Dunegrass Golf Club
Old Orchard Beach, York County, Maine · Southern Coast & York County golf market
- Access
- public
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Dan Maples
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Dunegrass Golf Club sits a few miles inland from Old Orchard Beach's boardwalk and sandy public beach, on roughly 300 wooded acres that architect Dan Maples routed through the area's back dunes when the course opened in 1998. It has built a reputation as one of southern Maine's better public tests of golf -- 6,600-plus yards from the back tees, a par-71 routing, and a clubhouse (Grill65) that draws both golfers and locals for casual dining. A separate, older 9-hole course on the same property, built in 1925 to an Alex Chisolm design, is now closed.
What makes Dunegrass a genuine golf-living story, rather than just a good public course, is Country Club Estates at Dunegrass Golf Club -- a real, actively-marketed residential subdivision of custom ranch and contemporary cape-style homes built directly into and around the course corridors, with roughly 149 homes tracked across real-estate portals and a median listing price near $500,000. Multiple independent brokerages (Verani Realty, the Zoeller Group) use "Country Club Estates at Dunegrass Golf Club" as a formal neighborhood name, and the development has continued to grow: Old Orchard Beach's Planning Board was still reviewing additional housing near the course as recently as 2024. A 2015-era course review described Dunegrass as a course "hemmed in" by the housing development that grew up around it -- an honest, if slightly wry, description of how tightly the two are now intertwined.
Unlike most of this platform's flagship anchors, Dunegrass does not gate golf access behind an expensive or exclusive membership -- it remains a genuinely public course with an affordable, open-enrollment membership program alongside pay-and-play tee times. Buyers drawn to Dunegrass are choosing a course-adjacent lifestyle and a real, purpose-built neighborhood identity near Maine's most visited beach town, not a private-club social scene.
Golf & Course
The 18-hole Dunegrass Course (Dan Maples, 1998) plays to roughly 6,600 yards and a par of 71 through rolling, wooded back-dune terrain. A separate, historic 9-hole course on the same property (built 1925, Alex Chisolm design) that predates the modern course is currently closed. The club markets itself as a "premier public New England golf course" and also operates indoor golf simulators for year-round play.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Golf at Dunegrass is open to the general public with no application, waitlist, or residency requirement. An optional membership program (several tiers from roughly $495 to $995/year, plus discounted midweek and junior/college options) offers advance tee-time booking and pro-shop discounts, but is not tied to owning a home in Country Club Estates and carries none of the barrier-to-entry features (initiation fee, sponsorship, waitlist) found at this platform's private-club anchors.
Living in Dunegrass Golf Club
Country Club Estates at Dunegrass Golf Club is a real, developer-branded residential subdivision built directly around the course, with custom-built ranch and contemporary cape-style homes. It functions as a PMUD (planned multi-family/residential unit development) with a low-cost owners' assessment covering shared services, though no confirmed dollar figure or formal golf-access bundling was found.
Lifestyle & Amenities
The clubhouse's Grill65 restaurant offers both casual and finer dining with course views, and the property is roughly a mile from the Eastern Trail and Old Orchard Beach's sandy public beach -- giving the surrounding neighborhood a genuine walk-to-golf, drive-to-beach character.
Location & Surrounding Area
Old Orchard Beach is one of southern Maine's best-known seaside towns, a short drive south of Portland and a few miles from the region's other Southern Coast golf towns (Kennebunk, Wells, York).
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm the current HOA/PMUD assessment amount for Country Club Estates directly with the association.
- Confirm whether any resident-specific golf discount or priority booking exists at Dunegrass beyond the general public membership program.
- Confirm the club's current standard adult membership price, since published tiers conflict on which is the baseline offering.
Notable
- 18-hole course designed by Dan Maples opened in 1998; an earlier 9-hole course on the same site (1925, Alex Chisolm) is now closed.
- Country Club Estates at Dunegrass Golf Club tracks roughly 149 homes on major real-estate portals, with a median listing price near $500,000.
- The Old Orchard Beach Planning Board was still reviewing new housing proposals adjacent to the course as of 2024, indicating the development remains active.
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