Montreux Golf & Country Club

Montreux Golf & Country Club sits on 726 acres of foothill terrain south of Reno on the way to Mt. Rose Highway, and is the organizing amenity of the Montreux residential community that was developed alongside it starting in 1997. The club is genuinely the reason the neighborhood exists in its current form: roughly 540-550 home sites were platted around a single golf course rather than the course being added to an existing subdivision. For a golf-oriented buyer, Montreux is arguably the flagship golf address in northern Nevada -- the only Jack Nicklaus Signature design in the region, on a site Nicklaus has publicly ranked among his own top five course designs, at an elevation (roughly 5,800-6,400 feet across the routing) that gives it a mountain-golf character distinct from the desert courses of southern Nevada.

The club's 20-year run (1999-2018) hosting the PGA Tour's Reno-Tahoe Open (later the Barracuda Championship, before that event relocated) gives it a genuine competitive pedigree beyond residential amenity status, and the 34,000-square-foot clubhouse (styled after a French country manor) anchors a full country-club lifestyle offering -- fitness center, pool, tennis, and dining -- for members. Homes in Montreux run from roughly $1.5 million to $8 million-plus, with the highest average price per square foot in the Reno market, reflecting both the site's exclusivity and the custom European/Alpine-style architecture the community is known for.

Buyers should understand precisely what buying in Montreux does and does not get them: the community itself (24-hour guard-gated, HOA-governed) and the club are administratively and financially separate. Homeownership does not include, and is not required to include, club membership -- residents apply and pay for membership like anyone else, just with the practical advantage of living inside the gates.