Lakewood Oaks Country Club

The course dates to 1979 (architect B. Jay Riviere) with further work by Craig Schreiner in 1988, playing to a par of 71 over roughly 6,301 yards, with Cato Crenshaw Bentgrass greens, Bluegrass roughs, and Zoysia fairways and tees.

Membership is confirmed optional, not mandatory or bundled: LPOA's own materials describe golf as an 'available' community amenity, all Lakewood residents (member or not) get a small annual allotment of tee times, and full playing privileges require a separate paid Full Golf membership with its own initiation fee and monthly dues. The club additionally sells Social memberships to non-Lakewood residents and 'Amenity Pass' add-ons (pool/tennis access) to non-resident golf members -- a genuinely two-directional optional-access model rather than a resident-exclusive or mandatory one.

Lakewood's roughly 2,300 residents live across a wide range of housing stock and price points -- reporting shows homes from the low $200,000s up to $3 million depending on lot type (interior lots vs. premium lake-view/golf-adjacent cul-de-sac lots) -- reflecting the community's age (development beginning in the late 1970s) and long build-out.

Beyond golf, LPOA-run amenities include multiple swimming pools, tennis courts, walking trails, park areas, and sports courts, run separately from the golf club's own dining and clubhouse facilities.

Lakewood sits in Lee's Summit, Jackson County, between Highway 291 and Lee's Summit Road just south of I-70, with some newer sections falling into the Blue Springs school district rather than Lee's Summit's.