing ranging from single-family homes to the 36-unit Hobbits Glen Villas townhome community. - [Country Club Lane (Hillendale)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/baltimore-metro/country-club-lane-hillendale-phoenix-md/): A small cluster of single-family homes on Country Club Ln in Phoenix, MD, several of which back directly onto Hillendale Country Club's fairways and greens (e.g., a $715,000, one-acre listing at 4 Country Club Ln backing to the course's first green, per a 2026 Redfin listing). ### DC Suburbs, MD - [DC Suburbs, MD Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/): Maryland's DC Suburbs market -- Montgomery and Prince George's counties, the state's stretch of the Washington, DC metro area -- is the densest and most consequential golf-residential market in Maryland, and one of the most historically significant private-club corridors in the entire country. #### Golf Clubs in DC Suburbs - [Congressional Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/congressional-country-club/): One of the most nationally significant private clubs in the DC region, founded in 1924 in Bethesda; the Blue Course has hosted three U.S. Opens plus the 1997 PGA Championship and has a confirmed pipeline of major championships through 2037. - [Chevy Chase Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/chevy-chase-club-chevy-chase-md/): One of the DC area's oldest and most established private clubs, founded in the 1890s in the town of Chevy Chase, Maryland; invitation-only membership with a Donald Ross-lineage course renovated by Arthur Hills. - [Columbia Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/columbia-country-club-chevy-chase-md/): Historic invitation-only club in Chevy Chase, MD, successor to the 1898 Columbia Golf Club; hosted the 1921 U.S. Open (won by Jim Barnes, trophy presented by President Warren Harding) and redesigned by Donald Ross in 1915. - [Woodmont Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/woodmont-country-club-rockville-md/): Member-owned private club in Rockville dating to 1913, with two 18-hole courses; hosted the 2020 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship (Rose Zhang's win) and has been a U.S. Open sectional qualifying site 30 of the past 31 years. - [Bethesda Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/bethesda-country-club/): Private, member-owned family golf, tennis, and swim club in Bethesda, founded 1947, with an Arthur Hills-designed 18-hole course; requires sponsorship by two current members and Board approval. - [Manor Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/manor-country-club/): Private, member-owned club in Rockville founded 1922, featuring a William Flynn-designed 18-hole course plus the historic Harry Pitt Executive Nine, 27 holes total. - [Argyle Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/argyle-country-club/): Private club in Silver Spring founded 1923, on a 150-acre former dairy-farm site since 1945, with tiered membership categories and a confirmed active membership waitlist. - [Norbeck Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/norbeck-country-club/): Private club in Rockville operated by Invited (ClubCorp), with an Alfred H. Tull-designed 18-hole course and reciprocal access to Invited's national club network. - [TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/tpc-potomac-at-avenel-farm/): Private course in Potomac at the heart of the 900-home Avenel planned community; hosted PGA Tour events from 1987-2018 (as the Kemper Open/Booz Allen Classic and later AT&T National/Quicken Loans National) plus a 2022 Wells Fargo Championship substitute year, but the tour has been anchored at Charlotte's Quail Hollow since 2025. - [Four Streams Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/four-streams-golf-club/): Exclusive, member-owned private club in Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve near Beallsville, built 1998; the first U.S. design from Nick Price and Steve Smyers, ranked among Maryland's top courses. - [Leisure World Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/leisure-world-golf-club/): An 18-hole, Desmond Muirhead-designed golf course inside the gated, 55+ Leisure World of Maryland community in Silver Spring; open to all residents and their guests, with formal league membership encouraged but not required to play. - [Country Club at Woodmore](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/country-club-at-woodmore/): Private country club and gated residential community in Mitchellville; traces to 1923, moved to its current Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay/Algie Pulley-designed course in 1981, and is widely regarded as Prince George's County's strongest golf-residential-bundling case. - [National Golf Club at Tantallon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/national-golf-club-at-tantallon/): Private club in Fort Washington, established 1965 (Ted Robinson Sr. design); one of only two confirmed private golf clubs in Prince George's County per the county's own 2013 planning study. - [Lake Presidential Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/lake-presidential-golf-club/): Semi-private course in Upper Marlboro, opened 2008 (Greg Norman-routed, Landmark Golf design), and the recreational centerpiece of the 1,200-acre BeechTree residential community, now managed by Troon. #### Golf Communities in DC Suburbs - [Avenel](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/avenel-potomac-md/): A 900-home, 14-village planned luxury community in Potomac built around TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm, developed by Natelli Communities and recognized with a ULI Award for Excellence. - [Leisure World of Maryland](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/leisure-world-of-maryland/): A private, gated 650-acre 55+ active-adult community in Silver Spring with more than 8,000 residents, built around an 18-hole Desmond Muirhead-designed golf course open to all residents. - [BeechTree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/beechtree-upper-marlboro-md/): A 1,200-acre master-planned community in Upper Marlboro built on a former tobacco farm, anchored by Lake Presidential Golf Club and a 35-acre lake. - [Woodmore](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/dc-suburbs-md/woodmore-mitchellville-md/): A 398-home gated community on 799 wooded acres in Mitchellville, anchored by Country Club at Woodmore and known as one of Prince George's County's premier luxury neighborhoods. ### Eastern Shore — Chesapeake Bay Country, MD - [Eastern Shore — Chesapeake Bay Country, MD Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-chesapeake-bay/): The northern and central Eastern Shore -- Queen Anne's, Talbot, Kent, Caroline and Dorchester counties -- is Maryland's old-guard Bay-country golf market: a landscape of working farmland, tidal rivers and historic waterfront towns (Easton, St. Michaels, Chestertown, Oxford, Cambridge) where a handful of long-established private clubs and one newer resort-residential hybrid define the golf-living options. #### Golf Clubs in Eastern Shore — Chesapeake Bay Country - [Prospect Bay Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-chesapeake-bay/prospect-bay-country-club/): Prospect Bay Country Club is a private golf-and-yacht club in Grasonville, Queen Anne's County, that doubles as the homeowners association for the gated Prospect Bay West Neighborhood -- club membership, including the 18-hole golf course, is included for every resident of that neighborhood, with separate individual/family memberships also available to buyers who don't live there. - [Talbot Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-chesapeake-bay/talbot-country-club/): Founded in 1910, Talbot Country Club is a private 18-hole club on a 194-acre waterfront-adjacent site in Easton, generally regarded as one of the Eastern Shore's oldest and most established private clubs. - [Chester River Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-chesapeake-bay/chester-river-yacht-and-country-club/): Founded in 1929, Chester River Yacht & Country Club combines an 18-hole golf course with a private marina/yacht club on the Chester River outside Chestertown -- a dues-based private club whose water-and-golf combination is characteristic of the northern Eastern Shore's old-guard club culture. - [Links at Perry Cabin](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-chesapeake-bay/links-at-perry-cabin/): Links at Perry Cabin is an 18-hole private course in St. Michaels -- the final full design by Pete and Alice Dye, opened 2018 -- with membership capped at 200 and tied to the luxury Inn at Perry Cabin (a Belmond resort). - [River Marsh Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-chesapeake-bay/river-marsh-golf-course/): River Marsh Golf Course is the Keith Foster-designed 18-hole public course at the AAA Four Diamond Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa & Marina on the Choptank River in Cambridge. #### Golf Communities in Eastern Shore — Chesapeake Bay Country - [Prospect Bay West Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-chesapeake-bay/prospect-bay-west-neighborhood/): Prospect Bay West is a gated, waterfront planned community in Grasonville dating to 1983, built directly around Prospect Bay Country Club, which functions as the neighborhood's homeowners association -- club membership, including golf, is included for every resident. - [Martingham](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-chesapeake-bay/martingham/): Martingham is an established St. Michaels residential community built directly around Links at Perry Cabin -- streets such as Widgeon Place run between the 12th and 13th fairways -- with its own Property Owners Association and a separate Community Park on the Miles River. - [Tides at River Marsh](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-chesapeake-bay/tides-at-river-marsh/): Tides at River Marsh is an active, multi-builder (Lennar, DRB Homes) master-planned community built directly on the grounds of the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay resort in Cambridge, with single-family homes, townhomes and villas; select homesites overlook River Marsh Golf Course, and residents share proximity to the resort's marina and trail network. ### Eastern Shore — Ocean City Corridor, MD - [Eastern Shore — Ocean City Corridor, MD Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-ocean-city/): The Ocean City Corridor -- Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset counties on Maryland's lower Eastern Shore -- is a genuinely different golf market than the Bay-country clubs to the north: this is a vacation-and-second-home corridor built around Ocean City's beach tourism economy, and its strongest golf anchors were built explicitly as residential amenities rather than as old-guard social clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Eastern Shore — Ocean City Corridor - [Ocean Pines Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-ocean-city/ocean-pines-golf-club/): Ocean Pines Golf Club is the Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed, par-72, 18-hole course (built 1972) that gives its name to Ocean Pines, an 8,452-platted-lot planned community founded in 1968 in northern Worcester County with roughly 12,000 full-time and 8,000 part-time/seasonal residents. - [Glen Riddle Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-ocean-city/glen-riddle-golf-club/): GlenRiddle Golf Club is a 36-hole complex in Berlin -- the daily-fee Man O'War course and the private, members-only War Admiral course (designed with 2003 U.S. Open champion Jim Furyk) -- built on the site of the historic Glen Riddle Farm thoroughbred training grounds. - [River Run Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-ocean-city/river-run-golf-club/): River Run Golf Club is a Gary Player-designed, par-71, 18-hole course in Berlin that serves as the primary recreational amenity of River Run, a gated community of condos, townhomes and single-family homes with a private marina and clubhouse restaurant. #### Golf Communities in Eastern Shore — Ocean City Corridor - [Ocean Pines](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-ocean-city/ocean-pines/): Founded in 1968, Ocean Pines is one of the Eastern Shore's largest planned communities: 8,452 platted lots across roughly 3,000 wooded, waterfront acres in northern Worcester County, with an estimated 12,000 full-time and 8,000 part-time/seasonal residents. - [GlenRiddle](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-ocean-city/glenriddle-community/): GlenRiddle is a gated, resort-style residential community in Berlin built directly around the two-course Glen Riddle Golf Club, with single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums, a 96-slip marina, and an on-site Ruth's Chris Steak House. - [River Run](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/eastern-shore-ocean-city/river-run-community/): River Run is a gated community in Berlin, about five miles from Ocean City, organized into distinctive sections (Lakeview, Riverfront, Creekfront, Golf Course, Landscape View) around the Gary Player-designed River Run Golf Club. ### Western Maryland, MD - [Western Maryland, MD Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/western-maryland/): Western Maryland's golf-living market is small and concentrated almost entirely around Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County -- exactly as expected for a rural mountain-resort region. #### Golf Clubs in Western Maryland - [Wisp Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/western-maryland/wisp-resort/): McHenry, MD: Maryland's only ski resort also runs two public 18-hole golf courses -- Lodestone, a Hale Irwin/Todd Schoeder design repeatedly ranked among Maryland's best public tracks, and the older, resort-base Fantasy Valley course. - [Thousand Acres Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/western-maryland/thousand-acres-golf-club/): Swanton, MD: A 1,200+-acre lakeside golf community at the south end of Deep Creek Lake, built around an 18-hole course ranked #1 semi-private course in Maryland by The Grint (2025). #### Golf Communities in Western Maryland - [Biltmore at Lodestone](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/western-maryland/biltmore-at-lodestone/): A gated, mountaintop community on Marsh Mountain in McHenry, built directly against the Lodestone Golf Course routing at Wisp Resort, with lots and homes marketed on golf-course and mountain views. - [Thousand Acres](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/western-maryland/thousand-acres-community/): Swanton, MD: A 1,200+-acre lakeside golf community at the south end of Deep Creek Lake, selling golf-front and golf-community lots (from $75,000) with golf club membership included, alongside a pool, trails, and private lake access. ### Southern Maryland, MD - [Southern Maryland, MD Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/southern-maryland/): Southern Maryland turned out to be a genuinely substantial golf-living market, not the sweep-only pocket the state's original research framing anticipated. #### Golf Clubs in Southern Maryland - [Crofton Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/southern-maryland/crofton-country-club/): Crofton Country Club is the golf course the town of Crofton was literally built around in 1964 -- one of Maryland's clearest examples of a planned community organized directly on a golf club, contemporaneous with Reston, VA and Columbia, MD. - [Swan Point Yacht & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/southern-maryland/swan-point-yacht-country-club/): Issue, MD: Charles County's only Waterfront Planned Resort Community, built since the 1980s around an 18-hole Bob Cupp waterfront course on the Potomac River, with a marina, waterfront pool, tennis/pickleball, and custom homes on golf-, water-, and waterfront-frontage lots. - [Chartwell Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/southern-maryland/chartwell-golf-country-club/): Founded in 1961 to serve the growing residential corridor between Baltimore and Annapolis, Chartwell Golf & Country Club sits at the center of Chartwell, a 650+-home Severna Park neighborhood marketed today as a 'Severna Park Golf Community.' - [The Cannon Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/southern-maryland/the-cannon-club/): A private, member-owned club (established 1989 as successor to Old South Country Club) anchoring Cannon Club Estates in Lothian, where homes -- some directly on golf-course fairways -- have access to optional golf or social membership. - [Breton Bay Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/southern-maryland/breton-bay-golf-country-club/): A member-owned, semi-private club overlooking Breton Bay in Leonardtown, established in 1971, with the surrounding Breton Bay neighborhood (dating to 1973 and its own long-standing Civic Association) having grown up directly alongside it. #### Golf Communities in Southern Maryland - [Crofton](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/southern-maryland/crofton/): The town of Crofton, Anne Arundel County -- a 1,600+-acre planned community founded in 1964 by the Crawford Corporation, laid out around Crofton Country Club and the Crofton Parkway loop, and originally gated (the gates today are symbolic rather than functional). - [Swan Point](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/southern-maryland/swan-point-community/): Issue, MD: Charles County's only Waterfront Planned Resort Community, on a peninsula bounded by the Potomac River and Cuckold Creek, built around Swan Point Yacht & Country Club with a marina, waterfront pool, and custom homes on golf-, water-, and waterfront-frontage lots. - [Chartwell](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/southern-maryland/chartwell-community/): A 650+-home Severna Park neighborhood, developed from the 1960s onward, that surrounds Chartwell Golf & Country Club and is marketed by local agents as a 'Severna Park Golf Community.' - [Cannon Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/southern-maryland/cannon-club-estates/): A golf-course community in Lothian built around The Cannon Club (formerly Old South Country Club), with some homes sited directly on golf-course fairways and optional golf or social membership available to residents. - [Breton Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/southern-maryland/breton-bay-community/): A Leonardtown neighborhood dating to 1973, run by its own Breton Bay Civic Association (separate from the golf club), which stewards a community beach and pavilion alongside the long-standing Breton Bay Golf & Country Club. ### Frederick & Carroll County, MD - [Frederick & Carroll County, MD Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/frederick-carroll-county/): A deliberately thin market anchored by Holly Hills Country Club, Frederick County's only private club, and its connection to the Manor at Holly Hills community. #### Golf Clubs in Frederick & Carroll County - [Holly Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/frederick-carroll-county/holly-hills-country-club/): Ijamsville, MD: The only exclusive, private country club in Frederick County, built in 1977 in the foothills of the Catoctin Mountains, at the center of the broader Holly Hills residential area -- including the Manor at Holly Hills luxury community -- where purchasable social club membership is part of local real-estate marketing. #### Golf Communities in Frederick & Carroll County - [Manor at Holly Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maryland/frederick-carroll-county/manor-at-holly-hills/): A 185-acre luxury-home community in Ijamsville, part of the broader Holly Hills area, with homes from roughly $278,000 to $1,225,000 and optional social membership at neighboring Holly Hills Country Club. ## Alabama - [Alabama Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/): Independent research on 36 golf clubs and 25 residential golf communities across 6 Alabama golf markets, including Birmingham Metro, Gulf Coast and Huntsville: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Alabama Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Alabama](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 36 private Alabama golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Shoal Creek Club, Mountain Brook Club, The Country Club of Birmingham, Vestavia Country Club and Old Overton Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in Alabama](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 4 Alabama golf resort ecosystems, including Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bridge, Kiva Dunes Golf Club, Lakewood Golf Club and Grand National (Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail). - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Alabama](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 3 private Alabama golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Lakewood Golf Club, Willow Point Golf & Country Club and Moore's Mill Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Alabama](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 8 Alabama golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Riverchase Country Club, Peninsula Golf & Racquet Club, Craft Farms Golf Club, ONE Club Gulf Shores and Wicker Point Golf Club. ### Alabama Comparisons - [Shoal Creek Club vs Greystone Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/shoal-creek-club-vs-greystone-golf-country-club/): Compare Shoal Creek Club and Greystone Golf & Country Club, Birmingham Metro's two flagship gated golf communities, on access model, tournament history, and housing. - [Mountain Brook Club vs The Country Club of Birmingham](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/mountain-brook-club-vs-country-club-of-birmingham/): Compare Mountain Brook Club and The Country Club of Birmingham, Birmingham's two old-guard private clubs, on founding history, course design, and membership scale. - [Ross Bridge vs Old Overton Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/ross-bridge-vs-old-overton-club/): Compare Ross Bridge and Old Overton Club, Birmingham Metro's two residential-golf-integration cases, on access model, qualification basis, and housing scale. - [Kiva Dunes vs. Peninsula Golf & Racquet Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/kiva-dunes-vs-peninsula-golf-racquet-club/): Compare two Gulf Shores golf communities with very different access models -- public golf plus a private beach club versus a formal golf/swim/tennis membership club. - [Steelwood Country Club vs. Craft Farms Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/steelwood-country-club-vs-craft-farms-golf-club/): Compare a private, gated 1,500-acre golf-and-lake community with a large, publicly-playable golf subdivision on the Alabama Gulf Coast. - [Country Club of Mobile vs. Steelwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/country-club-of-mobile-vs-steelwood-country-club/): Compare Mobile's 1899 old-guard in-town club with Loxley's purpose-built 1,500-acre gated golf-and-lake community -- two very different Alabama Gulf Coast private-club models. - [The Ledges vs Canebrake Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-ledges-vs-canebrake-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of The Ledges and Canebrake Club, the two purpose-built golf-residential communities in the Huntsville, Alabama area. - [Huntsville Country Club vs Valley Hill Country Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/huntsville-country-club-vs-valley-hill-country-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Huntsville's two established in-town private golf clubs -- history, course scale, and neighborhood setting. - [Willow Point vs Wicker Point (The Heritage) for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/willow-point-vs-wicker-point-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Willow Point and Wicker Point/The Heritage, Russell Lands' two flagship private golf clubs on Lake Martin, Alabama. - [National Village vs Yarbrough Farms for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/national-village-vs-yarbrough-farms-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of National Village (Grand National) and Yarbrough Farms (Auburn University Club) for golf-oriented homebuyers in the Auburn-Opelika area. - [Wynlakes vs Montgomery Country Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/wynlakes-vs-montgomery-country-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Wynlakes Golf & Country Club and Montgomery Country Club for golf-oriented homebuyers in Montgomery, AL. - [The Westerfield Club vs Indian Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/westerfield-club-vs-indian-hills-country-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of The Westerfield Club (formerly NorthRiver Yacht Club) and Indian Hills Country Club for golf-oriented homebuyers in Tuscaloosa, AL. ### Birmingham Metro, AL - [Birmingham Metro, AL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/): Birmingham Metro is Alabama's largest and most golf-residential-dense market, and the state's clearest laboratory for the platform's core distinction between prestige/proximity and actual access. #### Golf Clubs in Birmingham Metro - [Shoal Creek Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/shoal-creek-club/): Shoal Creek, AL: Invitation-only Jack Nicklaus-designed private club in Shelby County that hosted the 1984 and 1990 PGA Championships, now the anchor of a confirmed gated luxury residential community on the same 1,500+ acre site. - [Mountain Brook Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/mountain-brook-club/): Old-guard, member-owned private club in the city of Mountain Brook with a Donald Ross-designed 18-hole course, founded 1929, ~844 members. - [The Country Club of Birmingham](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/country-club-of-birmingham/): Birmingham's oldest continuously operating private club (founded 1898), now named The Country Club of Birmingham, with 36 holes across two courses in Mountain Brook's Shades Valley; distinct today from the unrelated municipal Highland Park Golf Course that occupies its original 1898 downtown site. - [Vestavia Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/vestavia-country-club/): Private member club in Vestavia Hills with an 18-hole course plus a 9-hole par-3 course, built on 176 acres above the city; opened to members in 1950 after beginning as a riding club in the late 1940s. - [Old Overton Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/old-overton-club/): Private, developer-founded club (1993) with a Tom Fazio & Jerry Pate course, voted 'Best New Private Course' in America by Golf Digest in 1994; confirmed as the golf club at the heart of the large gated Liberty Park master-planned community straddling Vestavia Hills near the Jefferson/Shelby county line. - [Greystone Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/greystone-golf-country-club/): Alabama's only 36-hole equity country club, member-owned since 2009, inside a gated Hoover community of roughly 1,400 executive homes; permanent host of the PGA Tour Champions' Regions Tradition senior major since 2016, following five years hosting it at Shoal Creek. - [Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/ross-bridge/): Hoover, AL: Public, daily-fee 18-hole Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail course (8,191 yards from the tips, among the longest courses in the world) attached to the Renaissance Birmingham Ross Bridge Resort & Spa, developed alongside a genuine 2,700-acre, New Urbanist residential development of roughly 1,778 single-family and 600 multi-family homes. - [Inverness Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/inverness-country-club/): Birmingham, AL: Private club near the Inverness/Shelby County line with a George Cobb-designed course (1973, renovated by Bill Bergin in 2006), homes reported directly on the fairways in the surrounding neighborhood, and 13 tennis courts; acquired by multi-club operator Heritage Golf Group in March 2023. - [Riverchase Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/riverchase-country-club/): Private club (play limited to members) in Hoover's established Riverchase area, Joe Lee-designed 18-hole course from 1975, multiple membership tiers including a Young Executive category; acquired by Heritage Golf Group. - [Hoover Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/hoover-country-club/): Private, member-owned club founded in 1959, offering an 18-hole championship course, tennis, and dining; distinct from nearby Riverchase Country Club despite a similar Hoover-area profile. - [Pine Tree Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/pine-tree-country-club/): Private club in unincorporated Jefferson County near Irondale, formed in 1968 by the merger of Fairmont Country Club and Hillcrest Golf & Country Club; an 18-hole George Cobb design. #### Golf Communities in Birmingham Metro - [Liberty Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/liberty-park/): 3,500+ acre master-planned mixed-use community in Vestavia Hills with six gated residential sub-communities (including The Bray and Vestlake), roughly 2,300 platted residential lots, and its own championship 18-hole golf course, which this research confirms is Old Overton Club. - [Shoal Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/shoal-creek-community/): Gated luxury residential community spanning 1,500+ acres at the base of Double Oak Mountain in Shelby County, built around the private Shoal Creek Club golf course, with custom homes and estate lots (0.63-8 acres). - [Greystone](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/birmingham-metro-al/greystone-community/): Gated community of roughly 1,400 executive homes in Hoover, built around Greystone Golf & Country Club's 36 holes (Founders and Legacy courses), with guard-gated Legacy and Founders subdivisions at the higher end of the local price range. ### Gulf Coast, AL - [Gulf Coast, AL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/): US Golf Living has researched 10 golf anchors in the Alabama Gulf Coast market, spanning Mobile and Baldwin counties, including Steelwood Country Club, Craft Farms Golf Club, Country Club of Mobile and Kiva Dunes Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in Gulf Coast - [Kiva Dunes Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/kiva-dunes-golf-club/): A Jerry Pate-designed public golf course on Gulf Shores' Fort Morgan Peninsula, ranked among Alabama's best public courses, anchoring a 276-acre, 152-lot resort/residential development with its own private Beach Club, pools, and tennis -- golf access itself is public, but the surrounding community's amenities are private to owners and renters. - [Peninsula Golf & Racquet Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/peninsula-golf-racquet-club/): A 27-hole Earl Stone-designed club with a published Golf/Swim/Tennis/Fitness membership structure, at the center of the gated, six-neighborhood Peninsula residential community in Gulf Shores. - [Craft Farms Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/craft-farms-golf-club/): 36 holes across two Arnold Palmer-designed courses (Cotton Creek, Cypress Bend) -- the only Palmer courses in Alabama -- anchoring Craft Farms, the largest subdivision in the Gulf Shores area, with a resident-specific Social Membership tier for golf. - [GlenLakes Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/glenlakes-golf-club/): 27-hole Devlin/von Hagge-designed club off the Foley Beach Express, anchoring the GlenLakes subdivision (new Lennar-built and resale homes) with explicitly optional golf/pool membership for homeowners. - [Rock Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/rock-creek-golf-club/): Public/semi-private 18-hole Earl Stone course anchoring the large Rock Creek subdivision in Fairhope; golf membership is optional and purchased separately from the neighborhood's HOA dues. - [Timbercreek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/timbercreek-golf-club/): 27-hole Earl Stone course anchoring Daphne's 800+-home Timbercreek subdivision; the golf club is publicly playable with an optional annual membership, and the neighborhood's pool/tennis/fitness amenities are run by a separate HOA, not the golf club itself. - [Lakewood Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/lakewood-golf-club-point-clear/): Point Clear, AL: Two historic Perry Maxwell-designed courses (Azalea, Dogwood) at the Grand Hotel Golf Resort & Spa, a Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail site, offering a real private Regular Golf membership ($40,000 initiation) alongside resort-guest play, with several gated residential developments built directly against the courses. - [Steelwood Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/steelwood-country-club/): Private, member-owned 1997 Jerry Pate design set within a 1,500+-acre gated lakefront residential community in Loxley -- the Gulf Coast batch's clearest genuine private golf-residential community. - [Country Club of Mobile](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/country-club-of-mobile/): Member-owned private club founded 1899, with a Donald Ross 1918 design renovated by Jerry Pate in 2018 -- Mobile's old-guard historic club in the Spring Hill neighborhood, distinct from a purpose-built golf-residential development. - [ONE Club Gulf Shores](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/one-club-gulf-shores/): Gulf Shores, AL: Small 9-hole condo-community course (formerly Emerald Greens, rebranded ONE Club in 2018) with a tiered Golf/Social/Ultimate Sports membership structure built into the condominium development. #### Golf Communities in Gulf Coast - [Kiva Dunes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/kiva-dunes-residential-community/): 152-lot (30 beachfront) master-planned resort/residential community on Gulf Shores' Fort Morgan Peninsula, built around the public Kiva Dunes Golf Course, with a private Kiva Beach Club and three additional pools. - [Peninsula](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/peninsula-community/): Gated community organized into six residential neighborhoods around Peninsula Golf & Racquet Club in Gulf Shores. - [Craft Farms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/craft-farms-subdivision/): Described by regional real-estate sources as the largest subdivision in the Gulf Shores area, built around the two Arnold Palmer-designed Craft Farms golf courses, with 3-5 bedroom single-family homes. - [GlenLakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/glenlakes-subdivision/): Lennar-built new-construction and resale subdivision around GlenLakes Golf Club in Foley, with optional golf/pool membership. - [Rock Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/rock-creek-subdivision/): Large, established Fairhope subdivision built around Rock Creek Golf Club, zoned for Fairhope schools; golf membership optional and separate from HOA dues. - [Timbercreek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/timbercreek-neighborhood/): 800+-home Daphne subdivision on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, built around Timbercreek Golf Club, with its own HOA-run community center separate from the golf club. - [Colony at the Grand](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/colony-at-the-grand/): Point Clear, AL: Gated condo/home community developed by Daniel Communities beginning 2004 on land contiguous to the Grand Hotel and Lakewood's golf courses, overlooking the Azalea course. - [Cottages at Point Clear](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/cottages-at-point-clear/): Small gated community in Fairhope/Point Clear marketed as overlooking Lakewood's Azalea Golf Course. - [Point Clear Woods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/point-clear-woods/): Point Clear, AL: Small gated community near the Grand Hotel and Lakewood Golf Course, with extremely low inventory reported. - [Steelwood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/steelwood-community/): 1,500+-acre private, gated golf-and-lake residential community in Loxley, built around Steelwood Country Club and 200-acre Steelwood Lake. - [ONE Club Condominiums](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/alabama-gulf-coast/one-club-condos/): Condominium community in Gulf Shores built around the small 9-hole ONE Club course (formerly Emerald Greens), also operating as vacation rentals. ### Huntsville, AL - [Huntsville, AL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/huntsville-al/): US Golf Living has researched 4 golf anchors in the Huntsville golf market, across Madison and Limestone counties, including The Ledges Country Club, Huntsville Country Club, Valley Hill Country Club, and Canebrake Club. #### Golf Clubs in Huntsville - [The Ledges Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/huntsville-al/the-ledges-country-club/): A private, gated golf-residential community atop Huntsville Mountain -- the city's highest point -- built around an 18-hole Hurdzan/Fry course, with 450 of its 750 acres kept as protected greenbelt and a mandatory homeowners association. - [Huntsville Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/huntsville-al/huntsville-country-club/): An established 1925 in-town private member club at 2601 Oakwood Ave NW in Huntsville, with Bermuda fairways, TifEagle greens, and a real membership barrier, but no purpose-built residential community wrapped around it. - [Valley Hill Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/huntsville-al/valley-hill-country-club/): A private, 27-hole club (incorporated 1972) at 8300 Valley Hill Dr SE in South Huntsville -- described by its own materials as the only private country club in North Alabama -- set within the established Willowbrook/Green Mountain residential corridor. - [Canebrake Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/huntsville-al/canebrake-club/): An 850-acre golf-residential community in Athens (Limestone County), roughly 20 minutes from Huntsville, built around an 18-hole Ron Garl-designed course with a real-estate mix of club cottages, golf villas, patio homes, and custom estates. #### Golf Communities in Huntsville - [The Ledges of Huntsville Mountain](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/huntsville-al/the-ledges-of-huntsville-mountain/): A private, gated 150-acre residential enclave atop Huntsville Mountain, built as part of The Ledges' 750-acre master plan around its 18-hole golf course, with 450 acres kept as protected greenbelt. - [Canebrake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/huntsville-al/canebrake/): A golf-residential neighborhood in Athens (Limestone County) built around Canebrake Club's 18-hole course, with a housing mix from club cottages to custom estates and a low, reported $25/month HOA fee for non-club-member residents. ### Lake Martin, AL - [Lake Martin, AL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/lake-martin-al/): US Golf Living has researched 3 golf anchors in the Lake Martin golf market, across Tallapoosa and Elmore counties, including Willow Point Golf & Country Club, Wicker Point Golf Club, and The Tradition Golf Course at StillWaters. #### Golf Clubs in Lake Martin - [Willow Point Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/lake-martin-al/willow-point-golf-country-club/): The founding (1961) Russell Lands development on Lake Martin -- a private, application/sponsorship club on a peninsula with the lake on three sides, widely called the 'crown jewel' of Russell Lands' Lake Martin portfolio. - [Wicker Point Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/lake-martin-al/wicker-point-golf-club/): The only Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw-designed golf course in Alabama, an invitation-only private club that anchors The Heritage, Russell Lands' brand-new 1,500-acre, 12-mile-shoreline luxury residential development on Lake Martin. - [The Tradition Golf Course at StillWaters](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/lake-martin-al/stillwaters-tradition-golf-course/): A public daily-fee golf course (Kurt Sandness design, opened 1997, originally called Traditions and now The Tradition Golf Course) that anchors StillWaters, a 2,000+ acre gated lake-golf-resort community on Lake Martin's Blue Creek side with its own marina and dual controlled gates. #### Golf Communities in Lake Martin - [Willow Point](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/lake-martin-al/willow-point/): Russell Lands' founding (1961) Lake Martin development on a peninsula in the Parker Creek area, gated with covenant-controlled architectural standards, home to Willow Point Golf & Country Club. - [The Heritage](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/lake-martin-al/the-heritage-lake-martin/): Russell Lands' newest and most exclusive Lake Martin development -- a 1,500-acre, 12-mile-shoreline luxury community with roughly 240 waterfront and 130 interior homesites, built around Wicker Point Golf Club. - [StillWaters](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/lake-martin-al/stillwaters/): A 2,000+ acre gated lake-golf-resort community on Lake Martin's Blue Creek side, governed by the StillWaters Residential Association, with two controlled gate entries, a marina, and The Tradition Golf Course as its organizing golf amenity. ### Montgomery / Auburn-Opelika, AL - [Montgomery / Auburn-Opelika, AL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/montgomery-auburn-opelika/): Montgomery and the Auburn-Opelika area sit about 55 miles apart along I-85 in central-east Alabama, and together form a genuinely distinct golf-living market that spans Alabama's capital city, the state's Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Auburn-area site, and one of the Southeast's most identifiable university towns. #### Golf Clubs in Montgomery / Auburn-Opelika - [Wynlakes Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/montgomery-auburn-opelika/wynlakes-golf-country-club/): Private 18-hole Joe Lee-designed club (founded 1986) anchoring the gated Wynlakes residential community in east Montgomery, with tennis, pickleball, fitness and pool amenities. - [Montgomery Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/montgomery-auburn-opelika/montgomery-country-club/): Member-owned private club organized in 1903 on Narrow Lane Road in Montgomery — an in-town, historic club rather than a golf-community subdivision model. - [Grand National (Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/montgomery-auburn-opelika/grand-national-rtj-trail/): Opelika, AL: The RTJ Trail's fourth site (opened 1992), 54 holes on 1,300 wooded acres around 600-acre Lake Saugahatchee; the anchor for National Village, a ~1,400-home bundled golf-resort community — the strongest residential-integration case found in this market. - [Auburn University Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/montgomery-auburn-opelika/auburn-university-club/): A 1999-founded, 18-hole club (Bill Bergin design) around Yarbrough Lake in Auburn, where every home in the surrounding Yarbrough Farms developments includes club membership — the clearest bundled-golf case found in this market alongside National Village. - [Moore's Mill Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/montgomery-auburn-opelika/moores-mill-club/): Private club (built 2000) a few miles south of downtown Auburn, organizing amenity for the Moore's Mill neighborhood and the newer Overlook at Moore's Mill Club enclave; membership is optional for residents, not required. - [Saugahatchee Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/montgomery-auburn-opelika/saugahatchee-country-club/): East Alabama's oldest private club by lineage (predecessor founded 1946/47; current 18-hole course built 1977), on Bent Creek Road in Opelika; hosts the bundled 55+ Village at Hamilton Lakes community on its grounds. #### Golf Communities in Montgomery / Auburn-Opelika - [National Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/montgomery-auburn-opelika/national-village/): A ~700-acre, ~1,400-home planned community built onto the Grand National RTJ Trail property in Opelika; every home purchase includes POA membership to the Auburn Marriott Opelika Resort & Spa at Grand National. - [Yarbrough Farms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/montgomery-auburn-opelika/yarbrough-farms/): Auburn's premier golf-course community surrounding Auburn University Club; every home purchase includes club membership. - [Moore's Mill / The Overlook at Moore's Mill Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/montgomery-auburn-opelika/moores-mill-neighborhood/): Southern Auburn neighborhoods known for custom-built homes immediately adjacent to Moore's Mill Club; club membership is optional, not required, for residents. - [The Village at Hamilton Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/montgomery-auburn-opelika/village-at-hamilton-lakes/): A 48-home, 55+ active-adult enclave on a peninsula within/adjacent to Saugahatchee Country Club, at 3300 Stonybrook Road, Opelika, where every home purchase includes full club membership. ### Tuscaloosa, AL - [Tuscaloosa, AL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/tuscaloosa-al/): Tuscaloosa turned out denser than this batch's discovery pass initially expected — rather than a thin footnote, it supports a genuine, if modest, standalone golf-living market. #### Golf Clubs in Tuscaloosa - [The Westerfield Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/tuscaloosa-al/the-westerfield-club/): Tuscaloosa's premier private lakefront club, opened 1978 (Gary Player design, Bob Cupp redesigns 1997/2015), currently mid-rebrand from NorthRiver Yacht Club to The Westerfield Club, with real residential integration via the Northriver/Lakes at NorthRiver subdivisions and an active $54M condo redevelopment on-site. - [Indian Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/tuscaloosa-al/indian-hills-country-club/): Private club built 1976 at 1650 Hwy 82, Tuscaloosa; original design by Leon Howard, redesigned by John LaFoy (1997) and Tripp Davis (2021); anchors the Indian Hills residential subdivision. #### Golf Communities in Tuscaloosa - [The Lakes at NorthRiver](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/tuscaloosa-al/the-lakes-at-northriver/): A master-planned community developed by Westervelt Communities, nearly surrounded by Lake Tuscaloosa and built around The Westerfield Club; includes the smaller Neptune's Cove garden-home enclave. - [Indian Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alabama/tuscaloosa-al/indian-hills-subdivision/): An established golf-course subdivision surrounding Indian Hills Country Club, near downtown Tuscaloosa, Northport, and the University of Alabama. ## Mississippi - [Mississippi Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/): Independent research on 11 golf clubs and 9 residential golf communities across 4 Mississippi golf markets, including Mississippi Gulf Coast, Jackson Metro and Golden Triangle: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Mississippi Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Mississippi](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 11 private Mississippi golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including The Club at Diamondhead, Windance Country Club, Annandale Golf Club, Reunion Golf & Country Club and Lake Caroline Golf Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Mississippi](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 3 private Mississippi golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Deerfield Golf Club, Whisper Lake Country Club and Mossy Oak Golf Club. ### Mississippi Comparisons - [Diamondhead vs Windance for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/diamondhead-vs-windance-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Diamondhead and Windance, the Mississippi Gulf Coast's two purpose-built golf-residential communities -- golf footprint, HOA structure, legal complexity, and home pricing. - [Annandale vs Reunion for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/annandale-vs-reunion-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Annandale Golf Club and Reunion Golf & Country Club in Madison, MS: community scale, golf access model, course pedigree, and pricing transparency. - [Country Club of Jackson vs Deerfield for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/country-club-of-jackson-vs-deerfield-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of The Country Club of Jackson and Deerfield Golf Club: institutional history, national tournament pedigree, course scale, and recent investment. - [Reunion vs Lake Caroline for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/reunion-vs-lake-caroline-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Reunion and Lake Caroline, Madison County's two large master-planned golf-and-water communities: amenity focus, golf access model, and governance. - [Old Waverly vs Mossy Oak Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/old-waverly-vs-mossy-oak/): A researched comparison of West Point, Mississippi's sibling clubs: which one offers a real bundled residential community, and how their design pedigree and current access model differ. ### Mississippi Gulf Coast, MS - [Mississippi Gulf Coast, MS Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/mississippi-gulf-coast/): The Mississippi Gulf Coast is defined more by its casino-resort golf than by private residential clubs -- a real, structural difference from the golf-living pattern in most other US Golf Living markets. #### Golf Clubs in Mississippi Gulf Coast - [The Club at Diamondhead](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/mississippi-gulf-coast/the-club-at-diamondhead/): A 36-hole, semi-private golf club (Pine and Cardinal courses, both Earl Stone designs) built into the master-planned Hancock County town of Diamondhead. - [Windance Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/mississippi-gulf-coast/windance-country-club/): A Mark McCumber-designed (1986), 18-hole semi-private course that anchors the 230-plus-home Windance subdivision in North Gulfport -- homes and a private 100-acre lake wrap the course, with a dedicated Windance Homeowners Association, though golf itself remains open to the public and membership is optional, not bundled with home purchase. #### Golf Communities in Mississippi Gulf Coast - [Diamondhead](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/mississippi-gulf-coast/diamondhead-community/): Research on Diamondhead, MS -- a master-planned, POA-governed Hancock County golf community built around The Club at Diamondhead's 36 holes, housing prices, and the covenant/dues legal situation buyers should verify. - [Windance](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/mississippi-gulf-coast/windance-community/): A 230-plus-home North Gulfport subdivision (five development phases since 1986) built directly around Windance Country Club's 18-hole course and the private 100-acre Lake Adams, governed by its own homeowners association; golf membership is open to the public and separate from home purchase. ### Jackson Metro, MS - [Jackson Metro, MS Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/): US Golf Living has researched 6 golf anchors in the Jackson Metro golf market, spanning Hinds, Madison, and Rankin counties, including Annandale Golf Club, Reunion Golf & Country Club, Lake Caroline Golf Club, Whisper Lake Country Club, Deerfield Golf Club, and The Country Club of Jackson. #### Golf Clubs in Jackson Metro - [Annandale Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/annandale-golf-club/): Private, Jack Nicklaus-designed club (1981) frequently ranked Mississippi's #1 private course, sitting inside the guard-gated Annandale Estates community in Madison, MS. - [Reunion Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/reunion-golf-and-country-club/): A ~2,100-acre master-planned community in Madison, MS built around a private Bob Cupp golf course, with a mandatory Property Owners' Association and a separate, optional country club membership. - [Lake Caroline Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/lake-caroline-golf-club/): A private, members-only 18-hole course built around Lake Caroline's 850-acre private lake, at the center of a roughly 3,000-acre HOA-governed lake-and-golf community in Madison County. - [Deerfield Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/deerfield-golf-club/): A private, ~400-member Byron Nelson-designed club near Canton, MS, under new ownership as of February 2026 and repositioning as a 'premier country club experience.' - [Whisper Lake Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/whisper-lake-country-club/): A private, full-service par-64 executive club (Ron Garl design, opened 1994) in Madison, MS, operated by Randy Watkins Golf Group and sharing an 'Annandale Pkwy' address with -- but organizationally separate from -- Annandale Golf Club. - [The Country Club of Jackson](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/country-club-of-jackson/): A historic (1914), member-owned private club in Northeast Jackson, MS with 27 holes across three nines, and the host of the PGA Tour's Sanderson Farms Championship since 2014. #### Golf Communities in Jackson Metro - [Annandale Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/annandale-estates/): A guard-gated luxury residential community in Madison, MS, built around Annandale Golf Club on land tracing to the 1820s Annandale Plantation. - [Reunion](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/reunion-community-madison/): A ~2,100-acre master-planned community in Madison, MS with 1,198 platted lots, an equestrian center, a lakeside beach, and a private golf club with separate, optional membership. - [Lake