Money Hill Golf & Country Club

Money Hill Golf & Country Club sits on the northeast side of Abita Springs, St. Tammany Parish, built around an 18-hole championship course designed by Ron Garl and opened in 1998, along with a 186-acre lake that anchors the gated community's custom estate homesites and condos. Unlike several other Northshore golf communities where club membership is optional and open to outside residents, Money Hill operates on a genuinely bundled model: independent reporting and community materials describe a requirement that home buyers join the club within 60 days of closing, with lot-only purchasers (who have not yet built) exempted from maintaining membership until they do. That structure -- golf access tied directly to homeownership rather than offered as an optional add-on -- makes Money Hill the cleanest barrier-to-entry case among the Northshore's purpose-built golf communities researched in this batch.

The community is governed by a homeowners association (reported dues around $90/month on the club's own site) that is explicitly separate from club initiation fees and monthly dues, which cover golf, racquet sports, pool, fitness, dining, and social access. This research corrected a real, documented AI-summary fabrication risk during full-depth work: a marketing-adjacent search result had misattributed the golf course's design to Jack Nicklaus, apparently blending Money Hill with English Turn (a Nicklaus design in the New Orleans metro) -- a second, differently-worded search across multiple independent golf directories confirmed Ron Garl as the correct 1998 architect. Buyers should treat any Money Hill figure describing a specific initiation-fee dollar amount with caution: the only figures found in this research trace to a 2024 forum post describing a limited-time promotional rate, not a published, current club fee schedule.