New Albany Country Club
New Albany, Franklin County, Ohio · Columbus Metro golf market
- Access
- non equity
- Holes
- 27
- Architect(s)
- Jack Nicklaus, Thomas Pearson
- Gated
- No
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New Albany Country Club is the anchor of what is probably Ohio's clearest large-scale example of a developer building a private golf club and a residential community together, on purpose, as a single product. The New Albany Company -- formed in 1986 by Leslie Wexner and Jack Kessler specifically to develop the rural Plain Township area northeast of Columbus into a master-planned community -- broke ground on the club's Jack Nicklaus-designed 27-hole course in the late 1980s; the community's first homes debuted at the 1991 BIA Parade of Homes, and Nicklaus himself played a dedication round on the East Nine in 1993 after the club's 1992 opening. Today the club sits at the physical center of 17 named neighborhoods and 1,100-plus homes, built in a consistent Georgian architectural style with abundant green space, water features, and leisure trails -- a coherent single-developer vision distinct from Muirfield Village's slightly earlier, less architecturally uniform 1970s build-out.
Despite that tight physical and developmental integration, New Albany Country Club's own membership page confirms residency in New Albany is not a requirement to join: the club runs Golf, Social, and Dining memberships across Resident, Associate, Executive, National, Senior, and Junior categories, meaning both New Albany homeowners and outside applicants go through the same separate membership process. The club has grown to roughly 1,300 members and offers a 30,000-square-foot fitness facility, spa services, 20 tennis courts, multiple pools, full-service dining, and a golf academy alongside the 27-hole course.
Golf & Course
The Nicklaus-designed course is split into three nines -- North, West, and East -- combinable into three different 18-hole routings (West/East, West/North, North/East). Nicklaus played a dedication round on the East Nine himself in 1993, a year after the club's 1992 opening, with inaugural members.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Membership at New Albany Country Club is a separate purchase from a home in any of the surrounding 17 neighborhoods -- it is neither included with nor required for homeownership, per the club's own published membership-category structure, which explicitly names both resident and non-resident (Associate, Executive, National) categories.
Living in New Albany Country Club
New Albany's country-club neighborhoods -- consistently Georgian in architectural style, with sidewalks, leisure trails, parks, and abundant green space and water features -- surround the club's 27-hole course across 17 distinct named subdivisions and 1,100-plus homes. HOA dues vary by individual subdivision and are entirely separate from country club dues; homes in the immediate New Albany Country Club neighborhood carried a roughly $1.9M median list price as of September 2026, well above the broader city of New Albany's roughly $555K-$625K median.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Beyond golf, the club offers a 30,000-square-foot fitness facility, spa services, 20 tennis courts, multiple pools, full-service dining, and a golf academy -- a full private-club social and athletic slate for its roughly 1,300 members.
Location & Surrounding Area
New Albany sits in Franklin County (with a small portion extending into Licking County) on the northeastern edge of the Columbus metro, within the Columbus Metro golf market alongside Muirfield Village to the west.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fee and dues directly with the club's Membership Director -- no official fee schedule is published, and all figures found this session were third-party estimates.
- Confirm HOA dues for the specific New Albany subdivision under consideration; they vary neighborhood by neighborhood and are entirely separate from club dues.
- Confirm current membership-waitlist status directly with the club.
Notable
- The New Albany Company, formed in 1986 by Leslie Wexner and Jack Kessler, built New Albany Country Club's 27-hole Jack Nicklaus course as the deliberate anchor of the surrounding master-planned community.
- The community's first homes debuted at the 1991 BIA Parade of Homes; the club opened in 1992, and Nicklaus played a dedication round on the East Nine in 1993.
- 17 named neighborhoods and 1,100-plus homes surround the club's course, all built in a consistent Georgian architectural style.
- The club's own membership structure explicitly includes non-resident categories (Associate, Executive, National), confirming residency in New Albany is not required to join.
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