Caroline](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/lake-caroline-community/): A roughly 3,000-acre HOA-governed lake-and-golf community in Madison County built around an 850-acre private lake, with 24/7 security and an extensive recreation amenity package. - [Whisper Lake](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/whisper-lake-community/): A roughly 500-home neighborhood in Madison, MS governed by its own Whisper Lake Property Owner's Association, adjacent to and sharing a name with Whisper Lake Country Club. - [Deerfield Clubhouse Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/jackson-metro-ms/deerfield-clubhouse-estates/): A now-sold-out D.R. Horton production-home subdivision near Deerfield Golf Club in Canton, MS. ### Golden Triangle, MS - [Golden Triangle, MS Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/golden-triangle-ms/): Mississippi's Golden Triangle -- the Columbus/West Point/Starkville corridor of Clay, Lowndes, and Oktibbeha counties -- is a small-population, agricultural and university pocket of the state that happens to hold one of the Deep South's genuinely significant golf addresses. #### Golf Clubs in Golden Triangle - [Old Waverly Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/golden-triangle-ms/old-waverly-golf-club/): A private, member-owned golf club and bundled residential community in West Point, MS, founded in 1988 by George and Marcia Bryan; designed by 1976 U.S. Open champion Jerry Pate and Bob Cupp; hosted the 1999 U.S. Women's Open. - [Mossy Oak Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/golden-triangle-ms/mossy-oak-golf-club/): A Gil Hanse-designed course (opened 2016) directly across the street from Old Waverly in West Point, MS, named for the Mossy Oak camouflage/outdoor brand founded by West Point native Toxey Haas; serves as Mississippi State University's golf team home course. #### Golf Communities in Golden Triangle - [Old Waverly](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/golden-triangle-ms/old-waverly-community/): West Point, MS: Old Waverly Golf Club's bundled residential community: custom golf-view homesites, lakefront cottages, Garden Court villas, and Scotland Yard condominiums, with an active resale market under the 'Old Waverly' subdivision name and an owner rental program. ### Oxford, MS - [Oxford, MS Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/oxford-ms/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Oxford golf market, in Lafayette County: The Country Club of Oxford, a private, gated club built around a Jim Fazio-designed course with an integrated residential community. #### Golf Clubs in Oxford - [The Country Club of Oxford](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/oxford-ms/country-club-of-oxford/): A private, gated club in Oxford, MS built around an 18-hole, par-72 Jim Fazio-designed course (2006, a redesign of the earlier Greg Clark-designed Grand Oaks Golf Course), with homes integrated directly along the layout and an active 'Oxford Country Club' resale market. #### Golf Communities in Oxford - [Oxford Country Club (residential community)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/mississippi/oxford-ms/oxford-country-club-community/): The residential subdivision built directly along The Country Club of Oxford's Jim Fazio-designed course, tracked as a distinct, named resale market by multiple real estate portals. ## Louisiana - [Louisiana Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/): Independent research on 17 golf clubs and 16 residential golf communities across 5 Louisiana golf markets, including Baton Rouge Metro, Lafayette / Acadiana and New Orleans Metro: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Louisiana Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Louisiana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 3 Louisiana golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Timberlane Golf & Recreation, Money Hill Golf & Country Club and Olde Oaks Golf Club. - [Private Golf Communities in Louisiana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 14 private Louisiana golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Country Club of Louisiana, University Club of Baton Rouge, Copper Mill Golf Club, Le Triomphe Golf & Country Club and English Turn Golf & Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Louisiana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 5 Louisiana golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Copper Mill Golf Club, Cypress Lakes Country Club, Timberlane Golf & Recreation, Money Hill Golf & Country Club and Southern Trace Country Club. ### Louisiana Comparisons - [Country Club of Louisiana vs University Club of Baton Rouge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/country-club-of-louisiana-vs-university-club-of-baton-rouge/): A researched comparison of Baton Rouge's two flagship gated golf communities: access models, course pedigree, and community identity at Country Club of Louisiana and University Club of Baton Rouge. - [English Turn vs Chateau Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/english-turn-vs-chateau-golf-and-country-club/): A researched comparison of English Turn and Chateau Golf & Country Club, two of the New Orleans metro's strongest golf-residential communities. - [English Turn vs Metairie Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/english-turn-vs-metairie-country-club/): A researched comparison of English Turn and Metairie Country Club: semi-private vs. invitation-only access, community scale, and golf pedigree in the New Orleans metro. - [Money Hill vs Beau Chene for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/money-hill-vs-beau-chene-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Money Hill and Beau Chene, two Louisiana Northshore golf communities: bundled vs. optional club membership, course footprint, community scale, and fees. - [Beau Chene vs Tchefuncta for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/beau-chene-vs-tchefuncta-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Beau Chene and Tchefuncta, two Northshore golf communities with optional club membership: course footprint, water access, and governance. - [Southern Trace vs StoneBridge for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/southern-trace-vs-stonebridge-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Southern Trace (Shreveport) and StoneBridge (Bossier City), LA for golf-oriented homebuyers: club ownership, HOA-golf structure, course pedigree, and price positioning. - [StoneBridge vs Olde Oaks for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/stonebridge-vs-olde-oaks-golf-living/): A researched comparison of StoneBridge (Bossier City) and Olde Oaks (Haughton), LA -- two separate courses marketed jointly, and exactly which one's lot-purchase golf plan is real. ### Baton Rouge Metro, LA - [Baton Rouge Metro, LA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/baton-rouge-la/): US Golf Living has researched golf-residential clubs and communities across East Baton Rouge Parish and West Feliciana Parish, including the gated Country Club of Louisiana, LSU golf's home course at University Club of Baton Rouge, and the HOA-owned Copper Mill Golf Club in Zachary. #### Golf Clubs in Baton Rouge Metro - [Country Club of Louisiana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/baton-rouge-la/country-club-of-louisiana/): A private, gated, Jack Nicklaus-designed golf community in southeast Baton Rouge -- 685 platted homesites built directly around the course since the mid-1980s, with country club membership offered separately from the property owners association that governs the gates and streets. - [University Club of Baton Rouge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/baton-rouge-la/university-club-of-baton-rouge/): Baton Rouge, LA: The permanent home course of LSU golf and anchor of a ~1,200-acre gated master-planned community (University Club Plantation), with a distinctive access model requiring Tiger Athletic Foundation membership before club membership, and geographic (not property-tied) membership tiers. - [Copper Mill Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/baton-rouge-la/copper-mill-golf-club/): A semi-private, resident-owned golf course roughly 15 minutes north of downtown Baton Rouge in Zachary -- day-to-day play is open to the public, but the surrounding Copper Mill Golf Community's own homeowners association bought the course from its developer and offers homeowners a distinct, discounted membership tier. #### Golf Communities in Baton Rouge Metro - [Country Club of Louisiana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/baton-rouge-la/country-club-of-louisiana-community/): A gated, guard-monitored residential community in southeast Baton Rouge built around Country Club of Louisiana's Jack Nicklaus-designed course, platted for 685 homesites since the mid-1980s. - [University Club Plantation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/baton-rouge-la/university-club-plantation-community/): A roughly 1,200-acre, gated master-planned community in Baton Rouge built around University Club of Baton Rouge's golf course, organized into a cluster of named villages, governed by the University Club Homeowner's Association. - [Copper Mill Golf Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/baton-rouge-la/copper-mill-golf-community/): A non-gated Zachary subdivision whose own homeowners association purchased the community's anchor golf course from its developer, built with golf frontage as an explicit design intent. ### Lafayette / Acadiana, LA - [Lafayette / Acadiana, LA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/lafayette-acadiana-la/): US Golf Living has researched golf clubs in Lafayette Parish and Broussard, including Le Triomphe Golf & Country Club, the Korn Ferry Tour's third-longest-running host course and anchor of a 392-acre gated residential enclave. #### Golf Clubs in Lafayette / Acadiana - [Le Triomphe Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/lafayette-acadiana-la/le-triomphe-golf-country-club/): A private, gated golf club (established 1986, Robert Trent Jones Jr. design) anchoring a 392-acre residential enclave in Broussard, and the third-longest-running host course on the Korn Ferry Tour (Chitimacha Louisiana Open, 1992-2022). #### Golf Communities in Lafayette / Acadiana - [LeTriomphe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/lafayette-acadiana-la/le-triomphe-community/): A 392-acre gated residential enclave in Broussard built around Le Triomphe Golf & Country Club, governed by the LeTriomphe Owners' Association, with large single-family homes and available building lots. ### New Orleans Metro, LA - [New Orleans Metro, LA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/new-orleans-metro/): The New Orleans metro is not a single golf-residential destination the way parts of Florida or the Carolinas are -- it is a scattered handful of genuinely distinct golf-club models spread across three parishes, tied together mostly by the fact that none of them dominates the metro's identity the way golf does in a resort market. #### Golf Clubs in New Orleans Metro - [English Turn Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/new-orleans-metro/english-turn-golf-and-country-club/): A Jack Nicklaus-designed (1988) 18-hole championship course at the center of English Turn Estates, one of the few gated residential communities inside New Orleans city limits, on the Mississippi River roughly 8 miles from downtown. - [Chateau Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/new-orleans-metro/chateau-golf-and-country-club/): A private, tiered-membership club (Golf, Tennis, Social, Summer) built in 1972 and renovated in 1998, and the organizing amenity of Chateau Estates, a named residential neighborhood in Kenner with its own civic organization built around the club for more than 50 years. - [Cypress Lakes Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/new-orleans-metro/cypress-lakes-country-club/): Destrehan, LA: A private, 18-hole club (opened 1978/79, Dick Biddle design) that operated for decades as Ormond Country Club before going bankrupt and reopening under new ownership in October 2010 as Cypress Lakes Country Club. - [Metairie Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/new-orleans-metro/metairie-country-club/): A historic, invitation-only, member-owned private club founded in 1922, home to one of the rare Gulf South examples of a Seth Raynor design (built by golf professional Joe Bartholomew), and the organizing center of Metairie Club Estates, a small, controlled-access 51-home gated community. - [Timberlane Golf & Recreation](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/new-orleans-metro/timberlane-golf-and-recreation/): Gretna, LA: Opened in 1959 as Timberlane Country Club -- the first private golf club on the West Bank -- and today operating as Timberlane Golf & Recreation. #### Golf Communities in New Orleans Metro - [English Turn Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/new-orleans-metro/english-turn-estates/): A gated, POA-governed residential community of 617 lots across roughly 2,000 acres wrapped around English Turn Golf & Country Club, one of the few manned-gate communities inside New Orleans city limits. - [Chateau Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/new-orleans-metro/chateau-estates/): A named residential neighborhood in Kenner built around Chateau Golf & Country Club since 1972, with its own civic organization (CECO). - [Ormond Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/new-orleans-metro/ormond-estates/): A Destrehan neighborhood of more than 500 homes, documented as being centered on Cypress Lakes Country Club (f/k/a Ormond Country Club). - [Metairie Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/new-orleans-metro/metairie-club-estates/): A small, controlled-access, 51-home gated community built specifically around Metairie Country Club, with homes positioned to overlook the club's fairways. - [Timberlane Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/new-orleans-metro/timberlane-estates/): Gretna, LA: A long-established West Bank subdivision developed alongside Timberlane Golf & Recreation (opened 1959), where residents pay a mandatory $1,950 annual per-parcel tax that includes golf course and community pool access. ### Northshore, LA - [Northshore, LA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/northshore-la/): The Northshore -- St. Tammany Parish's stretch of suburban and exurban communities across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, running from Slidell in the east through Mandeville and Covington to Abita Springs in the west -- is the densest genuine golf-residential pocket outside the New Orleans metro proper. #### Golf Clubs in Northshore - [Money Hill Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/northshore-la/money-hill-golf-country-club/): A gated, purpose-built golf-residential community in Abita Springs, St. Tammany Parish, anchored by a Ron Garl-designed (1998) 18-hole course and a 186-acre lake; buying a home requires joining the club within 60 days of closing. - [Beau Chene Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/northshore-la/beau-chene-country-club/): A privately-owned 36-hole club (Oak and Magnolia courses, both Joe Lee designs, 1975/1985) at the center of a ~1,550-home gated lakefront community in Mandeville; membership is optional and open beyond residents, and is explicitly separate from mandatory HOA dues. - [Oak Harbor Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/northshore-la/oak-harbor-golf-club/): A semi-private, 18-hole course (Lee E. Schmidt, 1992) at the center of a 7-community Slidell PUD, including at least two named gated, golf-lot subdivisions (The Fairways, Masters Point); golf membership is a real but optional annual-fee program, not bundled to any sub-community's HOA. - [Tchefuncta Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/northshore-la/tchefuncta-country-club/): Covington, LA: A private, 400+-member club (Robert Trent Jones Sr., 18 holes, opened 1961/expanded 1969) at the center of Tchefuncta Club Estates, a gated, shareholder-governed 900-acre community founded 1956 near Madisonville with a private river marina; membership is optional and open beyond residents. #### Golf Communities in Northshore - [Money Hill](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/northshore-la/money-hill-community/): A gated, purpose-built golf community in Abita Springs organized around Money Hill Golf & Country Club's 18-hole Ron Garl course and a 186-acre lake; club membership is required of new home buyers within 60 days of closing. - [Beau Chene](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/northshore-la/beau-chene-community/): A gated lakefront community of ~1,550 homes and condos across ~1,100 acres on Mandeville's west side, organized around Beau Chene Country Club's 36 holes; club membership is optional and separate from mandatory HOA dues. - [Oak Harbor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/northshore-la/oak-harbor-community/): A 7-community Planned Unit Development in Slidell (Cypress Lakes, The Fairways, Grand Champions, The Inlets, Mariner's Cove, Masters Point, The Moorings) built around Oak Harbor Golf Club, begun in 1986; at least two sub-communities are gated golf-lot subdivisions. - [Tchefuncta Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/northshore-la/tchefuncta-club-estates/): Covington, LA: A gated, shareholder-governed community on the Tchefuncte River founded 1956, organized around Tchefuncta Country Club's Robert Trent Jones Sr. course and a private 60+-slip marina; every property owner is a community shareholder, but country club membership remains separate and optional. ### Shreveport-Bossier City, LA - [Shreveport-Bossier City, LA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/shreveport-bossier-la/): Shreveport-Bossier City, straddling the Red River in northwest Louisiana's Caddo and Bossier parishes, is the state's clearest example of a mid-size metro with real, distinct golf-residential density rather than a single flagship club standing alone. #### Golf Clubs in Shreveport-Bossier City - [Southern Trace Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/shreveport-bossier-la/southern-trace-country-club/): Shreveport's premier gated golf community: a private, equity-member-owned club built around an Arthur Hills-designed (1988), Jim Lipe-remodeled (2020) 18-hole championship course, inside a two-guard-gated residential subdivision with its own Property Owners Association. - [The Golf Club at StoneBridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/shreveport-bossier-la/the-golf-club-at-stonebridge/): An 18-hole Fred Couples/Gene Bates design (1999) forming the centerpiece of StoneBridge, a gated residential community in north Bossier City whose HOA automatically bundles a separate swim/tennis/fitness club with homeownership, while golf itself remains a separate semi-private club with its own membership program. - [Olde Oaks Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/shreveport-bossier-la/olde-oaks-golf-club/): A 27-hole Hal Sutton signature design on 340 acres in Haughton, woven through a gated residential subdivision south of Bossier City, with a genuine developer-run promotion bundling a complimentary annual golf plan into new lot purchases. - [East Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/shreveport-bossier-la/east-ridge-country-club/): The only member-owned private country club in the Shreveport area (founded 1955, Ellis Maples design), a classic historic in-town club in a well-established South Shreveport residential area rather than a purpose-built golf-residential development. #### Golf Communities in Shreveport-Bossier City - [Southern Trace](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/shreveport-bossier-la/southern-trace-neighborhood/): A two-guard-gated golf subdivision in south Shreveport built around Southern Trace Country Club, governed by its own Property Owners Association, distinct from the country club itself. - [StoneBridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/shreveport-bossier-la/stonebridge-bossier-city/): A gated community in North Bossier City built around The Golf Club at StoneBridge, whose HOA (StoneBridge Community Association) automatically bundles a separate swim/tennis/fitness club into homeownership -- golf itself is a distinct, separately-membershipped facility. - [Olde Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/louisiana/shreveport-bossier-la/olde-oaks-subdivision/): A gated subdivision in Haughton (south Bossier Parish) woven through Olde Oaks Golf Club's 27 holes, with a developer promotion currently bundling a complimentary annual golf plan into new lot purchases. ## Arkansas - [Arkansas Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/): Independent research on 15 golf clubs and 19 residential golf communities across 6 Arkansas golf markets, including Bella Vista Village, Northwest Arkansas and Hot Springs Village: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Arkansas Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Arkansas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 3 Arkansas golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Diamante Country Club, Big Creek Country Club and RidgePointe Country Club. - [Private Golf Communities in Arkansas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 12 private Arkansas golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Bella Vista Village Golf, The Blessings Golf Club, Pinnacle Country Club, Shadow Valley Country Club and Hot Springs Village Golf. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Arkansas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 6 private Arkansas golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including The Blessings Golf Club, Pinnacle Country Club, Shadow Valley Country Club, Hot Springs Country Club and Chenal Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Arkansas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 3 Arkansas golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Bella Vista Village Golf, Shadow Valley Country Club and Chenal Country Club. ### Arkansas Comparisons - [Pinnacle Country Club vs Shadow Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/pinnacle-country-club-vs-shadow-valley-country-club/): A researched comparison of Rogers, AR's two private residential golf clubs: Pinnacle Country Club and Shadow Valley Country Club. - [The Blessings Golf Club vs Pinnacle Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-blessings-golf-club-vs-pinnacle-country-club/): A researched comparison of The Blessings Golf Club and Pinnacle Country Club, Northwest Arkansas's two most nationally significant golf anchors. - [Hot Springs Village Golf vs. Diamante Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/hot-springs-village-golf-vs-diamante-country-club/): Comparing Hot Springs Village's community golf system and the private, mandatory-membership Diamante Country Club -- two very different access models inside one community. - [Chenal Country Club vs Country Club of Arkansas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/chenal-country-club-vs-country-club-of-arkansas/): A researched comparison of Chenal Country Club (Little Rock) and The Country Club of Arkansas (Maumelle): access models, course scale, and the residential communities built around each. - [Maumelle Country Club vs Country Club of Arkansas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/maumelle-country-club-vs-country-club-of-arkansas/): A researched comparison correctly separating Maumelle's two distinct private golf clubs: Maumelle Country Club and The Country Club of Arkansas, their access models, and the neighborhoods around each. - [Jonesboro Country Club vs RidgePointe Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/jonesboro-country-club-vs-ridgepointe-country-club/): A researched comparison of Jonesboro's two private golf clubs: Jonesboro Country Club's traditional application model versus RidgePointe Country Club's POA-bundled access. ### Bella Vista Village, AR - [Bella Vista Village, AR Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/bella-vista-village-ar/): Bella Vista Village is not a neighborhood inside a larger city -- it is its own incorporated city, one of the largest master-planned, Property-Owners-Association-governed communities in the United States, built almost entirely around a shared recreational infrastructure that includes seven golf courses, seven lakes, and more than 110 miles of trails. #### Golf Clubs in Bella Vista Village - [Bella Vista Village Golf](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/bella-vista-village-ar/bella-vista-village-golf/): A seven-course, 108-hole golf network woven through Bella Vista Village, a self-contained, POA-governed master-planned community in Benton County -- one of the largest such communities in the country. #### Golf Communities in Bella Vista Village - [Bella Vista Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/bella-vista-village-ar/bella-vista-village-community/): The entire incorporated city of Bella Vista, Arkansas -- a self-contained, POA-governed master-planned community of roughly 33,000 residents built around seven golf courses, seven lakes, and extensive trail and lake infrastructure. ### Northwest Arkansas, AR - [Northwest Arkansas, AR Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/northwest-arkansas/): Northwest Arkansas is one of the country's fastest-growing metro corridors, powered by the corporate presence of Walmart, JB Hunt, and Tyson Foods -- and its golf-living landscape reflects that: a small number of genuinely significant private clubs, each with a different access model, rather than one dominant master-planned community. #### Golf Clubs in Northwest Arkansas - [The Blessings Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/northwest-arkansas/the-blessings-golf-club/): A private Robert Trent Jones Jr. course in Johnson, near Fayetteville, funded by Tyson Foods chairman John H. Tyson and home to the University of Arkansas golf teams -- host of NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Golf Championships. - [Pinnacle Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/northwest-arkansas/pinnacle-country-club/): A private golf, tennis, and social club in Rogers founded in 1988 (originally as Champions Country Club), home to the LPGA's Walmart NW Arkansas Championship since 2007. - [Shadow Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/northwest-arkansas/shadow-valley-country-club/): A private, gated 900-plus-home community in Rogers built around its own 18-hole golf course (Jerry Slack design, opened 2003), with a 40,000-sq-ft clubhouse and Full Golf/Sports/Social membership tiers. #### Golf Communities in Northwest Arkansas - [Clear Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/northwest-arkansas/clear-creek-fayetteville/): A gated, ~167-lot luxury community established around 2003 in Fayetteville/Johnson, AR, built around The Blessings Golf Club. - [The Pinnacle Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/northwest-arkansas/pinnacle-neighborhood-rogers/): An exclusive, 24-hour-gated residential neighborhood inside Pinnacle Hills, Rogers, with its own Property Owners Association documented directly on Pinnacle Country Club's own site. - [Shadow Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/northwest-arkansas/shadow-valley-subdivision/): A private, gated subdivision of 900-plus homes in western Rogers, built directly around Shadow Valley Country Club's 18-hole course, zoned to Bentonville schools. ### Hot Springs Village, AR - [Hot Springs Village, AR Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/hot-springs-village-ar/): Hot Springs Village is Arkansas's single largest and most consequential golf-living market: a ~26,000-acre, POA-governed master-planned community spanning Garland and Saline counties, one of the largest such communities in the country by land area, with nine named golf facilities under two entirely different access models. #### Golf Clubs in Hot Springs Village - [Hot Springs Village Golf](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/hot-springs-village-ar/hot-springs-village-golf/): Hot Springs Village's eight POA-owned golf courses (Ponce de Leon, Isabella, Balboa, Coronado, DeSoto, Cortez, Granada, and Magellan) are the community's signature amenity system, spread across a ~26,000-acre master-planned POA community in Garland and Saline counties. - [Diamante Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/hot-springs-village-ar/diamante-country-club/): Diamante Country Club is Hot Springs Village's only privately owned, member-owned golf club, located within HSV's Diamante subdivision (Garland County). - [Hot Springs Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/hot-springs-village-ar/hot-springs-country-club/): Hot Springs Country Club, founded 1897/98, is one of the oldest golf clubs west of the Mississippi River, in Hot Springs proper (Garland County) -- distinct from Hot Springs Village. #### Golf Communities in Hot Springs Village - [Hot Springs Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/hot-springs-village-ar/hot-springs-village/): Hot Springs Village is a ~26,000-acre master-planned, POA-governed community spanning Garland and Saline counties, one of the largest such communities in the United States by land area. - [Diamante](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/hot-springs-village-ar/diamante-subdivision/): Diamante is a named, gated golf-front subdivision within Hot Springs Village, built around the private Diamante Country Club. - [Arlington Park](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/hot-springs-village-ar/arlington-park-hot-springs/): Arlington Park is a named, gated golf-front subdivision on Country Club Drive in Hot Springs, directly adjacent to Hot Springs Country Club's Arlington course. ### Little Rock / Central Arkansas, AR - [Little Rock / Central Arkansas, AR Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/): US Golf Living has researched 5 golf anchors in the Little Rock / Central Arkansas golf market, across Pulaski, Saline, and Faulkner counties, including Chenal Country Club, The Country Club of Arkansas, Maumelle Country Club, Pleasant Valley Country Club, and Centennial Valley Golf & Athletic Club. #### Golf Clubs in Little Rock / Central Arkansas - [Chenal Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/chenal-country-club/): Private, invitation-only 36-hole club (Founders and Bear Den courses, both Robert Trent Jones Jr. designs) anchoring the Chenal Valley master-planned development in west Little Rock; membership is a separate, invited privilege rather than a homeownership entitlement. - [The Country Club of Arkansas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/the-country-club-of-arkansas/): A semi-private, 18-hole Bobby Miller course (built 1995-96) that gives its name to a roughly 1,000-home Maumelle subdivision with its own property owners association (CCOAPOA); golf membership is open to the public and priced separately from the subdivision's own POA dues. - [Maumelle Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/maumelle-country-club/): Private, tiered-membership 18-hole Ed Ault design (opened 1970) in Club Manor, a formally platted Maumelle subdivision with genuine golf-frontage homes; membership is a separate purchase, not bundled with a Club Manor home. - [Pleasant Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/pleasant-valley-country-club/): Private, invitation-only 27-hole Joe Finger facility (opened 1968) with three nines -- Blue, Yellow, and Third -- inside the established Pleasant Valley neighborhood in west Little Rock, where homes genuinely line the course. - [Centennial Valley Golf & Athletic Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/centennial-valley-golf-athletic-club/): Private, members-only 18-hole club (1998) at the center of Centennial Valley, a named ~5,300-resident Conway neighborhood organized under its own POA and marketed around golf-course living, including a golf-cart-access sub-subdivision (Lands End). #### Golf Communities in Little Rock / Central Arkansas - [Deauville Place](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/deauville-place-chenal-valley/): Little Rock, AR: A gated Chenal Valley neighborhood on Chenal Valley Drive/Deauville Boulevard, described in local press as a premier golf-course community built along Chenal Country Club's Bear Den 8th fairway. - [Germay Place](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/germay-place-chenal-valley/): Little Rock, AR: A small, gated Chenal Valley neighborhood (50 lots on a 32.6-acre tract, opened 2003) with vistas from Chenal Country Club Bear Den's 5th, 6th, and 7th fairways. - [Fontenay Circle](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/fontenay-circle-chenal-valley/): Little Rock, AR: A Chenal Valley neighborhood on a ridge overlooking the Founders golf course, with estate-sized homes on roughly 44 acres bordering the 15th hole. - [DuClair Court](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/duclair-court-chenal-valley/): Little Rock, AR: Chenal Valley's first garden-home neighborhood, with home sites along the Founders golf course's 3rd and 4th holes and direct access to the course. - [Pleasant Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/pleasant-valley-neighborhood/): An established west Little Rock neighborhood, developed from a 1960s horse farm, organized under its own POA (pvpoalr.com) and centered on Pleasant Valley Country Club. - [Club Manor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/club-manor-maumelle/): A formally platted Maumelle subdivision (confirmed on the City of Maumelle's own ward/subdivision list) surrounding Maumelle Country Club, including Fairway Drive, with real estate listings describing golf-course-frontage homes. - [Country Club of Arkansas (subdivision)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/country-club-of-arkansas-subdivision/): A roughly 1,000-home wooded Maumelle subdivision literally named for and built around The Country Club of Arkansas golf course, governed by its own POA (CCOAPOA). - [Centennial Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/little-rock-ar/centennial-valley-neighborhood/): A roughly 5,300-resident Conway neighborhood marketed around golf-course living, organized under the Centennial Valley Neighborhood Association (CVNA); the Lands End sub-area is marketed specifically for golf-cart access to Centennial Valley Golf & Athletic Club. ### Mountain Home, AR - [Mountain Home, AR Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/mountain-home-ar/): Mountain Home is a small lake-resort town in the Ozark hills of north-central Arkansas, near the confluence of Norfork Lake and Bull Shoals Lake -- a market defined far more by lake recreation and retirement/second-home living than by golf. #### Golf Clubs in Mountain Home - [Big Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/mountain-home-ar/big-creek-country-club/): A semi-private, member-owned golf club in Mountain Home, AR, opened in 2000 (architect Thomas E. Clark of Ault, Clark & Associates) and rebranded from 'Big Creek Golf & Country Club' to 'Big Creek Country Club' after a 2024 sale by original developer Mountain Land Group to a group of local member families. #### Golf Communities in Mountain Home - [Muirfield Development at Big Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/mountain-home-ar/muirfield-development-big-creek/): Mountain Home, AR: An 18-homesite estate development along Big Creek Country Club's 11th, 12th, and 13th fairways. Lot purchase carries a deed-recorded requirement to maintain at least a clubhouse membership at Big Creek Country Club, passed to future owners through the deed itself. - [Big Creek Golf Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/mountain-home-ar/big-creek-golf-community/): Mountain Home, AR: The broader residential development surrounding Big Creek Country Club, continuing to be developed by Mountain Land Group, LLC (the club's former owner, which retains the surrounding land) for single-family and patio homes. ### Jonesboro, AR - [Jonesboro, AR Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/jonesboro-ar/): Jonesboro is Northeast Arkansas's largest city and the commercial hub of Craighead County -- a genuine cold-check surprise for this research project, since the original research brief named it only as a 'sweep only, don't force a standalone market' pocket. #### Golf Clubs in Jonesboro - [RidgePointe Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/jonesboro-ar/ridgepointe-country-club/): A private club and golf-oriented luxury-home subdivision in Jonesboro, AR, established in 1994. Unusually among this platform's research, the club itself is owned by the RidgePointe subdivision's own Property Owners Association, and golf/social club access is bundled into the POA assessment for resident homeowners rather than sold as a separate membership product. - [Jonesboro Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/jonesboro-ar/jonesboro-country-club/): Jonesboro, AR: Northeast Arkansas's old-guard private club, operating continuously since 1919, with golf, tennis, pool, and dining, real fairway-adjacent homes, and the nearby Country Club Heights subdivision. #### Golf Communities in Jonesboro - [RidgePointe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/jonesboro-ar/ridgepointe-neighborhood/): Jonesboro, AR: The golf-oriented luxury subdivision surrounding RidgePointe Country Club, of custom homes (some 7,000+ sq ft) overlooking the fairways. - [Country Club Heights (Jonesboro)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/arkansas/jonesboro-ar/country-club-heights-jonesboro/): A residential subdivision described by a real-estate listing source as sitting 'just around the corner' from Jonesboro Country Club. ## Oklahoma - [Oklahoma Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/): Independent research on 20 golf clubs and 25 residential golf communities across 4 Oklahoma golf markets, including Oklahoma City Metro, Tulsa Metro and Grand Lake: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Oklahoma Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Oklahoma](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 19 private Oklahoma golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including The Coves Golf Club at Bird Island, Patricia Island Country Club, Gaillardia Country Club, Quail Creek Golf & Country Club and Oak Tree Country Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in Oklahoma](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 3 Oklahoma golf resort ecosystems, including Oak Tree National, Falconhead Resort & Country Club and Southern Hills Country Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Oklahoma](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 10 private Oklahoma golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Oak Tree Country Club, Oak Tree National, Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club, Belmar Golf Club and Dornick Hills Golf & Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Oklahoma](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 5 Oklahoma golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including The Coves Golf Club at Bird Island, Patricia Island Country Club, Rose Creek Country Club, Falconhead Resort & Country Club and Indian Springs Country Club. ### Oklahoma Comparisons - [The Coves at Bird Island vs. Patricia Island Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-coves-at-bird-island-vs-patricia-island-country-club/): Comparing Grand Lake's two qualifying golf-residential anchors: the gated Coves at Bird Island and the open-membership Patricia Island Country Club near Grove, OK. - [Gaillardia vs Quail Creek Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/gaillardia-country-club-vs-quail-creek-golf-country-club/): A researched comparison of Gaillardia Country Club and Quail Creek Golf & Country Club in Oklahoma City: two different eras of planned golf-residential community, access models, and course scale. - [Gaillardia vs Oak Tree Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/gaillardia-country-club-vs-oak-tree-country-club/): A researched comparison of Gaillardia Country Club (Oklahoma City) and Oak Tree Country Club (Edmond): course scale, access models, and two very different golf-residential settings. - [Cedar Ridge vs Indian Springs for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/cedar-ridge-vs-indian-springs-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Cedar Ridge Country Club and Indian Springs Country Club in the Tulsa, OK metro: course pedigree, residential communities, ownership history, and access. - [The Patriot Golf Club vs The Club at Forest Ridge for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/patriot-golf-club-vs-forest-ridge-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of two Tulsa Metro master-planned golf communities: Stone Canyon's Patriot Golf Club and Broken Arrow's Club at Forest Ridge, including their very different current and upcoming access models. ### Grand Lake, OK - [Grand Lake, OK Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/grand-lake-ok/): Grand Lake O' the Cherokees, in northeastern Oklahoma's Ottawa and Delaware counties, is a genuine lake-resort golf corridor, but a smaller and more honestly modest one than its regional profile might suggest. #### Golf Clubs in Grand Lake - [The Coves Golf Club at Bird Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/grand-lake-ok/the-coves-at-bird-island/): An 18-hole semi-private course (Brent Wadsworth/Randy Heckenkemper design, opened 1987) at the center of a 662-acre, 401-home gated community on Grand Lake's Bird Island peninsula, with a distinct resident membership tier alongside non-resident and public-guest access. - [Patricia Island Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/grand-lake-ok/patricia-island-country-club/): A semi-private, Tripp Davis-designed 18-hole course (opened 1998) near Grove, OK, anchoring Patricia Island Estates, a covenant-controlled residential community governed by its own Neighborhood Association; membership carries no initiation fee and is open to the public, not restricted to owners. #### Golf Communities in Grand Lake - [The Coves at Bird Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/grand-lake-ok/the-coves-at-bird-island-community/): A gated, 401-home residential community on a 662-acre Grand Lake peninsula (Bird Island, near Afton), built around and sharing amenities directly with its own 18-hole Coves Golf Club. - [Patricia Island Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/grand-lake-ok/patricia-island-estates/): A covenant-controlled residential development of lakefront and golf-course lots near Grove, OK, named for and built around Patricia Island Country Club, governed by its own Neighborhood Association (formed 2020). ### Oklahoma City Metro, OK - [Oklahoma City Metro, OK Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/): US Golf Living has researched golf anchors across the Oklahoma City metro, including Oklahoma City, Edmond, Norman, and Yukon, from purpose-built gated golf communities to century-old private clubs and one nationally significant championship destination. #### Golf Clubs in Oklahoma City Metro - [Gaillardia Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/gaillardia-country-club/): A purpose-built, 667-acre guarded and gated golf-residential community in northwest Oklahoma City, anchored by an 18-hole Arthur Hills course later redesigned by Tom Kite; club membership (Full Golf, Junior Golf, Lifestyle) is a separate, optional purchase from HOA-governed homeownership. - [Quail Creek Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/quail-creek-golf-country-club/): A private, member-owned club (Floyd Farley design, planned 1960 and built 1961-62) conceived from the start as the residential and social center of the Quail Creek neighborhood, an established, non-gated north Oklahoma City community genuinely centered on the course. - [Oak Tree Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/oak-tree-country-club/): A private, 36-hole club (West, 1978; East, 1982 -- both Pete Dye designs) operated by Invited Clubs, the only 36-hole private club in the Oklahoma City metro, genuinely distinct from neighboring Oak Tree National despite the shared name and adjacent campus. - [Oak Tree National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/oak-tree-national/): Edmond, OK: A Pete Dye design (opened 1976 as Oak Tree Golf Club) and multi-time major/senior-major championship venue (1988 PGA Championship, 2006 Senior PGA, 2014 U.S. Senior Open, 2027 Senior PGA announced), now sole-owned by Everett Dobson, inside the guard-gated Oak Tree neighborhood where numerous PGA Tour players have lived. - [Rose Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/rose-creek-country-club/): A private, 18-hole Arthur Hills course (built 2003) at the center of a roughly 650-home, 24/7 guard-gated golf community spanning nearly a square mile in far northwest Edmond; golf membership is optional and separate from the community's HOA. - [Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/oklahoma-city-golf-country-club/): A historic, invitation-only private club (founded 1911, current Nichols Hills site since 1930; Perry Maxwell-designed 18-hole course, 1929) inseparable from Nichols Hills's identity as one of Oklahoma City's most established affluent enclaves, though the club is not a developer-built bundled community. - [Cobblestone Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/cobblestone-creek-country-club/): A 9-hole, all-par-3 Tripp Davis-designed course in Norman explicitly marketed as a 'Golf Club and Residential Community,' with Phases 4-5 of 1-2 acre executive homesites in active development; the course is open to the public and a rebranded country-club membership is optional. - [Winter Creek Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/winter-creek-golf-country-club/): An 18-hole Rocky Roquemore-designed course in Blanchard (McClain County) anchoring a golf-and-social-club residential community with half-acre-plus homesites, two pools, and 12 stocked fishing ponds; club membership is separate from the community's HOA. - [Belmar Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/belmar-golf-club/): A private, 18-hole Tripp Davis course (opened 2002) rooted in University of Oklahoma golf heritage, shared golf anchor of three distinct gated communities in Norman/Cleveland County -- Estates of Belmar, Belmar North, and Belmar East, the last of which includes a bundled social membership with its townhome purchase. - [The Greens Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/the-greens-country-club/): Oklahoma City, OK: A private, members-only 18-hole club (established 1972, Press Maxwell design) encircled by 668 homes built between 1963 and 1980, with real tennis, swimming, and dining amenities alongside the course; membership is a separate, unpublished-fee private-club purchase. #### Golf Communities in Oklahoma City Metro - [Gaillardia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/gaillardia-neighborhood/): A 667-acre, 24-hour guarded and gated master-planned community in northwest Oklahoma City, developed in the mid-1990s around Gaillardia Country Club's 18-hole course. - [Quail Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/quail-creek-neighborhood/): A peaceful, established north Oklahoma City neighborhood, roughly 13 miles from downtown, planned concurrently with Quail Creek Golf & Country Club beginning in 1960 and genuinely centered on the course. - [The Oaks at Oak Tree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/the-oaks-at-oak-tree/): An exclusive, 74-home gated subdivision of traditional homes nestled directly adjacent to both Oak Tree Country Club and Oak Tree National in Edmond. - [Oak Tree (Edmond)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/oak-tree-neighborhood-edmond/): A large, roughly 1,154-acre guard-gated Edmond neighborhood surrounding both Oak Tree Country Club and Oak Tree National, home to numerous current and former PGA Tour players, with homes ranging from roughly $200,000 to just under $5,000,000. - [Rose Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/rose-creek-community/): A 24/7 guard-gated community of roughly 650 homes across nearly one square mile in far northwest Edmond, built around Rose Creek Country Club's 18-hole course, with a large shared clubhouse, aquatic center, and fitness center distinct from the club's own membership. - [Nichols Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/nichols-hills/): A small, affluent, architecturally distinct incorporated city within the Oklahoma City metro, home to Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club since the club's 1930 relocation. - [Cobblestone Creek (residential)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/cobblestone-creek-residential/): A master-planned residential development in Norman with active Phase 4-5 homesite development (1-2 acre executive/estate lots) built around Cobblestone Creek's 9-hole par-3 course. - [Winter Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/winter-creek-community/): A golf-course-living community in Blanchard (McClain County) with half-acre-plus homesites built around Winter Creek's 18-hole course and its lakes. - [Estates of Belmar](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/estates-of-belmar/): A gated community of custom estate homes (mid-$300,000s to $1M+) sited directly on Belmar Golf Club's course in Norman. - [Belmar North](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/belmar-north/): A gated community minutes from Norman, Moore, and Midwest City, marketed with access to Belmar Golf Club's championship course and country-club membership. - [Belmar East](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/belmar-east/): Norman, OK: A gated townhome community in Cleveland County whose own listings state a social membership to Belmar Golf Club is included with the purchase, distinct from full golf-playing privileges. - [The Greens](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/oklahoma-city-metro-ok/the-greens-neighborhood-okc/): A neighborhood of 668 homes built between 1963 and 1980 directly encircling The Greens Country Club's course in Oklahoma City, with a median home sale price around $357,000. ### Lake Texoma, OK - [Lake Texoma, OK Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/lake-texoma-ok/): Lake Texoma is south-central Oklahoma's Red River-border corridor, roughly midway between Oklahoma City and Dallas-Fort Worth and centered geographically on Love County (Burneyville, Marietta) and its larger neighbor to the north, Carter County (Ardmore). #### Golf Clubs in Lake Texoma - [Falconhead Resort & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/lake-texoma-ok/falconhead-resort-country-club/): A 2,700-acre gated resort subdivision in Burneyville (Love County), established 1971 on the site of the earlier Turner's Lodge course (built 1958, redesigned by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1970). - [Dornick Hills Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/lake-texoma-ok/dornick-hills-golf-country-club/): Oklahoma's oldest golf club of real historical stature (Perry Maxwell's original design, built beginning 1913 on his former dairy farm; hosted the 1952-54 Ardmore Open and the 1954 LPGA Ardmore Open). #### Golf Communities in Lake Texoma - [Falconhead Resort Subdivision](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/lake-texoma-ok/falconhead-resort-subdivision/): The 2,700-acre gated residential subdivision surrounding Falconhead Resort & Country Club's golf course in Burneyville (Love County), platted across multiple phases (e.g., 'Falconhead Phase 1') and self-governed by the Falconhead Property Owners Association. - [The Reserve at Dornick Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/lake-texoma-ok/the-reserve-at-dornick-hills/): Phase I of a homesite subdivision on Country Club Road in Ardmore, directly across the street from Dornick Hills Golf & Country Club. ### Tulsa Metro, OK - [Tulsa Metro, OK Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/): Tulsa's golf identity rests on a genuinely unusual foundation for a mid-size American metro: Southern Hills Country Club, a Perry Maxwell design that will become the only course in history to host six PGA Championships when it returns in 2032, alongside three U.S. Opens already in its history. #### Golf Clubs in Tulsa Metro - [Southern Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/southern-hills-country-club/): A member-owned, invitation-only Perry Maxwell design (1935-36) in south Tulsa, one of American golf's most significant championship venues -- three U.S. Opens, five PGA Championships (a sixth confirmed for 2032) -- with real, if informal, residential identity in the adjacent Balmoral and Timberlane Hills neighborhoods. - [Cedar Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/cedar-ridge-country-club/): Private, invitation-based 18-hole Joe Finger club (1969, 1983 U.S. Women's Open host) anchoring the Cedar Ridge-named development in Broken Arrow, including the gated Berwick on Cedar Ridge luxury enclave and the gated 55+ Village of Spicewood at Cedar Ridge. - [Indian Springs Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/indian-springs-country-club/): Tulsa's only private 36-hole club (River and Lakes courses, ~400 acres) in Broken Arrow, member-owned since a Dec. 2023 purchase by the Chambers family; anchors the genuinely golf-integrated Indian Springs Estates neighborhood and gated sub-communities like The Lakes at Indian Springs. - [The Patriot Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/patriot-golf-club/): A private 18-hole Robert Trent Jones Jr. course (opened 2010) at the south end of the ~3,000-acre Stone Canyon master-planned community in Owasso; The Coves at Stone Canyon and other Stone Canyon neighborhoods market 'access to' the club, but the exact access mechanic (included, discounted, or fully separate) could not be confirmed this session. - [The Club at Forest Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/club-at-forest-ridge/): Semi-private golf anchor (opened 1989, Bobby Jones Links-managed) of the 1,000+-acre Forest Ridge master-planned community in Broken Arrow, confirmed via multiple independent outlets to be transitioning to fully private membership on November 1, 2026. - [The Golf Club of Oklahoma](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/golf-club-of-oklahoma/): A private, invitation-only Tom Fazio design (opened 1982) on 525 wooded acres near Broken Arrow/Coweta, with the adjacent Juniper Hills custom-home subdivision (half-acre to 2.16-acre lots) marketed directly on its proximity to the club. #### Golf Communities in Tulsa Metro - [Balmoral](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/balmoral-tulsa/): A small gated south Tulsa neighborhood in the 74136 zip code, marketed directly as 'just steps from' Southern Hills Country Club. - [Timberlane Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/timberlane-hills-tulsa/): An established, non-gated south Tulsa neighborhood adjoining Southern Hills Country Club, described in Tulsa World's own coverage as a 'quiet south Tulsa neighborhood' bordering the club, with homes dating to at least 1959. - [Berwick on Cedar Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/berwick-on-cedar-ridge/): Broken Arrow, OK: A gated development of 160 luxury lots (organized as Berwick I, Berwick Villas, Berwick Greens, and Berwick Fairways) at Cedar Ridge Country Club, with 26 lots directly adjoining the golf course and many others with golf-course or water views. - [The Village of Spicewood at Cedar Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/village-of-spicewood-cedar-ridge/): Broken Arrow, OK: A gated 55+ active-adult community at 4602 S Royal Dublin Lane within the Cedar Ridge-named development, with its own clubhouse, gym, pickleball/tennis courts, and pool. - [Indian Springs Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/indian-springs-estates/): An established Broken Arrow neighborhood around Indian Springs Country Club, with a confirmed median home price of $313,327 and varied architectural styles on spacious lots, marketed on its golf-course setting. - [The Lakes at Indian Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/the-lakes-at-indian-springs/): A gated sub-neighborhood within the Indian Springs area of Broken Arrow, with its own HOA (thelakesatindiansprings.com) and fairway-view homes. - [The Coves at Stone Canyon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/the-coves-at-stone-canyon/): The newest gated, lake-adjacent enclave within the Stone Canyon master-planned community in Owasso, with homes from roughly $700,000 and marketed with references to 'access to' the Patriot Golf Club -- an access mechanic this research could not confirm. - [Lochmere at Forest Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/lochmere-at-forest-ridge/): A gated new-construction neighborhood on the golf course within Forest Ridge, Broken Arrow's 1,000+-acre master-planned community, with Forest Ridge HOA dues confirmed separate from Club at Forest Ridge membership. - [Juniper Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oklahoma/tulsa-metro-ok/juniper-hills-broken-arrow/): A custom-home subdivision at 141st & 209th E Ave in Broken Arrow, on half-acre to 2.16-acre lots, sitting directly adjacent to The Golf Club of Oklahoma and marketed on that proximity. ## New Mexico - [New Mexico Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/): Independent research on 9 golf clubs and 13 residential golf communities across 4 New Mexico golf markets, including Albuquerque Metro, Santa Fe and Las Cruces: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### New Mexico Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in New Mexico](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 3 New Mexico golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Picacho Hills Country Club, Alto Lakes Golf & Country Club and Rainmakers Golf & Lifestyle Community. - [Private Golf Communities in New Mexico](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 6 private New Mexico golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Tanoan Country Club, Albuquerque Country Club, The Canyon Club at Four Hills, Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club and The Club at Las Campanas. