Crofton Country Club
Crofton, Anne Arundel County, Maryland · Southern Maryland golf market
- Access
- non equity
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Ed Ault, Roy Case
- Gated
- No
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In 1963 the Crawford Corporation assembled more than 1,600 acres in Anne Arundel County to build Crofton, a new planned town founded in the fall of 1964 -- the same era as Reston, Virginia (April 1964) and Columbia, Maryland (1967). The development was explicitly anchored by a community golf course, designed by Ed Ault and Roy Case, that became Crofton Country Club. The town was originally laid out as a gated community organized around the Crofton Parkway loop; the gates remain today only as a symbolic feature, not an active access-control gate. For a golf-oriented homebuyer, Crofton represents a rare case in Maryland where an entire town's street plan and identity were organized around a golf club from the outset, rather than a club being added to an existing neighborhood.
Golf & Course
Crofton Country Club's 18-hole course, designed by Ed Ault and Roy Case and opened in 1964, has hosted U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur qualifiers as well as four Maryland Opens -- real competitive-golf credentials for a community club of its era and scale.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Crofton Country Club is a private, non-equity club offering Social and Golf membership categories; it is not tied to home purchase anywhere in the town of Crofton. A 2019 promotion offered new members no initiation fee and no winter dues, suggesting the club has, at times, actively worked to lower barriers to entry -- current terms should be confirmed directly.
Living in Crofton Country Club
Crofton itself -- population 29,136 as of the 2020 census, spanning 6.61 square miles -- is the residential community in this relationship, not a separate subdivision layered onto the club. The town's street plan (the Crofton Parkway loop) was designed around the club from the community's 1964 founding.
Location & Surrounding Area
Crofton sits roughly 9.8 miles west of Annapolis, 24 miles south of Baltimore, and 24 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. -- a well-positioned Anne Arundel County commuter town for both the Baltimore and DC metro areas.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Golf membership initiation
Historical — as of 2026-09-22$10,000
Country Club Magazine's own estimate, explicitly flagged by that source as an estimate not to be relied on for membership decisions -- not an official published rate. A 2019 club promotion offered no initiation fee at all; current terms should be confirmed with the club.
Annual dues
Historical — as of 2026-09-22$6,000
Estimated at roughly $500/month by Country Club Magazine; not an official published rate. Confirm directly with the club.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fee and dues directly with the club -- published estimates are third-party and one historical promotion offered no initiation fee at all.
- Confirm current membership waitlist status and whether Social/Golf are the only two membership categories offered today.
Notable
- Crofton was founded in the same year (1964) as Reston, Virginia and three years before Columbia, Maryland -- part of the same wave of large-scale mid-century planned communities.
- The club has hosted U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur qualifiers and four Maryland Opens since 1964.
- The town of Crofton was originally an entirely gated community; the gates today stand open, more symbolic than functional.
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