Diamond Creek Golf Club
Banner Elk, Avery County, North Carolina · High Country golf market
- Access
- invitation only
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Tom Fazio
- Gated
- Yes
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Diamond Creek Golf Club is a highly exclusive private course in Banner Elk designed by Tom Fazio and opened in 2003. It sits within a private gated community and is currently associated with The Friedkin Group, the Houston-based investment group led by Dan Friedkin; the club was previously under different ownership (Wayne Huizenga).
Golf & Course
The Fazio-designed course opened in 2003 and has developed a reputation as one of the most exclusive private clubs in the North Carolina mountains, with roughly 320 members and club-run helicopter shuttle service between the club and nearby airports.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Golf press coverage reports the club's founders deliberately built Diamond Creek as a standalone golf club rather than a real-estate-bundled country club model common elsewhere in the High Country -- implying membership does not require buying property within the community. This was synthesized from search results this session rather than read directly from a single confirmed page, so it should be treated as a strong lead rather than a fully settled fact pending direct re-confirmation.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm the exact membership application/sponsorship process directly with the club (described elsewhere as invitation via existing-member or board recommendation, not independently re-confirmed this session).
- Confirm initiation fee and dues directly -- no published figures were located this session.
- Confirm the community's exact acreage and elevation directly.
- Re-confirm directly with the club (rather than via bundled search synthesis) whether membership is genuinely decoupled from property ownership, as golf-press coverage found this session suggests.
- Confirm exact seasonal open/close dates directly with the club.
Notable
- Members have access to a club-run helicopter shuttle to nearby airports.
- Currently associated with The Friedkin Group; club ownership has changed hands over its history (previously Wayne Huizenga).
- Golf press coverage describes the club as intentionally founded as a standalone golf club, distinct from the area's typical real-estate-bundled country club model.
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