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in New Mexico](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 4 New Mexico golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Picacho Hills Country Club, Alto Lakes Golf & Country Club, Rainmakers Golf & Lifestyle Community and Quail Run Golf Course. ### New Mexico Comparisons - [Tanoan vs Albuquerque Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/tanoan-country-club-vs-albuquerque-country-club/): A researched comparison of Tanoan Country Club and Albuquerque Country Club: two very different eras and structures of private golf-residential living in the Albuquerque metro. - [Tanoan vs The Canyon Club at Four Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/tanoan-country-club-vs-canyon-club-at-four-hills/): A researched comparison of Tanoan Country Club and The Canyon Club at Four Hills: gated master plan versus a non-gated, member-rescued foothills club, both genuinely planned alongside their neighborhoods. - [Alto Lakes vs. Rainmakers: Alto, NM Golf Living Compared](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/alto-lakes-vs-rainmakers-alto-nm/): Compare Alto Lakes Golf & Country Club and Rainmakers Golf & Lifestyle Community in Alto, NM, including how each ties club membership to property ownership. - [Las Campanas vs Quail Run for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/las-campanas-vs-quail-run-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Santa Fe's two qualifying golf communities, Las Campanas and Quail Run: course pedigree, price, and how club access actually relates to homeownership at each. ### Albuquerque Metro, NM - [Albuquerque Metro, NM Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-metro-nm/): US Golf Living has researched golf anchors across the Albuquerque metro, including Albuquerque proper, Rio Rancho, and the East Mountains, from a purpose-built gated golf community and a century-old member-owned club to a foothills club genuinely planned alongside its neighborhood and a top-rated East Mountains course. #### Golf Clubs in Albuquerque Metro - [Tanoan Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-metro-nm/tanoan-country-club/): A purpose-built, gated, 27-hole private golf-residential community in Albuquerque's Northeast Heights (Bruce Devlin/Robert von Hagge design, opened 1978-79), anchoring the separately-gated Tanoan West and Tanoan East neighborhoods; club membership is a separate, optional purchase from HOA-governed homeownership. - [Albuquerque Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-metro-nm/albuquerque-country-club/): New Mexico's oldest private country club (founded 1914; John Van Kleek-designed course opened 1928), a genuine equity/shareholder club near Old Town Albuquerque, with a century-long identity tied to the surrounding, formally-organized Country Club Neighborhood. - [The Canyon Club at Four Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-metro-nm/canyon-club-at-four-hills/): Albuquerque, NM: A private, member-owned club (founded 1959 as Four Hills Country Club, Bob Baldock design; renamed The Canyon Club at Four Hills in 2013 after a member-led buyout from foreclosure) genuinely planned and built alongside the surrounding Four Hills Village neighborhood beginning in the late 1950s, offering both equity and non-equity membership. - [Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-metro-nm/paako-ridge-golf-club/): A privately-owned, semi-private, non-equity 27-hole club (Ken Dye design; 18 holes 2000, 9 more in 2005) in Sandia Park's East Mountains, anchoring the gated, HOA-governed Paa-Ko Communities development where fairway homes command a real price premium. #### Golf Communities in Albuquerque Metro - [Tanoan West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-metro-nm/tanoan-west/): The westerly of Tanoan's two gated, separately-governed neighborhoods in Albuquerque's Northeast Heights, built around Tanoan Country Club's 27-hole course. - [Tanoan East](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-metro-nm/tanoan-east/): Albuquerque, NM: The easterly, larger of Tanoan's two gated, separately-governed neighborhoods, rooted around the exclusive Tanoan Country Club clubhouse, tennis courts, and pool. - [Country Club Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-metro-nm/country-club-neighborhood-albuquerque/): A historic, non-gated residential neighborhood between the Rio Grande and Old Town Albuquerque, carrying Albuquerque Country Club's name and identity since the club's founding era, organized today as the Country Club Neighborhood Association (est. 1986). - [Four Hills Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-metro-nm/four-hills-village/): A roughly 900-acre foothills neighborhood in southeast Albuquerque, genuinely planned and developed alongside its golf course (now The Canyon Club at Four Hills) beginning in 1957-59; no HOA, not community-wide gated. - [Paa-Ko Communities](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-metro-nm/paa-ko-communities/): A roughly 625-acre gated residential development in the East Mountains (Sandia Park, Bernalillo County), built around Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club, with a documented fairway-frontage home-price premium. ### Las Cruces, NM - [Las Cruces, NM Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/las-cruces-nm/): Las Cruces, the seat of Doña Ana County in southern New Mexico near the Texas and Mexico borders, is a genuinely thin golf-residential market by this platform's standard, and full-depth research confirms that read honestly rather than stretching it: only one anchor, Picacho Hills Country Club, clears the qualification bar. #### Golf Clubs in Las Cruces - [Picacho Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/las-cruces-nm/picacho-hills-country-club/): An 18-hole, par-72 semi-private golf club in the Picacho Hills/Picacho Mountain area on Las Cruces's far west side, operated by Spirit Golf Management Southwest since a sale finalized in September 2020. #### Golf Communities in Las Cruces - [Picacho Mountain](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/las-cruces-nm/picacho-mountain/): The developer's active new-construction marketing brand for phases of the Picacho Hills neighborhood, on Las Cruces's far west side. - [The Willows at Picacho Mountain](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/las-cruces-nm/the-willows-at-picacho-mountain/): An 80-home gated courtyard-home enclave (1,500-2,100 sq ft homes) within Picacho Mountain, the new-construction phase of Las Cruces's Picacho Hills neighborhood. - [Fairway Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/las-cruces-nm/fairway-village-las-cruces/): Las Cruces, NM: A small, gated, 67-home community of Southwestern-style patio homes within Picacho Hills, with views of the Picacho Hills Country Club golf course, Picacho Peak, and the Doña Ana and Organ Mountains. - [Coronado Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/las-cruces-nm/coronado-ridge-las-cruces/): Las Cruces, NM: A gated subdivision within the broader Picacho Hills golf-course community. This research confirms it as a genuinely distinct entity from Texas's unrelated El Paso 'Coronado Country Club' (checked explicitly to avoid a cross-border naming collision) -- a residential subdivision name, not a golf club. ### Alto/Ruidoso, NM - [Alto/Ruidoso, NM Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/alto-ruidoso-nm/): Alto/Ruidoso is a compact, high-elevation (roughly 7,300-7,550 feet) mountain golf-residential pocket in Lincoln County, five miles north of the village of Ruidoso in the Sierra Blanca/Sacramento Mountains resort corridor. #### Golf Clubs in Alto/Ruidoso - [Alto Lakes Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/alto-ruidoso-nm/alto-lakes-golf-country-club/): A private, member-owned club established in 1967 (first opened for play 1968) in Alto (Lincoln County), operating three 18-hole courses across a roughly 1,700-acre residential footprint of 13 subdivisions. - [Rainmakers Golf & Lifestyle Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/alto-ruidoso-nm/rainmakers-golf-lifestyle-community/): A gated, 525-acre private golf-residential enclave in Alto (Lincoln County), built around a Robert Trent Jones II-designed course opened in 2008 -- New Mexico's only Audubon Signature Sanctuary-certified course and Golfweek's #1-ranked Residential Golf Course in the state (2019, #32 nationally). #### Golf Communities in Alto/Ruidoso - [The Outlaw Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/alto-ruidoso-nm/the-outlaw-estates/): A subdivision of 1+-acre homesites built around The Outlaw at Alto Lakes course on Alto Mesa. The developer's own site states that a lot's purchase price includes a full Alto Lakes Golf & Country Club membership -- a directly documented, bundled golf-to-property relationship. - [Rainmakers Resort Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/alto-ruidoso-nm/rainmakers-resort-community/): The 525-acre gated residential community built around the Rainmakers golf course in Alto (Lincoln County), offering patio homes, townhomes, custom homes, and homesites, with a Lifestyle Membership to the golf club required and included with lot purchase per the community's own site. ### Santa Fe, NM - [Santa Fe, NM Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/santa-fe-nm/): Santa Fe's golf-residential identity is narrower and more concentrated than a typical Sun Belt golf market, and that concentration is itself the story. #### Golf Clubs in Santa Fe - [The Club at Las Campanas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/santa-fe-nm/club-at-las-campanas/): An invitation-only, board-approval private club built around two Jack Nicklaus Signature courses (Sunrise, his 100th designed course, opened 1993; Sunset, opened 2000, ranked #1 in New Mexico by Golf Digest), at the center of the 4,700-acre, 17-enclave gated master-planned community of Las Campanas in northwest Santa Fe. - [Quail Run Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/santa-fe-nm/quail-run-golf-course/): A private, gated, staffed community of 265 individually owned condominiums on ~103 acres in southeast Santa Fe, built directly around a private, PGA-rated par-32 nine-hole course; the exact relationship between condo ownership, HOA dues, and the club's separate Golf/Premium/Social/Fitness membership tiers is a genuine, unresolved open question flagged explicitly in this record. #### Golf Communities in Santa Fe - [Las Campanas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/santa-fe-nm/las-campanas/): A 4,700-acre, 17-enclave gated master-planned community roughly seven to ten miles northwest of the Santa Fe Plaza, built around The Club at Las Campanas' two private Jack Nicklaus courses; club membership is sold entirely separately from home or lot purchase. - [Quail Run](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-mexico/santa-fe-nm/quail-run/): A gated, staffed condominium community of 265 individually owned units on ~103 acres in southeast Santa Fe, built directly around a private nine-hole golf course; whether golf access is genuinely bundled into HOA dues or requires the club's separately listed Golf Membership tier is an open, unresolved question. ## Utah - [Utah Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/): Independent research on 10 golf clubs and 14 residential golf communities across 3 Utah golf markets, including Park City / Deer Valley, Salt Lake City Metro and St. George: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Utah Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Utah](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 9 private Utah golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Promontory Club, Glenwild Golf Club, Talisker Club, Victory Ranch Golf Club and Red Ledges. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Utah](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 5 private Utah golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Talisker Club, Red Ledges, Homestead Golf Club, Oakridge Country Club and Willow Creek Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Utah](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 3 Utah golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Homestead Golf Club, Entrada at Snow Canyon Country Club and Black Desert Resort. ### Utah Comparisons - [Promontory vs Glenwild for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/promontory-vs-glenwild-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Park City's two most prominent private golf communities, Promontory and Glenwild: scale, price, course pedigree, and how club access actually relates to homeownership at each. - [Talisker Club vs Red Ledges for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/talisker-club-vs-red-ledges-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Talisker Club (Tuhaye) and Red Ledges: golf pedigree, price, and the sharply different ways membership relates to property ownership at each. - [Oakridge vs Willow Creek Country Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/oakridge-vs-willow-creek-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Oakridge Country Club (Farmington) and Willow Creek Country Club (Sandy), the two qualifying golf-residential anchors in the Salt Lake City metro. - [Entrada vs Black Desert Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/entrada-at-snow-canyon-country-club-vs-black-desert-resort/): A researched comparison of Entrada at Snow Canyon Country Club and Black Desert Resort in St. George/Ivins, UT: an established private equity club versus a young, tournament-hosting resort development. ### Park City / Deer Valley, UT - [Park City / Deer Valley, UT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/): Park City/Deer Valley is Utah's single largest and most consequential golf-residential cluster, spanning Summit and Wasatch counties across a corridor of large, private, gated golf-and-ski communities unlike anything else researched in this state. #### Golf Clubs in Park City / Deer Valley - [Promontory Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/promontory-club/): A 7,200-acre private gated golf and ski community northeast of Park City with three courses (Pete Dye Canyon, Nicklaus Painted Valley, The Hills Par-3) under the Promontory Club umbrella; golf membership is a distinct, currently wait-listed equity purchase separate from home ownership and from the club's non-golf Social Membership. - [Glenwild Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/glenwild-golf-club/): A gated Snyderville Basin community built around a private Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole course, Golf Digest's #1-ranked course in Utah for six consecutive years and the only gated golf-course community within the Park City School District; property purchase is not required to join the club, and club membership is not included with home purchase. - [Talisker Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/talisker-club/): Talisker Club in Park City, UT: the private club behind Tuhaye's Mark O'Meara golf course, serving Tuhaye, Empire Pass, and Red Cloud -- and the genuinely unresolved question of how membership relates to real estate here. - [Victory Ranch Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/victory-ranch-golf-club/): A private, gated, four-season golf and fly-fishing community near Kamas on roughly 6,700 acres along the Upper Provo River, built around a Rees Jones-designed 18-hole course; Ranch Club membership is restricted to property owners, but whether it is mandatory for every owner was not confirmed. - [Red Ledges](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/red-ledges-club/): A gated, master-planned mountain golf community in Heber City with two Jack Nicklaus Signature layouts (an 18-hole championship course and a 12-hole Golf Park); every resident is confirmed to be required to hold at least one club membership tier (Golf, Golf Park, or Lifestyle), though only a capped ~400 memberships include golf. - [Homestead Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/homestead-golf-club/): Homestead Golf Club in Midway, UT: a historic resort course mid-renovation (reopening 2027), with new condo and cottage residences already selling alongside a Social/Golf/Heritage membership program. #### Golf Communities in Park City / Deer Valley - [Promontory](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/promontory/): A 7,200-acre gated master-planned community northeast of Park City with 1,924 platted homesites across 43 neighborhoods, built around Promontory Club's three golf courses; club membership is a separate, optional purchase from home ownership. - [Glenwild](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/glenwild/): A low-density, gated community of 196 total homesites (fewer than 200 homes built) in Park City's Snyderville Basin, built directly around Glenwild Golf Club's private Tom Fazio-designed course; club membership is a separate, optional purchase from real estate. - [Tuhaye](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/tuhaye/): A gated golf community near the Jordanelle Reservoir in Hideout, Wasatch County, physically containing Talisker Club's 18-hole Mark O'Meara-designed course; whether Talisker Club membership is required, included, or merely available for a given Tuhaye purchase is a genuine, unresolved conflict in the sourcing found. - [Empire Pass](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/empire-pass/): Park City, UT: The upper-mountain, ski-in/ski-out residential area of Deer Valley Resort, comprising roughly 20 distinct branded sub-communities; it has no golf course of its own, and owners access golf only through Talisker Club membership at Tuhaye, whose bundling terms genuinely vary and are not resolved community-wide. - [Red Cloud](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/red-cloud/): Park City, UT: A small (30-homesite), ski-in/ski-out estate enclave at Deer Valley, one of Talisker Club's three residential communities; this research independently confirmed Red Cloud as a distinct community beyond the Tuhaye/Empire Pass framing in the market manifest. - [Victory Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/victory-ranch/): A private, gated, four-season community near Kamas on roughly 6,700 acres along the Upper Provo River with 350 homesites, built around a Rees Jones-designed golf course; Ranch Club membership is restricted to property owners. - [Red Ledges](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/red-ledges/): A gated, master-planned golf community in Heber City built around two Jack Nicklaus Signature golf products; every resident is required to hold at least one membership tier, though only two of the three tiers include actual golf access. - [Homestead Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/homestead-residences/): A planned 68-unit branded condominium product (Autograph Collection) integrated into the Homestead resort in Midway, marketed alongside a structured Social/Golf/Heritage membership program; the golf course itself is currently closed for renovation, reopening summer 2027. - [The Links at the Homestead](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/links-at-the-homestead/): A 57-cottage residential community on 26.5 acres adjacent to the Homestead resort in Midway, built directly alongside the resort's golf course (currently closed for renovation, reopening summer 2027). - [Deer Crest / St. Regis Deer Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/park-city-deer-valley-ut/deer-crest-st-regis/): Park City, UT: A 600-acre gated master-planned community at Deer Valley anchored by the St. Regis Deer Valley hotel and residences; the private Deer Crest Club has no golf course of its own, but a confirmed partnership gives its members golf access at Red Ledges in Heber City. ### Salt Lake City Metro, UT - [Salt Lake City Metro, UT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/salt-lake-city-metro-ut/): US Golf Living has researched 8 golf clubs in the Salt Lake City Metro golf market, across Salt Lake, Davis, and Utah counties, including Oakridge Country Club and Willow Creek Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Salt Lake City Metro - [Oakridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/salt-lake-city-metro-ut/oakridge-country-club/): A private, member-owned 18-hole club (William F. Bell / William Neff, 1957, ~400 members) in Farmington, anchoring the formally named 'Oakridge Country Club Estates' subdivision confirmed independently across multiple listing platforms. - [Willow Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/salt-lake-city-metro-ut/willow-creek-country-club/): A private, member-owned 18-hole club (founded 1957, ~500 members, Equity/Junior/Social tiers) in Sandy, anchoring the formally incorporated 'Willow Creek Country Club Estates Homeowners' Association, Inc.' and a confirmed gated enclave sitting above the course. #### Golf Communities in Salt Lake City Metro - [Oakridge Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/salt-lake-city-metro-ut/oakridge-country-club-estates/): A formally named residential subdivision in Farmington built around Oakridge Country Club, confirmed independently across Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, and Best Utah Real Estate listing pages under the club's exact name. - [Willow Creek Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/salt-lake-city-metro-ut/willow-creek-country-club-estates/): A gated residential enclave in Sandy governed by a separately incorporated homeowners' association (Willow Creek Country Club Estates Homeowners' Association, Inc.), sitting directly above Willow Creek Country Club with fairway and Wasatch Mountain views. ### St. George, UT - [St. George, UT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/st-george-ut/): US Golf Living has researched golf anchors across the St. George/Washington County desert-golf corridor in southern Utah, from a private, gated equity club at Entrada at Snow Canyon to a nationally significant PGA Tour and LPGA host venue at Black Desert Resort -- alongside a wide field of public, municipal, and resort-access courses that do not clear this platform's residential-bundling bar. #### Golf Clubs in St. George - [Entrada at Snow Canyon Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/st-george-ut/entrada-at-snow-canyon-country-club/): A private, gated equity country club (est. 1996) west of St. George near Snow Canyon, whose Regular Equity and Limited Golf Equity membership tiers explicitly require purchasing a lot or home within the Entrada property -- a genuine bundled-to-homeownership mechanic -- while an Invitational Equity tier does not require ownership. - [Black Desert Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/st-george-ut/black-desert-resort/): Tom Weiskopf's final golf course design (opened 2023) in Ivins, UT, host of the PGA Tour's Bank of Utah Championship every year since 2024 and the LPGA's Black Desert Championship in 2025. #### Golf Communities in St. George - [Entrada at Snow Canyon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/st-george-ut/entrada-at-snow-canyon-community/): A gated, master-planned luxury community of roughly 1,600-plus homes surrounding Entrada at Snow Canyon Country Club's private golf course near St. George's Snow Canyon border, governed by multiple layered property-owner associations with sub-community-specific HOA fees. - [Black Desert Resort Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/utah/st-george-ut/black-desert-resort-residences/): A resort-residential development in Ivins, UT, built around Black Desert Resort's Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course, with buildout plans for 1,050 total residences (condominiums and single-family homes across phases including Silver Reef, The Cove, and the Resort Center) plus 32 single-family estate lots. ## Oregon - [Oregon Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/): Independent research on 14 golf clubs and 18 residential golf communities across 4 Oregon golf markets, including Bend / Central Oregon, Portland Metro and Rogue Valley: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Oregon Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Oregon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 4 Oregon golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Tetherow, Pronghorn Club at Juniper Preserve, Eagle Crest Resort and Senior Estates Golf and Country Club. - [Private Golf Communities in Oregon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 10 private Oregon golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Broken Top Club, Brasada Ranch, Sunriver Resort, Awbrey Glen Golf Club and The Oregon Golf Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Oregon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 5 private Oregon golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Sunriver Resort, Rock Creek Country Club, Waverley Country Club, Persimmon Country Club and Rogue Valley Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Oregon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 4 Oregon golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Broken Top Club, Sunriver Resort, Rogue Valley Country Club and Senior Estates Golf and Country Club. ### Oregon Comparisons - [Tetherow vs. Broken Top](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/tetherow-vs-broken-top-for-golf-living/): Comparing Tetherow and Broken Top, two of Bend, Oregon's premier golf communities: bundled vs. optional club membership, architecture, gating, and pricing. - [Juniper Preserve vs. Brasada Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/juniper-preserve-vs-brasada-ranch-for-golf-living/): Comparing Juniper Preserve (Pronghorn Club) and Brasada Ranch, two of Central Oregon's leading master-planned golf resort communities, on membership, golf offering, and price. - [Waverley Country Club vs The Oregon Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/waverley-country-club-vs-the-oregon-golf-club/): A researched comparison of Waverley Country Club (Dunthorpe) and The Oregon Golf Club (West Linn): historic invitation-only prestige versus modern access, current LPGA hosting, and residential character. ### Bend / Central Oregon, OR - [Bend / Central Oregon, OR Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/): Bend and Central Oregon form Oregon's single largest and most consequential golf-residential cluster, spanning Deschutes County's high-desert corridor from downtown Bend east to Redmond and Powell Butte and south to Sunriver, plus a Jefferson County outlier at Crooked River Ranch. #### Golf Clubs in Bend / Central Oregon - [Tetherow](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/tetherow/): A 700-acre David McLay Kidd-designed golf and recreational resort community on Bend's west side where resident club membership is genuinely bundled with most on-site home purchases and transfers with the sale of the property. - [Broken Top Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/broken-top-club/): One of Bend's most iconic gated communities, built around a private Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish-designed course; club membership is a genuine, structured, optional purchase separate from home ownership, and the club itself is now owned by the homeowners' association following a resident-approved 2019 purchase. - [Pronghorn Club at Juniper Preserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/pronghorn-club-at-juniper-preserve/): The golf-club operation at Juniper Preserve (the rebranded former Pronghorn Resort, rebranded 2022) roughly 10 miles east of Bend, spanning Jack Nicklaus Signature and Tom Fazio Championship courses; Premier Club membership is genuinely unlocked by purchasing real estate at Juniper Preserve. - [Brasada Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/brasada-ranch/): An 1,800-acre master-planned resort real-estate community on Powell Butte built around the members/resort-guest-only Brasada Canyons golf course (Peter Jacobsen/Jim Hardy); Club Membership is confirmed mandatory for most owners and transferable at closing. - [Sunriver Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/sunriver-resort/): A large, multi-course resort/residential community near Bend with genuinely tiered golf access: private Meadows/Woodlands (Sunriver Golf Club), private Crosswater Club, and a 9-hole Caldera Links course with real homeowner-exclusive elements for the Caldera Springs sub-community. - [Awbrey Glen Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/awbrey-glen-golf-club/): A private, member-owned 18-hole club on Bend's Awbrey Butte with tiered dues-based membership and a gated, 189-homesite residential community wrapped around the course; membership is optional for residents. - [Eagle Crest Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/eagle-crest-resort/): A 1,700-acre resort and residential community west of Redmond with three golf courses and three distinct major housing developments; a mandatory, property-tied Recreation Membership bundles golf privileges with sports-center access for every homeowner. #### Golf Communities in Bend / Central Oregon - [Tetherow Neighborhoods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/tetherow-community/): Seven named residential neighborhoods on Bend's west side built directly around the Tetherow golf course, where resident club membership is bundled with most home purchases and transfers at resale. - [Broken Top](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/broken-top/): One of Bend's most iconic gated communities (established early 1990s, ~870 homes across 8 sub-neighborhoods) built directly around Broken Top Club's private Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish course; club membership is a separate, optional purchase now owned by the homeowners' association. - [Juniper Preserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/juniper-preserve/): A 640-acre gated high-desert residential community roughly 10 miles east of Bend (the former Pronghorn Resort, rebranded 2022), where Pronghorn Club golf membership is confirmed unlocked by real estate purchase. - [Brasada Ranch Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/brasada-ranch-community/): An 1,800-acre master-planned real-estate community on Powell Butte where a mandatory, transferable Club Membership provides access to the members/resort-guest-only Brasada Canyons golf course. - [Caldera Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/caldera-springs/): A 400-acre gated luxury residential community (established 2006) within the Sunriver Resort ecosystem, whose owners get exclusive access to a 3-hole 'Owner's Only' extension at the Caldera Links golf course, not available to any other user class. - [Sunriver](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/sunriver-community/): The broader 3,300-acre Sunriver community governed by the Sunriver Owners Association; ordinary homeownership here does not include or bundle golf access at any of the resort's courses. - [Awbrey Glen](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/awbrey-glen-community/): Bend, OR: A gated community of 189 homesites on large private lots wrapped around Awbrey Glen Golf Club's course; club membership is a separate, optional purchase from real estate. - [The Ridge at Eagle Crest](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/the-ridge-at-eagle-crest/): Redmond, OR: The largest of Eagle Crest Resort's three major housing developments, with over 1,700 home sites along the Cline Buttes, subject to the resort's mandatory Recreation Membership bundling golf privileges. - [Eagle Crest Estates (East Village)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/eagle-crest-estates/): Redmond, OR: The original, east-side portion of Eagle Crest Resort, governed by the Eagle Crest Master Association (ECMA) and including the 182-home Estate Homesite Owners Association (EHOA, two gated neighborhoods) and the 47-unit River View Vista Estates (RVVE) built along the Resort Golf Course or Deschutes River canyon. - [The Falls at Eagle Crest](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/bend-central-oregon-or/the-falls-at-eagle-crest/): Redmond, OR: A 203-homesite, age-restricted (55+) enclave within Eagle Crest Resort with its own private clubhouse and fitness center, layered on top of the resort's confirmed-mandatory, golf-inclusive Recreation Membership. ### Portland Metro, OR - [Portland Metro, OR Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/portland-metro-or/): Portland Metro's golf-residential picture is built almost entirely on old-guard, private, member-owned clubs founded between 1896 and 1993, rather than the newer master-planned golf resort communities common in Sun Belt states -- with one significant exception. #### Golf Clubs in Portland Metro - [The Oregon Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/portland-metro-or/the-oregon-golf-club/): A private 18-hole club (1989/1992, Peter Jacobsen/Jim Hardy/Ken Kavanaugh design) in West Linn with confirmed gated luxury estates bordering its fairways, and the current annual host (since 2021) of the LPGA Tour's only Pacific Northwest stop. - [Rock Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/portland-metro-or/rock-creek-country-club/): Portland, OR: A private 18-hole club in unincorporated Washington County built in the early 1960s specifically to help market the surrounding Rock Creek residential development, which remains a genuine, consistently named neighborhood centered on the club today. - [Charbonneau Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/portland-metro-or/charbonneau-golf-club/): A semi-private 27-hole course (Ted Robinson Sr., 1973-79) built as the mandated open-space centerpiece of Wilsonville's 1,627-unit Charbonneau planned community, whose master HOA ('Charbonneau Country Club') is mandatory for every district household -- though the golf course itself is a separately incorporated facility requiring its own paid membership. - [Waverley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/portland-metro-or/waverley-country-club/): Portland, OR: Chartered in 1896, one of the oldest private clubs in the western U.S.; invitation-only, and the 2023 host of the U.S. Senior Women's Open (its eighth USGA championship), adjacent to the exclusive, entirely-residential Dunthorpe neighborhood. - [Persimmon Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/portland-metro-or/persimmon-country-club/): A fully private 18-hole club (1993, Gene 'Bunny' Mason design) in Gresham, anchoring the formally incorporated Persimmon Country Club Community Homeowners Association, governed under Oregon's Planned Community Act. #### Golf Communities in Portland Metro - [Petes Mountain Road Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/portland-metro-or/petes-mountain-road-estates/): An informal cluster of gated custom estates and luxury homes directly bordering The Oregon Golf Club's fairways along Petes Mountain Road in West Linn -- not a single formally platted subdivision or HOA, but a genuine, independently documented residential concentration tied to the club. - [Rock Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/portland-metro-or/rock-creek-neighborhood/): Portland, OR: An unincorporated Washington County neighborhood, centered at roughly 185th and West Union, whose identity is built directly around Rock Creek Country Club -- confirmed via a specialist real-estate source's own published neighborhood guide. - [Charbonneau](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/portland-metro-or/charbonneau/): A 1,627-unit planned community in Wilsonville built 1972-79 around a mandated-open-space golf course; every household is a mandatory member of the community-wide HOA ('Charbonneau Country Club'), though golf itself is a separately owned, separately paid facility. - [Dunthorpe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/portland-metro-or/dunthorpe/): Portland, OR: An unincorporated, century-old, entirely-residential-zoned Clackamas County neighborhood of roughly 600 large wooded estates along the Willamette River, immediately adjacent to Waverley Country Club. - [Persimmon Country Club Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/portland-metro-or/persimmon-country-club-community/): A formally incorporated homeowners association (Persimmon Country Club Community Homeowners Association), governed under Oregon's Planned Community Act, built directly around and named for Persimmon Country Club in Gresham. ### Rogue Valley, OR - [Rogue Valley, OR Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/rogue-valley-or/): The Rogue Valley -- centered on Medford in Jackson County, southern Oregon, and including Ashland, Eagle Point, and Grants Pass/Josephine County to the west -- is a genuinely thin golf-residential market by this platform's standard, and full-depth research confirms that read honestly: only one anchor, Rogue Valley Country Club, clears the qualification bar. #### Golf Clubs in Rogue Valley - [Rogue Valley Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/rogue-valley-or/rogue-valley-country-club/): The Rogue Valley's only private club (founded 1924), a 27-hole facility in east Medford combining an 18-hole course (The Rogue, originating from H. Chandler Egan's 1924/1927 design plus a 1961 Ron Caperna addition, remodeled by Robert Muir Graves in 1994-95) and a 9-hole course (The Oaks). #### Golf Communities in Rogue Valley - [Island Pointe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/rogue-valley-or/island-pointe-medford/): A small, gated golf-course community in east Medford, adjacent to and in places physically bordering Rogue Valley Country Club, with a number of homes whose backyards have private gates opening directly onto RVCC tee boxes/fairways near the course's 12th tee. - [Rogue Valley Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/rogue-valley-or/rogue-valley-estates-medford/): A luxury subdivision (streets including South Foothill Rd, Aerial Heights Dr, and Greenway Circle) built alongside Rogue Valley Country Club's fairways in Medford, with some lots offering golf course frontage or views; recent home prices ranged roughly $1.25M-$1.375M per a local specialist real-estate source. ### Salem / Mid-Willamette Valley, OR - [Salem / Mid-Willamette Valley, OR Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/salem-mid-willamette-valley-or/): The Salem / Mid-Willamette Valley market -- centered on Marion County, roughly midway between Portland and the Rogue Valley along the I-5 corridor -- is, on the evidence gathered so far, a single-anchor golf-residential market, following the same disciplined precedent as this build's own Rogue Valley market and New Mexico's Las Cruces. #### Golf Clubs in Salem / Mid-Willamette Valley - [Senior Estates Golf and Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/salem-mid-willamette-valley-or/senior-estates-golf-and-country-club/): A 501(c)(7) non-profit-owned private 18-hole course at the center of Woodburn Estates & Golf, an age-55+ community of 1,510 homes where every homeowner holds equal, undivided ownership of the golf course and clubhouse -- golf access comes bundled with that ownership, not as a separately purchased club membership. #### Golf Communities in Salem / Mid-Willamette Valley - [Woodburn Estates & Golf](https://www.usgolfliving.com/oregon/salem-mid-willamette-valley-or/woodburn-estates-golf-community/): Woodburn Estates & Golf is a mature, age-55+ community of 1,510 homes in Woodburn, Marion County, built around an 18-hole private golf course; every homeowner holds an equal, undivided corporate ownership share of the course and clubhouse. ## Washington - [Washington Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/): Independent research on 14 golf clubs and 16 residential golf communities across 6 Washington golf markets, including Seattle Metro, Cle Elum / Suncadia and Semiahmoo / Whatcom County: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Washington Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Washington](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 13 private Washington golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Tumble Creek Club, Suncadia Resort, Semiahmoo Golf & Country Club, Apple Tree Golf Course and Meadow Springs Country Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Washington](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 4 private Washington golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Suncadia Resort, Semiahmoo Golf & Country Club, Meadow Springs Country Club and Washington National Golf Club. ### Washington Comparisons - [Tumble Creek Club vs. Semiahmoo Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/tumble-creek-club-vs-semiahmoo-golf-country-club/): Compare Washington's two strongest destination-resort golf clubs: Tumble Creek's ownership-gated private course at Suncadia versus Semiahmoo's application-based coastal club in Blaine. - [Broadmoor Golf Club vs Sahalee Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/broadmoor-golf-club-vs-sahalee-country-club/): Compare Seattle's Broadmoor Golf Club and Sammamish's Sahalee Country Club -- history, championship pedigree, gated neighborhoods, and access. - [Canterwood vs The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/canterwood-vs-club-at-snoqualmie-ridge/): Compare Gig Harbor's gated Canterwood community and the Snoqualmie Ridge master-planned community -- scale, gating, golf pedigree, and access. - [Aldarra Golf Club vs The Plateau Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/aldarra-golf-club-vs-the-plateau-club/): Compare Sammamish's invitation-only Aldarra Golf Club and application-based The Plateau Club -- access models, neighborhoods, and course pedigree. ### Cle Elum / Suncadia, WA - [Cle Elum / Suncadia, WA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/cle-elum-suncadia-wa/): The Cle Elum / Suncadia market is Washington's clearest mountain-resort golf-living pocket: a single large master-planned resort, Suncadia, spread across roughly 6,400 acres of the eastern Cascade foothills along the Cle Elum River, about 80 miles east of Seattle via I-90. #### Golf Clubs in Cle Elum / Suncadia - [Tumble Creek Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/cle-elum-suncadia-wa/tumble-creek-club/): Cle Elum, WA: A private, gated golf village within Suncadia Resort, built around a Tom Doak-designed course; membership is restricted to Tumble Creek property owners and requires a separate $60,000 deposit on top of home purchase. - [Suncadia Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/cle-elum-suncadia-wa/suncadia-resort/): A 6,400+ acre master-planned mountain resort near Cle Elum with two public/resort-guest golf courses (Prospector, Rope Rider) and an optional, ownership-restricted 'Suncadia Club' golf-membership tier for property owners, distinct from the separately owned, far more exclusive Tumble Creek Club. #### Golf Communities in Cle Elum / Suncadia - [Tumble Creek Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/cle-elum-suncadia-wa/tumble-creek-village/): Cle Elum, WA: A secluded, gated golf village within Suncadia Resort, built around Tumble Creek Club's private Tom Doak-designed course, with its own entrance and homes/homesites generally priced from the high six figures into the low-to-mid seven figures. - [Suncadia Neighborhoods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/cle-elum-suncadia-wa/suncadia-neighborhoods/): Cle Elum, WA: The broader residential villages of Suncadia Resort (excluding the separately gated Tumble Creek) -- Prospector, Rope Rider, Nelson Preserve, Resort Village, and others -- offering a wide range of housing around two public/resort-guest golf courses. - [The Uplands at Suncadia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/cle-elum-suncadia-wa/the-uplands-at-suncadia/): Cle Elum, WA: A small, gated 55+ residential enclave within Suncadia Resort, with homes priced from the low $1Ms, layered on the same general Suncadia golf-access structure as any other property owner. ### Semiahmoo / Whatcom County, WA - [Semiahmoo / Whatcom County, WA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/semiahmoo-blaine-wa/): The Semiahmoo / Whatcom County market centers on a single, distinctive property: Semiahmoo Resort, a 1,100-acre former cannery site on a sandy spit in Blaine, WA, at the northwestern-most corner of the continental United States, a few miles from the Canadian border near White Rock, BC. #### Golf Clubs in Semiahmoo / Whatcom County - [Semiahmoo Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/semiahmoo-blaine-wa/semiahmoo-golf-country-club/): A private, application-based member club on the Semiahmoo Resort peninsula in Blaine, WA, with an Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay-designed course; confirmed $6,500 single / $9,000 family initiation fee, and genuine but non-bundled residential integration with the resort's 27 gated neighborhoods. #### Golf Communities in Semiahmoo / Whatcom County - [Semiahmoo Resort Neighborhoods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/semiahmoo-blaine-wa/semiahmoo-resort-neighborhoods/): 27 separately gated residential neighborhoods on the Semiahmoo Resort peninsula in Blaine, WA, governed by the Semiahmoo Resort Association, spanning waterfront condos to custom golf-course-lot homes -- with golf club membership offered separately, not bundled. ### Yakima Valley, WA - [Yakima Valley, WA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/yakima-valley-wa/): The Yakima Valley is Washington's fruit- and wine-growing heartland, and its one significant golf-residential product, Apple Tree Resort, reflects that setting directly -- a golf course and gated residential community built out of what were century-old apple orchards on Yakima's southwest edge. #### Golf Clubs in Yakima Valley - [Apple Tree Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/yakima-valley-wa/apple-tree-golf-course/): Apple Tree Golf Course is an 18-hole, John Steidel-designed public course in Yakima (built 1992, famous for its apple-shaped island green on the par-3 17th), around which the same operator has built a gated, HOA-governed residential resort community with homesites sold on direct golf-frontage premiums. #### Golf Communities in Yakima Valley - [Apple Tree Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/yakima-valley-wa/apple-tree-resort-community/): A single-developer, phase-built gated resort community (Apple Tree Parkway, Golden Ridge, Coolidge Heights, Golden Grove) wrapped around the public Apple Tree Golf Course in Yakima, with homesites sold on golf-frontage premiums and a mandatory monthly HOA/developer-dues assessment funding shared resort amenities. ### Hood Canal, WA - [Hood Canal, WA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/hood-canal-wa/): Hood Canal, on the Olympic Peninsula's eastern shore in Mason County, is home to Washington's clearest example of golf genuinely bundled to homeownership: Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club, whose corporate structure is itself the community's homeowners association. #### Golf Clubs in Hood Canal - [Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/hood-canal-wa/alderbrook-golf-yacht-club/): A member-owned, par-72 golf club on Hood Canal (front nine 1965, back nine 1970; Roy Goss/Glen Proctor design) legally organized since 1968 as a homeowners association -- property owners in the Alderbrook community carry a special HOA membership that includes unlimited golf, a genuine bundled-to-homeownership access model. #### Golf Communities in Hood Canal - [Alderbrook Golf Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/hood-canal-wa/alderbrook-golf-community/): The residential neighborhood built around Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club on Hood Canal, where HOA membership -- mandatory for property owners -- bundles in unlimited golf, reciprocal club privileges and boat mooring alongside standard neighborhood governance. ### Tri-Cities, WA - [Tri-Cities, WA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/tri-cities-wa/): Southeastern Washington's Tri-Cities region (Richland, Kennewick and Pasco, built around the Hanford site's legacy workforce and a growing wine industry) has one confirmed genuine golf-residential anchor: Meadow Springs Country Club in Richland, a private, invitation-only, member-owned club whose course runs directly through an established neighborhood of roughly 230 homes along its 'Second Nine' holes. #### Golf Clubs in Tri-Cities - [Meadow Springs Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/tri-cities-wa/meadow-springs-country-club/): A private, invitation-only, member-owned country club (est. 1973, Robert Muir Graves design) in Richland, integrated with an established neighborhood of roughly 230 homes built along its 'Second Nine' holes, though club membership itself is not bundled to those homes. #### Golf Communities in Tri-Cities - [Meadow Springs Second Nine](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/tri-cities-wa/meadow-springs-second-nine/): An established neighborhood of roughly 230 homes sited along or near Meadow Springs Country Club's 'Second Nine' holes in Richland, governed by its own separate, low-cost, mandatory homeowners association that is legally unconnected to country club membership. ### Seattle Metro, WA - [Seattle Metro, WA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/): Seattle Metro -- King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties -- is Washington's largest and most consequential golf-residential cluster by a wide margin, and also its most architecturally and historically varied. #### Golf Clubs in Seattle Metro - [Broadmoor Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/broadmoor-golf-club/): A private 1924 A.V. Macan-designed club in Seattle's Madison Park/Arboretum area, built inside an 85-acre gated residential enclave with its own private streets -- a structure the neighborhood's own history describes as never repeated elsewhere in Seattle. - [Sahalee Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/sahalee-country-club/): A private, member-owned 27-hole club in Sammamish, designed by Ted Robinson Sr. and opened in 1969-70, with a major-championship resume (1998 PGA Championship, 2010 U.S. Senior Open, 2016 and 2024 KPMG Women's PGA Championship) and a 24/7-staffed gated residential neighborhood built around it. - [Canterwood Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/canterwood-golf-country-club/): A private Robert Muir Graves-designed course operated by Invited (Club Corp) inside a roughly 700-acre, 700-780-home gated community in Gig Harbor with 24-hour security; club membership is optional for residents, not required. - [The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/the-club-at-snoqualmie-ridge/): A private, Jack Nicklaus-designed 18-hole club opened in 1999 -- the Pacific Northwest's first Nicklaus Signature course -- anchoring the roughly 4,000-home Snoqualmie Ridge master-planned community and hosting the PGA Tour Champions' Boeing Classic annually. - [Sand Point Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/sand-point-country-club/): A private, member-owned equity club (capped at 400 Equity Golf members) founded in 1927 in NE Seattle's Sand Point neighborhood, inside a genuinely gated 206-household residential enclave; renovated in 2020 by David McLay Kidd. - [The Plateau Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/the-plateau-club/): A private, 1979-founded 18-hole club on the Sammamish Plateau whose course was routed directly through an existing housing development; membership is application-based, not automatically included with any specific home. - [Aldarra Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/aldarra-golf-club/): An invitation-only, Tom Fazio-designed private club (2001) on the historic Boeing family's Aldarra Farm land in Sammamish -- Washington's only Fazio course -- inside the gated Aldarra Estates neighborhood of large custom homes. - [Washington National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/washington-national-golf-club/): A public, John Fought-designed 18-hole course in Auburn (home to the University of Washington golf teams) that offers a discounted 'Resident Membership' explicitly restricted to residents of the adjacent Diamond Ridge Estates neighborhood. #### Golf Communities in Seattle Metro - [Broadmoor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/broadmoor-seattle-community/): Seattle's only fully gated, privately-streeted residential neighborhood, roughly 300 homes built around the 115-acre Broadmoor Golf Club course between the Washington Park Arboretum and Madison Park. - [Sahalee](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/sahalee-sammamish-community/): A 24/7-staffed gated neighborhood of roughly 200-250 homes in northeastern Sammamish, built around Sahalee Country Club; homes trade infrequently. - [Canterwood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/canterwood-gig-harbor-community/): A roughly 700-acre, 24-hour-guarded gated community of 700-780 homes in Gig Harbor, built around Canterwood Golf & Country Club, served by the Peninsula School District. - [Snoqualmie Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/snoqualmie-ridge-community/): A roughly 4,000-home master-planned community on the west side of Snoqualmie, originally developed by Weyerhaeuser's real-estate division, built around The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge and its own town center. - [Sand Point Country Club Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/sand-point-country-club-neighborhood/): A gated, 206-household neighborhood platted in the 1920s atop a hill overlooking Lake Washington in NE Seattle's Sand Point area, built around Sand Point Country Club with its own homeowners association and privately maintained roads. - [The Plateau](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/the-plateau-sammamish-community/): The broader Sammamish Plateau residential area that The Plateau Club's course was routed through in 1979; a mostly non-gated neighborhood with some individually gated pockets nearby. - [Aldarra Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/aldarra-estates-sammamish/): A gated neighborhood of large custom estate homes on the eastern slopes of the Sammamish Plateau, built around Aldarra Golf Club, many with direct golf-course or greenbelt frontage. - [Diamond Ridge Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/diamond-ridge-estates-auburn/): An established Auburn neighborhood of custom homes with fairway views along Washington National Golf Club, whose residents are specifically eligible for the course's discounted Resident Membership tier. - [The Reserve at Washington National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/washington/seattle-metro-wa/the-reserve-at-washington-national-auburn/): Auburn, WA: A newer, 28-homesite Garrette Custom Homes development on 1-2.5 acre lots marketed for its proximity to Washington National Golf Club; distinct from the established Diamond Ridge Estates neighborhood next door. ## Illinois - [Illinois Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/): Independent research on 16 golf clubs and 19 residential golf communities across 3 Illinois golf markets, including Chicago North Shore, Chicago Western/Southwestern Suburbs and Peoria: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Illinois Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Illinois](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 15 private Illinois golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including The Club at Wynstone, Merit Club, Ivanhoe Club, Boulder Ridge Country Club and Conway Farms Golf Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Illinois](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 5 private Illinois golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Merit Club, Lake Barrington Shores Golf Club, Bull Valley Golf Club, White Eagle Golf Club and Olympia Fields Country Club. ### Illinois Comparisons - [Wynstone vs Merit Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/wynstone-vs-merit-club-for-golf-living/): Compare Wynstone and Merit Club, two North Shore gated golf communities with separate-membership private clubs, including what is and isn't confirmed about each community's golf-access relationship. - [Hawthorn Woods Country Club vs Ivanhoe Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/hawthorn-woods-vs-ivanhoe-club-for-golf-living/): Compare Hawthorn Woods Country Club's mandatory club membership model with Ivanhoe Club's separate, optional equity membership at two neighboring Lake County golf communities. - [Cress Creek vs Royal Fox for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/cress-creek-vs-royal-fox-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Cress Creek (Naperville) and Royal Fox (St. Charles), IL for golf-oriented homebuyers: developer history, membership access, HOA structure, and geography. - [White Eagle vs The Glen Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/white-eagle-vs-the-glen-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of White Eagle (Naperville/Aurora) and The Glen Club (Glenview), IL for golf-oriented homebuyers: development type, golf access model, course pedigree, and surroundings. ### Chicago North Shore, IL - [Chicago North Shore, IL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/): The Chicago North Shore is Illinois's largest and most varied concentration of golf-oriented residential living, but it is really two different markets sharing one label. #### Golf Clubs in Chicago North Shore - [The Club at Wynstone](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/club-at-wynstone/): A Jack Nicklaus-designed private club at the heart of Wynstone, a 750-acre, guard-gated community of 437 homesites in North Barrington. - [Merit Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/merit-club/): An invitation-only private club in Libertyville founded in 1992 by the Getz family, host of the 2000 U.S. Women's Open and 2016 UL International Crown. - [Hawthorn Woods Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/hawthorn-woods-country-club/): Hawthorn Woods, IL: A Toll Brothers-built gated community (approved 2003, developed 2004-2009) requiring every homeowner to carry at least a $416/month Social Membership at its Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay-designed club, now operated by KemperSports -- Illinois's cleanest confirmed mandatory-membership bundling case in this batch. - [Ivanhoe Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/ivanhoe-club/): A member-owned, 27-hole equity club (Dick Nugent and Arthur Hills design, opened 1950) in Mundelein, split into two purpose-built gated residential communities, the Woods of Ivanhoe and Ivanhoe Estates. - [Boulder Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/boulder-ridge-country-club/): Lake in the Hills, IL: A private, non-equity 27-hole club (Lohmann Golf Designs, with input from Fuzzy Zoeller) explicitly anchoring the gated Boulder Ridge community in McHenry County. - [Conway Farms Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/conway-farms-golf-club/): A non-profit, invitation-only private club founded by three Lake Forest families (land purchased 1956, course opened 1991, Tom Fazio design) that hosted the PGA Tour's BMW Championship three times (2013, 2015, 2017). - [Lake Barrington Shores Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/lake-barrington-shores-golf-club/): An 18-hole club open to both residents and the public, whose adjacent community, the 510-acre gated Lake Barrington Shores condominium development (1,317 units), receives official 'first opportunity' priority access to club membership -- a real but non-automatic advantage confirmed on the community's own site. - [Bull Valley Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/bull-valley-golf-club/): A private 18-hole club in Woodstock (McHenry County) that gives its name to two residential developments: an un-gated single-family subdivision governed by city-enforced architectural covenants rather than a traditional HOA, and the separate Villas at Bull Valley, where membership in several tiers (golf, social, dining) is explicitly optional. #### Golf Communities in Chicago North Shore - [Wynstone](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/wynstone/): A 750-acre, 24-hour guard-gated luxury community of 437 homesites in North Barrington, built around The Club at Wynstone's Jack Nicklaus-designed course. - [The Reserve at Merit Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/reserve-at-merit-club/): A gated residential enclave built directly adjacent to Merit Club's championship course in Libertyville. Detailed HOA, pricing, and access-arrangement data beyond a single real-estate marketing source were not found this session. - [Hawthorn Woods Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/hawthorn-woods-country-club-community/): A gated, roughly 600-home Toll Brothers community (developed 2004-2009) in the Village of Hawthorn Woods, built around Hawthorn Woods Country Club, where every homeowner is contractually required to carry at least a $416/month Social Membership. - [Woods of Ivanhoe](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/woods-of-ivanhoe/): Mundelein, IL: One of two gated residential communities built around Ivanhoe Club's 27-hole course, governed by the Ivanhoe Club Property Owners Association, Inc. - [Ivanhoe Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/ivanhoe-estates/): Mundelein, IL: The second of two gated residential communities built around Ivanhoe Club's 27-hole course, distinct from the Woods of Ivanhoe. - [Boulder Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/boulder-ridge/): Lake in the Hills, IL: A gated, three-decade-built (1990-2021) McHenry County community explicitly organized around Boulder Ridge Country Club's 27-hole course, split into at least three sub-neighborhoods (Estates, Fairways, Greens) with separate HOAs and fee schedules. - [Conway Farms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/conway-farms-neighborhood/): A purpose-planned Lake Forest neighborhood of single-family homes, condos, and townhomes built from 1991 to 2006, directly coincident with and surrounding Conway Farms Golf Club, with its own homeowners association and shared amenities separate from the private club. - [Lake Barrington Shores](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/lake-barrington-shores/): A 510-acre, gated condominium community of 1,317 units in the Village of Lake Barrington, whose own official website confirms residents receive first-opportunity priority for membership at the adjacent Lake Barrington Shores Golf Club. - [Bull Valley Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/bull-valley-golf-club-subdivision/): The original single-family subdivision named for and built around Bull Valley Golf Club in Woodstock (McHenry County), built from roughly 1990 to the present. - [Villas at Bull Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-north-shore-il/villas-at-bull-valley/): Woodstock, IL: A separate residential development at Bull Valley Golf Club, mixing 3-5 bedroom single-family homes (1,600-4,000 sq ft) and townhomes built 2006-2019, where club membership is confirmed explicitly optional. ### Chicago Western/Southwestern Suburbs, IL - [Chicago Western/Southwestern Suburbs, IL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/): The Chicago Western/Southwestern Suburbs golf market covers DuPage, Kane, and Will counties (plus Olympia Fields in southern Cook County, grouped here per the approved Illinois market manifest) -- a wide arc of Chicago exurbia that runs from the Fox Valley through the I-88 corporate corridor to the far south suburbs. #### Golf Clubs in Chicago Western/Southwestern Suburbs - [Cress Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/cress-creek-country-club/): A private, member-owned equity club in Naperville built by developer Harold Moser in 1962-63 as, by the club's own account, the Chicago area's first residential golf-course community; the club was developer-owned until members bought it out in 1988. - [Royal Fox Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/royal-fox-country-club/): A private, sponsorship-based club that opened in 1989-90 in St. Charles, built together with the purpose-planned Royal Fox subdivision that surrounds it; the club has hosted the Illinois PGA Open multiple times, and membership is separate from homeownership. - [White Eagle Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/white-eagle-golf-club/): A large master-planned Naperville/Aurora community built around a private 27-hole Arnold Palmer-designed course, developed by the same Macom Corporation lineage as Cress Creek; golf membership is optional for both the broader community and the dedicated Golf Villas condominium subset. - [The Glen Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/the-glen-club/): A Tom Fazio-designed course built on the former Glenview Naval Air Station runways, opened in 2001 as the golf centerpiece of The Glen, a 1,121-acre planned mixed-use redevelopment with new residential neighborhoods, retail, and a corporate campus; the club itself is semi-private, mixing public daily-fee play with a real membership tier. - [Prestwick Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/prestwick-country-club-frankfort/): A private club in Frankfort, Will County, that opened for play in 1964 and became the organizing feature of a golf-course-frontage residential neighborhood built out from the late 1960s/1973 through 2008; membership requires member sponsorship and is not automatic for residents. - [Olympia Fields Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/olympia-fields-country-club/): A private, invitation-only, 36-hole club chartered in 1915 that has hosted the U.S. Open, PGA Championship, and BMW Championship; club founder Charles Beach personally organized the 1927 incorporation of the surrounding Village of Olympia Fields, an unusually direct club-to-town founding relationship. - [Stonebridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/stonebridge-country-club-aurora/): A fully private, Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole club established in 1989 in Aurora, DuPage/Kane border, organizing the surrounding Stonebridge residential subdivision; membership is a separate purchase from homeownership. #### Golf Communities in Chicago Western/Southwestern Suburbs - [Cress Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/cress-creek-estates/): A non-gated Naperville subdivision of over 1,200 single-family and townhome residences built by developer Harold Moser starting in 1962 as the Chicago area's first residential golf-course community, organized around what is now the private, member-owned Cress Creek Country Club. - [Royal Fox](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/royal-fox/): A single-family and townhome subdivision built 1988-2001 on the east side of St. Charles, purpose-planned around Royal Fox Country Club, with its own HOA structure including the Royal Fox One sub-association. - [White Eagle](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/white-eagle-community/): A roughly 1,085-unit master-planned community spanning Naperville and Aurora, built around the private White Eagle Golf Club, with golf membership confirmed optional rather than included. - [Golf Villas of White Eagle](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/golf-villas-of-white-eagle/): Naperville, IL: A 105-unit condominium neighborhood built directly on the White Eagle Golf Club course by the Macom Corporation between the late 1980s and mid-1990s; golf club membership is confirmed optional, not included. - [The Glen](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/the-glen-glenview/): A 1,121-acre mixed-use redevelopment of the former Naval Air Station Glenview (closed 1995), combining new-construction residential neighborhoods with retail, a corporate campus, open space, and The Glen Club as its golf centerpiece; approved via a 1998 village land-use plan. - [Prestwick (Frankfort)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/prestwick-frankfort-community/): A single-family neighborhood in Frankfort, Will County, built directly around Prestwick Country Club's course from the late 1960s/1973 through as recently as 2008; club membership requires sponsorship and is not automatic. - [Village of Olympia Fields](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/olympia-fields-village/): A south suburban Cook County village incorporated in 1927 at the direct initiative of Olympia Fields Country Club's founder, Charles Beach, who organized the incorporation effort and served as its first village president; village residency does not confer club membership. - [Stonebridge (Aurora)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/chicago-west-suburbs-il/stonebridge-aurora-community/): An estate-home subdivision in Aurora built starting in 1989 around Stonebridge Country Club, with a landscaped entrance presentation but not confirmed as formally gated; golf club membership is a separate purchase. ### Peoria, IL - [Peoria, IL Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/peoria-il/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Peoria golf market, in Peoria County: WeaverRidge Golf Club, whose surrounding gated subdivision is documented as WeaverRidge Subdivision. #### Golf Clubs in Peoria - [WeaverRidge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/peoria-il/weaverridge-golf-club/): WeaverRidge Golf Club is an 18-hole, Hurdzan-Fry-designed public daily-fee course (opened 1997) in North Peoria, built as the centerpiece of the WeaverRidge Subdivision -- a gated, HOA-governed residential community whose homesites are priced and phased directly around the course's fairways, lakes and 140-foot elevation changes. #### Golf Communities in Peoria - [WeaverRidge Subdivision](https://www.usgolfliving.com/illinois/peoria-il/weaverridge-subdivision/): WeaverRidge Subdivision is a gated, phased North Peoria residential community developed around WeaverRidge Golf Club's Hurdzan-Fry-designed course, governed by its own Master Homeowners' Association (est. 2007) and offering a mix of single-family, attached and condo housing priced on proximity to the course. ## Ohio - [Ohio Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/): Independent research on 7 golf clubs and 6 residential golf communities across 5 Ohio golf markets, including Columbus Metro, Cincinnati Metro and Dayton Metro: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Ohio Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Ohio](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 6 private Ohio golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including TPC River's Bend, Country Club of the North, Signature of Solon Country Club, Muirfield Village Golf Club and The Country Club at Muirfield Village. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Ohio](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 3 Ohio golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including TPC River's Bend, Hide-A-Way Hills and The Country Club at Muirfield Village. ### Ohio Comparisons - [TPC River's Bend vs Country Club of the North](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/tpc-rivers-bend-vs-country-club-of-the-north/): Compare TPC River's Bend near Cincinnati and Country Club of the North near Dayton -- course pedigree, community structure, and golf access for Ohio homebuyers. - [Muirfield Village vs New Albany Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/muirfield-village-vs-new-albany-country-club/): Compare Dublin's Muirfield Village and New Albany Country Club -- two genuine Columbus-area developer-built golf communities with very different club access models. ### Cincinnati Metro, OH - [Cincinnati Metro, OH Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/cincinnati-metro-oh/): Cincinnati's golf landscape is dominated by century-old, member-owned private clubs -- Camargo Club (1925, Indian Hill), Kenwood Country Club (1929), Losantiville Country Club (1902), and others -- that carry genuine local prestige and, in Camargo's case, sit within a historic estate district originally platted by an early-1920s realty company. #### Golf Clubs in Cincinnati Metro - [TPC River's Bend](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/cincinnati-metro-oh/tpc-rivers-bend/): A 476-acre master-planned community in Maineville, Warren County (roughly 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati) built around an Arnold Palmer-designed TPC championship course; homes are physically wrapped around the golf course and every homeowner shares a separate HOA-owned recreation campus (the Sportsplex), while the golf club itself is a private, Arcis Golf-operated club with its own separately purchased membership. #### Golf Communities in Cincinnati Metro - [River's Bend](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/cincinnati-metro-oh/rivers-bend/): A 476-acre master-planned residential community in Maineville, Warren County, comprising three named sub-neighborhoods (River's Bend, Vista Pointe, The Fairways at River's Bend) built around the TPC River's Bend golf course, with every homeowner receiving mandatory access to the HOA-owned Sportsplex recreation campus regardless of golf-club membership. ### Dayton Metro, OH - [Dayton Metro, OH Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/dayton-metro-oh/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Dayton Metro golf market, in Greene County: Country Club of the North, whose surrounding master-planned community carries the same name. #### Golf Clubs in Dayton Metro - [Country Club of the North](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/dayton-metro-oh/country-club-of-the-north-golf/): A deed-restricted, master-planned private residential community in Beavercreek (Greene County, Dayton metro) built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature Design 18-hole course, with multiple active homebuilders marketing new construction inside it and a private country club at its center whose membership is confirmed open to, but not required of, community residents. #### Golf Communities in Dayton Metro - [Country Club of the North](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/dayton-metro-oh/country-club-of-the-north-community/): A deed-restricted, master-planned executive-home community in southeastern Beavercreek organized around the private Country Club of the North golf course, comprising sections including Devon Park, Milford Haven, and The Estates, with new construction actively marketed by multiple regional homebuilders. ### Hocking Hills, OH - [Hocking Hills, OH Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/hocking-hills-oh/): The Hocking Hills region of southeastern Ohio is known primarily for outdoor tourism (state parks, caves, waterfalls) rather than golf, and this research found no other qualifying golf-residential development in the area. #### Golf Clubs in Hocking Hills - [Hide-A-Way Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/hocking-hills-oh/hide-a-way-hills/): Sugar Grove, OH: Research Hide-A-Way Hills, a gated Fairfield/Hocking County lake community near Lancaster, OH where club membership is bundled to every lot, including its nine-hole golf course. #### Golf Communities in Hocking Hills - [Hide-A-Way Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/hocking-hills-oh/hide-a-way-hills-community/): A gated, member-owned 1,650-1,730-acre lake and recreation community near Sugar Grove (Fairfield/Hocking County) established in 1961, where lot ownership automatically includes and requires membership in the community's own club, funding shared lakes, a beach, stables, tennis/pickleball, a shooting range, a lodge, and a secondary nine-hole golf course. ### Cleveland/Akron Metro, OH - [Cleveland/Akron Metro, OH Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/cleveland-akron-metro-oh/): US Golf Living has researched golf-oriented homeownership across the Cleveland/Akron Metro market, spanning Cuyahoga, Summit, Geauga, Lake, and Medina counties. #### Golf Clubs in Cleveland/Akron Metro - [Signature of Solon Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/cleveland-akron-metro-oh/signature-of-solon-country-club/): Signature of Solon Country Club is the private, Arcis Golf-operated 18-hole club at the center of Signature of Solon, a gated 600-acre, 350+ home luxury community in Solon, Ohio (southeast Cuyahoga County). #### Golf Communities in Cleveland/Akron Metro - [Signature of Solon](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/cleveland-akron-metro-oh/signature-of-solon/): Signature of Solon is a gated, 600-acre luxury community of 350+ homes in Solon, Ohio, built around Signature of Solon Country Club, with HOA covenants requiring every homeowner to carry at least a Social Club Membership at the golf club. ### Columbus Metro, OH - [Columbus Metro, OH Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/columbus-metro-oh/): Columbus is Ohio's clearest example of golf actively shaping how a metro area's most desirable residential ground got built, even though -- almost without exception -- nobody in the market automatically receives club membership by buying a home. #### Golf Clubs in Columbus Metro - [Muirfield Village Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/columbus-metro-oh/muirfield-village-golf-club/): Muirfield Village Golf Club is Jack Nicklaus's invitation-only, PGA Tour-caliber private club in Dublin, Ohio -- home of the Memorial Tournament since 1976 and the only course ever to host the Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, and Solheim Cup. - [The Country Club at Muirfield Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/columbus-metro-oh/the-country-club-at-muirfield-village/): The Country Club at Muirfield Village is a private, family-oriented country club built in 1982 inside the Muirfield Village community in Dublin, Ohio -- a more accessible sister facility to the elite, invitation-only Muirfield Village Golf Club, with its own 18-hole course, tennis, pool, and dining, and a fully separate, non-equity membership open to residents and non-residents alike. - [New Albany Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/columbus-metro-oh/new-albany-country-club/): New Albany Country Club is the private, 27-hole Jack Nicklaus club that The New Albany Company built as the deliberate centerpiece of New Albany, Ohio's master-planned community -- 17 neighborhoods and 1,100+ homes of Georgian-style architecture built around the course starting in 1991. #### Golf Communities in Columbus Metro - [Muirfield Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/columbus-metro-oh/muirfield-village-community/): Research Muirfield Village, the 2,400-home Dublin, Ohio community built around Jack Nicklaus's Memorial Tournament course, including HOA amenities and golf access. - [New Albany Country Club Neighborhoods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/ohio/columbus-metro-oh/new-albany-country-club-neighborhoods/): The 17 named neighborhoods (1,100+ homes) that The New Albany Company built around New Albany Country Club's 27-hole Jack Nicklaus course starting in 1991, unified by a consistent Georgian architectural style, green space, and leisure trails -- with country club membership available to, but not included with, any home purchase. ## Michigan - [Michigan Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/): Independent research on 6 golf clubs and 4 residential golf communities across 2 Michigan golf markets, including Northern Michigan Resort Corridor and Detroit Metro: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Michigan Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Michigan](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 6 private Michigan golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Barton Hills Country Club, Bay Harbor Golf Club, Bay Harbor Yacht Club, Crystal Downs Country Club and Forest Dunes Golf Club. ### Michigan Comparisons - [Bay Harbor Golf Club vs. Yacht Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/bay-harbor-golf-club-vs-bay-harbor-yacht-club/): A researched comparison of Bay Harbor's two distinct clubs: the semi-private, public-access golf course versus the yacht club's current mandatory-membership structure for most homeowners. - [Crystal Downs vs. Forest Dunes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/crystal-downs-vs-forest-dunes/): A researched comparison of Crystal Downs Country Club and Forest Dunes Golf Club: architectural pedigree, private-waitlist versus public-access play, and two very different residential models. ### Detroit Metro, MI - [Detroit Metro, MI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/detroit-metro-mi/): US Golf Living has researched 2 golf anchors in the Detroit Metro golf market, in Oakland and Wayne and Macomb and Washtenaw Countyies, including Barton Hills Country Club and Polo Fields Golf & Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Detroit Metro - [Barton Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/detroit-metro-mi/barton-hills-country-club/): A member-owned Donald Ross course (1919-1922) at the center of the Village of Barton Hills, a tiny, tightly-identity-linked executive enclave that Detroit Edison president Alex Dow and the Olmsted Brothers planned together with the club starting in 1913-1915 -- Barton Hills will host the 2026 U.S. Senior Women's Open (August 20-23). - [Polo Fields Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/detroit-metro-mi/polo-fields-golf-country-club/): A private 18-hole club (William Newcomb, 1995) in Scio Township just west of Ann Arbor, forming the organizing golf amenity for the purpose-built Polo Fields residential community -- 415 acres of homesites across three phases, many along the fairways. #### Golf Communities in Detroit Metro - [Village of Barton Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/detroit-metro-mi/barton-hills-village/): A tiny, independently-incorporated Michigan village (population ~316-329, ~140 homes) built as a single planned executive enclave around Barton Hills Country Club, and frequently reported as the wealthiest community in Michigan by median household income. - [The Polo Fields](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/detroit-metro-mi/the-polo-fields-ann-arbor/): A 415-acre, three-phase residential community in Scio Township west of Ann Arbor, purpose-built around the private Polo Fields Golf & Country Club, with its own Homeowners Association legally separate from the club. ### Northern Michigan Resort Corridor, MI - [Northern Michigan Resort Corridor, MI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/northern-michigan-resort-corridor-mi/): The Northern Michigan Resort Corridor is Michigan's richest and most structurally complex golf-living region — a loose string of destination golf properties running from the Lake Michigan shoreline at Petoskey and Harbor Springs south through Charlevoix and Frankfort, and inland to a genuine national golf destination near Roscommon. #### Golf Clubs in Northern Michigan Resort Corridor - [Bay Harbor Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/northern-michigan-resort-corridor-mi/bay-harbor-golf-club/): Bay Harbor, MI: A 27-hole Arthur Hills course (The Links, The Quarry, The Preserve) built on a reclaimed cement-plant site along Little Traverse Bay, ranked among Golf Digest's America's 100 Greatest Public Courses. - [Bay Harbor Yacht Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/northern-michigan-resort-corridor-mi/bay-harbor-yacht-club/): The mandatory-for-most-residences social, dining, marina, and recreation club at the center of the Bay Harbor community — a legally distinct entity from the separate, semi-private Bay Harbor Golf Club. - [Crystal Downs Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/northern-michigan-resort-corridor-mi/crystal-downs-country-club/): Frankfort, MI: A world-renowned 1927-29 Alister MacKenzie/Perry Maxwell design on bluffs between Crystal Lake and Lake Michigan, rated by the Alister MacKenzie Society among his four best works. - [Forest Dunes Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/northern-michigan-resort-corridor-mi/forest-dunes-golf-club/): Roscommon, MI: A nationally elite public-access golf destination in Crawford County — the original Tom Weiskopf course plus Tom Doak's acclaimed reversible Loop, both ranked among Golf Digest's America's 100 Greatest Public Courses — built around a genuine on-site residential program of rental-managed cottages and custom homesites, with a new private Gil Hanse course (SkyFall) under development. #### Golf Communities in Northern Michigan Resort Corridor - [Bay Harbor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/northern-michigan-resort-corridor-mi/bay-harbor/): A 1,200-acre, 5-mile Lake Michigan shoreline master-planned community between Petoskey and Charlevoix, redeveloped since 1994 from a former cement plant into 32 residential neighborhoods, a Village commercial district, a deep-water marina, and the 27-hole Bay Harbor Golf Club. - [Crystal Downs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/michigan/northern-michigan-resort-corridor-mi/crystal-downs/): A roughly one-square-mile unincorporated residential neighborhood built directly around and named for Crystal Downs Country Club, on bluffs between Crystal Lake and Lake Michigan near Frankfort. ## Massachusetts - [Massachusetts Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/): Independent research on 9 golf clubs and 10 residential golf communities across 2 Massachusetts golf markets, including Cape Cod & the Islands and Greater Boston & South Shore: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Massachusetts Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Massachusetts](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 7 private Massachusetts golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including New Seabury, Willowbend, Oyster Harbors Club, Mink Meadows Golf Club and Pinehills Golf Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Massachusetts](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 3 private Massachusetts golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Mink Meadows Golf Club, Indian Pond Country Club and Quail Ridge Country Club. ### Massachusetts Comparisons - [Farm Neck vs New Seabury for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/farm-neck-vs-new-seabury-for-golf-living/): Compare Farm Neck's bundled stockholder membership with New Seabury's arms-length club structure for Cape Cod & Islands golf living. - [New Seabury vs Willowbend for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/new-seabury-vs-willowbend-for-golf-living/): Compare two of Mashpee's leading private golf-club communities: New Seabury's documented arms-length access vs Willowbend's less-confirmed homeowner model. - [Farm Neck vs Oyster Harbors for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/farm-neck-vs-oyster-harbors-for-golf-living/): Compare Farm Neck's deed-linked stockholder membership with Oyster Harbors' single-bridge, invitation-based island club. - [Turner Hill vs. Indian Pond Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/turner-hill-vs-indian-pond-country-club/): Compare Turner Hill (Ipswich) and Indian Pond Country Club (Kingston): bundled vs. optional golf membership, home prices, and what each community's legal ties to golf actually mean for buyers. - [The Pinehills vs. Quail Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-pinehills-vs-quail-ridge-acton/): Compare The Pinehills (Plymouth) and Quail Ridge (Acton): two Massachusetts communities built around public golf access at very different scales, prices, and price premiums. ### Cape Cod & the Islands, MA - [Cape Cod & the Islands, MA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/): Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket form Massachusetts's richest and most structurally varied golf-real-estate market by far -- and also its most inconsistent one when it comes to how golf access actually connects to a home purchase. #### Golf Clubs in Cape Cod & the Islands - [Farm Neck Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/farm-neck-golf-club/): An 18-hole Geoffrey Cornish/Bill Robinson/Patrick Mulligan design (1979) in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, long considered the Vineyard's most sought-after golf club. - [New Seabury](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/new-seabury/): Cape Cod's largest and most prominent golf-resort-residential community: a 1,500-acre, 29-village planned development in Mashpee built from 1962 around two William Mitchell-designed courses (Ocean and Dunes). - [Willowbend](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/willowbend-mashpee-ma/): A 27-hole (Bay/Bend/Bog) private club community in Mashpee, developed in 1991 by former Reebok CEO Paul Fireman and designed by Graham Cooke and Darrell Huxham. - [Oyster Harbors Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/oyster-harbors-club/): A private, single-entrance gated island community on Grand Island in Osterville, home to roughly 400 residences and an 18-hole 1926 Donald Ross course (site plan by the Olmsted Brothers, restored by Tom Doak in 2009). - [Mink Meadows Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/mink-meadows-golf-club/): A 9-hole (playable as 18 from multiple tee combinations), semi-private, non-equity club in the West Chop area of Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard, designed in 1936 by Wayne Stiles with John Van Kleek. #### Golf Communities in Cape Cod & the Islands - [Farm Neck Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/farm-neck-estates/): A low-density neighborhood of single-family homes built around and adjacent to Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, reported to carry a lifetime, family-inclusive stockholder golf membership with each home purchase. - [The Preserve at The Woodlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/the-preserve-at-the-woodlands-mv/): A private, 51-acre, 26-homesite luxury enclave in Oak Bluffs, less than a mile from Farm Neck Golf Club, governed by its own association covenants. - [New Seabury](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/new-seabury-community/): A 1,500-acre, 29-village master-planned community in Mashpee built from 1962 around New Seabury's two golf courses, governed by the Peninsula Council homeowners' association. - [Willowbend](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/willowbend-community-mashpee/): Roughly 300 residences on the grounds of Willowbend's 27-hole private club in Mashpee, governed by the Willowbend Community Association's recorded HOA covenants, including the gated 22-family Riverbend townhome enclave. - [Oyster Harbors (Grand Island)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/oyster-harbors-grand-island/): Roughly 400 waterfront homes occupying the entirety of Grand Island in Osterville village, reachable only through Oyster Harbors Club's single guarded bridge entrance. - [Mink Meadows](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/cape-cod-and-the-islands-ma/mink-meadows-neighborhood/): About 60 homes set back from the fairways of Mink Meadows Golf Club in the West Chop area of Vineyard Haven, forming the Mink Meadows Homeowners Association, described by the club as closely allied with it. ### Greater Boston & South Shore, MA - [Greater Boston & South Shore, MA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/greater-boston-and-south-shore-ma/): Greater Boston & South Shore combines three geographically separate, individually thin sub-regions -- the North Shore (Essex County), MetroWest (Middlesex County), and Plymouth County/the South Shore -- into a single market because no one sub-region on its own supports a standalone golf-real-estate market. #### Golf Clubs in Greater Boston & South Shore - [Turner Hill Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/greater-boston-and-south-shore-ma/turner-hill-golf-club/): An 18-hole Hurdzan/Fry course on the historic 300-acre Rice/Turner Hill Estate in Ipswich, branded one of Travel + Leisure's "America's Top 100 Golf Communities"; home purchase in the surrounding Residences at Turner Hill bundles a required club membership fee into closing. - [Pinehills Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/greater-boston-and-south-shore-ma/pinehills-golf-club/): Two public, daily-fee 18-hole championship courses (Nicklaus Design and Rees Jones) that anchor The Pinehills, a 3,000+-acre, award-winning master-planned community south of downtown Plymouth with golf-frontage homes marketed as a distinct premium product. - [Indian Pond Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/greater-boston-and-south-shore-ma/indian-pond-country-club/): A private 18-hole club (Pascuzzo Pate design, opened circa 2001) in Kingston surrounded by the large-lot Indian Pond Estates community it was built alongside -- the subject of a notable 2022 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case over errant-golf-ball property damage that confirmed formal deed covenants tying the two together, though club membership itself remains a separate, optional purchase. - [Quail Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/greater-boston-and-south-shore-ma/quail-ridge-country-club/): A member-operated 9-hole course on 94 wooded acres in Acton, immediately adjacent to and sharing its name with the 153-home Pulte-built Quail Ridge 55+ community; membership is low-cost and genuinely open to the public rather than a resident-exclusive perk. #### Golf Communities in Greater Boston & South Shore - [The Residences at Turner Hill](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/greater-boston-and-south-shore-ma/residences-at-turner-hill/): A roughly 120-180 residence golf community on the historic Rice/Turner Hill Estate in Ipswich, spanning single-family estates, villas, and townhome condominiums across four neighborhoods, with a club membership bundled into every home purchase. - [The Pinehills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/greater-boston-and-south-shore-ma/the-pinehills-community/): A 3,000-3,200-acre, award-winning master-planned community south of downtown Plymouth built around two public daily-fee championship golf courses, spanning roughly 40 neighborhoods including three age-restricted 55+ sections. - [Indian Pond Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/greater-boston-and-south-shore-ma/indian-pond-estates/): A large-lot, upscale single-family neighborhood in Kingston built directly around Indian Pond Country Club, with a legally documented (2022 SJC litigation) physical tie to the club's golf operations, though club membership remains a separate purchase. - [Quail Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/massachusetts/greater-boston-and-south-shore-ma/quail-ridge-acton/): A 153-home, Pulte-built 55+ community in Acton (2013-2015) immediately adjacent to Quail Ridge Country Club, whose 9-hole course and clubhouse amenities are marketed as a defining neighborhood feature even though membership is open to the public rather than resident-exclusive. ## Indiana - [Indiana Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/): Independent research on 11 golf clubs and 12 residential golf communities across 4 Indiana golf markets, including Indianapolis Metro, Northwest Indiana and Evansville: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Indiana Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Indiana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 3 Indiana golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including The Sagamore Club, Four Seasons Country Club and Blackthorn Golf Club. - [Private Golf Communities in Indiana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 8 private Indiana golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including The Club at Chatham Hills, The Bridgewater Club, The Hawthorns Golf & Country Club, Plum Creek Golf Club and Old Oakland Golf Club. ### Indiana Comparisons - [Chatham Hills vs The Bridgewater Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/chatham-hills-vs-bridgewater-club/): A researched comparison of Chatham Hills and The Bridgewater Club, Hamilton County's two flagship Pete Dye golf communities, including membership structure and course count. - [Sagamore vs Plum Creek Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/sagamore-club-vs-plum-creek-village/): A researched comparison of Sagamore and Plum Creek Village, two Hamilton County golf communities with very different scale and membership-access models. - [White Hawk vs Four Seasons Country Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/white-hawk-vs-four-seasons-country-club-crown-point/): A researched comparison of White Hawk and Four Seasons Country Club (Lakes of the Four Seasons) in Crown Point, Indiana: golf access models, scale, gating, and housing mix. ### Indianapolis Metro, IN - [Indianapolis Metro, IN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/): Indianapolis Metro is Indiana's flagship golf-living market, and the research bears out the pre-brief pass's central finding: it is genuinely front-loaded into Hamilton County -- Westfield, Carmel, Fishers, and Noblesville -- Indiana's wealthiest and fastest-growing suburban ring. #### Golf Clubs in Indianapolis Metro - [The Club at Chatham Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/club-at-chatham-hills/): A private club built around one of Pete Dye's final course designs (an 18-hole championship course plus a 9-hole executive layout) at the center of Chatham Hills, an 800-acre Henke Development master-planned community in Westfield. - [The Bridgewater Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/the-bridgewater-club/): Indiana's largest private country club, a 750-acre Carmel master-planned community with two Pete Dye-designed courses. Membership terms genuinely vary by subdivision phase -- some sections (e.g. Grassy Branch) include a deeded/waived-initiation Social Membership with the home purchase, while other Bridgewater Club homes require purchasing membership separately from the Master Association-governed HOA. - [The Hawthorns Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/hawthorns-golf-country-club-fishers/): An Arthur Hills-designed private club (1993) at the physical center of Hamilton Proper, an 850-acre, 23-village master-planned community in Fishers. - [The Sagamore Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/sagamore-club-noblesville/): A Jack Nicklaus Signature course -- the only one in Central Indiana -- at the center of Sagamore, an Executive Homes-built community in Noblesville. - [Plum Creek Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/plum-creek-golf-club-carmel/): A Pete Dye-designed semi-private club in Carmel, physically containing Plum Creek Village, a small (90-home) enclave built by David Thompson Homes (1996-2002) with backyards opening directly onto the course. - [Old Oakland Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/old-oakland-golf-club/): Indianapolis, IN: A private, 27-hole club near Geist Reservoir (founded 1964) whose ownership group also actively develops the adjacent Oakland Hills at Geist custom-home neighborhood, including converting three former golf holes into home sites. #### Golf Communities in Indianapolis Metro - [Chatham Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/chatham-hills/): An 800-acre Henke Development master-planned community in Westfield built around The Club at Chatham Hills' Pete Dye-designed course, with 200 acres of preserved open space, trails, and a dog park alongside the golf. - [Grassy Branch at The Bridgewater Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/grassy-branch-at-bridgewater-club/): Carmel, IN: A gated Bridgewater Club section where, per real-estate marketing for the section, all home sites include the Bridgewater Club Social Membership initiation fee as part of the purchase -- the documented "membership included" variant within the larger, non-uniform Bridgewater Club community. - [The Bridgewater Club Neighborhoods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/bridgewater-club-neighborhoods/): Carmel, IN: The broader Bridgewater Club residential community outside sections like Grassy Branch -- a mix of single-family estates, villas, and townhomes where club Social Membership is generally purchased separately from the home rather than included. - [Hamilton Proper](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/hamilton-proper/): An 850-acre, 23-village master-planned community in Fishers built around The Hawthorns Golf & Country Club, governed by its own Hamilton Proper Community Association separate from the club. - [Sagamore](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/sagamore-noblesville/): An Executive Homes-built community in Noblesville organized around the Jack Nicklaus Signature Sagamore Golf Club, marketed with automatic resident access to full club membership. - [Plum Creek Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/plum-creek-village/): A small, 90-home enclave in East Carmel built entirely by David Thompson Homes (1996-2002) sited within Plum Creek Golf Club's boundaries, with many backyards opening onto fairways and ponds. - [Oakland Hills at Geist](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/indianapolis-metro-in/oakland-hills-at-geist/): Indianapolis, IN: A custom-home neighborhood near Geist Reservoir developed by Old Oakland Golf Club's own ownership group, including on land converted from three former golf holes on Royal Oakland Drive. ### Northwest Indiana, IN - [Northwest Indiana, IN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/northwest-indiana-in/): US Golf Living has researched 3 golf anchors in the Northwest Indiana golf market, across Lake and Porter counties, including White Hawk Country Club, Sand Creek Country Club, and Four Seasons Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Northwest Indiana - [White Hawk Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/northwest-indiana-in/white-hawk-country-club/): White Hawk Country Club anchors a 600-acre planned unit development on Crown Point's northwest side: a 36-hole (four-nine) semi-private championship course surrounded by several hundred homes across luxury single-family, townhome, patio-home and condo product types, all under the White Hawk HOA. - [Sand Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/northwest-indiana-in/sand-creek-country-club/): Sand Creek Country Club is a private, full-service club in Chesterton (Porter County) with a 27-hole Ken Killian/Dick Nugent-designed course ranked among Indiana's top courses, owned since October 2014 by Concert Golf Partners. - [Four Seasons Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/northwest-indiana-in/four-seasons-country-club/): Four Seasons Country Club is the private, resident-only 18-hole golf course (opened 1966, designed by James R. Thompson) belonging to Lakes of the Four Seasons, a gated, ~7,300-resident master-planned community roughly halfway between Crown Point and Valparaiso, spanning both Lake and Porter counties. #### Golf Communities in Northwest Indiana - [White Hawk](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/northwest-indiana-in/white-hawk/): White Hawk is a 600-acre planned unit development on Crown Point's northwest side, built around White Hawk Country Club's 36-hole course, with a deliberate mix of luxury single-family homes, townhomes, patio homes and condos governed by its own HOA, separate from the country club's own membership. - [Sand Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/northwest-indiana-in/sand-creek/): Sand Creek is a roughly 400-home/lot residential community in Chesterton (Porter County) built out from land set aside in 1974, organized around Sand Creek Country Club's 27-hole course, with professional landscaping, ponds and waterfalls, governed by its own Sand Creek Homeowners Association separate from the club. - [Lakes of the Four Seasons](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/northwest-indiana-in/lakes-of-the-four-seasons/): Lakes of the Four Seasons is a gated, roughly 7,300-resident master-planned community straddling the Lake County/Porter County line between Crown Point and Valparaiso, built around four lakes and an 18-hole golf course (Four Seasons Country Club) that is a community-owned, resident-only amenity, governed by an elected Property Owners Association board. ### Evansville, IN - [Evansville, IN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/evansville-in/): Evansville's golf-residential landscape is thin relative to Indianapolis Metro or even Northwest Indiana, and dominated by one old-guard private club -- Evansville Country Club (private since 1900, Bill Diddel design) -- that sits within the city's existing residential fabric with no developer-driven residential community tied to it. #### Golf Clubs in Evansville - [Cambridge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/evansville-in/cambridge-golf-club-evansville/): A Tim Liddy-designed, semi-private 18-hole links-style course (opened 2000) at the physical center of Cambridge Village, a developer-built 'total village community' of 300+ homes in northern Evansville with its own active Homeowners Association and shared recreation Activity Center. #### Golf Communities in Evansville - [Cambridge Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/evansville-in/cambridge-village/): A developer-built 'total village community' of 300+ single-family homes and townhomes in northern Evansville, organized around the Tim Liddy-designed Cambridge Golf Club, with a mandatory Homeowners Association running a shared Activity Center of pool, fitness, tennis, pickleball, and basketball amenities. ### South Bend / Michiana, IN - [South Bend / Michiana, IN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/south-bend-michiana-in/): South Bend/Michiana's golf-residential landscape centers on Blackthorn Golf Club, a nationally recognized public/semi-private course (Golf Digest's No. 4 Best New Public Course at its 1994 opening) near the University of Notre Dame. #### Golf Clubs in South Bend / Michiana - [Blackthorn Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/south-bend-michiana-in/blackthorn-golf-club-south-bend/): South Bend, IN: A Michael Hurdzan/Bill Boswell-designed public/semi-private course (opened 1994, once Golf Digest's #4 Best New Public Course) that anchors The Reserve at Blackthorn, a small developer-built subdivision whose home sites sit directly on the course and whose residents receive two complimentary Blackthorn memberships per household. #### Golf Communities in South Bend / Michiana - [The Reserve at Blackthorn](https://www.usgolfliving.com/indiana/south-bend-michiana-in/reserve-at-blackthorn/): South Bend, IN: A small subdivision developed by Place Homes Inc. with home sites directly on Blackthorn Golf Club's 'Blarney Hole,' where residents reportedly receive two complimentary golf memberships to Blackthorn Golf Club per household plus exclusive access to a lighted chipping/putting green, and maintenance-free landscaping. ## Missouri - [Missouri Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/): Independent research on 15 golf clubs and 17 residential golf communities across 5 Missouri golf markets, including Kansas City Metro, St. Louis Metro and Lake of the Ozarks: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Missouri Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Missouri](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 14 private Missouri golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Loch Lloyd Country Club, National Golf Club of Kansas City, Staley Farms Golf Club, Lakewood Oaks Country Club and The Club at Porto Cima. - [Golf Resort Communities in Missouri](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 3 Missouri golf resort ecosystems, including Old Kinderhook, Osage National Golf Club and Innsbrook Resort Golf Course. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Missouri](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 6 Missouri golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Loch Lloyd Country Club, National Golf Club of Kansas City, The Club at Porto Cima, Highland Springs Country Club and The Club at Old Hawthorne. ### Missouri Comparisons - [Loch Lloyd vs. National Golf Club of Kansas City](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/loch-lloyd-vs-national-golf-club-kansas-city/): Compare Loch Lloyd and National Golf Club of Kansas City, the two flagship private golf clubs on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metro, including access models and pricing. - [The Club at Porto Cima vs Old Kinderhook for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/club-at-porto-cima-vs-old-kinderhook-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Porto Cima and Old Kinderhook at the Lake of the Ozarks: club access model, fees, amenities, and housing. - [Highland Springs vs Millwood for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/highland-springs-vs-millwood-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Springfield, MO's two established gated golf communities: Highland Springs and Millwood. - [Whitmoor vs WingHaven for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/whitmoor-vs-winghaven-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Whitmoor and WingHaven, St. Charles County, MO's two strongest developer-built golf communities: course scale, gated structure, club ownership, and membership pricing. ### Kansas City Metro, MO - [Kansas City Metro, MO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/kansas-city-metro-mo/): The Missouri side of the Kansas City metro is a genuinely developer-built golf-living market, distinct in character from the older, in-town private clubs common in cities like St. Louis. #### Golf Clubs in Kansas City Metro - [Loch Lloyd Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/kansas-city-metro-mo/loch-lloyd-country-club/): Private 18-hole Tom Watson-designed country club at the center of the Village of Loch Lloyd, an incorporated, 24/7 guarded golf village in Cass County south of Kansas City; membership is sold separately from home purchase, with real estate marketing and club sources disagreeing on whether it is effectively mandatory for residents. - [National Golf Club of Kansas City](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/kansas-city-metro-mo/national-golf-club-of-kansas-city/): A 36-hole (two-course) private club in Parkville, Platte County, built around two Tom Watson-designed courses (The National and The Bluffs/"The Deuce"), owned by Invited (formerly ClubCorp, acquired 2021) and surrounded by several distinct upscale residential neighborhoods including the 107-lot River Hills Estates. - [Staley Farms Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/kansas-city-metro-mo/staley-farms-golf-club/): A private 18-hole club (built 2002, architect Eric Iverson) that anchors the Staley Farms master-planned residential community in Kansas City's Northland/Clay County, with homes from roughly $400K to over $1M; golf club membership is confirmed optional and separate from home ownership. - [Lakewood Oaks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/kansas-city-metro-mo/lakewood-oaks-country-club/): An 18-hole semi-private club (built 1979, B. Jay Riviere/Craig Schreiner) woven through the 2,200-acre, ~2,300-resident Lakewood master-planned community in Lee's Summit, Jackson County; golf membership is an optional paid add-on, with all Lakewood Property Owners Association residents receiving a small number of free tee times annually and non-residents able to buy separate Amenity Pass/Social tiers. #### Golf Communities in Kansas City Metro - [Village of Loch Lloyd](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/kansas-city-metro-mo/village-of-loch-lloyd/): Village of Loch Lloyd, MO: An incorporated Missouri municipality (est. 2003) in Cass County built around a 110-acre lake and the private Loch Lloyd Country Club, roughly 500 homes on 1,200 acres behind a 24/7 guarded gate south of Kansas City. - [The National at Parkville](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/kansas-city-metro-mo/the-national-at-parkville/): The on-course residential subdivision built directly against National Golf Club of Kansas City's two courses (including 'The Deuce,' named for the second course), in Parkville, Platte County. - [River Hills Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/kansas-city-metro-mo/river-hills-estates-parkville/): A 107-lot neighborhood tucked into the Missouri River bluff just south of National Golf Club of Kansas City, adjacent to (not on) the course, golf-cart accessible to both the club and downtown Parkville, with lots and homes generally priced from roughly $500,000 to $2,000,000+. - [Staley Farms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/kansas-city-metro-mo/staley-farms-residential-community/): Kansas City, MO: A master-planned Northland community (single-family homes and a 98-unit townhome phase) built around the private Staley Farms Golf Club, with homes from roughly $400,000 to over $1 million; golf membership is optional, while a broader community amenity package is included for all homeowners. - [Lakewood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/kansas-city-metro-mo/lakewood-lees-summit/): A 2,200-acre master-planned community in Lee's Summit (Jackson County) governed by the Lakewood Property Owners Association, built around two private lakes and the Lakewood Oaks Country Club golf course, with more than 2,300 residents and homes ranging from roughly $200,000 to $3 million. ### Lake of the Ozarks, MO - [Lake of the Ozarks, MO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/lake-of-the-ozarks-mo/): The Lake of the Ozarks is Missouri's largest man-made lake and its most golf-dense recreational region, with a genuine cluster of architecturally credentialed courses within a roughly 20-minute drive of one another: Jack Nicklaus's Club at Porto Cima, Tom Weiskopf's Old Kinderhook, and Arnold Palmer's Osage National. #### Golf Clubs in Lake of the Ozarks - [The Club at Porto Cima](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/lake-of-the-ozarks-mo/club-at-porto-cima/): The Club at Porto Cima is a private, Jack Nicklaus Signature 18-hole club in Sunrise Beach on the Lake of the Ozarks, billed by the club itself as the lake's only private golf course. - [Old Kinderhook](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/lake-of-the-ozarks-mo/old-kinderhook/): Old Kinderhook is a Tom Weiskopf-designed 18-hole course set on 700 private acres in Camdenton, anchoring a gated resort-residential community on the Big Niangua arm of the Lake of the Ozarks. - [Osage National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/lake-of-the-ozarks-mo/osage-national-golf-club/): Osage National Golf Club is a 27-hole Arnold Palmer Signature facility on the Osage River in Lake Ozark, the anchor amenity for a master-planned residential subdivision governed by the separate, homeowner-run Osage National Community Association (COA). #### Golf Communities in Lake of the Ozarks - [Porto Cima](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/lake-of-the-ozarks-mo/porto-cima/): Porto Cima is a gated luxury lake community in Sunrise Beach built around The Club at Porto Cima's private golf course and yacht club, with housing ranging from condos and townhomes to large custom lakefront estates. - [Old Kinderhook](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/lake-of-the-ozarks-mo/old-kinderhook-community/): Old Kinderhook is a 700-acre gated resort-residential community in Camdenton built around a Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course, offering golf cottages, villas, patio homes, and estate homes alongside a full-service resort (lodging, spa, marina). - [Osage National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/lake-of-the-ozarks-mo/osage-national/): Osage National is a master-planned subdivision on the Osage River in Lake Ozark, built around the 27-hole Osage National Golf Club (an Arnold Palmer Signature facility) and governed by its own homeowners association, the Osage National Community Association (COA). ### Southwest Missouri, MO - [Southwest Missouri, MO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/southwest-missouri-mo/): Southwest Missouri's golf-living market splits between two distinct economies roughly 40 miles apart: Springfield, a diversified regional metro with two established gated golf communities (Millwood and Highland Springs), and the Branson/Hollister area, a tourism-driven lake-and-entertainment economy where golf communities compete for attention with the 76 Strip and Table Rock Lake. #### Golf Clubs in Southwest Missouri - [Millwood Golf and Racquet Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/southwest-missouri-mo/millwood-golf-and-racquet-club/): Millwood Golf and Racquet Club is an 18-hole club anchoring a gated luxury residential community on Springfield's south side, built out in phases since around 2000. - [Murder Rock Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/southwest-missouri-mo/murder-rock-golf-country-club/): Murder Rock Golf & Country Club is a semi-private, John Daly-branded 18-hole course in Hollister, built to serve the multiple neighborhoods of the Branson Creek Residential Community and now owned, along with the separate public Branson Creek Golf Course, by Johnny Morris's Big Cedar organization. - [Highland Springs Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/southwest-missouri-mo/highland-springs-country-club/): Highland Springs Country Club is a private, gated golf community on 600+ acres in southeast Springfield, founded in 1989 by developer John Q. Hammons and built around a Robert Trent Jones II-designed 18-hole course with over 300 single-family lots/homes. #### Golf Communities in Southwest Missouri - [Millwood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/southwest-missouri-mo/millwood/): Millwood is a gated luxury residential community on Springfield's south edge, built out in four named phases (Millwood, Millwood Sans Souci, Millwood Park, and the gated Millwood St. Andrews enclave) around Millwood Golf and Racquet Club since roughly 2000. - [Branson Creek Residential Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/southwest-missouri-mo/branson-creek-residential-community/): Branson Creek Residential Community is a well-over-1,000-acre master-planned development south of Hollister spanning several subdivisions (Fieldstone, Oak Knoll, Iron Ridge, The Legends), built around two distinct golf courses -- the semi-private Murder Rock Golf & Country Club and the separate public Branson Creek Golf Course -- both now owned by Johnny Morris's Big Cedar organization. - [Highland Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/southwest-missouri-mo/highland-springs/): Highland Springs is a gated, developer-built (John Q. Hammons, 1989) luxury residential community on 600+ acres in southeast Springfield, built around Highland Springs Country Club's 18-hole course with over 300 single-family lots/homes. ### Mid-Missouri, MO - [Mid-Missouri, MO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/mid-missouri-mo/): Mid-Missouri's golf-living market is centered on Columbia, home to the University of Missouri and a comparatively small pool of private golf clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Mid-Missouri - [The Club at Old Hawthorne](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/mid-missouri-mo/club-at-old-hawthorne/): The Club at Old Hawthorne is a private club built around an Art Schaupeter-designed 18-hole course (opened 2007) on a 631-acre former horse farm in Columbia, home to the University of Missouri golf programs. #### Golf Communities in Mid-Missouri - [Old Hawthorne](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/mid-missouri-mo/old-hawthorne/): Old Hawthorne is a Columbia, Missouri golf community governed by a recorded Declaration of Covenants that requires every natural-person homeowner to apply for a Social Membership at The Club at Old Hawthorne, layered around an Art Schaupeter-designed course that hosts the University of Missouri golf programs. - [Linkside at Old Hawthorne](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/mid-missouri-mo/linkside-at-old-hawthorne/): Linkside at Old Hawthorne is a gated, 55+ for-sale enclave of single-family patio homes, townhomes, and condos within the broader Old Hawthorne community in Columbia, whose HOA dues directly include a Social Membership to The Club at Old Hawthorne as a standard ongoing benefit. ### St. Louis Metro, MO - [St. Louis Metro, MO Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/st-louis-metro-mo/): US Golf Living has researched golf anchors and residential communities across the St. Louis Metro's St. Charles County golf-community corridor and Warren County's Innsbrook resort, including Whitmoor Country Club, WingHaven Country Club, Heritage of Hawk Ridge, and Innsbrook Resort. #### Golf Clubs in St. Louis Metro - [Whitmoor Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/st-louis-metro-mo/whitmoor-country-club/): A 36-hole private country club (North and South courses, both opened 1988) operated by Concert Golf Partners, anchoring a gated, 625+-home master-planned community in Weldon Spring, St. Charles County -- the largest golf-community footprint in the county. - [WingHaven Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/st-louis-metro-mo/winghaven-country-club/): The only Jack Nicklaus Design private golf course in the St. Louis metro (est. 1999), operated today by Heritage Golf Group, and the anchor club of WingHaven, a master-planned O'Fallon community built around 500-plus acres of shared green space. - [Heritage of Hawk Ridge Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/st-louis-metro-mo/heritage-of-hawk-ridge-golf-course/): A gated, 55-plus, 440-home community in Lake St. Louis (Whitaker/Lombardo/Pulte homebuilders, 2000-2020) built around a 9-hole executive golf course that the Heritage of Hawk Ridge Community Association itself owns and operates as a community amenity -- Missouri's most clearly documented age-restricted golf community. - [Innsbrook Resort Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/st-louis-metro-mo/innsbrook-resort-golf-course/): An 18-hole public daily-fee course (opened 1982) inside Innsbrook, a 7,500-plus-acre gated lake-and-golf resort community in Warren County with 100-plus lakes, 3,000-plus privately owned lots, and its own incorporated village government -- golf itself is open to the public, not an owner-exclusive benefit. #### Golf Communities in St. Louis Metro - [Whitmoor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/st-louis-metro-mo/whitmoor-weldon-spring/): A gated, roughly 625-home master-planned neighborhood in Weldon Spring, St. Charles County, built around Whitmoor Country Club's two 18-hole courses and governed by the separate Whitmoor Homeowners Association. - [WingHaven](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/st-louis-metro-mo/winghaven-ofallon/): A master-planned residential community in O'Fallon, St. Charles County, built around WingHaven Country Club's Jack Nicklaus-designed course and more than 500 acres of shared green space, governed by the WingHaven Master Association. - [Heritage of Hawk Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/st-louis-metro-mo/heritage-of-hawk-ridge/): Missouri's leading documented 55-plus golf community: a gated, roughly 440-home active-adult neighborhood in Lake St. Louis built by Whitaker/Lombardo/Pulte Homes (2000-2020) around a Community Association-owned 9-hole executive golf course. - [Village of Innsbrook](https://www.usgolfliving.com/missouri/st-louis-metro-mo/village-of-innsbrook/): A 7,500-plus-acre gated lake-and-golf resort community in Warren County, incorporated as its own municipality (Village of Innsbrook, 1998), with 3,000-plus privately owned lots subject to mandatory, acreage-based Owners Association assessments. ## Wisconsin - [Wisconsin Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/): Independent research on 10 golf clubs and 11 residential golf communities across 6 Wisconsin golf markets, including Central Sands, Southeast Wisconsin and Door County: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Wisconsin Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Wisconsin](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 9 private Wisconsin golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Horseshoe Bay Golf Club, Sand Valley, Lake Arrowhead, Bishops Bay Country Club and Timber Ridge Golf Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Wisconsin](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 4 private Wisconsin golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Horseshoe Bay Golf Club, Bishops Bay Country Club, The Legend at Merrill Hills and The Bull at Pinehurst Farms. ### Wisconsin Comparisons - [Geneva National vs Abbey Springs for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/geneva-national-vs-abbey-springs-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Geneva National and Abbey Springs, WI for golf-oriented homebuyers: golf inventory, legal governance documentation, water access, scale, and membership structure. ### Door County, WI - [Door County, WI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/door-county-wi/): Door County is Wisconsin's narrow Lake Michigan/Green Bay peninsula and one of the Midwest's most established second-home and legacy-vacation-home markets, drawing buyers heavily from Chicago's North Shore, Milwaukee, and Madison to towns like Sister Bay, Fish Creek, Ephraim, Egg Harbor, and Baileys Harbor. #### Golf Clubs in Door County - [Horseshoe Bay Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/door-county-wi/horseshoe-bay-golf-club-wi/): Door County's only private golf club, an 18-hole Rick Robbins/Brian Lussier design (opened 2000) that anchors Horseshoe Bay Farms, a 350+-unit developer-organized residential estate in Egg Harbor. #### Golf Communities in Door County - [The Bluffs at Horseshoe Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/door-county-wi/the-bluffs-at-horseshoe-bay-wi/): Egg Harbor, WI: A 130-property luxury neighborhood just north of Horseshoe Bay Road, formed in the late 1990s/early 2000s and governed by a Master Association plus three sub-associations (The Estates, 50 single-family homes; The Orchards, 5 single-family homes; and The Village Homes Condominium Association, 73 condo units -- the part most often marketed as "Bluffs Village"). - [Golf Cottages at Horseshoe Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/door-county-wi/golf-cottages-at-horseshoe-bay-wi/): Egg Harbor, WI: A distinct new-construction and resale free-standing condominium cottage product at Horseshoe Bay Farms, overlooking the fairways of Horseshoe Bay Golf Club, marketed separately from The Bluffs at Horseshoe Bay. ### Madison, WI - [Madison, WI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/madison-wi/): Madison's golf-residential landscape is dominated by a dense cluster of century-old, member-owned private clubs (Nakoma, Maple Bluff, and Cherokee/now TPC Wisconsin) sited within already-established, old-money neighborhoods with no developer-built residential community formally tied to any of them -- the same old-guard pattern found throughout this build. #### Golf Clubs in Madison - [Bishops Bay Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/madison-wi/bishops-bay-country-club-middleton/): A private, member-owned 18-hole Bob Lohmann-designed club (1995) on Lake Mendota in Middleton, physically bordered by the large, separately-developed new-construction Community of Bishops Bay, whose golf-referencing neighborhoods (including 'The Back Nine') overlook the course without club membership being bundled into home purchase. #### Golf Communities in Madison - [The Community of Bishops Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/madison-wi/community-of-bishops-bay/): A large new-construction master plan in Middleton/Westport organized into seven neighborhoods physically sited around Bishops Bay Country Club's golf course, developed separately from the club itself starting around 2011. ### Central Sands, WI - [Central Sands, WI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/central-sands-wi/): Central Sands is a standalone golf market created for this build because its two qualifying candidates -- Sand Valley and Lake Arrowhead, both near Nekoosa -- share a genuinely distinct Central Sands geography, dune/lake landscape, and micro-market identity that does not naturally group with Madison, the Northwoods, or Green Bay/Fox Valley. #### Golf Clubs in Central Sands - [Sand Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/central-sands-wi/sand-valley-nekoosa/): A 12,000-acre destination golf resort in the Central Sands region near Nekoosa/Rome with six nationally ranked courses and a fast-growing, high-dollar real estate arm (Sedge Village, The Lido, Mammoth Conservancy) selling homesites from roughly $1.4M-$2.6M+, but with no confirmed bundled or mandatory golf club membership tied to property ownership. - [Lake Arrowhead](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/central-sands-wi/lake-arrowhead-nekoosa/): A 2,000-member mandatory homeowners' association in Nekoosa (Town of Rome) that itself built and operates two public 18-hole golf courses (The Pines, The Lakes) around a 300-acre lake as founding community amenities -- a genuine organizational tie between the residential lots and the golf courses, though both courses remain open to the general public. #### Golf Communities in Central Sands - [Sedge Village at Sand Valley](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/central-sands-wi/sedge-village-at-sand-valley/): Nekoosa/Rome, WI: Sand Valley's flagship real estate neighborhood: 36 Estate and Cottage homesites around a 17-acre lake, part of a broader family of named golf-front neighborhoods (Sedge Village, The Lido, Mammoth Conservancy) selling from roughly $1.375M to $2.65M+, with no bundled golf club membership confirmed. - [Lake Arrowhead (Nekoosa)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/central-sands-wi/lake-arrowhead-community-nekoosa/): A roughly 2,000-lot Central Sands lake community in the Town of Rome (Nekoosa) whose own Association developed and still runs its two public golf courses as founding community amenities, alongside a 300-acre lake and extensive recreational infrastructure. ### Northwoods, WI - [Northwoods, WI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/northwoods-wi/): The Northwoods golf-residential market, centered on Minocqua, is thin but genuine: its one researched anchor, Timber Ridge Golf Club, sits at the physical center of a 600-acre master-planned subdivision with private paved roads and its own Property Owners Association -- a real, purpose-built residential master plan rather than incidental proximity to a public course. #### Golf Clubs in Northwoods - [Timber Ridge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/northwoods-wi/timber-ridge-golf-club-minocqua/): A 600-acre master-planned Northwoods community with private paved roads and its own Property Owners Association, purpose-built around an 18-hole Roger Packard public golf course near Minocqua -- genuine physical master-plan organization even though golf access itself is open to the public. #### Golf Communities in Northwoods - [Timber Ridge (Minocqua)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/northwoods-wi/timber-ridge-minocqua/): A 600-acre master-planned Northwoods subdivision with private paved roads, governed by its own Property Owners Association, purpose-built around Timber Ridge Golf Club's public 18-hole course near Minocqua. ### Green Bay / Fox Valley, WI - [Green Bay / Fox Valley, WI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/green-bay-fox-valley-wi/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Green Bay/Fox Valley golf market, in Calumet County: High Cliff Golf Course & Event Center, whose adjacent age-restricted community is documented as The Cottages at High Cliff. #### Golf Clubs in Green Bay / Fox Valley - [High Cliff Golf Course & Event Center](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/green-bay-fox-valley-wi/high-cliff-golf-course-sherwood/): A public/semi-private 18-hole course in Sherwood, seven-time 'Best of the Valley' award winner, whose adjacent 55-and-over Cottages at High Cliff development bundles a lifetime senior couples golf membership into its HOA fee -- a rare confirmed case of deed-adjacent bundled golf access in this build's Green Bay/Fox Valley sweep. #### Golf Communities in Green Bay / Fox Valley - [The Cottages at High Cliff](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/green-bay-fox-valley-wi/the-cottages-at-high-cliff/): A 55-and-over private half-duplex development sited directly on High Cliff Golf Course in Sherwood, bundling a lifetime senior couples golf membership into monthly HOA fees. ### Southeast Wisconsin, WI - [Southeast Wisconsin, WI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/southeast-wisconsin-wi/): Southeast Wisconsin is the state's richest golf-residential region, but not because it has a single dominant master-planned corridor the way parts of Florida or the Carolinas do. #### Golf Clubs in Southeast Wisconsin - [Geneva National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/southeast-wisconsin-wi/geneva-national/): A ~1,800-acre, gated master-planned community in the Town of Geneva near Lake Geneva, built around three 18-hole courses designed by Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, and Lee Trevino. - [Abbey Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/southeast-wisconsin-wi/abbey-springs/): A gated, 500-unit resort-residential community on Geneva Lake's south shore in Fontana, established in 1971 around an 18-hole course, a full-service marina, tennis/pickleball courts, and a private beach. - [The Legend at Merrill Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/southeast-wisconsin-wi/legend-at-merrill-hills/): A private 1929 club in Waukesha (formerly Waukesha Country Club/Merrill Hills Country Club, now operated by The Legend Clubs) paired with Merrill Hills Estates, a new 32-homesite subdivision backing onto the course. - [The Bull at Pinehurst Farms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/southeast-wisconsin-wi/the-bull-at-pinehurst-farms/): A nationally-ranked public Jack Nicklaus design (his only Wisconsin course), built in 2000-2003 on a former Sheboygan Falls dairy farm. #### Golf Communities in Southeast Wisconsin - [Geneva National](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/southeast-wisconsin-wi/geneva-national-community/): Lake Geneva, WI: A ~1,800-acre, gated, HOA-governed master-planned community of roughly 1,200 homes across 18 neighborhoods, built around three 18-hole golf courses. - [Abbey Springs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/southeast-wisconsin-wi/abbey-springs-community/): Fontana, WI: A gated, roughly 500-unit resort-residential community on Geneva Lake's south shore, established 1971, combining an 18-hole golf course with a full-service marina and private beach. - [Merrill Hills Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/southeast-wisconsin-wi/merrill-hills-estates/): A new, small subdivision of 32 estate-sized homesites (half-acre to just-under-one-acre) in the Village of Waukesha, backing onto The Legend at Merrill Hills golf course. - [Pinehurst Meadows & Fairway Meadows](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wisconsin/southeast-wisconsin-wi/pinehurst-meadows-community/): Sheboygan Falls, WI: A cluster of named residential streets and subdivisions (Fairway Meadows Lane/Court, Pinehurst Ct, and the Pinehurst Meadows homesite community) physically within or immediately adjacent to The Bull at Pinehurst Farms golf course, actively built out by Rautmann Custom Homes with a recorded May 2026 property transfer confirming genuine, active development. ## Minnesota - [Minnesota Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/): Independent research on 8 golf clubs and 10 residential golf communities across 3 Minnesota golf markets, including Brainerd Lakes, Twin Cities Metro and Rochester: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Minnesota Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Minnesota](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 8 private Minnesota golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Cragun's Resort, Grand View Lodge Spa & Golf Resort, Breezy Point Resort, Somerby Golf Club and Community and North Oaks Golf Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in Minnesota](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 3 Minnesota golf resort ecosystems, including Cragun's Resort, Grand View Lodge Spa & Golf Resort and Breezy Point Resort. ### Minnesota Comparisons - [Cragun's Resort vs Grand View Lodge: Golf Living Comparison](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/craguns-resort-vs-grand-view-lodge/): A researched comparison of Cragun's Resort and Grand View Lodge in the Brainerd Lakes area of Minnesota: course scale, home pricing, HOA dues, and how golf access actually attaches to ownership at each. - [North Oaks vs. The Wilds Golf Communities](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/north-oaks-golf-club-vs-the-wilds-golf-club/): Compare North Oaks and The Wilds, two of the Twin Cities Metro's best-known golf communities, on access model, governance, and home prices. ### Brainerd Lakes, MN - [Brainerd Lakes, MN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/brainerd-lakes-mn/): Brainerd Lakes is Minnesota's classic lake-resort golf region, centered on the Gull Lake and Pelican Lake chains north of Brainerd, and it works on a fundamentally different model than the Twin Cities metro's developer-built golf neighborhoods. #### Golf Clubs in Brainerd Lakes - [Cragun's Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/brainerd-lakes-mn/craguns-resort/): A 45-hole Gull Lake golf resort in Brainerd (some older marketing cites 54 holes; unconfirmed) whose own real-estate arm has built three platted neighborhoods -- Legacy Village, Legacy Pointe, and Legacy Ridge -- directly around its Legacy Courses, with a complimentary three-year Resort Club Membership included in every Legacy Ridge/Pointe lot sale. - [Grand View Lodge Spa & Golf Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/brainerd-lakes-mn/grand-view-lodge-golf-resort/): A 1916-founded Gull Lake resort in Nisswa whose 27-hole Pines course anchors North Pines, a 27-home private, HOA-governed enclave built as part of the resort; full-time owners pay a separate annual amenity fee for golf access rather than receiving it automatically with the home. - [Breezy Point Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/brainerd-lakes-mn/breezy-point-resort/): Breezy Point, MN: A three-course Pelican Lake resort dating to 1921, owned and developed by Whitebirch Inc. since 1981, whose Vista Village housing development on the Whitebirch course markets a bundled Resort Country Club Membership as part of home ownership, alongside the resort's Arnold Palmer-designed Deacon's Lodge course. #### Golf Communities in Brainerd Lakes - [Legacy Ridge & Legacy Pointe at Cragun's](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/brainerd-lakes-mn/legacy-ridge-pointe-craguns/): Brainerd, MN: Two platted, on-course neighborhoods (53 Legacy Ridge lots, 16 Legacy Pointe lots) built by Cragun's Resort directly along the Lehman 18 course, with a complimentary 3-year Resort Club Membership included in every lot purchase. - [Legacy Village at Cragun's](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/brainerd-lakes-mn/legacy-village-craguns/): Brainerd, MN: Cragun's first (2019) Legacy-area development: single-level, maintenance-free homes on quarter-acre lots, marketed for resort-lifestyle living but not documented as directly fronting a golf course the way Legacy Ridge/Pointe are. - [North Pines](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/brainerd-lakes-mn/north-pines-nisswa/): A 27-home, HOA-governed private enclave built directly around Grand View Lodge's Pines golf course in Nisswa; full-time owners pay a separate annual amenity fee for golf and resort access on top of monthly HOA dues. - [Vista Village at Breezy Point Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/brainerd-lakes-mn/vista-village-breezy-point/): An exclusive, maintenance-free housing development along Breezy Point Resort's Whitebirch golf course, marketed as including a Resort Country Club Membership and resort-amenity access with ownership. ### Rochester, MN - [Rochester, MN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/rochester-mn/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Rochester golf market, in Olmsted County: Somerby Golf Club and Community, a purpose-built planned community in Byron built around a Tom Lehman/John Fought championship course. #### Golf Clubs in Rochester - [Somerby Golf Club and Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/rochester-mn/somerby-golf-club-mn/): An 18-hole Tom Lehman/John Fought championship course (opened 2004, par 72, 7,209 yards) in Byron, just outside Rochester, at the center of a purpose-built golf community developed 2002-2004 by Golden Tee Development LLC (Ames Construction and Wensmann Homes, with Ames acquiring full ownership in 2008). #### Golf Communities in Rochester - [Somerby](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/rochester-mn/somerby-community-mn/): A multi-neighborhood community built around Somerby Golf Club in Byron, MN near Rochester -- HOA fees and golf-access terms vary meaningfully by neighborhood. - [Belvoir at Somerby](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/rochester-mn/belvoir-at-somerby-mn/): An association-maintained townhome neighborhood within the Somerby community in Byron, MN, distinguished from Somerby's custom-home neighborhoods by bundling social membership at Somerby Golf Club directly into its HOA fee, along with access to the clubhouse, swimming facilities, and tennis courts. ### Twin Cities Metro, MN - [Twin Cities Metro, MN Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/twin-cities-metro-mn/): The Twin Cities Metro is Minnesota's largest and most golf-diverse market, but it is not a single golf-residential model -- it is several genuinely distinct pockets scattered across four counties. #### Golf Clubs in Twin Cities Metro - [North Oaks Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/twin-cities-metro-mn/north-oaks-golf-club/): Research North Oaks Golf Club, a private Stanley Thompson course at the center of North Oaks, MN -- a whole planned city built by its own developer, plus membership access and home costs. - [The Wilds Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/twin-cities-metro-mn/the-wilds-golf-club/): Research The Wilds Golf Club in Prior Lake, MN -- a master-planned community built around a Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish course, its 2025 ownership change, and current golf access for homeowners. - [TPC Twin Cities](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/twin-cities-metro-mn/tpc-twin-cities/): A private, invitation-only Arnold Palmer/Tom Lehman-consulted club (opened 2000) that has hosted the PGA Tour's 3M Open every year since 2019, sitting inside Blaine's Deacon's Walk subdivision -- a namesake 76-unit HOA (plus linked developments sharing the 'Deacon's' branding) built the same year the course opened, with homes on walkout lots overlooking the course. - [Prestwick Golf Club at Wedgewood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/twin-cities-metro-mn/prestwick-golf-club-at-wedgewood/): A public, daily-fee 18-hole course (Kurt Sandness, opened 1984 as Wedgewood Golf Course) at the organizing center of Wedgewood, a mandatory-HOA, developer-built Woodbury community of 958 homes across 20 named neighborhoods -- golf access itself is open to the public with no residency requirement, but the surrounding community was genuinely built and marketed around the course. #### Golf Communities in Twin Cities Metro - [North Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/twin-cities-metro-mn/north-oaks-mn/): A roughly 5,500-acre, entirely privately-roaded home-rule city in Ramsey County that the North Oaks Company built out over seven decades around North Oaks Golf Club, now home to 1,800+ households and 5,000+ residents. - [The Wilds](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/twin-cities-metro-mn/the-wilds-prior-lake/): A master-planned Prior Lake community of single-family homes, townhomes, villas, and condos across eight named sub-neighborhoods, built around The Wilds Golf Club and governed by The Wilds Homeowner Association (managed by Associa Minnesota). - [Deacon's Walk](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/twin-cities-metro-mn/deacons-walk-blaine/): A Blaine subdivision built alongside TPC Twin Cities' 2000 opening, with homes on walkout lots overlooking the course and several linked HOAs (Deacon's Walk, The Lakes at Deacons Walk, Masters at Deacon Walk) sharing the 'Deacon's' branding. - [Wedgewood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/minnesota/twin-cities-metro-mn/wedgewood-woodbury/): A 958-home, mandatory-HOA master-planned Woodbury community built starting in 1984 around what is now Prestwick Golf Club, with ownership and management passing from original developer Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company (now Securian) to a resident-elected board in 2003. ## Kentucky - [Kentucky Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/): Independent research on 9 golf clubs and 10 residential golf communities across 4 Kentucky golf markets, including Louisville Metro, Bowling Green and Lake Cumberland: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Kentucky Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Kentucky](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 9 private Kentucky golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including The Club at Olde Stone, Woodson Bend Resort, Eagle's Nest Country Club, Persimmon Ridge Golf Club and Polo Fields Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Kentucky](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 5 Kentucky golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including The Club at Olde Stone, Eagle's Nest Country Club, Glen Oaks Country Club, Lake Forest Country Club and Triple Crown Country Club. ### Kentucky Comparisons - [Woodson Bend Resort vs. Eagle's Nest Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/woodson-bend-resort-vs-eagles-nest-country-club-for-golf-living/): Compare Woodson Bend Resort's gated condo-and-lake golf community with Eagle's Nest Country Club's single-family golf neighborhood in Kentucky's Lake Cumberland market. - [Lake Forest vs Persimmon Ridge for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/lake-forest-vs-persimmon-ridge-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Lake Forest and Persimmon Ridge, KY for golf-oriented homebuyers: design pedigree, membership access, community scale, and price positioning. - [Glen Oaks vs Hunting Creek for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/glen-oaks-vs-hunting-creek-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of two Prospect, KY golf clubs: Glen Oaks' low-barrier membership versus Hunting Creek's traditional invitation-based access and established gated community. ### Bowling Green, KY - [Bowling Green, KY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/bowling-green-ky/): Bowling Green is Kentucky's third-largest city and the commercial and educational hub of south-central Kentucky, home to Western Kentucky University and the state's Corvette assembly plant, roughly an hour north of Nashville, Tennessee via I-65. #### Golf Clubs in Bowling Green - [The Club at Olde Stone](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/bowling-green-ky/the-club-at-olde-stone/): A purpose-built, gated private golf community in Bowling Green centered on an Arthur Hills championship course, with three developer-built residential neighborhoods and an automatic Social Membership for homeowners; full golf access is a separate, resident-discounted membership purchase. #### Golf Communities in Bowling Green - [Olde Stone Residential Neighborhoods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/bowling-green-ky/olde-stone-residential-community/): The three developer-built neighborhoods (The Overlook, The Farm, The Village) that make up the gated residential portion of The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, each with its own HOA, all sharing an automatic Social Membership to the club. ### Lake Cumberland, KY - [Lake Cumberland, KY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/lake-cumberland-ky/): Lake Cumberland, in south-central Kentucky's Pulaski County, is a genuinely distinct golf-living market from both Louisville Metro and Bowling Green -- built around a large reservoir lake rather than an urban or college-town economy, with vacation, second-home, and retirement demand playing a much larger role than in Kentucky's other golf markets. #### Golf Clubs in Lake Cumberland - [Woodson Bend Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/lake-cumberland-ky/woodson-bend-resort/): A 455-acre gated peninsula resort community on Lake Cumberland with 480-plus privately owned condos organized around an 18-hole Lee Trevino/Dave Bennett golf course and a 216-slip marina; golf itself is open, pay-to-play public access with no membership program. - [Eagle's Nest Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/lake-cumberland-ky/eagles-nest-country-club/): A semi-private, 1979 Ben Wihry-designed course in Somerset whose own marketing describes homes ringing the course and a small pond -- a genuine golf-neighborhood pattern -- with membership recommended for golf-course-real-estate buyers but not required or bundled with home purchase. #### Golf Communities in Lake Cumberland - [Woodson Bend Condominiums](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/lake-cumberland-ky/woodson-bend-condominiums/): The gated, 480-plus-unit condominium community that makes up Woodson Bend Resort on Lake Cumberland, governed by a single property owners association covering exterior maintenance, security, and shared amenities, with open public golf access on the resort's own 18-hole course. - [The Villas at Woodson Bend](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/lake-cumberland-ky/the-villas-at-woodson-bend/): A separately governed, 160-acre gated community of patio homes, condos, and single-family homes on Lake Cumberland adjacent to Woodson Bend Resort, whose own marketing states residents' life there 'includes a round of golf' at the neighboring Trevino/Bennett course. - [Eagle's Nest Golf Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/lake-cumberland-ky/eagles-nest-golf-community/): The neighborhood of homes ringing Eagle's Nest Country Club's course and a small pond in Somerset, KY -- a genuine golf-fronting neighborhood pattern per the club's own marketing, though with no confirmed formal HOA and membership sold separately. ### Louisville Metro, KY - [Louisville Metro, KY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/louisville-metro-ky/): Louisville's golf-living identity is concentrated almost entirely in a corridor running east from the city along U.S. 42 and Shelbyville Road -- Prospect, Glenview, Harrods Creek, and the Lake Forest/Polo Fields stretch of eastern Jefferson County -- plus one purpose-built outlier just across the county line in Shelby County. #### Golf Clubs in Louisville Metro - [Persimmon Ridge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/louisville-metro-ky/persimmon-ridge-golf-club/): Louisville, KY: A private Arthur Hills-designed course in Shelby County that anchors a purpose-built residential community with its own HOA; golf membership is now part of the three-club Fleur-De-Lis 'Join One, Enjoy All' network shared with Polo Fields and Oxmoor Country Club, and is sold separately from HOA dues. - [Polo Fields Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/louisville-metro-ky/polo-fields-country-club/): Louisville, KY: Research Polo Fields Country Club in eastern Jefferson County, KY: a gated multi-phase community built around a Bill Newcomb course, with golf membership sold separately from HOA dues. - [Glen Oaks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/louisville-metro-ky/glen-oaks-country-club/): A Tim Leitty-designed course (1993) anchoring the Glen Oaks subdivision on the Oldham/Jefferson county line in Prospect; membership is separate from home purchase and unusually low-barrier for this market (no published initiation fee as of the club's most recent membership documents). - [Hunting Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/louisville-metro-ky/hunting-creek-country-club/): A private club since 1964, redesigned by Arthur Hills in 1989, physically surrounded by the 228-home deed-restricted Estates of Hunting Creek in Prospect; membership is invitation-based and open to non-residents too, so it is not automatically bundled with home purchase despite deep residential integration. - [Lake Forest Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/louisville-metro-ky/lake-forest-country-club/): Louisville, KY: Kentucky's only Arnold Palmer-designed golf course, at the center of Lake Forest, a 2,000-plus-acre, 1,700+-home deed-restricted East End community; the club is invitation-only with a real waitlist, so membership is not automatically included with a home purchase. #### Golf Communities in Louisville Metro - [Persimmon Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/louisville-metro-ky/persimmon-ridge-community/): Louisville, KY: A Shelby County residential development built around Persimmon Ridge Golf Club's Arthur Hills course, with its own HOA managing common areas, a community pool, tennis/pickleball, and fishing lakes -- distinct from and not automatically bundled with golf club membership. - [The Polo Fields](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/louisville-metro-ky/the-polo-fields-community/): Louisville, KY: Explore The Polo Fields, a gated, multi-phase planned community in eastern Jefferson County, KY built around Polo Fields Country Club, with golf membership sold separately from HOA dues. - [Glen Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/louisville-metro-ky/glen-oaks-community/): A residential subdivision straddling the Oldham/Jefferson county line in Prospect, built around Glen Oaks Country Club's course, with continued new construction into the mid-2010s. - [Estates of Hunting Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/louisville-metro-ky/estates-of-hunting-creek/): A 228-home, deed-restricted, gated community in Prospect (Jefferson/Oldham county line) with large lots surrounding Hunting Creek Country Club's golf course; club membership is invitation-based and open to non-residents too, so it is not automatically bundled with a home purchase. - [Lake Forest](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/louisville-metro-ky/lake-forest-community/): Louisville, KY: A 2,000-plus-acre, deed-restricted East End community of over 1,700 homes, built out since the mid-1990s around the invitation-only Lake Forest Country Club and its Arnold Palmer-designed course; the Lake Forest Community Association manages the neighborhood separately from the club. ### Northern Kentucky, KY - [Northern Kentucky, KY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/northern-kentucky-ky/): Northern Kentucky -- the Boone, Kenton, and Campbell County suburbs across the Ohio River from Cincinnati -- is a genuinely thin golf-living region compared to Louisville or even Bowling Green, but it produces one real, well-documented story: Triple Crown Country Club and the large master-planned community built around it in Union, Boone County, since 1990. #### Golf Clubs in Northern Kentucky - [Triple Crown Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/northern-kentucky-ky/triple-crown-country-club/): A private country-club golf course (Gene Bates, 1990) in Union, Boone County, that has hosted the Kentucky Open (2003, 2020) and sits at the center of a large, actively-building master-planned residential community developed by national builders across multiple horse-racing-themed phases. #### Golf Communities in Northern Kentucky - [Triple Crown Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kentucky/northern-kentucky-ky/triple-crown-community/): The large, decades-built master-planned residential community in Union, KY organized around Triple Crown Country Club's golf course, developed in successive horse-racing-themed phases (Justify, Affirmed, and others) by national builders Fischer Homes and Drees Homes. ## Connecticut - [Connecticut Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/): Independent research on 6 golf clubs and 8 residential golf communities across 2 Connecticut golf markets, including Hartford Area & Central Connecticut and Gold Coast, Litchfield Hills & Shoreline: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Connecticut Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Connecticut](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 6 private Connecticut golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Club at River Oaks, Fox Hopyard Golf Club, TPC River Highlands, Gillette Ridge Golf Club and The Golf Club at Oxford Greens. - [55+ Golf Communities in Connecticut](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/guides/55-plus-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 3 Connecticut golf anchors connected to age-restricted (55+) residential communities, including Gillette Ridge Golf Club, The Golf Club at Oxford Greens and Black Birch Golf Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Connecticut](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 3 private Connecticut golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including TPC River Highlands, The Golf Club at Oxford Greens and Black Birch Golf Club. ### Connecticut Comparisons - [River Oaks vs. Fox Hopyard: Comparing CT's Golf Communities](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/club-at-river-oaks-vs-fox-hopyard-golf-club/): Comparing Connecticut's two purpose-built golf-residential communities outside the Hartford area -- scale, price, and exactly how golf access works at each. - [Fairview at Oxford Greens vs Greens at Gillette Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/fairview-at-oxford-greens-vs-greens-at-gillette-ridge/): Compare Fairview at Oxford Greens and The Greens at Gillette Ridge, Connecticut's two flagship 55+ golf communities, including builder, golf course pedigree, scale, and actual resident golf access. ### Gold Coast, Litchfield Hills & Shoreline, CT - [Gold Coast, Litchfield Hills & Shoreline, CT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/gold-coast-shoreline-ct/): This market covers five Connecticut sub-regions that, individually, each turned out to have too little genuine golf-residential activity to stand alone: Fairfield County's Gold Coast (Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, Weston, and neighboring towns), the Litchfield Hills, the greater New Haven area, and the shoreline running from the lower Connecticut River valley out to Mystic and the Rhode Island line. #### Golf Clubs in Gold Coast, Litchfield Hills & Shoreline - [Club at River Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/gold-coast-shoreline-ct/club-at-river-oaks/): A private, gated 66-home golf community in Sherman, CT (opened 2003) built around an 18-hole Robert McNeil-designed course along the Housatonic River; golf membership is a real private-club product with sponsorship and fees, but is not automatically bundled to buying one of the community's homes. - [Fox Hopyard Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/gold-coast-shoreline-ct/fox-hopyard-golf-club/): A private Roger Rulewich-designed course in East Haddam, CT that anchors The Residences at Fox Hopyard, a 50-lot custom-home community whose HOA includes tennis and dining privileges, with golf and swim available separately through club membership. #### Golf Communities in Gold Coast, Litchfield Hills & Shoreline - [River Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/gold-coast-shoreline-ct/river-oaks-sherman/): A gated, 66-home-site golf community in Sherman, CT built directly around the private Club at River Oaks course, with its own separate homeowners association and golf membership sold apart from home purchase. - [The Residences at Fox Hopyard](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/gold-coast-shoreline-ct/residences-at-fox-hopyard/): A 50-lot custom-home community built by Uccello Development directly into the Fox Hopyard Golf Club property in East Haddam, CT, with HOA-included tennis/dining and separately-purchased golf/swim club membership. ### Hartford Area & Central Connecticut, CT - [Hartford Area & Central Connecticut, CT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/hartford-area-ct/): Hartford Area & Central Connecticut is the state's richest golf-living region, but not because it is dominated by one model the way parts of Fairfield County are dominated by old-guard invitation-only clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Hartford Area & Central Connecticut - [TPC River Highlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/hartford-area-ct/tpc-river-highlands/): TPC River Highlands is a private non-equity club on the Connecticut River in Cromwell, redesigned by Pete Dye in the 1980s and again by Bobby Weed in 1991, and home to the PGA Tour's Travelers Championship every year since 1991. - [Gillette Ridge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/hartford-area-ct/gillette-ridge-golf-club/): Gillette Ridge Golf Club is an 18-hole daily-fee public course in Bloomfield designed by Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay (2004) — the only public Arnold Palmer course in the Northeast — built on Cigna's former corporate campus. - [The Golf Club at Oxford Greens](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/hartford-area-ct/golf-club-at-oxford-greens/): The Golf Club at Oxford Greens is an 18-hole public course (Mark A. Mungeam, 2005) at the center of Oxford Greens, an 880-acre master-planned active-adult development with residential sub-phases from three different builders/eras. - [Black Birch Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/hartford-area-ct/black-birch-golf-club/): Black Birch Golf Club is a public 18-hole Donald Ross-designed course in Moodus (East Haddam) that anchors Banner Country Club Estates, a small purpose-built 55+ condo community. #### Golf Communities in Hartford Area & Central Connecticut - [River Highlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/hartford-area-ct/river-highlands-cromwell/): River Highlands is a ~202-home single-family and duplex-villa community built alongside TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, winner of the National Association of Home Builders' 1996 national 'Community of the Year' award. - [The Greens at Gillette Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/hartford-area-ct/greens-at-gillette-ridge/): The Greens at Gillette Ridge is a 165-home 55+ community in Bloomfield built by Ginsburg Development Companies along the fairways of Gillette Ridge Golf Club, an Arnold Palmer-designed public course. - [Fairview at Oxford Greens](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/hartford-area-ct/fairview-at-oxford-greens/): Fairview at Oxford Greens is Connecticut's only Del Webb-branded 55+ community, begun in 2003 as the first residential phase of the larger Oxford Greens master plan built around The Golf Club at Oxford Greens. - [The Links at Oxford Greens](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/hartford-area-ct/links-at-oxford-greens/): The Links at Oxford Greens is a newer, smaller Del Webb 55+ phase of the Oxford Greens master plan: 39 single-family homes built on the same 18-hole public course as the community's original Fairview phase, with golf access remaining public and optional rather than bundled. - [The Bridges at Oxford Greens](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/hartford-area-ct/bridges-at-oxford-greens/): The Bridges at Oxford Greens is EG Home's newest 55+ phase of the Oxford Greens master plan: 99 planned attached condo homes (duplex/triplex, Zero Energy Ready with solar), construction begun 2025, sharing access to The Golf Club at Oxford Greens on the same public, non-bundled basis as the development's other phases. - [Banner Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/connecticut/hartford-area-ct/banner-country-club-estates/): Banner Country Club Estates is a 55+ townhome-condo community in Moodus (East Haddam) built alongside the Donald Ross-designed Black Birch Golf Club. ## Iowa - [Iowa Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/): Independent research on 8 golf clubs and 10 residential golf communities across 3 Iowa golf markets, including Des Moines Metro, Eastern Iowa & Remaining Regions and Okoboji & Iowa Great Lakes: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Iowa Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Iowa](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 8 private Iowa golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Glen Oaks Country Club, The Legacy Golf Club, Tournament Club of Iowa, Springbrook Country Club and Fort Dodge Country Club. ### Iowa Comparisons - [Glen Oaks vs. The Legacy for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/glen-oaks-vs-the-legacy-for-golf-living/): Comparing Glen Oaks Country Club (West Des Moines) and The Legacy Golf Club (Norwalk): private club vs. public golf, gated vs. open, and how prices compare. - [Emerald Meadows vs. Indian Ridge Townhomes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/emerald-meadows-vs-indian-ridge-townhomes-golf-living/): Compare Emerald Meadows and Indian Ridge Townhomes, the Iowa Great Lakes market's two on-course golf townhome communities, on price, HOA structure, and course scale. ### Des Moines Metro, IA - [Des Moines Metro, IA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/des-moines-metro-ia/): The Des Moines metro is Iowa's richest and most varied golf-living region, but its actual pattern is not what a quick search suggests. #### Golf Clubs in Des Moines Metro - [Glen Oaks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/des-moines-metro-ia/glen-oaks-country-club/): A private, member-club-operated Tom Fazio course (opened 1994) at the center of a 532-acre gated residential development in West Des Moines -- the first gated community in central Iowa -- with 506 platted lots (448 built as of the most recent source). - [The Legacy Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/des-moines-metro-ia/the-legacy-golf-club/): A public, daily-fee 18-hole course (opened 2002) that is the organizing amenity and namesake of a 900-plus-home master-planned community in Norwalk, built out by multiple builders (Hubbell Homes, Tanzanite Homes, and others) in a distinctive circular layout wrapped around the course. - [Tournament Club of Iowa](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/des-moines-metro-ia/tournament-club-of-iowa/): Polk City, IA: Iowa's only Arnold Palmer Signature Design golf course (opened 2003 on 500 acres of bluffs and ravines between Big Creek Dam and Saylorville Lake), fully public with no membership program, at the center of the Tradition neighborhood -- a purpose-built residential golf community with homes built directly on the course. #### Golf Communities in Des Moines Metro - [Glen Oaks](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/des-moines-metro-ia/glen-oaks-west-des-moines/): A 532-acre gated residential development in West Des Moines (506 platted lots, 448 built as of the most recent source), the first gated community in central Iowa when it opened in 1994, built around Glen Oaks Country Club's Tom Fazio course. - [Townhomes at The Legacy](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/des-moines-metro-ia/townhomes-at-the-legacy/): Hubbell Homes' townhome product within The Legacy master-planned community in Norwalk: six floor plans, 1,661-1,943 sq ft, 3 bed/2 bath/3-car garage, part of the development's 900-plus total residences wrapped around The Legacy Golf Club's public course. - [Legacy 19](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/des-moines-metro-ia/legacy-19/): Tanzanite Homes' custom single-family-home plat (Plat 19) within The Legacy master-planned community in Norwalk -- confirmed, directly per this batch's disambiguation task, to be a genuine numbered sub-phase of the same Norwalk Legacy development (not the unrelated Mason City-area reference the brief flagged as a possibility). - [Tradition](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/des-moines-metro-ia/tradition-polk-city/): The residential golf-community neighborhood built directly around Tournament Club of Iowa's Arnold Palmer Signature course in Polk City, explicitly marketed by the club as its residential product. ### Eastern Iowa & Remaining Regions, IA - [Eastern Iowa & Remaining Regions, IA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/eastern-iowa-ia/): This market brings together the honest, researched result of a full-depth sweep across the largest share of Iowa's land area outside the Des Moines metro and the Okoboji/Iowa Great Lakes region: the Quad Cities corridor (Davenport, Bettendorf, DeWitt, Clinton), the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City corridor, Dubuque, Fort Dodge, Waterloo/Cedar Falls, and Sioux City/Council Bluffs. #### Golf Clubs in Eastern Iowa & Remaining Regions - [Springbrook Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/eastern-iowa-ia/springbrook-country-club/): A private 18-hole club in DeWitt (Tom Bendelow design, 1921; 1985 Dick Nugent renovation) directly bordered by the Old Rail Line Condominium Association, a condo/villa community built by Mission Built Construction just off the 17th fairway, plus additional single-family homes on Springbrook Lane backing the course. - [Fort Dodge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/eastern-iowa-ia/fort-dodge-country-club/): A semi-private, public-welcome club in Fort Dodge founded in 1911, explicitly described by Iowa tourism sourcing as set within its own residential subdivision -- homes and townhomes sit directly on Country Club Ct and Country Club Dr bordering the course. #### Golf Communities in Eastern Iowa & Remaining Regions - [Old Rail Line Condominiums](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/eastern-iowa-ia/old-rail-line-condominiums/): A condominium and platted-villa community built by Mission Built Construction on Springbrook Lane in DeWitt, just off the 17th fairway of Springbrook Country Club, with units marketed for their golf-course and pond views. - [Fort Dodge Country Club Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/eastern-iowa-ia/fort-dodge-country-club-neighborhood/): The residential streets (Country Club Ct and Country Club Dr) immediately bordering Fort Dodge Country Club, treated by GolfHomes.com as a recognized golf-home community. ### Okoboji & Iowa Great Lakes, IA - [Okoboji & Iowa Great Lakes, IA Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/okoboji-great-lakes-ia/): The Okoboji & Iowa Great Lakes market is Iowa's genuine lake-resort golf cluster, centered on the natural lakes of Dickinson County -- West and East Lake Okoboji, Big Spirit Lake, and Lower Gar -- rather than on a Des Moines-style suburban master-planned-community model. #### Golf Clubs in Okoboji & Iowa Great Lakes - [Brooks Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/okoboji-great-lakes-ia/brooks-golf-club/): A 27-hole public golf facility in Okoboji, Iowa, founded in 1932 and expanded to three combinable nines in 1999, sited alongside the Lake Okoboji Resort & Conference Center and the namesake Brooks Golf Course Condo Association. - [Emerald Hills Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/okoboji-great-lakes-ia/emerald-hills-golf-club/): An 18-hole public championship course in Arnolds Park with townhomes built directly on its 12th green and a newly reported, active golf-course-expansion-plus-housing partnership adding roughly 97 more residential lots next to the course. - [Indian Hills Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/okoboji-great-lakes-ia/indian-hills-golf-course/): A public, budget-friendly 9-hole course two miles west of Spirit Lake, Iowa, with Indian Ridge Townhomes built directly on the course sharing a single HOA-run clubhouse and pool. #### Golf Communities in Okoboji & Iowa Great Lakes - [Brooks Golf Course Condo Association](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/okoboji-great-lakes-ia/brooks-golf-course-condo-association/): A condo association along the west side of Brooks Golf Club in Okoboji, offering golf-course views and a shared outdoor pool. - [Emerald Meadows](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/okoboji-great-lakes-ia/emerald-meadows/): A townhome community built directly on Emerald Hills Golf Club's 12th green in Arnolds Park, with its own HOA and reported annual dues around $500. - [Emerald Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/okoboji-great-lakes-ia/emerald-estates/): Arnolds Park, IA: A roughly 97-lot, 38-acre residential development east of Emerald Hills Golf Club, being built in an active, publicly reported partnership between the course's ownership and the Spirit of Okoboji investment group alongside a simultaneous course expansion. - [Indian Ridge Townhomes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/iowa/okoboji-great-lakes-ia/indian-ridge-townhomes/): A townhome community built directly on Indian Hills Golf Course near Spirit Lake, sharing a single HOA-run clubhouse and outdoor pool, with reported dues around $200/month. ## Kansas - [Kansas Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/): Independent research on 11 golf clubs and 11 residential golf communities across 3 Kansas golf markets, including Kansas City Metro & Johnson County, Wichita & South-Central Kansas and Lawrence, Manhattan, Topeka & Remaining Regions: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Kansas Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Kansas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 10 private Kansas golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Nicklaus Golf Club at LionsGate, Hallbrook Country Club, Falcon Lakes Golf Club, Falcon Ridge Golf Club and Kansas City Country Club. ### Kansas Comparisons - [Lake Quivira vs. LionsGate for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/lake-quivira-vs-lionsgate-for-golf-living/): Compare Lake Quivira's mandatory-membership golf town with LionsGate's Nicklaus Signature private club community in Johnson County, Kansas. - [Flint Hills National vs Terradyne for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/flint-hills-national-vs-terradyne-andover-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Flint Hills National Golf Club and Terradyne Country Club in Andover, KS: golf pedigree, membership access, residential-community structure, and home pricing. ### Kansas City Metro & Johnson County, KS - [Kansas City Metro & Johnson County, KS Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/): The Kansas City metro's Kansas-side suburbs -- concentrated almost entirely in Johnson County, with outposts in Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties -- form the richest and most varied golf-residential cluster anywhere in Kansas. #### Golf Clubs in Kansas City Metro & Johnson County - [Nicklaus Golf Club at LionsGate](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/nicklaus-golf-club-at-lionsgate/): A private, Invited-operated Jack Nicklaus Signature 18-hole course (opened 2001 as 'The Golden Bear Golf Club at LionsGate') sited within the roughly 600-home LionsGate master-planned community in Overland Park; membership is a separate, applied-for Invited club membership, not an automatic homeownership benefit. - [Hallbrook Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/hallbrook-country-club/): A private, member-owned Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole club (1988) built on the former Joyce C. Hall (Hallmark Cards founder) farm estate in Leawood, and the organizing amenity of the surrounding Hallbrook Farms luxury residential district. - [Lake Quivira Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/lake-quivira-country-club/): Lake Quivira, KS: A small, gated, incorporated Kansas city built entirely around a private William Diddel-designed 18-hole course and a 224-acre spring-fed lake; every home site comes with a required foundation-level country club membership, per the club's own materials. - [Falcon Lakes Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/falcon-lakes-golf-club/): A Jay Morrish-designed semi-private course (2002) in Basehor that anchors 'The Communities of Falcon Lakes,' a Roeser Homes master-planned development with golf-course-living marketing and formal club membership tiers on top of public daily-fee play. - [Falcon Ridge Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/falcon-ridge-golf-club/): A GreatLIFE Golf Management private club (1997) that anchors the Falcon Ridge residential neighborhood in western Lenexa, which has its own homeowners association built directly around the course; golf access requires a separate paid membership, not included with a home purchase. - [Kansas City Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/kansas-city-country-club-ks/): Founded in 1896 and relocated to Mission Hills in 1926-27 to an A.W. Tillinghast-designed course, Kansas City Country Club is one of the three private clubs J.C. Nichols built the incorporated city of Mission Hills around starting in 1914 — genuinely golf-founded residential development, though current homeowner-membership bundling was not confirmed. - [Mission Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/mission-hills-country-club-ks/): Founded June 30, 1914 largely through developer J.C. Nichols's own efforts, Mission Hills Country Club is the literal namesake club that gave the city of Mission Hills, Kansas its name and origin — built in part to help Nichols sell his adjoining upscale Kansas-side lots. - [Indian Hills Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/indian-hills-country-club-mission-hills-ks/): An A.W. Tillinghast-designed private club organized in 1919 as the Community Golf Club by J.C. Nichols and reorganized as Indian Hills Country Club in 1925 — the third of the three clubs Mission Hills, Kansas was built around; historic membership was open to any Mission Hills resident, though this is not confirmed as still current. #### Golf Communities in Kansas City Metro & Johnson County - [The Links at LionsGate](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/the-links-at-lionsgate/): A 243-home, golf-course-fronting sub-section of the broader LionsGate master-planned community in Overland Park, sited directly on the Nicklaus Golf Club at LionsGate fairways. - [Hallbrook Farms](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/hallbrook-farms/): A low-density, custom-home luxury district in Leawood built out on the former 730-acre Hall family (Hallmark Cards) farm estate, organized around Hallbrook Country Club's golf course. - [Lake Quivira](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/lake-quivira-ks/): A small, gated, incorporated Kansas city of 396 single-family homes built entirely around Lake Quivira Country Club's golf course and a 224-acre spring-fed lake, where a mandatory club membership is bundled with every home site. - [The Communities of Falcon Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/communities-of-falcon-lakes/): A Roeser Homes master-planned residential development in Basehor explicitly built around and marketed as 'golf-course living' at Falcon Lakes Golf Club, with completed homes, waterfront/fairway custom homesites, and a newer Boulder Villas phase. - [Falcon Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/falcon-ridge-lenexa/): A residential neighborhood in western Lenexa built with curving streets following the contours of Falcon Ridge Golf Club, with its own dedicated homeowners association separate from the golf club. - [Mission Hills](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/kc-metro-johnson-county-ks/mission-hills-ks-residential/): A small, wealthy incorporated Kansas city that developer J.C. Nichols began platting in 1914 directly around three country clubs (Kansas City, Mission Hills, and Indian Hills), a genuine golf-founded-town origin story, though current formal membership bundling with any of the three clubs was not confirmed. ### Lawrence, Manhattan, Topeka & Remaining Regions, KS - [Lawrence, Manhattan, Topeka & Remaining Regions, KS Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/lawrence-topeka-ks/): This region covers Lawrence, Manhattan, Topeka, Salina, and the rest of Kansas outside the Kansas City metro and Wichita clusters — geographically the largest area US Golf Living researched in Kansas, but by far the thinnest for golf-oriented residential living. #### Golf Clubs in Lawrence, Manhattan, Topeka & Remaining Regions - [The Jayhawk Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/lawrence-topeka-ks/the-jayhawk-club/): A private club in west Lawrence operating on the site of the original 1968 Alvamar Golf Club — reportedly the first golf course in the world built with zoysia-grass fairways — rebranded The Jayhawk Club in 2017 after the Fritzel family's Eagle 1968 LC took over ownership and took the facility fully private. #### Golf Communities in Lawrence, Manhattan, Topeka & Remaining Regions - [Alvamar Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/lawrence-topeka-ks/alvamar-estates/): The first residential subdivision built as part of the Alvamar development, platted in the early 1970s directly off the success of the original Alvamar Golf Club; it was the seed subdivision that led developers Bob Billings and John McGrew to build more than 30 further subdivisions across west Lawrence over the following decades. - [Alvamar Heights](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/lawrence-topeka-ks/alvamar-heights/): Lawrence, KS: A later-built, larger-home Alvamar-area subdivision described by real-estate sources as wrapping directly around the golf course grounds, one of the subdivisions Bob Billings developed in quick succession after Alvamar Estates proved out residential demand. ### Wichita & South-Central Kansas, KS - [Wichita & South-Central Kansas, KS Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/wichita-south-central-ks/): US Golf Living has researched 2 golf anchors in the Wichita & South-Central Kansas golf market, both in Andover, Butler County: Flint Hills National Golf Club and Terradyne Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Wichita & South-Central Kansas - [Flint Hills National Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/wichita-south-central-ks/flint-hills-national-golf-club/): A Tom Fazio-designed private club opened in 1997 on a 640-acre tract in Andover, 15 miles east of Wichita, ranked among Golf Digest's America's 100 Greatest and host to three USGA championships (U.S. Women's Amateur, 2007 U.S. Senior Men's Amateur, 2017 U.S. Junior Amateur). - [Terradyne Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/wichita-south-central-ks/terradyne-country-club/): A semi-private, Scottish-links-style 18-hole course in Andover (Donald Sechrest and Craig Schreiner, opened 1987-88), voted Wichita's Best Golf Course in a 2023 local readers' poll. #### Golf Communities in Wichita & South-Central Kansas - [Flint Hills National Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/wichita-south-central-ks/flint-hills-national-residences/): The gated, purpose-built custom-home community developed alongside Flint Hills National Golf Club on the same 640-acre Andover tract, sold through a five-phase Club Estates builder program with homes starting in the $600s. - [Terradyne Estates & Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/wichita-south-central-ks/terradyne-estates/): Andover, KS: The broader single-family neighborhood built up around Terradyne Country Club over nearly four decades, spanning roughly $200,000 starter homes to $2.59 million custom estates, with an HOA that provides members a discounted club rate rather than included membership. - [Highlands at Terradyne](https://www.usgolfliving.com/kansas/wichita-south-central-ks/highlands-at-terradyne/): Andover, KS: A 36-unit gated townhome community immediately west of the Terradyne Country Club clubhouse, whose HOA includes a club social membership (no golf) as a built-in lifestyle amenity alongside full exterior maintenance. ## Idaho - [Idaho Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/): Independent research on 11 golf clubs and 15 residential golf communities across 3 Idaho golf markets, including Boise Metro & Treasure Valley, North Idaho & Coeur d'Alene and Sun Valley, McCall & Remaining Regions: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Idaho Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Idaho](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 10 private Idaho golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including The Club at SpurWing, The Valor Club, CDA National Reserve, Gozzer Ranch Golf & Lake Club and The Idaho Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Idaho](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 3 private Idaho golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including The Valor Club, Sun Valley Golf & Nordic Center and Whitetail Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Idaho](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 3 Idaho golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including The Club at SpurWing, The Idaho Club and The Valley Club. ### Idaho Comparisons - [The Club at SpurWing vs The Valor Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-club-at-spurwing-vs-the-valor-club/): A researched comparison of Meridian's Club at SpurWing and Kuna's Valor Club (Falcon Crest) for golf-oriented Boise metro homebuyers: membership-bundling maturity, golf product, ownership history, communities, and price positioning. - [CDA National Reserve vs Gozzer Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/cda-national-reserve-vs-gozzer-ranch/): Compare CDA National Reserve and Gozzer Ranch Golf & Lake Club, North Idaho's two flagship private lake clubs, on ownership history, membership terms, course pedigree and residential scale. - [Whitetail Club vs. Sun Valley Golf](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/whitetail-club-vs-sun-valley-golf-for-golf-living/): Compare McCall's mandatory-membership Whitetail Club against Sun Valley Company's preferential-access golf ecosystem for Idaho mountain golf living. ### Boise Metro & Treasure Valley, ID - [Boise Metro & Treasure Valley, ID Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/boise-metro-treasure-valley-id/): Boise metro and the Treasure Valley is Idaho's largest and fastest-growing population center, and its golf-living market reflects that growth: rather than a handful of century-old private clubs, the region's most consumer-relevant golf real estate is concentrated in two newer, still-evolving developments -- The Club at SpurWing in Meridian and The Valor Club (formerly Falcon Crest Golf Club) in Kuna. #### Golf Clubs in Boise Metro & Treasure Valley - [The Club at SpurWing](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/boise-metro-treasure-valley-id/the-club-at-spurwing/): Meridian's flagship private club: a Myron Tucker-designed 18-hole championship course plus a Steve Pate-designed 9-hole par-3 Challenge Course, wrapped by the SpurWing Greens, SpurWing Heights, and Estates at SpurWing Greens neighborhoods. - [The Valor Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/boise-metro-treasure-valley-id/the-valor-club/): A 36-hole golf complex in Kuna (Falcon Crest Championship Course plus the Cadet and Freedom nine-hole courses), currently transitioning from public to semi-private/eventually-private under new operator The Valor Club, inside Century Golf Partners/M3 Companies' actively-building Valor master-planned community. #### Golf Communities in Boise Metro & Treasure Valley - [SpurWing Greens](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/boise-metro-treasure-valley-id/spurwing-greens/): The original gated golf-course community wrapped around The Club at SpurWing's championship course in northwest Meridian, with a mandatory Lifestyle (Social) club membership bundled into every home's HOA dues and a separate, higher-end custom-build phase (The Estates at SpurWing Greens). - [SpurWing Heights](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/boise-metro-treasure-valley-id/spurwing-heights/): Meridian, ID: A newer luxury phase (also known locally as Tree Farm) developed by M3 Companies immediately adjacent to SpurWing Greens, with the same bundled Lifestyle club membership and its own small Ridge HOA. - [Trilogy Valor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/boise-metro-treasure-valley-id/trilogy-valor/): Shea Homes' 55+ active-adult neighborhood inside the Valor master-planned community in Kuna, targeting roughly 1,000 homes, with a bundled Treasure Valley Social Club membership and priority (but separately paid) access to a homeowner-specific golf-membership classification at the adjacent Falcon Crest/Valor Club course. - [Reveille at Valor](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/boise-metro-treasure-valley-id/reveille-at-valor/): Tresidio Homes' non-age-restricted neighborhood within the Valor master-planned community in Kuna, marketed with golf-course-frontage homesites along Falcon Crest -- without the homeowner-specific golf-membership program documented for the adjacent Trilogy Valor. ### North Idaho & Coeur d'Alene, ID - [North Idaho & Coeur d'Alene, ID Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/): US Golf Living has researched 5 golf anchors in the North Idaho & Coeur d'Alene golf market, in Kootenai and Bonner counties, including CDA National Reserve, Gozzer Ranch Golf & Lake Club, The Idaho Club, the Coeur d'Alene Resort Golf Course and The Golf Club at Black Rock. #### Golf Clubs in North Idaho & Coeur d'Alene - [CDA National Reserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/cda-national-reserve/): A private golf, sporting and wellness club on 1,000+ acres on Lake Coeur d'Alene, built around a Tom Weiskopf championship course. - [Gozzer Ranch Golf & Lake Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/gozzer-ranch-golf-lake-club/): A private, gated Discovery Land Company club and residential community on 700 acres overlooking Lake Coeur d'Alene in Harrison, built around a nationally ranked Tom Fazio course. - [The Idaho Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/the-idaho-club/): A 440-lot, 900+-acre luxury residential community on Lake Pend Oreille near Sandpoint, home to Idaho's only Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course. - [Coeur d'Alene Resort Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/coeur-dalene-resort-golf-course/): Home to golf's only floating, movable green, this downtown Coeur d'Alene resort course is primarily a public/resort destination -- but The Terraces, a 30-unit waterfront condo community built on the course property, is consistently marketed with two lifetime golf memberships included per unit, a genuine bundled-golf residential product distinct from the course's general public access. - [The Golf Club at Black Rock](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/golf-club-at-black-rock/): Coeur d'Alene's first gated private golf community, built in 2003 around a Jim Engh course that is the only Idaho course on Golf Digest's Top 100 list. #### Golf Communities in North Idaho & Coeur d'Alene - [CDA National Reserve Homesites & Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/cda-national-reserve-homesites/): Coeur d'Alene, ID: The custom homesite and estate-home portion of the CDA National Reserve development, on the same 1,000+-acre property as the club's Tom Weiskopf golf course. - [Fairway Lodges at CDA National Reserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/fairway-lodges-at-cda-national-reserve/): Coeur d'Alene, ID: A new, developer-built phase of 24 residences along the 17th fairway at CDA National Reserve, part of the club's reported $165 million 2025-27 residential build-out. - [Gozzer Ranch Homesites & Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/gozzer-ranch-homesites/): Harrison, ID: The residential program at Gozzer Ranch: 267 custom homesites plus 34 detached cabins, 28 homestead cottage homes, and 28 waterfront condominium lodge homes, all part of the same 700-acre Discovery Land Company community that the club's Tom Fazio golf course anchors. - [The Idaho Club Homesites & Lodges](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/the-idaho-club-homesites/): Sandpoint, ID: The residential program at The Idaho Club: 440 lots ranging from smaller golf-adjacent lodge homes to larger custom homesites on Moose Mountain, priced from roughly $325,000 (forest lots) to $1,275,000 (panoramic lake/mountain view lots). - [The Terraces on Lake Coeur d'Alene](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/the-terraces-lake-coeur-dalene/): A 30-residence waterfront condominium community built directly on the Coeur d'Alene Resort Golf Course property, on the shoreline of Lake Coeur d'Alene. - [Black Rock](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/north-idaho-coeur-dalene-id/black-rock-coeur-dalene/): A nearly 700-acre gated luxury community overlooking Lake Coeur d'Alene, built around The Golf Club at Black Rock. Homes trade in the roughly $1.2M-$7M range across the Black Rock, Estates, and adjacent Polo Cielo sections. ### Sun Valley, McCall & Remaining Regions, ID - [Sun Valley, McCall & Remaining Regions, ID Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/sun-valley-mccall-id/): Idaho's most geographically scattered approved golf market pairs two genuinely different mountain-golf stories with a large, honestly bare remainder. #### Golf Clubs in Sun Valley, McCall & Remaining Regions - [Sun Valley Golf & Nordic Center](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/sun-valley-mccall-id/sun-valley-golf-nordic-center/): Sun Valley Company's own golf operation (Trail Creek's 18 holes plus the 9-hole White Clouds course, one shared clubhouse) tied directly to White Clouds, the resort's new 22-homesite luxury neighborhood -- owners there get automatic, ownership-tied resort golf privileges not sold to the general public. - [Elkhorn Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/sun-valley-mccall-id/elkhorn-golf-club/): Semi-private 18-hole Robert Trent Jones Sr./Jr. course in Sun Valley's Elkhorn neighborhood, owned and operated by Sun Valley Company since 2011; anchors a large, historic master-planned community but offers its own property owners only a modest greens-fee discount, not bundled or discounted membership. - [The Valley Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/sun-valley-mccall-id/the-valley-club/): Member-owned 27-hole private club (North, South, and West Nine courses) south of Ketchum in Hailey, built into a dedicated 99-lot residential subdivision platted in 1990-91; membership requires a separate application even for subdivision lot owners. - [Whitetail Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/sun-valley-mccall-id/whitetail-club/): Private residential golf community on Payette Lake in McCall; property owners are required to hold Resident Full or Resident Social/Sport membership, giving genuine, mandatory-membership golf-residential integration. #### Golf Communities in Sun Valley, McCall & Remaining Regions - [White Clouds](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/sun-valley-mccall-id/white-clouds-sun-valley/): Sun Valley Company's newest luxury homesite neighborhood (22 lots), built directly along new holes of the White Clouds golf course at the resort's north end; owners get automatic golf-priority, pool, and resort-discount privileges. - [Elkhorn](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/sun-valley-mccall-id/elkhorn-sun-valley/): Sun Valley's largest historic master-planned community (platted 1972; 13 subdivisions, 24 condo associations across roughly 2,920 acres), anchored by -- but not bundled with -- Elkhorn Golf Club. - [Valley Club Neighborhood](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/sun-valley-mccall-id/valley-club-neighborhood-hailey/): 99-lot residential subdivision (approved 1991) built alongside The Valley Club golf course in Hailey; governed by its own Valley Club Owners Association. - [The Fairways at Whitetail Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/sun-valley-mccall-id/fairways-at-whitetail-club/): McCall, ID: Established residential neighborhood within Whitetail Club along the golf course; property owners are required to hold Resident Full or Resident Social/Sport membership. - [Legacy Ranch at Whitetail Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/idaho/sun-valley-mccall-id/legacy-ranch-at-whitetail-club/): McCall, ID: New 2025 enclave within Whitetail Club -- 36 homesites (365 acres, 5-21 acres each) priced $400,000-$1,375,000 for the homesite; Whitetail Club Resident membership required of owners. ## Nebraska - [Nebraska Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/): Independent research on 7 golf clubs and 6 residential golf communities across 3 Nebraska golf markets, including Nebraska Sandhills, Omaha Metro and Lincoln & Remaining Regions: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Nebraska Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Nebraska](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 7 private Nebraska golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Firethorn Golf Club, Wilderness Ridge Country Club, Dismal River Club, The Prairie Club and Champions Run. ### Nebraska Comparisons - [Firethorn vs Wilderness Ridge: Lincoln Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/firethorn-golf-club-vs-wilderness-ridge-country-club-lincoln/): Compare Firethorn Golf Club and Wilderness Ridge Country Club, Lincoln, Nebraska's two golf-anchored residential developments, on access, design, and housing. - [Dismal River Club vs The Prairie Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/dismal-river-club-vs-the-prairie-club/): A researched comparison of Nebraska Sandhills golf destinations Dismal River Club and The Prairie Club: access models, real estate, course pedigree, and lifestyle. - [Eagle Run West vs The Ridges for Golf Living in Omaha](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/eagle-run-west-vs-the-ridges-omaha-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Eagle Run West (Champions Run) and The Ridges (Shadow Ridge Country Club), Omaha's two leading private-golf-club communities, for golf-oriented homebuyers. ### Lincoln & Remaining Regions, NE - [Lincoln & Remaining Regions, NE Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/lincoln-remaining-regions-ne/): This market covers Lincoln, Nebraska's capital and second-largest city, along with the rest of the state outside the Omaha metro and the Sandhills: Kearney, Grand Island, Hastings, North Platte, and Scottsbluff. #### Golf Clubs in Lincoln & Remaining Regions - [Firethorn Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/lincoln-remaining-regions-ne/firethorn-golf-club-lincoln-ne/): A private, 27-hole Pete Dye-designed club (1985/86) in southeast Lincoln that grew out of a 1970s-80s land assembly deliberately planned as a housing development with golf as its central amenity -- the surrounding Firethorn neighborhood shares the club's name and grew up around the course as one project. - [Wilderness Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/lincoln-remaining-regions-ne/wilderness-ridge-country-club-lincoln-ne/): A semi-private, 27-hole club (18-hole championship course plus a 9-hole executive course, Jeffrey Brauer design) in south Lincoln that opened in August 2001; the course weaves throughout the surrounding Wilderness Ridge neighborhoods, which carry the same name, though club membership is an application-based, separate decision from any home purchase in the area. #### Golf Communities in Lincoln & Remaining Regions - [Firethorn](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/lincoln-remaining-regions-ne/firethorn-lincoln-ne/): A collection of non-gated subdivisions on Lincoln's southeastern edge built around and named for Firethorn Golf Club, with fairway-view lots, winding streets, and a mostly ranch/two-story housing mix; June 2026 reporting put the neighborhood's median home price at roughly $699,900. - [Wilderness Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/lincoln-remaining-regions-ne/wilderness-ridge-lincoln-ne/): A non-gated, contemporary south Lincoln neighborhood built directly around and along the Wilderness Ridge Country Club course, with a number of homes on golf-course-frontage lots; a reliable neighborhood-wide price range was not confirmed, though a recent golf-course-lot listing reached roughly $1,000,000. ### Nebraska Sandhills, NE - [Nebraska Sandhills, NE Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/nebraska-sandhills-ne/): The Nebraska Sandhills is one of the most nationally significant golf regions in the country relative to its population -- a nearly uninhabited expanse of grass-stabilized dunes in north-central Nebraska that happens to contain three of modern golf architecture's most acclaimed courses, clustered around the tiny towns of Mullen (Hooker County) and Valentine (Cherry County). #### Golf Clubs in Nebraska Sandhills - [Dismal River Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/nebraska-sandhills-ne/dismal-river-club/): A remote, nationally acclaimed private golf-and-hunting destination in the Nebraska Sandhills near Mullen, built around Jack Nicklaus's White Course (2006) and Tom Doak's Red Course (2013), with optional (not mandatory) club membership and a small, confirmed number of privately owned residences on the property. - [The Prairie Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/nebraska-sandhills-ne/the-prairie-club/): A semi-private golf resort on the rim of the Snake River Canyon near Valentine, built around two top-ranked 18-hole courses (the Tom Lehman/Chris Brands-designed Dunes and the Graham Marsh-designed Pines) plus the Gil Hanse/Geoff Shackelford-designed 10-hole Horse Course, with a genuine, purpose-built acreage-lot real-estate arm (the Pines Reserve) physically integrated with the golf courses. #### Golf Communities in Nebraska Sandhills - [Pines Reserve](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/nebraska-sandhills-ne/pines-reserve/): A small, largely sold-out subdivision of secluded, multi-acre building lots sited between The Prairie Club's golf courses and the Snake River near Valentine, marketed with direct golf-cart access to the clubhouse. ### Omaha Metro, NE - [Omaha Metro, NE Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/omaha-metro-ne/): Omaha's golf-residential story is concentrated in a handful of private clubs on the west and northwest edges of the metro, each surrounded by real, distinctly branded residential product rather than loose proximity. #### Golf Clubs in Omaha Metro - [Champions Run](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/omaha-metro-ne/champions-run/): A private, ~200-acre, 18-hole club in northwest Omaha that anchors the Eagle Run West subdivision, offering golf and social memberships separate from home purchase, with a 38,000-square-foot clubhouse and five tennis courts. - [Shadow Ridge Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/omaha-metro-ne/shadow-ridge-country-club/): A private 18-hole club in West Omaha's 68130 area, opened in 1994 to a Tom Sieckmann design, sited in the heart of The Ridges — Nebraska's largest private residential golf & country club community — with membership confirmed separate from home ownership and currently at capacity with a waitlist. - [The Players Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/omaha-metro-ne/the-players-club-omaha/): Omaha's only 27-hole private club, an Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay design on 350 acres in northwest Omaha, converted from public to private beginning in 2006, and now owned by Concert Golf Partners (acquired 2022); the surrounding Deer Creek residential phases are a distinctly branded product from the club itself, with membership purchased separately. #### Golf Communities in Omaha Metro - [Eagle Run West](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/omaha-metro-ne/eagle-run-west/): The subdivision surrounding Champions Run in northwest Omaha, governed by the Eagle Run West Home Association (ERWHA); real estate listings market the immediate golf-course-adjacent area as "Champions Run," a distinctly higher-priced pocket than the older, adjacent Eagle Run neighborhood. - [The Ridges (Omaha, NE)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/omaha-metro-ne/the-ridges-omaha-ne/): A roughly one-square-mile master-planned area in West Omaha's 68130 zip code comprising 13 subdivisions under one homeowners association, built around Shadow Ridge Country Club; the club itself describes it as Nebraska's largest private residential golf & country club living community. - [Deer Creek (Omaha, NE)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/nebraska/omaha-metro-ne/deer-creek-omaha/): The residential neighborhood built along and on The Players Club golf course in northwest Omaha, marketed across three named phases (Deer Creek, Deer Creek Highlands, and Deer Creek Reserve) with a distinct brand identity from the club itself; each phase carries its own homeowners association, and club membership is purchased separately. ## West Virginia - [West Virginia Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/): Independent research on 4 golf clubs and 6 residential golf communities across 2 West Virginia golf markets, including Eastern Panhandle and Greenbrier Valley & Southern West Virginia: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### West Virginia Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in West Virginia](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 3 West Virginia golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including The Woods Resort, The Greenbrier and Glade Springs Resort. ### West Virginia Comparisons - [The Woods Resort vs. Cress Creek for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-woods-resort-vs-cress-creek-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of The Woods Resort (Hedgesville, WV) and Cress Creek Golf & Country Club (Shepherdstown, WV) for golf-oriented homebuyers: bundled vs. separate golf access, scale, price range, and lifestyle. - [The Greenbrier vs. Glade Springs for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-greenbrier-vs-glade-springs-golf-living/): Compare The Greenbrier Sporting Club and Glade Springs on golf access, membership cost, home prices, and current ownership situations in West Virginia. ### Eastern Panhandle, WV - [Eastern Panhandle, WV Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/eastern-panhandle-wv/): US Golf Living has researched golf-residential real estate in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, covering Charles Town, Shepherdstown, Martinsburg, Hedgesville, and Berkeley Springs across Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties. #### Golf Clubs in Eastern Panhandle - [The Woods Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/eastern-panhandle-wv/the-woods-resort-hedgesville-wv/): A 1,800-acre resort community in Hedgesville, WV (Berkeley County), founded in 1976 as a vacation-home development and now home to more than 1,200 vacation, retirement, and primary homes built directly into the resort around 36 holes of golf on two courses, with a bundled golf membership included on new homes sold through the resort's developer. - [Cress Creek Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/eastern-panhandle-wv/cress-creek-golf-country-club-shepherdstown-wv/): A private, Robert Elder-designed 18-hole club in Shepherdstown, WV (Jefferson County), marketed as the Eastern Panhandle's only private golf and country club, sitting inside a namesake golf-course residential subdivision where club membership is a separate purchase from home ownership. #### Golf Communities in Eastern Panhandle - [The Woods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/eastern-panhandle-wv/the-woods-community-hedgesville-wv/): The residential heart of The Woods Resort in Hedgesville, WV: more than 1,200 vacation, retirement, and primary homes on wooded lots around 36 holes of golf, governed by the mandatory Woods Homeowners Association, with a golf/recreation membership bundled on new-developer-sold homes and available separately to resale buyers. - [Cress Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/eastern-panhandle-wv/cress-creek-community-shepherdstown-wv/): A rural, low-density residential subdivision outside historic Shepherdstown, WV (Jefferson County) organized around and named for Cress Creek Golf & Country Club, with a Fernbank at Cress Creek phase; homes have listed roughly $154,000-$775,000, and club membership is purchased separately from home ownership. ### Greenbrier Valley & Southern West Virginia, WV - [Greenbrier Valley & Southern West Virginia, WV Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/greenbrier-southern-wv/): US Golf Living has researched 2 golf anchors in the Greenbrier Valley & Southern West Virginia market -- The Greenbrier / Greenbrier Sporting Club in White Sulphur Springs and Glade Springs Resort near Beckley -- along with 4 residential communities. #### Golf Clubs in Greenbrier Valley & Southern West Virginia - [The Greenbrier](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/greenbrier-southern-wv/the-greenbrier/): The Greenbrier is a historic 700+ room resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV, with a private casino, spa, and three resort golf courses (Old White TPC, The Greenbrier Course, The Meadows). - [Glade Springs Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/greenbrier-southern-wv/glade-springs-resort/): Daniels, WV: Glade Springs is a 4,100-acre gated golf community near Beckley in Raleigh County, WV, built around three 18-hole courses (Cobb, Stonehaven, Woodhaven) across three named neighborhoods (Old Glade, Stonehaven, Woodhaven) totaling roughly 750 homes. #### Golf Communities in Greenbrier Valley & Southern West Virginia - [Greenbrier Sporting Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/greenbrier-southern-wv/greenbrier-sporting-club/): The Greenbrier Sporting Club is a ~6,500-acre private residential golf community within The Greenbrier resort's larger footprint in White Sulphur Springs, WV, comprising roughly 500 home sites across 16 named neighborhoods. - [Old Glade](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/greenbrier-southern-wv/old-glade/): Daniels, WV: Old Glade is the most established of Glade Springs' three residential neighborhoods, with stately homes on larger lots surrounding the George Cobb-designed Cobb Course, closest to the resort's hotel and amenity core. - [Stonehaven](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/greenbrier-southern-wv/stonehaven-at-glade-springs/): Daniels, WV: Stonehaven offers lakefront living on the 70-acre Lake Chatham, surrounding the Stonehaven Course (Tom Clark, 2003), with lots averaging roughly 1/3 acre and homes generally in the 1,900-3,000 sq ft range. - [Woodhaven](https://www.usgolfliving.com/west-virginia/greenbrier-southern-wv/woodhaven-at-glade-springs/): Daniels, WV: Woodhaven, Glade Springs' newest neighborhood, is perched along the Glade Creek Gorge, with its namesake 18-hole course (Ault, Clark & Associates/James Cervone, 2010) winding through wooded hills. ## Hawaii - [Hawaii Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/): Independent research on 13 golf clubs and 34 residential golf communities across 4 Hawaii golf markets, including Big Island / Kona-Kohala Coast, Maui and Oahu: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Hawaii Research Guides - [Bundled Golf Communities in Hawaii](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/guides/bundled-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has identified 4 Hawaii golf anchors where golf access is bundled into the community rather than sold as a separate club membership, including Kukio Golf and Beach Club, Kohanaiki, Hualalai Golf Club and The Club at Kukui'ula. - [Private Golf Communities in Hawaii](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 9 private Hawaii golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Mauna Lani Resort Golf Club, Mauna Kea Resort Golf Club, Waikoloa Beach Resort Golf Club, Kiahuna Golf Club and Kapalua Resort - Plantation Course. - [Golf Resort Communities in Hawaii](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 6 Hawaii golf resort ecosystems, including Mauna Lani Resort Golf Club, Mauna Kea Resort Golf Club, Waikoloa Beach Resort Golf Club, Kapalua Resort - Plantation Course and Kaanapali Resort Golf Courses. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Hawaii](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 7 private Hawaii golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Mauna Lani Resort Golf Club, Mauna Kea Resort Golf Club, Waikoloa Beach Resort Golf Club, Kapalua Resort - Plantation Course and Kaanapali Resort Golf Courses. ### Hawaii Comparisons - [Kukio vs Kohanaiki for Big Island Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/kukio-vs-kohanaiki-for-big-island-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Kukio and Kohanaiki, two mandatory-membership private golf clubs on Hawai'i Island's Kona Coast: developer pedigree, course design, membership structure, and price positioning. - [The Club at Kukui'ula vs. Kiahuna Golf Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/club-at-kukuiula-vs-kiahuna-golf-village-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Kauai's two South Shore golf-living options: Kukui'ula's mandatory-membership private club vs. Kiahuna Golf Village's open, public-access golf neighborhood. - [Kapalua vs. Makena: Maui Golf Living Compared](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/kapalua-vs-makena-maui-golf-living/): Compare Kapalua Resort and Makena Golf & Beach Club for Maui golf living: access models, tournament history, and residential communities. - [Kaanapali vs. Wailea: Maui Golf Living Compared](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/kaanapali-vs-wailea-maui-golf-living/): Compare Kaanapali Resort and Wailea Golf Club for Maui golf living: membership models, course scale, and golf-fronting residential communities. ### Big Island / Kona-Kohala Coast, HI - [Big Island / Kona-Kohala Coast, HI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/): The Kona-Kohala Coast is Hawai'i's deepest and most developer-driven golf-residential corridor: roughly 30 miles of lava-field shoreline on the leeward (dry, sunny) side of Hawai'i Island, running from Kailua-Kona in the south to Kawaihae in the north, where a string of master-planned resorts each pair a marquee golf course with a private residential membership club. #### Golf Clubs in Big Island / Kona-Kohala Coast - [Kukio Golf and Beach Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/kukio-golf-and-beach-club/): Kailua-Kona, HI: A ~1,100-acre, Discovery Land Company-developed private equity club on the Kona-Kohala Coast, built around a Tom Fazio 18-hole championship course and 10-hole short course. - [Kohanaiki](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/kohanaiki/): Kailua-Kona, HI: A 450-acre private residential club community on the Kona Coast with a Rees Jones golf course (2013) and more oceanfront holes than any other course in Hawai'i. - [Hualalai Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/hualalai-golf-club/): Kailua-Kona, HI: The Four Seasons Resort Hualalai's private club, pairing a semi-private Jack Nicklaus Signature course (1996, annual host of the PGA Tour Champions' Mitsubishi Electric Championship) with the fully private, members-only Tom Weiskopf-designed Ke'olu course (2002). - [Mauna Lani Resort Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/mauna-lani-resort-golf-club/): Kohala Coast, HI: The golf anchor for the roughly 3,000-acre Mauna Lani Resort: the Frances H. I'i Brown North and South championship courses plus the 9-hole Wikiwiki course, wound through lava fields and along the ocean. - [Mauna Kea Resort Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/mauna-kea-resort-golf-club/): The Kona-Kohala Coast's oldest golf address (Mauna Kea Golf Course, 1964, Robert Trent Jones Sr.), paired with the resort's second course, Hapuna (Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay, 1992). - [Waikoloa Beach Resort Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/waikoloa-beach-resort-golf-club/): Waikoloa Beach Resort's two courses -- the Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish-designed Waikoloa Kings' Course and the Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed Waikoloa Beach Course -- anchor a Kings' Club membership program (Gold/Silver tiers) open to resort property owners, Hawai'i residents, and part-time residents, plus several residential communities built directly along the fairways. #### Golf Communities in Big Island / Kona-Kohala Coast - [Kukio Residential Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/kukio-residential-community/): Kailua-Kona, HI: Kuki'o's private residential land, split across three named areas (Kuki'o, Maniniowali, Kaupulehu), with custom homesites, estates, and a limited condo inventory. - [Kohanaiki Homesites](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/kohanaiki-homesites/): Kailua-Kona, HI: Kohanaiki's 450-acre private residential footprint, with up to 400 planned residences including roughly 75 custom ocean- and golf-view homesites. - [Hualalai Resort Estates & Homesites](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/hualalai-estates-and-homesites/): Kailua-Kona, HI: Hualalai Resort's ground-level residential product: custom single-family estates, the Ke'olu Estates neighborhood above the resort, and Hillside fairway homes bordering the Nicklaus course. - [Four Seasons Residences & Villas at Hualalai](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/four-seasons-residences-and-villas-at-hualalai/): Kailua-Kona, HI: Hualalai's condominium/villa product, branded under the Four Seasons and spanning several named projects (Golf Villas, Hillside Villas, Estate Villas, Palm Villas, Fairway Villas, Ka'ulu Villas, Waiulu Villas). - [Golf Villas at Mauna Lani](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/golf-villas-at-mauna-lani/): Kohala Coast, HI: Spacious 2- and 3-bedroom townhomes set within 13 acres bordering the Mauna Lani South Course fairways -- the resort's most literally golf-integrated residential product, surrounded by the South Course's 3rd, 4th, 9th, and 10th holes. - [Mauna Lani Point](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/mauna-lani-point/): Kohala Coast, HI: An oceanfront condominium community at Mauna Lani Resort offering water- or golf-course-view units, physically separate from the South Course fairways (unlike Golf Villas). - [Ke Kailani](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/ke-kailani/): Kohala Coast, HI: Ke Kailani is Mauna Lani Resort's ultra-luxury oceanfront estate community, gated and physically oriented toward the ocean rather than the golf courses. - [KaMilo at Mauna Lani](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/kamilo-at-mauna-lani/): Kohala Coast, HI: A newer, gated Mauna Lani community of single-family and paired resort homes designed in the spirit of an old Hawaiian village, with mountain views. - [Kulalani at Mauna Lani](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/kulalani-at-mauna-lani/): Kohala Coast, HI: A private, gated Mauna Lani townhome community with a family pool, adults-only lap pool, two spas, and a fitness center. - [The Fairways at Mauna Lani](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/the-fairways-at-mauna-lani/): Kohala Coast, HI: A gated Mauna Lani community of 2- and 3-bedroom homes set amid tropical landscaping, positioned around the resort's golf character though direct fairway adjacency was not independently confirmed. - [The Islands at Mauna Lani](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/the-islands-at-mauna-lani/): Kohala Coast, HI: A Mauna Lani Resort community offering spacious 2- and 3-bedroom residences with golf-course and mountain views; this session could not confirm specific pricing or fairway-adjacency details. - [Mauna Kea Resort Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/mauna-kea-resort-residences/): Kohala Coast, HI: Mauna Kea Resort's residential product spans 11 named subdivisions -- including Kauna'oa, Wai'ula'ula in the Uplands, The Villas at Mauna Kea, and newer Westin Hapuna-area residences -- with a 2026 resort-wide median sale price near $6.2M. - [Kolea at Waikoloa Beach Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/kolea-at-waikoloa-beach-resort/): A low-density, gated luxury condominium and custom-home community on 'Anaeho'omalu Bay within Waikoloa Beach Resort, with its own private ocean-view amenity center. - [Vista Waikoloa](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/vista-waikoloa/): A centrally located Waikoloa Beach Resort condominium community, comparatively the corridor's more accessible price tier. - [Waikoloa Colony Villas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/waikoloa-colony-villas/): Family-friendly townhomes located directly on the Waikoloa Beach Course's 10th and 15th fairways -- one of the two clearest on-course communities documented at Waikoloa Beach Resort. - [Fairway Villas at Waikoloa Beach Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/big-island-hi/fairway-villas-at-waikoloa-beach-resort/): Golf- and lakefront townhomes across the lake from the Kings' Shops within Waikoloa Beach Resort, marketed directly to golf-oriented buyers. ### Kauai, HI - [Kauai, HI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/kauai-hi/): Kauai is the smallest and least developer-driven of Hawaii's four major-island golf-living markets in this research build. #### Golf Clubs in Kauai - [The Club at Kukui'ula](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/kauai-hi/club-at-kukuiula/): Kauai's only private golf course and the island's flagship mandatory-membership real-estate development: a Tom Weiskopf-designed 18-hole course inside a 1,010-acre South Shore community where every homeowner must join the club. - [Kiahuna Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/kauai-hi/kiahuna-golf-club/): A public, Robert Trent Jones II-designed course in Poipu that anchors Kiahuna Golf Village, the first purpose-built residential golf-course community on Kauai's South Shore -- open daily-fee access, no membership required or available as part of homeownership. #### Golf Communities in Kauai - [Kainani at Kukui'ula](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/kauai-hi/kainani-at-kukuiula/): Koloa, HI: A gated, golf-frontage neighborhood inside The Club at Kukui'ula overlooking the course's 3rd and 4th fairways, offering custom homesites and multi-bedroom villas. - [Nā Hiku at Kukui'ula](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/kauai-hi/na-hiku-at-kukuiula/): Koloa, HI: A small, architect-designed enclave of 14 fully furnished plantation-style homes inside Kukui'ula, sited above the golf course's 7th fairway. - [Kiahuna Golf Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/kauai-hi/kiahuna-golf-village/): Koloa, HI: Poipu's first purpose-built residential golf-course community (1980s), with custom homes on spacious lots platted around the Kiahuna Golf Club's fairways -- open, non-gated, and with no membership tie to the public golf course it borders. ### Maui, HI - [Maui, HI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/): Maui's golf-living market is not one neighborhood but four distinct resort corridors strung along the island's leeward (west and south) coasts, each built by a different developer with a different access philosophy: Kapalua in the far northwest, Kaanapali just south of it, Wailea on the South Shore, and Makena at the southern end of that same shore. #### Golf Clubs in Maui - [Kapalua Resort - Plantation Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/kapalua-plantation-course-maui/): Kapalua Resort's Plantation Course, a Coore & Crenshaw design overlooking the Pacific in West Maui, hosted the PGA Tour's season-opening event every year from 1999 through 2025 before drought-driven course conditions forced the Tour to drop it for 2026 and, as of an April 2026 announcement, end Hawaii's PGA Tour swing entirely starting in 2027. - [Kaanapali Resort Golf Courses](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/kaanapali-resort-golf-courses-maui/): Lahaina, HI: Kaanapali's Royal and Kai courses are public/resort golf dating to Hawaii's first master-planned resort (opened 1962), with no club membership program of their own - the real estate-golf tie is Kaanapali Golf Estates, a 77-parcel gated enclave with several further-gated named sub-neighborhoods sited between the two courses. - [Wailea Golf Club - Gold, Emerald & Blue Courses](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/wailea-golf-club-maui/): Wailea Golf Club operates three Robert Trent Jones Jr./Arthur Jack Snyder courses (Gold, Emerald, and Blue/Old Blue) in South Maui, with full golf membership legally restricted to owners in 13 designated Wailea developments and several genuinely golf-fronting gated communities built directly along the Old Blue Course's fairways. - [Makena Golf & Beach Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/makena-golf-beach-club-maui/): Research Makena Golf & Beach Club, a private Discovery Land Company community on Maui's South Shore, its North Course, and its Kula Villas, Beach Cottages, Beach Club and Molokini residences. #### Golf Communities in Maui - [Kapalua Ironwoods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/kapalua-ironwoods/): Lahaina, HI: A 40-unit oceanfront condominium community in 10 buildings on about 9 acres, overlooking the Bay Course's 5th hole and Oneloa Bay's white-sand beach. - [Pineapple Hill Estates at Kapalua](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/kapalua-pineapple-hill-estates/): Lahaina, HI: A mauka (upland) single-family home neighborhood at Kapalua Resort with golf and island views, part of the resort's Pineapple Hill area alongside Mahana Estates, Plantation Estates, and Honolua Ridge. - [Kapalua Golf Villas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/kapalua-golf-villas/): Lahaina, HI: 186 one- and two-bedroom condominium residences across 16 buildings, built in 1979, sited directly on Kapalua's Bay Course with golf and ocean views. - [Kaanapali Golf Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/kaanapali-golf-estates/): Lahaina, HI: A 77-parcel gated enclave on roughly 45 acres between Kaanapali Resort's Royal and Kai golf courses, encompassing several further-gated named sub-neighborhoods. - [Lanikeha at Kaanapali Golf Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/lanikeha-at-kaanapali-golf-estates/): Lahaina, HI: A double-gated, 136-residence luxury enclave across roughly 110 acres within Kaanapali Golf Estates. - [The Vintage at Kaanapali Golf Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/the-vintage-at-kaanapali-golf-estates/): Lahaina, HI: A roughly 73-unit luxury condominium development built in 2000 within Kaanapali Golf Estates, a distinct attached-housing product from the estate's single-family sub-neighborhoods. - [Wailea Fairway Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/wailea-fairway-estates/): One of Wailea's first gated communities (established 1979), 31 home lots (12,000-18,000 sq ft) on 14 acres directly bordering the Old Blue Course's 13th and 14th fairways. - [Wailea Golf Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/wailea-golf-estates/): A 30-acre, 61-homesite upscale gated community bordering the Old Blue/Wailea Blue Course's 10th, 11th, 12th and 17th fairways, with multi-million-dollar custom residences. - [Kai Malu at Wailea](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/kai-malu-wailea/): Wailea, HI: Built out in 2007, a 25-acre gated community of 75 duplex buildings (150 total residences) in the heart of the Old Blue Course, surrounded by its 6th, 7th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th holes. - [Wailea Golf Vistas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/wailea-golf-vistas/): Wailea, HI: 48 custom homes on 18 acres surrounded by fairways of the Blue Course, near the Fairmont Kea Lani resort. - [Kula Villas at Makena](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/kula-villas-at-makena/): Kihei, HI: A 30-unit, 176,215-square-foot multifamily villa development within Makena Golf & Beach Club. - [Beach Cottages at Makena](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/beach-cottages-at-makena/): Kihei, HI: Ten 4,580-square-foot standalone beach cottages within Makena Golf & Beach Club. - [Molokini Residences at Makena](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/molokini-residences-at-makena/): Kihei, HI: Ten 6,725-square-foot larger-format residences within Makena Golf & Beach Club, named for the nearby Molokini crater. - [Beach Club Residences at Makena](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/maui-hi/beach-club-residences-at-makena/): Kihei, HI: Seven residences integrated within the Makena Golf & Beach Club's clubhouse building itself. ### Oahu, HI - [Oahu, HI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/oahu-hi/): Oahu's golf-residential story is genuinely thin compared to the Big Island and Maui, and that is a finding, not a shortfall in the research. #### Golf Clubs in Oahu - [Ko Olina Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/oahu-hi/ko-olina-golf-club/): A public, daily-fee Ted Robinson-designed resort course (1990) at the heart of the 642-acre Ko Olina Resort in West Oahu, bordered on three sides by the purpose-built, 324-unit Ko Olina Kai Golf Estates & Villas community. #### Golf Communities in Oahu - [Ko Olina Kai Golf Estates & Villas](https://www.usgolfliving.com/hawaii/oahu-hi/ko-olina-kai-golf-estates-villas/): Kapolei, HI: A 34-acre, 324-unit gated community at Ko Olina Resort (264 condos/townhomes plus 60 single-family homes) developed by Centex Homes in 2005-2006, bordering the fairways of Ko Olina Golf Club on three sides. ## New Hampshire - [New Hampshire Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/): Independent research on 7 golf clubs and 8 residential golf communities across 3 New Hampshire golf markets, including Lakes Region & Dartmouth-Sunapee, Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire and White Mountains & North Country: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### New Hampshire Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in New Hampshire](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 7 private New Hampshire golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Eastman Golf Links, Owl's Nest Resort & Golf Club, Bald Peak Colony Club, Lake Sunapee Country Club and Wentworth by the Sea Country Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in New Hampshire](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 3 private New Hampshire golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Owl's Nest Resort & Golf Club, Lake Sunapee Country Club and Sky Meadow Country Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in New Hampshire](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 3 New Hampshire golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Eastman Golf Links, Owl's Nest Resort & Golf Club and Sky Meadow Country Club. ### New Hampshire Comparisons - [Eastman vs Owl's Nest for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/eastman-vs-owls-nest-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Eastman and Owl's Nest, New Hampshire's two strongest Lakes Region golf-lake communities: access models, pricing, amenities, and ownership structure. - [Wentworth by the Sea vs. Sky Meadow: NH Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/wentworth-by-the-sea-vs-sky-meadow-golf-living/): Compare Wentworth by the Sea Country Club's oceanfront Rye enclave and Sky Meadow Country Club's gated Nashua condo community for New Hampshire golf living. ### Lakes Region & Dartmouth-Sunapee, NH - [Lakes Region & Dartmouth-Sunapee, NH Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/lakes-sunapee-nh/): New Hampshire's Lakes Region and Dartmouth-Sunapee corridor is the state's deepest and most varied golf-residential cluster, running from the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in the east to the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee region in the west, with a White Mountains-gateway resort development at its northern edge. #### Golf Clubs in Lakes Region & Dartmouth-Sunapee - [Eastman Golf Links](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/lakes-sunapee-nh/eastman-golf-links/): Eastman Golf Links is the semi-private, 18-hole (par 71) golf course at the heart of Eastman, a 3,700+ acre, four-season golf-and-lake community in Grantham, NH in the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee region. - [Owl's Nest Resort & Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/lakes-sunapee-nh/owls-nest-resort-golf-club/): Owl's Nest Resort & Golf Club is a 600+-acre master-planned resort and real-estate development in Thornton/Campton, NH, anchored by New Hampshire's only Jack Nicklaus Design 18-hole golf course. - [Bald Peak Colony Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/lakes-sunapee-nh/bald-peak-colony-club/): Bald Peak Colony Club is a historic (1921), invitation-only private club on the northeast shore of Lake Winnipesaukee in Moultonborough, NH, built on the lower reaches of industrialist Thomas G. Plant's Lucknow estate (now Castle in the Clouds). - [Lake Sunapee Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/lakes-sunapee-nh/lake-sunapee-country-club/): Lake Sunapee Country Club is a private, 18-hole Donald Ross-designed course (1920) in New London, NH, once the summer golfing home of Gene Sarazen. #### Golf Communities in Lakes Region & Dartmouth-Sunapee - [Eastman](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/lakes-sunapee-nh/eastman-community/): Eastman is a 3,700+ acre, four-season planned golf-and-lake community in Grantham, NH, comprising 987 single-family homes and 336 condominiums administered by the Eastman Community Association around a 345-acre private lake, Eastman Golf Links, tennis/pickleball courts, and a Nordic ski center. - [Owl's Nest Golf Estates & Cottages](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/lakes-sunapee-nh/owls-nest-golf-estates-cottages/): The original Owl's Nest real-estate product: golf-course estates and wooded cottages built as part of the resort's 516-permitted-home-site master plan around the Nicklaus Design course in Thornton, NH, sold through the resort's own Owl's Nest Real Estate arm. - [Waterscapes at Owl's Nest](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/lakes-sunapee-nh/waterscapes-at-owls-nest/): Waterscapes at Owl's Nest is a newer, lake-centric residential neighborhood at Owl's Nest Resort in Thornton, NH, centered on the 9.9-acre man-made Lake Harold, offering North Lake single-family homes (from the $900s) and South Lake Townhomes, including a fractional/seasonal split-ownership option in the North Lake section. - [Bald Peak Colony Club Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/lakes-sunapee-nh/bald-peak-colony-club-community/): Homes within the historic Bald Peak Colony Club property in Moultonborough, NH -- converted 1920s ridge cottages plus later lakeshore and hillside residences -- administered alongside the club through its affiliated Bald Peak Land Company. - [The Seasons at Lake Sunapee Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/lakes-sunapee-nh/the-seasons-at-lake-sunapee-country-club/): The Seasons at Lake Sunapee Country Club is a 63-home condominium community (27 buildings of townhomes plus freestanding units, 1,600-3,900+ sq ft) built directly against the country club's grounds in New London, NH, beginning in 1985 and owner-run since 1993. ### Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire, NH - [Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire, NH Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/seacoast-southern-nh/): The Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire market covers two genuinely different pockets of the state that share one honest fact: this is New Hampshire's thinnest golf-residential market, dominated by old-guard, member-owned clubs with no developer-built residential component. #### Golf Clubs in Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire - [Wentworth by the Sea Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/seacoast-southern-nh/wentworth-by-the-sea-country-club/): A private, non-equity family club in Rye, NH tracing back to 1897, with a Donald Ross-revised, later Geoffrey Cornish-expanded 18-hole course along the Little Harbor coastline. - [Sky Meadow Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/seacoast-southern-nh/sky-meadow-country-club/): A private, non-equity 18-hole club atop a hilltop in south Nashua, NH, that is the organizing amenity for the Sky Meadow gated condominium community -- five villages of townhouse, garden, and detached-style condos built directly around the course and clubhouse. #### Golf Communities in Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire - [Harbour Links Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/seacoast-southern-nh/harbour-links-estates/): A small, exclusive enclave of 21 custom single-family homes on private streets bordering the fairways of Wentworth by the Sea Country Club in Rye, NH, with water views toward Little Harbor. - [Sky Meadow](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/seacoast-southern-nh/sky-meadow-residential-community/): Nashua's premier gated condominium community, organized into five architecturally distinct 'villages' of townhouse, garden, and detached-style condos built directly around Sky Meadow Country Club's private 18-hole course atop a hilltop overlooking the Merrimack Valley. ### White Mountains & North Country, NH - [White Mountains & North Country, NH Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/white-mountains-nh/): The White Mountains & North Country market covers New Hampshire's remote, mountainous Coos County golf-resort corridor - Bretton Woods, Dixville Notch, and Whitefield - a region defined far more by 19th-century grand hotels than by modern golf-course subdivisions. #### Golf Clubs in White Mountains & North Country - [Omni Mount Washington Resort](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/white-mountains-nh/omni-mount-washington-resort/): A Donald Ross-designed golf course (independently ranked New Hampshire's #1 public course by Golfweek in 2026) at the historic, AAA Four/Five-Diamond Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, surrounded by a genuine 300-plus-unit on-site residential community whose golf membership is purchased separately from real estate, not bundled with it. #### Golf Communities in White Mountains & North Country - [Fairway Village at Bretton Woods](https://www.usgolfliving.com/new-hampshire/white-mountains-nh/fairway-village-at-bretton-woods/): A 50-unit duplex-townhome and condo community built directly along the Omni Mount Washington Resort's golf course in Bretton Woods, NH, governed as one of ten phase associations under the master Bretton Woods Property Owners' Association. ## Maine - [Maine Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/): Independent research on 7 golf clubs and 8 residential golf communities across 3 Maine golf markets, including Greater Portland Metro, Southern Coast & York County and Midcoast: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Maine Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Maine](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 7 private Maine golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Highland Green Golf Club, Samoset Resort Golf Club, The Woodlands Club (Falmouth, ME), Prouts Neck Country Club and Dunegrass Golf Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Maine](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 4 private Maine golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including The Woodlands Club (Falmouth, ME), Prouts Neck Country Club, Dunegrass Golf Club and The Ledges Golf Club (York, ME). ### Maine Comparisons - [Highland Green vs Samoset Village for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/highland-green-vs-samoset-village-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Highland Green (Topsham) and Samoset Village (Rockport), Maine's two clearest Midcoast golf-anchored residential communities: ownership structure, age restriction, price, and amenity access. - [The Woodlands Club vs. Prouts Neck Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-woodlands-club-vs-prouts-neck-country-club/): Compare two very different Greater Portland, ME golf-living models: The Woodlands Club's planned neighborhood versus Prouts Neck Country Club's historic, resident-only peninsula enclave. - [Dunegrass vs The Ledges Golf Club for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/dunegrass-vs-the-ledges-golf-club-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Dunegrass Golf Club (Old Orchard Beach) and The Ledges Golf Club (York/Cape Neddick), ME: residential development scale, home prices, membership cost, and town character. ### Midcoast, ME - [Midcoast, ME Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/midcoast-me/): Maine's Midcoast -- running roughly from Brunswick/Topsham along Route 1 through Rockland, Rockport, and Camden, out to the Boothbay peninsula -- is not a single golf-living corridor but a loose string of very different coastal and inland pockets. #### Golf Clubs in Midcoast - [Highland Green Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/midcoast-me/highland-green-golf-club/): A public, pay-as-you-play 9-hole course built as the recreational centerpiece of Highland Green, a purpose-built 635-acre, 55+ active-adult community in Topsham, Maine, now operated under lease by the separately owned Brunswick Golf Club. - [Samoset Resort Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/midcoast-me/samoset-resort-golf-club/): An oceanfront, semi-private 18-hole resort course on Penobscot Bay in Rockport, Maine -- often marketed as the 'Pebble Beach of the East' -- with a paid golf-membership program and a genuinely residential neighbor in the individually owned Samoset Village condominium community next door. #### Golf Communities in Midcoast - [Highland Green](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/midcoast-me/highland-green/): A purpose-built, 635-acre, 55+ active-adult master-planned community in Topsham, Maine, developed by Sea Coast Management Co., combining custom homes, cottages, and independent-living residences around a public 9-hole golf course, a Community Center, and a 230-acre nature preserve, with residents drawn from 34 states. - [Samoset Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/midcoast-me/samoset-village/): A 41-unit condominium community of individually owned cottages built in 1988 on land adjacent to Samoset Resort in Rockport, Maine, with units commonly facing the golf course fairways, a fountain pond, or Penobscot Bay, governed by its own homeowners association with a documented (and historically contested) contractual right to use the resort's recreational amenities. ### Greater Portland Metro, ME - [Greater Portland Metro, ME Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/portland-metro-me/): Greater Portland's golf-living story is dominated by old-line, member-owned private clubs -- Maine's largest concentration of them -- clustered in Falmouth and Cumberland just north of the city, with a genuinely different pattern found in Scarborough's historic Prouts Neck peninsula and a cautionary case in Casco on the Sebago Lake fringe. #### Golf Clubs in Greater Portland Metro - [The Woodlands Club (Falmouth, ME)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/portland-metro-me/the-woodlands-club-falmouth-me/): The Woodlands Club is a private, member-owned country club in Falmouth, ME, built in 1988 around a George and Jim Fazio-designed 18-hole course, at the center of a purpose-planned residential neighborhood of roughly 95-98 single-family homes and 48 condominium-style villas governed by two distinct homeowners associations. - [Prouts Neck Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/portland-metro-me/prouts-neck-country-club/): Prouts Neck Country Club is a private 18-hole course (established 1907, redesigned to 18 holes by Wayne Stiles in 1924) on the gated Prouts Neck peninsula in Scarborough, ME. #### Golf Communities in Greater Portland Metro - [Woodlands Homeowners Association (Falmouth, ME)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/portland-metro-me/woodlands-homeowners-association-falmouth-me/): A private neighborhood of roughly 95-98 single-family homes in Falmouth, ME, built out from the mid-1980s around The Woodlands Club's golf course, and governed by its own homeowners association (a legally distinct entity from the neighboring Woodlands Fairway Villas Association). - [Woodlands Fairway Villas (Falmouth, ME)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/portland-metro-me/woodlands-fairway-villas-falmouth-me/): A 48-unit condominium-style villa section of The Woodlands neighborhood in Falmouth, ME, built out as a second development phase beginning around 2000, on stand-alone and duplex lots with HOA-covered exterior maintenance. - [Prouts Neck (Scarborough, ME)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/portland-metro-me/prouts-neck-cottage-colony/): A roughly 200-household, gated, largely seasonal summer-cottage enclave on the Prouts Neck peninsula in Scarborough, ME, subdivided in 1878 -- decades before Prouts Neck Country Club was founded in 1907. ### Southern Coast & York County, ME - [Southern Coast & York County, ME Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/southern-coast-me/): The Southern Coast is the golf-living gateway to Maine: the stretch of York County running from Old Orchard Beach in the north down through Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Wells, Ogunquit and York/Cape Neddick to the New Hampshire line. #### Golf Clubs in Southern Coast & York County - [Dunegrass Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/southern-coast-me/dunegrass-golf-club/): Dunegrass Golf Club is a public, Dan Maples-designed 18-hole course in Old Orchard Beach that gives its name to Country Club Estates at Dunegrass Golf Club, a roughly 149-home custom-built residential development woven directly around the course. - [The Ledges Golf Club (York, ME)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/southern-coast-me/the-ledges-golf-club-york-me/): The Ledges Golf Club is a public, Brad Booth-designed 18-hole course in York/Cape Neddick known for its rock-outcropping terrain. - [Atlantic Pines Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/southern-coast-me/atlantic-pines-golf-club/): Atlantic Pines Golf Club (Wells, ME) -- the course built in 2008 as Old Marsh Country Club, a Brian Silva design ranked among GOLF Magazine's Top 10 new courses its debut year -- anchors a roughly 180-home private residential community where a mandatory, inexpensive resident social membership is confirmed. #### Golf Communities in Southern Coast & York County - [Country Club Estates at Dunegrass Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/southern-coast-me/country-club-estates-at-dunegrass/): Country Club Estates at Dunegrass Golf Club is a roughly 149-home subdivision of custom ranch and contemporary cape-style homes built directly around Dunegrass Golf Club's fairways in Old Orchard Beach, with a median listing price near $500,000. - [The Ledges at Gulf Hill](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/southern-coast-me/the-ledges-at-gulf-hill-cape-neddick-me/): Gulf Hill is a 52-lot, HOA-governed subdivision on 201 acres in Cape Neddick/York, built by Atlantic Construction and bordered by conservation land, directly adjacent to The Ledges Golf Club. - [The Homes at Old Marsh](https://www.usgolfliving.com/maine/southern-coast-me/the-homes-at-old-marsh-wells-me/): The Homes at Old Marsh is a roughly 180-home residential community built around Atlantic Pines Golf Club (formerly Old Marsh Country Club) in Wells, ME, with a confirmed mandatory resident social membership at the adjacent clubhouse. ## Montana - [Montana Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/): Independent research on 12 golf clubs and 13 residential golf communities across 4 Montana golf markets, including Big Sky & Bozeman / Gallatin Valley, Flathead Valley & Glacier Gateway and Missoula & Bitterroot Valley: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Montana Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Montana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 11 private Montana golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Yellowstone Club, The Reserve at Moonlight Basin, Black Bull Golf Club, Iron Horse Golf Club (Whitefish, MT) and Wilderness Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Montana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 4 private Montana golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Yellowstone Club, The Reserve at Moonlight Basin, Eagle Bend Golf Club (Bigfork, MT) and Red Lodge Mountain Golf Course (Red Lodge, MT). - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Montana](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 3 Montana golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Spanish Peaks Mountain Club, Iron Horse Golf Club (Whitefish, MT) and Stock Farm Club. ### Montana Comparisons - [Yellowstone Club vs. Spanish Peaks Mountain Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/yellowstone-club-vs-spanish-peaks-mountain-club-mt/): Compare Yellowstone Club and Spanish Peaks Mountain Club in Big Sky, MT: ownership history, access and membership models, golf, and residential real estate. - [Iron Horse Golf Club vs. Wilderness Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/iron-horse-golf-club-vs-wilderness-club/): Compare Iron Horse Golf Club (Whitefish, MT) and Wilderness Club (Eureka, MT) -- location, developer pedigree, access model, and price tier for golf-oriented buyers in Montana's Flathead Valley. ### Big Sky & Bozeman / Gallatin Valley, MT - [Big Sky & Bozeman / Gallatin Valley, MT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/big-sky-bozeman-mt/): Big Sky and Bozeman/Gallatin Valley form Montana's richest golf-residential market by a wide margin, and its two halves are genuinely different products. #### Golf Clubs in Big Sky & Bozeman / Gallatin Valley - [Yellowstone Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/big-sky-bozeman-mt/yellowstone-club-mt/): A 13,600-acre invitation-only ski-and-golf private club west of Big Sky in Madison County, built around an 18-hole Tom Weiskopf golf course. - [Spanish Peaks Mountain Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/big-sky-bozeman-mt/spanish-peaks-mountain-club-mt/): A 5,750-acre private, gated ski-and-golf community in Big Sky where property ownership automatically includes club membership. - [The Reserve at Moonlight Basin](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/big-sky-bozeman-mt/reserve-at-moonlight-basin-mt/): An 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course at roughly 7,500 feet elevation, the private centerpiece of the 8,000-acre Moonlight Basin community on the north side of Lone Mountain in Big Sky. - [Black Bull Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/big-sky-bozeman-mt/black-bull-golf-club-mt/): A private, gated 500-acre golf community in Bozeman's Gallatin Valley built on the former Leachman Angus Ranch, with 398 planned homes/homesites around a Tom Weiskopf-designed 19-hole championship course. #### Golf Communities in Big Sky & Bozeman / Gallatin Valley - [Yellowstone Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/big-sky-bozeman-mt/yellowstone-club-residences-mt/): The residential side of Yellowstone Club: homesites, custom mountain homes, lodge condominiums, and large ranch parcels spread across the club's 13,600 private acres west of Big Sky, all gated and reserved for club members and their families. - [Spanish Peaks Mountain Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/big-sky-bozeman-mt/spanish-peaks-mountain-club-community-mt/): Big Sky, MT: The residential community built into Spanish Peaks Mountain Club, spanning custom mountain homes, condos, townhomes, and Montage-branded residences across the club's 5,750 gated acres, with club membership automatically included in ownership. - [Moonlight Basin](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/big-sky-bozeman-mt/moonlight-basin-mt/): An 8,000-acre gated residential community on the north side of Big Sky's Lone Peak, with the highest concentration of ski-accessible homes in the Big Sky area and its own private Jack Nicklaus golf club, The Reserve, available as a separate, optional membership. - [Black Bull](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/big-sky-bozeman-mt/black-bull-community-mt/): A gated, 500-acre master-planned residential community in Bozeman's Gallatin Valley on the former Leachman Angus Ranch, comprising 398 homes/homesites (custom single-family homes, townhomes, and condos/cottages) around Black Bull Golf Club, with golf and social club membership sold separately from home ownership. ### Flathead Valley & Glacier Gateway, MT - [Flathead Valley & Glacier Gateway, MT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/flathead-valley-mt/): Montana's Flathead Valley, gateway to Glacier National Park, holds a small but genuinely significant cluster of golf-residential development concentrated in two distinct settings: resort towns on Flathead Lake and its northern feeder valleys (Whitefish, Bigfork), and one remote, actively-reinvesting outpost near the Canadian border (Eureka). #### Golf Clubs in Flathead Valley & Glacier Gateway - [Iron Horse Golf Club (Whitefish, MT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/flathead-valley-mt/iron-horse-golf-club-whitefish-mt/): A private, gated 820-acre golf and residential community just outside Whitefish, built around an 18-hole Tom Fazio course, with club membership sold separately from home purchase. - [Wilderness Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/flathead-valley-mt/wilderness-club-eureka-mt/): A gated, 550-acre private golf community near Eureka built around a Nick Faldo-designed course ranked #1 in Montana, mid-transition to a fully private membership model under Escalante Golf's ownership. - [Eagle Bend Golf Club (Bigfork, MT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/flathead-valley-mt/eagle-bend-golf-club-bigfork-mt/): A 27-hole semi-private championship course on the north shore of Flathead Lake in Bigfork, with two dedicated Homeowners Associations (Eagle Bend North and Eagle Bend West) built directly around and adjacent to the course. #### Golf Communities in Flathead Valley & Glacier Gateway - [Iron Horse Residences (Whitefish, MT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/flathead-valley-mt/iron-horse-residences-whitefish-mt/): A gated, 315-home-site luxury community woven through Iron Horse Golf Club's 820 acres near Whitefish, governed by its own Homeowners Association separate from golf club membership. - [Wilderness Club Residences (Eureka, MT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/flathead-valley-mt/wilderness-club-residences-eureka-mt/): A gated luxury residential community on Wilderness Club's 550 acres near Eureka, with more than 300 additional custom homes planned as part of a $15 million-plus expansion under Escalante Golf. - [Eagle Bend North (Bigfork, MT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/flathead-valley-mt/eagle-bend-north-bigfork-mt/): A 118-lot Homeowners' Association on 124 acres built directly around nine of Eagle Bend Golf Club's 27 holes on Flathead Lake's north shore in Bigfork. - [Eagle Bend West (Bigfork, MT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/flathead-valley-mt/eagle-bend-west-bigfork-mt/): A 58-property association of single-family custom homes in Bigfork, immediately adjacent to Eagle Bend Golf Club and within walking distance of its clubhouse. ### Missoula & Bitterroot Valley, MT - [Missoula & Bitterroot Valley, MT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/missoula-bitterroot-mt/): Missoula and the Bitterroot Valley form a small but genuine golf-living market at the western edge of Montana's chain of mountain-and-valley communities, running roughly 50 miles from the university city of Missoula south through Ravalli County's ranching towns to Hamilton. #### Golf Clubs in Missoula & Bitterroot Valley - [Stock Farm Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/missoula-bitterroot-mt/stock-farm-club/): An invitation-only private club on 2,600 gated acres above Hamilton in the Bitterroot Valley, built around a Tom Fazio 18-hole championship course, with a small (95 homesite / 30 cabin lot) residential development, equestrian center, sporting/shooting facilities, and a full private-club amenity base. - [Canyon River Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/missoula-bitterroot-mt/canyon-river-golf-club/): A public, Schmidt-Curley-designed 18-hole championship course in East Missoula built as the organizing amenity of the 270-home Canyon River Golf Community, a developer-built master-planned neighborhood along the Clark Fork River, with a homeowner-specific golf rate distinct from public guest pricing. - [The Ranch Club (Missoula, MT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/missoula-bitterroot-mt/the-ranch-club-missoula-mt/): A locally owned, semi-private golf, social, and residential club on Missoula's west side, built around an 18-hole Les Furber-designed links course on 343 acres, combining a real membership product (Golf and Social tiers, a described waitlist) with a surrounding purpose-built residential community. #### Golf Communities in Missoula & Bitterroot Valley - [Stock Farm Residences](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/missoula-bitterroot-mt/stock-farm-residences/): A 2,600-acre gated development of 95 homesites and 30 cabin lots inside Stock Farm Club, above Hamilton in the Bitterroot Valley -- real estate sold and priced separately from the club's invitation-only golf membership. - [Canyon River Golf Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/missoula-bitterroot-mt/canyon-river-golf-community/): A 270-home master-planned community in East Missoula built around the Canyon River Golf Club's 18-hole course on Bandmann Flats along the Clark Fork River, with a mix of single-family homes, townhomes, and remaining homesite lots. - [The Ranch Club Residences (Missoula, MT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/missoula-bitterroot-mt/ranch-club-residences-missoula-mt/): A luxury residential community on Missoula's west side built around The Ranch Club's 18-hole golf course, with single-family homes and estate lots -- club membership is available to residents but not required for, or included with, homeownership. ### South-Central Montana & Statewide Coldcheck, MT - [South-Central Montana & Statewide Coldcheck, MT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/south-central-coldcheck-mt/): Golf-living research across Billings, Helena, Butte, Anaconda, Deer Lodge, Red Lodge, and Great Falls, Montana -- from the destination-caliber Rock Creek Cattle Company ranch to Red Lodge's public mountain golf subdivision and the region's old-guard private clubs. #### Golf Clubs in South-Central Montana & Statewide Coldcheck - [Rock Creek Cattle Company (Deer Lodge, MT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/south-central-coldcheck-mt/rock-creek-cattle-company-deer-lodge-mt/): A Tom Doak-designed private golf course at the heart of a 30,000-acre working cattle ranch near Deer Lodge, owned since 2004 by Fidelity National Financial founder and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley, with a genuine homestead, cabin, and cottage residential offering and sustained Golfweek recognition as one of America's top residential golf courses. - [Red Lodge Mountain Golf Course (Red Lodge, MT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/south-central-coldcheck-mt/red-lodge-mountain-golf-course-red-lodge-mt/): A fully public 18-hole course in the Beartooth Mountains near Red Lodge, purchased by the adjacent Red Lodge Mountain ski resort in 1994 and now bordered by Red Lodge Country Club Estates, a recorded golf-course subdivision with its own property owners' association. #### Golf Communities in South-Central Montana & Statewide Coldcheck - [Rock Creek Cattle Company Homesteads & Cabins](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/south-central-coldcheck-mt/rock-creek-cattle-company-homesteads-deer-lodge-mt/): Deer Lodge, MT: The residential arm of Rock Creek Cattle Company: homestead parcels from about 1 to 110 acres plus built cabins and cottages along Rock Creek, sold within the same 3,500-acre developed portion of the 30,000-acre working ranch that contains the Tom Doak golf course and club amenities. - [Red Lodge Country Club Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/montana/south-central-coldcheck-mt/red-lodge-country-club-estates-red-lodge-mt/): A recorded golf-course subdivision bordering Red Lodge Mountain Golf Course, governed by its own property owners' association (RLCCEPOA) with covenants restricting development along the course boundary. ## Rhode Island - [Rhode Island Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/): Independent research on 5 golf clubs and 6 residential golf communities across 2 Rhode Island golf markets, including Newport County & Aquidneck Island and South County & Washington County Coastal: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Rhode Island Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Rhode Island](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 5 private Rhode Island golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including The Aquidneck Club, South Shore Village Golf Club, Point Judith Country Club, Quidnessett Country Club and Weekapaug Golf Club. ### Rhode Island Comparisons - [South Shore Village vs. Weekapaug Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/south-shore-village-vs-weekapaug-golf-club/): Compare South Shore Village's public, community-amenity golf model with Weekapaug Golf Club's private, high-barrier membership in Rhode Island's South County. ### Newport County & Aquidneck Island, RI - [Newport County & Aquidneck Island, RI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/newport-county-ri/): Newport County, on Aquidneck Island, is Rhode Island's most historically significant golf ground -- home to Newport Country Club, one of the USGA's five 1894 founding charter clubs and host of the first-ever U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur in 1895, and Wanumetonomy Golf & Country Club, a 1920s Seth Raynor design that hosted the stroke-play portion of the 1995 U.S. Amateur. #### Golf Clubs in Newport County & Aquidneck Island - [The Aquidneck Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/newport-county-ri/the-aquidneck-club/): A private sporting club and golf-anchored residential community in Portsmouth, RI, built on roughly 300 acres leased from Portsmouth Abbey. #### Golf Communities in Newport County & Aquidneck Island - [Carnegie Abbey Lane](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/newport-county-ri/carnegie-abbey-lane/): A neighborhood of individually owned single-family estate homes and cottages built in phases since the early 2000s along Carnegie Abbey Lane and adjoining streets, inside The Aquidneck Club's gated, leased Portsmouth grounds. - [The Aquidneck Club Condominiums](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/newport-county-ri/the-aquidneck-club-condominiums/): Portsmouth, RI: Condominium units in and around The Aquidneck Club's clubhouse complex (historically including a building referred to as "The Golf House"), a smaller-footprint ownership option than the club's individual estate homes. - [Aquidneck Village (Portsmouth, RI)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/newport-county-ri/aquidneck-village-portsmouth-ri/): A newly built (2025-launched), private gated community of 28 single-family homes directly across from The Aquidneck Club in Portsmouth, RI, whose buyers are given a documented priority path to apply for Aquidneck Club membership -- a real, sourced relationship, though membership itself is not automatic or included. ### South County & Washington County Coastal, RI - [South County & Washington County Coastal, RI Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/south-county-ri/): South County — Rhode Island's Washington County shoreline running from Narragansett and South Kingstown through North Kingstown and out to Westerly — is the state's clearest coastal golf-and-real-estate corridor, though direct research shows it is not a single, uniform golf-community market. #### Golf Clubs in South County & Washington County Coastal - [South Shore Village Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/south-county-ri/south-shore-village-golf-club/): A 9-hole daily-fee course (opened 2023, public since August 2024) built as the centerpiece amenity of South Shore Village, a 303-home 55+ active-adult community in South Kingstown; golf is pay-to-play with an optional separate membership and preferred resident rates, not bundled into the HOA fee. - [Point Judith Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/south-county-ri/point-judith-country-club/): Narragansett, RI: A private, invitation-based club founded in 1894, with a Donald Ross 1927 redesign of the original 1895 William Davis links and later Forse/Nagle-era work; directly adjacent to the Polo Club condominium association, whose 137 units overlook the course's 18th hole. - [Quidnessett Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/south-county-ri/quidnessett-country-club/): North Kingstown, RI: A private, sponsorship-required club on Narragansett Bay (front nine 1959, back nine 1974, Cornish design) with a genuine on-course residential product — a 32-unit condominium complex built on the golf course itself, where residents may join the golf course separately for an annual fee. - [Weekapaug Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/south-county-ri/weekapaug-golf-club/): A private, member-owned 9-hole club (Phil Wogan, 1962/1967) ranked among GOLF Magazine's 50 best nine-hole courses, with 2025 initiation fees of $30,000–$45,000, in the exclusive Weekapaug coastal village of Westerly; independently owned and operated from the nearby Weekapaug Inn, which offers guests only a reciprocal concierge-arranged introduction, not bundled access or ownership. #### Golf Communities in South County & Washington County Coastal - [South Shore Village](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/south-county-ri/south-shore-village/): A 303-home, 55+ active-adult community in South Kingstown built around a new 9-hole golf course; new homes advertised from roughly $748,400, with golf sold separately from the HOA fee. - [Polo Club Condominiums (Narragansett, RI)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/south-county-ri/polo-club-condominiums-narragansett-ri/): A 137-unit condominium association in Narragansett, built off Point Judith Road adjacent to Point Judith Country Club with many units overlooking the course's 18th hole; named for the club's original polo heritage. - [Quidnessett Country Club Condominiums](https://www.usgolfliving.com/rhode-island/south-county-ri/quidnessett-country-club-condominiums/): A 32-unit condominium complex built directly on Quidnessett Country Club's golf course in North Kingstown, with Narragansett Bay views; residents may separately join the golf course or a pool-only membership for an annual fee. ## Delaware - [Delaware Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/): Independent research on 10 golf clubs and 11 residential golf communities across 4 Delaware golf markets, including Sussex County — Rehoboth, Lewes & Millsboro/Long Neck, Sussex County - Bethany, Ocean View & Selbyville/Fenwick and Kent County & Dover: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Delaware Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Delaware](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 9 private Delaware golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Wild Quail Golf & Country Club, The Peninsula on the Indian River Bay (Millsboro, DE), Kings Creek Country Club (Rehoboth Beach, DE), Rehoboth Beach Country Club and Bear Trap Dunes Golf Club. - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Delaware](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 4 Delaware golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including The Peninsula on the Indian River Bay (Millsboro, DE), Plantation Lakes Golf & Country Club, Bear Trap Dunes Golf Club and Heritage Shores Golf Club. ### Delaware Comparisons - [The Peninsula vs Plantation Lakes (Millsboro, DE)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/the-peninsula-vs-plantation-lakes-millsboro-golf-living/): Compare access models, pricing, and course pedigree between Millsboro's two golf masterplans: The Peninsula and Plantation Lakes. - [Bear Trap Dunes vs Heritage Shores for Golf Living](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/bear-trap-dunes-vs-heritage-shores-for-golf-living/): A researched comparison of Bear Trap Dunes and Heritage Shores, DE for golf-oriented homebuyers: age restriction, beach distance, golf access, scale, and pricing. ### Kent County & Dover, DE - [Kent County & Dover, DE Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/kent-county-de/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Kent County & Dover golf market, in Kent County, including Wild Quail Golf & Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Kent County & Dover - [Wild Quail Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/kent-county-de/wild-quail-golf-country-club/): A private, Ed Ault-designed 18-hole club (1990) in Camden Wyoming, Kent County, repeatedly ranked by Golf Digest among Delaware's top five courses, serving as the namesake amenity for the surrounding Wild Quail residential area. #### Golf Communities in Kent County & Dover - [Village of Wild Quail](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/kent-county-de/village-of-wild-quail/): Camden Wyoming, DE: The original golf-frontage residential neighborhood built alongside Wild Quail Golf & Country Club's 1990 opening, with roughly 181 single-family homes on deed-restricted lots, some directly bordering the course. - [The Estates of Wild Quail](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/kent-county-de/estates-of-wild-quail/): A builder-branded neighborhood of executive single-family homes on half-acre-plus homesites built by Timberlake Homes between 2016 and 2021, surrounding Wild Quail Golf & Country Club in Camden Wyoming. ### Sussex County — Rehoboth, Lewes & Millsboro/Long Neck, DE - [Sussex County — Rehoboth, Lewes & Millsboro/Long Neck, DE Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-north-de/): This inland-bay corridor of Sussex County — running from Millsboro and Long Neck on the Indian River Bay north through Rehoboth Beach and Lewes — is Delaware's densest concentration of golf-oriented residential real estate. #### Golf Clubs in Sussex County — Rehoboth, Lewes & Millsboro/Long Neck - [The Peninsula on the Indian River Bay (Millsboro, DE)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-north-de/the-peninsula-on-the-indian-river-bay-millsboro-de/): An ~800-acre gated resort community in Millsboro built around Delaware's first Jack Nicklaus Signature course, with club membership restricted to property owners across three tiers and Troon managing golf operations. - [Plantation Lakes Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-north-de/plantation-lakes-golf-and-country-club/): Lennar's Plantation Lakes master-planned community in Millsboro bundles membership at its Arthur Hills championship course into every home purchase, marketed as Delaware's first bundled-golf community. - [Kings Creek Country Club (Rehoboth Beach, DE)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-north-de/kings-creek-country-club-rehoboth-beach-de/): A private, 24-hour-guarded 350-acre golf community near Rehoboth Beach with 243 single-family homes built directly around its private 18-hole course and optional, separately-priced country-club membership. - [Rehoboth Beach Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-north-de/rehoboth-beach-country-club/): A private, invitation-only 18-hole championship club on Bald Eagle Point, incorporated 1925 and relocated to its current 150-acre waterfront site in the 1960s, around which the purpose-built ~900-home Rehoboth Beach Yacht & Country Club community subsequently grew. #### Golf Communities in Sussex County — Rehoboth, Lewes & Millsboro/Long Neck - [The Peninsula on the Indian River Bay](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-north-de/the-peninsula-community-millsboro-de/): An ~800-acre gated master-planned resort community in Millsboro built around The Peninsula's Jack Nicklaus Signature course, with a wide housing mix from condos to waterfront estates. - [Plantation Lakes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-north-de/plantation-lakes-community-millsboro-de/): A large Lennar-built master-planned community in Millsboro where golf-club membership at the Arthur Hills course is bundled into every home purchase and funded through HOA dues. - [Kings Creek (Rehoboth Beach, DE)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-north-de/kings-creek-community-rehoboth-beach-de/): A gated, 24-hour-guarded community of 243 single-family homes on 350 acres built directly around Kings Creek Country Club's private 18-hole course, near Rehoboth Beach. - [Rehoboth Beach Yacht & Country Club (RBYCC)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-north-de/rehoboth-beach-yacht-and-country-club-rbycc/): A ~900-home residential community near Bald Eagle Point, developed since 1981 directly around and named for Rehoboth Beach Country Club, with canal-front boat slips but no automatic tie to club membership. ### Sussex County - Bethany, Ocean View & Selbyville/Fenwick, DE - [Sussex County - Bethany, Ocean View & Selbyville/Fenwick, DE Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-south-de/): Delaware's Sussex County coastline south of Rehoboth is the state's densest concentration of golf-bundled residential product -- a corridor running from Ocean View through Bethany Beach to Selbyville and Fenwick Island where developers have built entire communities directly around golf courses rather than simply placing subdivisions near existing clubs. #### Golf Clubs in Sussex County - Bethany, Ocean View & Selbyville/Fenwick - [Bear Trap Dunes Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-south-de/bear-trap-dunes-golf-club/): A 700-home resort community in Ocean View, DE wrapped around a 27-hole Rick Jacobson-designed course (Black Bear, Grizzly, and Kodiak nines), 3 miles from Bethany Beach with a complimentary beach shuttle for residents. - [Bayside Resort Golf Club (Selbyville, DE)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-south-de/bayside-resort-golf-club-selbyville-de/): Selbyville, DE: Delaware's first Jack Nicklaus Signature course, anchoring a gated 1,000-acre resort community on Assawoman Bay, about 4 miles from Fenwick Island; voted the No. 1 Course You Can Play in Delaware by Golfweek Magazine 14 years running per available sourcing. - [Salt Pond Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-south-de/salt-pond-golf-club/): An 18-hole, par-61 semi-private course just west of Bethany Beach, DE that is directly owned and operated by the Salt Pond Homeowners Association -- one of the few U.S. golf courses actually owned by its own community HOA -- serving a roughly 536-538 home single-family and townhome community. - [Cripple Creek Golf & Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-south-de/cripple-creek-golf-country-club/): A private, members-only 18-hole club on 142 acres adjacent to the Indian River Bay near Bethany Beach, DE (physical address in Dagsboro), established in 1984 by developer Donald Wilgus and architect Algie M. Pulley, with an adjacent Fairway Villas HOA community of roughly 90 homes built around the course. #### Golf Communities in Sussex County - Bethany, Ocean View & Selbyville/Fenwick - [The Village at Bear Trap Dunes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-south-de/village-at-bear-trap-dunes/): A 700-home master-planned community in Ocean View, DE (single-family homes, townhomes, and golf-villa condominiums) built directly around the 27-hole Bear Trap Dunes golf course, 3 miles from Bethany Beach with a complimentary seasonal beach shuttle. - [Bayside](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-south-de/bayside-selbyville/): A gated, 1,000-acre resort community on Assawoman Bay in Selbyville, DE, built around the Bayside Resort Golf Club (Jack Nicklaus Signature) and roughly 4 miles from Fenwick Island, with single-family homes, townhomes, duplexes, and condos. - [The Salt Pond](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-south-de/the-salt-pond-community/): A community of roughly 536-538 single-family homes and townhomes just west of Bethany Beach, DE, whose homeowners association directly owns and operates the adjacent Salt Pond Golf Club -- a distinctive, verified ownership structure. - [Fairway Villas at Cripple Creek](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/sussex-south-de/fairway-villas-cripple-creek/): A roughly 90-home single-family neighborhood governed by the Cripple Creek Homeowners Association (branded 'Fairway Villas'), built directly around the Cripple Creek Golf & Country Club course and overlooking the Indian River Bay in Dagsboro, DE. ### Heritage Shores & Bridgeville, DE - [Heritage Shores & Bridgeville, DE Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/heritage-shores-bridgeville-de/): Heritage Shores in Bridgeville, Delaware is treated here as its own market rather than folded into Sussex County's Bethany Beach/Ocean View/Selbyville coastal corridor, because its actual character is genuinely different: it is an inland, 55-and-over active-adult community roughly 30 miles from Delaware's ocean beaches, built around agricultural western Sussex County rather than the coastal resort strip. #### Golf Clubs in Heritage Shores & Bridgeville - [Heritage Shores Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/heritage-shores-bridgeville-de/heritage-shores-golf-club/): Delaware's only 55+ golf course community: an Arthur Hills links-style course (opened 2007) at the center of a gated, purpose-built active-adult master plan in Bridgeville, DE with a buildout of just under 2,000 homes. #### Golf Communities in Heritage Shores & Bridgeville - [Heritage Shores](https://www.usgolfliving.com/delaware/heritage-shores-bridgeville-de/heritage-shores-community/): A gated, 55+ active-adult master plan in Bridgeville, DE with a buildout of just under 2,000 homes, built around the Heritage Shores Golf Club and a 28,000-sq-ft clubhouse -- Delaware's only 55+ golf course community per available sourcing. ## South Dakota - [South Dakota Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/): Independent research on 5 golf clubs and 8 residential golf communities across 3 South Dakota golf markets, including Black Hills & Rapid City, Dakota Dunes and Sioux Falls Metro: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### South Dakota Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in South Dakota](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 5 private South Dakota golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Elkhorn Ridge Golf Estates (Spearfish, SD), Hart Ranch Golf Club, Golf Club at Red Rock (Rapid City, SD), Dakota Dunes Country Club and Mapleton Golf Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in South Dakota](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 4 private South Dakota golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Elkhorn Ridge Golf Estates (Spearfish, SD), Hart Ranch Golf Club, Dakota Dunes Country Club and Mapleton Golf Club. ### Black Hills & Rapid City, SD - [Black Hills & Rapid City, SD Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/black-hills-rapid-city-sd/): The Black Hills & Rapid City market covers South Dakota's second-largest metro area (Rapid City) and its surrounding tourism corridor -- Spearfish, Deadwood, Custer, and Hill City. #### Golf Clubs in Black Hills & Rapid City - [Elkhorn Ridge Golf Estates (Spearfish, SD)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/black-hills-rapid-city-sd/elkhorn-ridge-golf-estates-spearfish-sd/): An 18-hole, par-72 public golf course (2009, architect Patrick Wyss) anchoring a developer-built resort on the historic Frawley Ranch near Spearfish, combining two platted residential developments -- Elkhorn Ridge Golf Estates and Frawley Ranch Estates -- with a 185-site RV resort under one master plan and a dedicated HOA; golf itself is public pay-to-play, not a private club benefit. - [Hart Ranch Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/black-hills-rapid-city-sd/hart-ranch-golf-club-sd/): An 18-hole public daily-fee course in the Hart Ranch Valley south of Rapid City, voted South Dakota's #1 Public Golf Course by GolfWeek for 2023-2026, with a documented residency-restricted 'Village on the Green' golf membership category tied to Hart Ranch Development Company's adjacent residential phases. - [Golf Club at Red Rock (Rapid City, SD)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/black-hills-rapid-city-sd/golf-club-at-red-rock-rapid-city-sd/): A public, 7,000-yard, par-72 course designed by Ron Farris (opened 2003) on Rapid City's western edge, co-developed from the start with the surrounding 360-acre Red Rock Estates community -- an HOA-governed, covenant-protected neighborhood with homes from roughly $550,000 to over $1 million, some backing directly onto the course. #### Golf Communities in Black Hills & Rapid City - [Elkhorn Ridge Golf Estates Homeowners Association](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/black-hills-rapid-city-sd/elkhorn-ridge-golf-estates-hoa-sd/): The golf-fronting residential subdivision within the Elkhorn Ridge master plan near Spearfish -- quarter-acre to ten-acre homesites governed by an incorporated HOA, with lots from a reported $68,000. - [Frawley Ranch Estates](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/black-hills-rapid-city-sd/frawley-ranch-estates-spearfish-sd/): Spearfish, SD: A separate, larger-acreage residential subdivision within the Elkhorn Ridge master plan, overlooking Centennial Valley and Bear Butte, offering 72 homesites from a reported $89,000 -- distinct from the golf-fronting Elkhorn Ridge Golf Estates. - [Village on the Green at Hart Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/black-hills-rapid-city-sd/village-on-the-green-hart-ranch-sd/): Rapid City, SD: Hart Ranch Development Company's ongoing platted residential product in the Hart Ranch Valley, now in Phase III, whose residents are the only buyers eligible for the golf club's 'Village on the Green' membership category. - [Red Rock Estates (Rapid City, SD)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/black-hills-rapid-city-sd/red-rock-estates-rapid-city-sd/): A 360-acre, covenant-protected, HOA-governed golf-course community on Rapid City's western edge, co-developed alongside the Golf Club at Red Rock starting in 2000; custom homes typically $550,000 to over $1 million, some backing directly onto the course. ### Dakota Dunes, SD - [Dakota Dunes, SD Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/dakota-dunes-sd/): Dakota Dunes is a genuinely single-anchor South Dakota golf market, and that is a real, researched finding rather than a research gap. #### Golf Clubs in Dakota Dunes - [Dakota Dunes Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/dakota-dunes-sd/dakota-dunes-country-club/): A private, Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay-designed 18-hole club (opened 1991) at the center of the master-planned Dakota Dunes community in Union County, South Dakota, historically home to the Ben Hogan/Nike/Buy.com Tour's Dakota Dunes Open and the South Dakota Open, with one of its three residential neighborhoods built directly around the course. #### Golf Communities in Dakota Dunes - [Country Club Estates at Dakota Dunes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/dakota-dunes-sd/country-club-estates-dakota-dunes/): Custom golf-course, forest, lake, and river-view homesites built directly around Dakota Dunes Country Club's course, close to the clubhouse -- one of Dakota Dunes' three named residential neighborhoods and the only one with a genuine on-course relationship to the club. - [The Prairie & The Meadows at Dakota Dunes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/dakota-dunes-sd/prairie-meadows-dakota-dunes/): The two non-golf-fronting residential neighborhoods of the master-planned Dakota Dunes community -- The Prairie (moderately priced single-family homes and townhomes) and The Meadows (medium-priced single-family homes) -- sharing the development's HOA, parks, and business district but not the golf course frontage of Country Club Estates. ### Sioux Falls Metro, SD - [Sioux Falls Metro, SD Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/sioux-falls-metro-sd/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Sioux Falls Metro golf market, in Minnehaha County: Mapleton Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in Sioux Falls Metro - [Mapleton Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/sioux-falls-metro-sd/mapleton-golf-club/): A brand-new (opened August 2025), private, golf-only club five miles north of downtown Sioux Falls in Mapleton Township -- the first new private club built in the metro in more than 60 years -- built alongside Mapleton Highlands, a purpose-adjacent luxury residential development. #### Golf Communities in Sioux Falls Metro - [Mapleton Highlands](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/sioux-falls-metro-sd/mapleton-highlands/): A 160-acre, roughly 230-lot luxury residential development by Van Buskirk Companies built directly adjacent to Mapleton Golf Club in northeast/north Sioux Falls, with an initial phase of large-lot executive homesites bordering the course and connected to the clubhouse by cart path. - [Mapleton Highlands Cottages](https://www.usgolfliving.com/south-dakota/sioux-falls-metro-sd/mapleton-highlands-cottages/): Sioux Falls, SD: A villa-style 'cottage' home phase within the larger Mapleton Highlands development, marketed as a distinct, lower-maintenance product alongside the development's large-lot executive homesites, with views of the Mapleton Golf Club course. ## North Dakota - [North Dakota Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/): Independent research on 5 golf clubs and 6 residential golf communities across 4 North Dakota golf markets, including Bismarck, Fargo Metro and Grand Forks: how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### North Dakota Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in North Dakota](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 5 private North Dakota golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Hawktree Golf Club, Apple Creek Country Club, Osgood Golf Course, Grand Forks Country Club and Beowulf Golf Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in North Dakota](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 4 private North Dakota golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including Hawktree Golf Club, Apple Creek Country Club, Osgood Golf Course and Beowulf Golf Club. ### North Dakota Comparisons - [Hawktree Golf Club vs Apple Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/hawktree-golf-club-vs-apple-creek-country-club/): Compare Bismarck's two golf anchors: Hawktree's public-access, developer-built residential growth versus Apple Creek's traditional private-club membership model. ### Bismarck, ND - [Bismarck, ND Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/bismarck-nd/): Bismarck, North Dakota's state capital and second-largest city, is the strongest genuine golf-residential story found anywhere in the state. #### Golf Clubs in Bismarck - [Hawktree Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/bismarck-nd/hawktree-golf-club-bismarck-nd/): An 18-hole, par-72 daily-fee public course (1999-2000, designed by Jim Engh, 7,085 yards) northwest of Bismarck, nationally ranked among America's top public-access courses and known for its trademark black coal-slag bunkers; not a private club, but the anchor of three separate developer-built residential neighborhoods platted directly around it. - [Apple Creek Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/bismarck-nd/apple-creek-country-club-bismarck-nd/): An 18-hole, par-72 private country club established in 1948 (front nine) with a links-style back nine added in 1978-79, located about 3.8 miles east of Bismarck on Highway 10; widely described as the only private golf club in the Bismarck-Mandan area, with a directly adjacent, like-named residential plat ('Apple Creek Country Club First Addition'). #### Golf Communities in Bismarck - [The Meadows at Hawktree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/bismarck-nd/the-meadows-at-hawktree-bismarck-nd/): Bismarck, ND: A small, already-built-out 28-lot single-family neighborhood immediately adjacent to the Hawktree Golf Club clubhouse, with its own homeowners' association (registered 2018) and a community pool/clubhouse added in 2021. - [Summit Point at Hawktree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/bismarck-nd/summit-point-at-hawktree-bismarck-nd/): Bismarck, ND: A reported 1,000-plus-acre, multi-decade master-planned development along the north side of Hawktree Golf Club by Knutson Development, approved for planned-unit development by the Burleigh County Commission in March 2022, with an 80-plus-lot first addition and a future community center planned for golf-course-view land. - [The Ridge at Hawktree](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/bismarck-nd/the-ridge-at-hawktree-bismarck-nd/): Bismarck, ND: An established, nearly built-out (reportedly under 2% of lots remaining) association-maintained community of twin-home-ready and single-family lots immediately south of Hawktree Golf Club, with quarterly or annual HOA dues (sources conflict on the exact figure) covering grounds maintenance and snow removal. - [Apple Creek Country Club First Addition](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/bismarck-nd/apple-creek-country-club-first-addition-bismarck-nd/): Bismarck, ND: A residential plat in Burleigh County officially recorded under the club's own name, directly beside Apple Creek Country Club, with home styles ranging from roughly 1,700 to over 4,000 square feet; no dedicated HOA, golf-access bundling, or developer marketing tying the subdivision to club membership was found. ### Fargo Metro, ND - [Fargo Metro, ND Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/fargo-metro-nd/): The Fargo metro -- Fargo, West Fargo, and Horace, on the North Dakota side of the Red River (Moorhead, Minnesota, directly across the river, is out of scope) -- is North Dakota's largest and most conventional-private-club golf market, but its actual golf-residential story runs against the obvious expectation. #### Golf Clubs in Fargo Metro - [Osgood Golf Course](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/fargo-metro-nd/osgood-golf-course-fargo-nd/): A city-owned (Fargo Park District), public, par-33, 9-hole course (Richard M. Phelps design, opened 2005) that anchors the Osgood neighborhood -- a 590-acre, ~800-lot master-planned south Fargo community explicitly built and named around the golf course, with a homeowners association whose recorded covenants specifically protect golf-course view corridors. #### Golf Communities in Fargo Metro - [Osgood (Osgood First Addition HOA)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/fargo-metro-nd/osgood-first-addition-fargo-nd/): A 590-acre, ~800-lot, developer-planned south Fargo neighborhood (begun 2004) built and named around Osgood Golf Course, governed by the Osgood First Addition Homeowners Association across its several sub-phases, including a golf-adjacent pocket marketed as Villas by the Greens. ### Grand Forks, ND - [Grand Forks, ND Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/grand-forks-nd/): Grand Forks, North Dakota's third-largest city, has a genuinely narrow golf-living story: this research pass found exactly one golf facility meeting the platform's qualification bar, Grand Forks Country Club, a private, members-only club founded in 1909 along the Red River. #### Golf Clubs in Grand Forks - [Grand Forks Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/grand-forks-nd/grand-forks-country-club-nd/): A private, members-only 18-hole club founded in 1909 along the Red River two miles south of downtown Grand Forks, with its present course designed by architects Robert Bruce Harris and Larry Packard in 1964; membership was reported maxed out at roughly 300 golfers as of 2023 with no evidence found of any bundled residential community. ### Minot, ND - [Minot, ND Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/minot-nd/): Minot's golf-living story is dominated by a single, dramatic rebuild: after the 2011 Souris River flood destroyed the 82-year-old original Minot Country Club, the club relocated and rebuilt an entirely new Jim Engh-designed course, reopening in 2015 under the public-facing name Beowulf Golf Club. #### Golf Clubs in Minot - [Beowulf Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/minot-nd/beowulf-golf-club-minot-nd/): Research Beowulf Golf Club, the Jim Engh-designed rebuild of Minot Country Club after the 2011 Souris River flood -- membership access and its decade-long tie to the adjacent Bluffs subdivisions. #### Golf Communities in Minot - [The Bluffs (Minot, ND)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/north-dakota/minot-nd/the-bluffs-minot-nd/): An incrementally platted series of residential subdivision additions (at least eight confirmed, through an 18th addition filed with the City of Minot in 2021) developed along the boundary of Beowulf Golf Club/Minot Country Club since 2016, with the club itself involved in early boundary-adjustment land sales to adjacent lot owners. ## Alaska - [Alaska Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alaska/): Independent research on 1 golf club and 2 residential golf communities across 1 Alaska golf market (Mat-Su Valley (Wasilla)): how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Alaska Comparisons - [Fairway Estates vs Settlers Bay Owners Association](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/fairway-estates-vs-settlers-bay-owners-association/): Two Wasilla, AK communities share the 'Settlers Bay' name -- only one has a golf-course tie. What buyers need to know before assuming which is which. ### Mat-Su Valley (Wasilla), AK - [Mat-Su Valley (Wasilla), AK Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alaska/mat-su-valley-ak/): US Golf Living has researched 1 golf anchor in the Mat-Su Valley golf market, in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough: Settlers Bay Golf Course (Wasilla, AK). #### Golf Clubs in Mat-Su Valley (Wasilla) - [Settlers Bay Golf Course (Wasilla, AK)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alaska/mat-su-valley-ak/settlers-bay-golf-course-wasilla-ak/): Alaska's only privately owned 18-hole course and its Fairway Estates golf-fronting subdivision near Wasilla -- what buyers should know about pricing, access, and how it differs from the separate Settlers Bay Owners Association. #### Golf Communities in Mat-Su Valley (Wasilla) - [Fairway Estates (Wasilla, AK)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alaska/mat-su-valley-ak/fairway-estates-wasilla-ak/): A 138-acre, roughly 3.8-acre-average-lot subdivision platted directly along Settlers Bay Golf Course near Wasilla, marketed by the golf club's own website as the only residential golf community in Alaska -- golf-course frontage and views, but no bundled golf membership found tied to lot ownership. - [Settlers Bay Owners Association (Wasilla, AK)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/alaska/mat-su-valley-ak/settlers-bay-owners-association-wasilla-ak/): Wasilla, AK: A large, established 1977 subdivision (Settlers Bay Units 1 & 2, ~799 property owners, incorporated 1993, $125/year dues) near the golf course's entrance -- but one whose own official materials explicitly state the Settlers Bay Golf Course and Lodge are NOT affiliated with the Association, despite sharing the 'Settlers Bay' name and a nearby entrance. ## Vermont - [Vermont Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/): Independent research on 6 golf clubs and 8 residential golf communities across 4 Vermont golf markets, including Stowe, Southern Vermont (Manchester & Ludlow/Okemo) and Mad River Valley (Sugarbush): how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Vermont Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Vermont](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 6 private Vermont golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including The Equinox Golf Resort & Spa, Fox Run Golf Club (Ludlow, VT), Sugarbush Golf Club, Kwiniaska Golf Club and Stowe Mountain Club. - [Golf Resort Communities in Vermont](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/guides/golf-resort-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 3 Vermont golf resort ecosystems, including The Equinox Golf Resort & Spa, Sugarbush Golf Club and Stowe Mountain Club. - [Communities Near Private Golf Clubs in Vermont](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/guides/communities-near-private-clubs/): US Golf Living has documented 6 private Vermont golf clubs with nearby or adjacent residential communities where buying a home does not automatically include club membership, including The Equinox Golf Resort & Spa, Fox Run Golf Club (Ludlow, VT), Sugarbush Golf Club, Kwiniaska Golf Club and Stowe Mountain Club. ### Vermont Comparisons - [Penthouses vs. Private Mountain Residences at Spruce Peak](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/penthouses-vs-private-mountain-residences-spruce-peak/): Compare Spruce Peak's fractional Penthouses Residence Club against its whole-ownership Private Mountain Residences, including how each connects to golf and Club membership. ### Southern Vermont (Manchester & Ludlow/Okemo), VT - [Southern Vermont (Manchester & Ludlow/Okemo), VT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/southern-vermont-vt/): Southern Vermont's golf geography runs along the VT-11/VT-103 corridor connecting two of the state's best-known resort towns: Manchester, home to Vermont's most prestigious historic golf address, and Ludlow, at the base of Okemo Mountain. #### Golf Clubs in Southern Vermont (Manchester & Ludlow/Okemo) - [The Equinox Golf Resort & Spa](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/southern-vermont-vt/equinox-golf-resort-spa-manchester-vt/): A historic Walter Travis course (1926), renovated by Rees Jones in the early 1990s, at Vermont's landmark 1769 Equinox hotel in Manchester Village -- paired with Equinox on the Battenkill, an adjacent condominium community with views of the golf course, though golf membership itself is purchased separately from the home. - [Fox Run Golf Club (Ludlow, VT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/southern-vermont-vt/fox-run-golf-club-ludlow-vt/): Ludlow, VT: An 18-hole daily-fee/semi-private course near Okemo Mountain, formerly named Okemo Valley Golf Club (1999-2021) before Fox Run Properties LLC acquired it from Vail Resorts and reverted it to its original 1969 name, Fox Run -- paired with the small, adjacent Fox Run Condos community. #### Golf Communities in Southern Vermont (Manchester & Ludlow/Okemo) - [Equinox on the Battenkill](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/southern-vermont-vt/equinox-on-the-battenkill-manchester-vt/): A condominium community in Manchester Village, developed beginning in 1983, immediately adjacent to The Equinox Golf Resort & Spa with reported views of the golf course greens; golf club membership is sold separately from the home. - [Fox Run Condos (Ludlow, VT)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/southern-vermont-vt/fox-run-condos-ludlow-vt/): Ludlow, VT: A small, privately situated condominium community with 4-bedroom suite townhouses immediately next to Fox Run Golf Club, about five minutes from Okemo Mountain Resort, marketed around golf-club and mountain views. ### Mad River Valley (Sugarbush), VT - [Mad River Valley (Sugarbush), VT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/mad-river-valley-vt/): The Mad River Valley, anchored by the town of Warren and Sugarbush Resort, is one of Vermont's classic four-season mountain communities -- but for a golf-oriented homebuyer, it is honestly a skiing market first and a golf market second. #### Golf Clubs in Mad River Valley (Sugarbush) - [Sugarbush Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/mad-river-valley-vt/sugarbush-golf-club-warren-vt/): An 18-hole Robert Trent Jones Sr. course inside the ski-driven Sugarbush Resort in the Mad River Valley; golf is secondary to skiing in the resort's own identity, but Club Sugarbush -- a distinct 52-unit condominium complex overlooking the golf course -- represents a real, narrowly-scoped golf-adjacent residential tie, separate from the resort's ski-base condominiums. #### Golf Communities in Mad River Valley (Sugarbush) - [Club Sugarbush](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/mad-river-valley-vt/club-sugarbush-warren-vt/): Warren, VT: A 52-unit condominium complex on 24 landscaped acres at the Sugarbush Access Road/German Flats Road intersection, distinct from the resort's ski-base condominiums, marketed as overlooking Sugarbush Golf Club's course. ### Burlington & Lake Champlain, VT - [Burlington & Lake Champlain, VT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/burlington-lake-champlain-vt/): Vermont's largest metro area, anchored by Burlington on the shore of Lake Champlain, has real golf history -- Burlington Country Club's Donald Ross design (Vermont's only 18-hole Ross course) and Kwiniaska Golf Club's P.B. Dye redesign (Vermont's only Dye course) both sit within a short drive of downtown. #### Golf Clubs in Burlington & Lake Champlain - [Kwiniaska Golf Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/burlington-lake-champlain-vt/kwiniaska-golf-club-shelburne-vt/): A semi-private, P.B. Dye-redesigned (2018-2020) 18-hole course on Spear Street in Shelburne, VT, paired with Kwiniaska Ridge, a luxury townhome development built directly across the street and marketed around golf access at the club. #### Golf Communities in Burlington & Lake Champlain - [Kwiniaska Ridge](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/burlington-lake-champlain-vt/kwiniaska-ridge-shelburne-vt/): Shelburne, VT: A luxury townhome development by Snyder Homes built directly across Spear Street from Kwiniaska Golf Club, explicitly marketed with golf at Kwiniaska among its year-round amenities. ### Stowe, VT - [Stowe, VT Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/stowe-vt/): US Golf Living has researched 2 golf anchors in the Stowe golf market, in Lamoille County, including Stowe Mountain Club and Stowe Country Club. #### Golf Clubs in Stowe - [Stowe Mountain Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/stowe-vt/stowe-mountain-club/): Stowe Mountain Club's 18-hole, Bob Cupp-designed course (2007) is Vermont's first Audubon International Signature Sanctuary-certified course and the organizing golf amenity of Spruce Peak at Stowe, a 235-developable-acre luxury ski resort community (plus 2,000 acres of conservation land) capped at 400 dwelling units. - [Stowe Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/stowe-vt/stowe-country-club/): Stowe Country Club, founded in 1950 on Cape Cod Road in the town center, was historically Vermont's most publicly accessible course. #### Golf Communities in Stowe - [Spruce Peak Mountain Cabins](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/stowe-vt/spruce-peak-mountain-cabins/): Spruce Peak Mountain Cabins are standalone, whole-ownership duplex-style residences at Spruce Peak at Stowe, built with native stone and hand-crafted timber, roughly 3,000 square feet across three floors with four bedrooms, two living spaces, and a walk-out patio with hot tub. - [Spruce Peak Village Townhomes](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/stowe-vt/spruce-peak-village-townhomes/): Stowe, VT: Spruce Peak Village Townhomes are 18 four-bedroom, whole-ownership townhomes (2,000-2,450 sq. ft.) introduced in November 2016 just steps from Spruce Peak's Village Center, ski school, and adventure center; the initial nine sold ranged $1.8M-$2.2M and the full 18-unit release sold out for a total of roughly $34 million. - [Private Mountain Residences at Spruce Peak](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/stowe-vt/spruce-peak-private-mountain-residences/): Private Mountain Residences are whole-ownership, permanent single-family homes within Spruce Peak at Stowe, marketed by the resort as offering owners 'a permanent home to return to again and again' -- a distinct, full-time-ownership product from the resort's fractional Penthouses Residence Club. - [The Penthouses Residence Club at Spruce Peak](https://www.usgolfliving.com/vermont/stowe-vt/spruce-peak-penthouses-residence-club/): Stowe, VT: The Penthouses Residence Club is a fractional/fixed-interest ownership product at Spruce Peak, with interests starting at $300,000. ## Wyoming - [Wyoming Golf Communities & Clubs](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/): Independent research on 8 golf clubs and 10 residential golf communities across 4 Wyoming golf markets, including Jackson Hole, Northeast Wyoming (Sheridan & Devils Tower Country) and Star Valley (Thayne / Star Valley Ranch): how membership and golf access work, amenities, housing and costs. ### Wyoming Research Guides - [Private Golf Communities in Wyoming](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/guides/private-golf-communities/): US Golf Living has researched 8 private Wyoming golf clubs where membership is purchased separately from home ownership, including Shooting Star, Teton Pines Country Club, Snake River Sporting Club, Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Club and The Powder Horn Golf Club (Sheridan, WY). - [Golf Communities With Pickleball in Wyoming](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/guides/golf-communities-with-pickleball/): US Golf Living has identified 3 Wyoming golf anchors with pickleball facilities, including Teton Pines Country Club, The Powder Horn Golf Club (Sheridan, WY) and Star Valley Ranch (Cedar Creek & Aspen Hills). ### Wyoming Comparisons - [Shooting Star vs. Snake River Sporting Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/compare/shooting-star-vs-snake-river-sporting-club-jh-wy/): Compare Shooting Star and Snake River Sporting Club, Jackson Hole's two most nationally recognized private golf communities, on access, price, and lifestyle. ### Jackson Hole, WY - [Jackson Hole, WY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/jackson-hole-wy/): Jackson Hole is one of the most prestigious real estate markets in the United States, and its golf-living story is genuinely more developed than Wyoming's small statewide population would suggest. #### Golf Clubs in Jackson Hole - [Shooting Star](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/jackson-hole-wy/shooting-star-jh-wy/): A private, invitation-only equity golf club in Teton Village built around an 18-hole Tom Fazio course (2009), ranked Wyoming's #1 course by Golf Digest for 2021-22, at the center of a 1,300-acre master-planned community protected by conservation easements and capped at 100 home sites plus a limited set of cabins, lodges, and homesteads. - [Teton Pines Country Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/jackson-hole-wy/teton-pines-country-club-wy/): An Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay-designed 18-hole course in Wilson, approved for development in 1984 specifically as a combined golf-and-residential project. - [Snake River Sporting Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/jackson-hole-wy/snake-river-sporting-club-wy/): A private golf-and-residential resort community south of Jackson along the Snake River Canyon, built around a Tom Weiskopf-designed course (voted Wyoming's #1 course by Golf Digest 2015-2018) on nearly 1,000 acres bordering Bridger-Teton National Forest, with an equestrian center, fly fishing, and three distinct residential ownership tiers. - [Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/jackson-hole-wy/jackson-hole-golf-tennis-club-wy/): A Vail Resorts-owned (since 1999/2000) semi-private course in Jackson, originally opened in 1963 and remodeled by Robert Trent Jones II in 1971, currently sold out of club memberships with a confirmed waitlist. #### Golf Communities in Jackson Hole - [Shooting Star](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/jackson-hole-wy/shooting-star-community-wy/): A 1,300-acre conservation-easement-protected residential community in Teton Village built around Shooting Star Golf Club, with development capped at 100 home sites plus a limited set of cabins, lodges, and homesteads. - [Teton Pines](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/jackson-hole-wy/teton-pines-community-wy/): A gated, 360-acre golf community in Wilson approved for development in 1984 explicitly alongside Teton Pines Country Club, comprising single-family homes, townhomes, and free-standing cluster homes around the Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay-designed course. - [The Lodges at Snake River Sporting Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/jackson-hole-wy/snake-river-sporting-club-lodges-wy/): Jackson, WY: Freestanding single-family homes at the center of Snake River Sporting Club, positioned to combine owner use with rental-program investment flexibility, offering unencumbered fairway and canyon views. - [The Residences at Snake River Sporting Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/jackson-hole-wy/snake-river-sporting-club-residences-wy/): Jackson, WY: Custom 'mountain modern' homes on 0.5-2 acre lots bordering or near Snake River Sporting Club's golf course, up to 6,500 sq ft, with short-term rentals reported not permitted -- a genuinely different, owner-occupancy-oriented product from The Lodges. - [The Ranch Estates at Snake River Sporting Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/jackson-hole-wy/snake-river-sporting-club-ranch-estates-wy/): Jackson, WY: Large-parcel, 35-acre irrigated ranch properties bordering Bridger-Teton National Forest at Snake River Sporting Club -- the club's lowest-density, most land-oriented real estate tier, a genuinely different product from the golf-adjacent Residences and rental-flexible Lodges. - [Estates at Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/jackson-hole-wy/estates-jackson-hole-golf-tennis-wy/): A residential subdivision adjacent to Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Club, originally platted as 92 lots in 1964 as part of the same golf-and-tennis development; the active HOA today covers 52 of those original lots, with 37 more lots added by Vail Resorts on former course land after its acquisition around 2000. ### Northeast Wyoming (Sheridan & Devils Tower Country), WY - [Northeast Wyoming (Sheridan & Devils Tower Country), WY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/northeast-wyoming-wy/): Northeast Wyoming's golf-residential story is really two very different products sharing one broad, sparsely populated region rather than a single cohesive submarket. #### Golf Clubs in Northeast Wyoming (Sheridan & Devils Tower Country) - [The Powder Horn Golf Club (Sheridan, WY)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/northeast-wyoming-wy/the-powder-horn-golf-club-sheridan-wy/): A Troon Prive-managed, 27-hole private golf club near Sheridan that anchors a genuine master-planned residential community of 400+ homes on roughly 900 acres below the Bighorn Mountains -- real estate ranges from homesites to custom homes, patio homes, deck homes, and villas, all under the separate Powder Horn Homeowners Association. - [The Golf Club at Devils Tower](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/northeast-wyoming-wy/golf-club-at-devils-tower/): A private destination golf club on a roughly 1,000-acre enclave overlooking Devils Tower in remote northeast Wyoming, private since 2007, with a formal membership program and a genuine developer real-estate arm selling golf-course homesites and custom homes. #### Golf Communities in Northeast Wyoming (Sheridan & Devils Tower Country) - [The Powder Horn Residential Community](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/northeast-wyoming-wy/the-powder-horn-residential-community/): The 400+ home master-planned community built around The Powder Horn Golf Club near Sheridan, spanning homesites through custom homes, patio and deck homes, and villas, governed by its own Homeowners Association separate from the golf club. - [The Golf Club at Devils Tower Real Estate](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/northeast-wyoming-wy/golf-club-at-devils-tower-community/): Golf-course homesites and custom homes sold through The Golf Club at Devils Tower's own real estate arm on its roughly 1,000-acre enclave near Hulett, Wyoming. ### Star Valley (Thayne / Star Valley Ranch), WY - [Star Valley (Thayne / Star Valley Ranch), WY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/star-valley-wy/): Star Valley is a small, self-contained golf market built around a genuinely unusual structure: the town of Star Valley Ranch itself, rather than any single private club, is the golf-residential product. #### Golf Clubs in Star Valley (Thayne / Star Valley Ranch) - [Star Valley Ranch (Cedar Creek & Aspen Hills)](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/star-valley-wy/star-valley-ranch-golf-courses/): The golf courses (Cedar Creek, 18 holes, and Aspen Hills, 9 holes) owned and operated by the Star Valley Ranch Association inside the incorporated town of Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming -- a small mountain-valley town whose entire identity and platting grew up around golf. #### Golf Communities in Star Valley (Thayne / Star Valley Ranch) - [Star Valley Ranch](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/star-valley-wy/star-valley-ranch-community/): The incorporated Wyoming town of Star Valley Ranch itself, platted around the Association-owned Cedar Creek and Aspen Hills golf courses, with roughly 1,900-2,000 residents and homes marketed explicitly as golf-course real estate. ### Saratoga (Carbon County), WY - [Saratoga (Carbon County), WY Golf Market Guide](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/saratoga-wy/): Saratoga is a genuinely thin market in scale -- one anchor, one small south-central Wyoming town -- but the anchor itself is among the most tightly access-controlled properties researched anywhere in this state's build. #### Golf Clubs in Saratoga (Carbon County) - [Old Baldy Club](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/saratoga-wy/old-baldy-club/): An ultra-exclusive, invitation-only equity club outside Saratoga founded by broadcasting executive George B. Storer, combining a championship golf course, extensive private fly-fishing access, and a lodge/cottage program with genuine member-owned residential lots -- equity club membership is required to buy property here. #### Golf Communities in Saratoga (Carbon County) - [Old Baldy Club Residential Lots](https://www.usgolfliving.com/wyoming/saratoga-wy/old-baldy-club-residential-lots/): The platted residential 'Additions' within Old Baldy Club's grounds outside Saratoga, where lots and custom homes are sold exclusively to equity club members. ## Optional - [Contact](https://www.usgolfliving.com/contact/): Get connected with a real-estate specialist who understands golf-oriented communities in your target market. - [Sitemap](https://www.usgolfliving.com/sitemap.xml): XML sitemap of every page on US Golf Living.