Hershey Country Club

The West Course (1930, Maurice McCarthy, par 73, 6,860 yards) is the older and more traditional of the two, with tree-lined fairways and classic-era routing; the East Course (1969, George Fazio, par 71, 7,061 yards) is longer and more modern in character, with elevated greens, three lakes, and more than 100 bunkers. The 1940 PGA Championship -- won by Byron Nelson over Sam Snead in a playoff -- was played on the West Course and remains the club's central claim to national golf history.

Buying a home in or near Hershey does not grant access to Hershey Country Club. There are two distinct paths to playing the courses: (1) a standing club membership, applied for and paid for independently of any home purchase, with Standard/Full and Society tiers reported by third-party aggregators (the club itself does not publish current fees and directs inquiries to its Membership Director), and (2) staying as a guest of Hotel Hershey or Hershey Lodge, which grants temporary outside-play access -- this is the more commonly cited access route and the one that makes HCC read, functionally, more like a resort amenity than a neighborhood club for most visitors. Whether a member's child or grandchild can join without an initiation fee (as one aggregator reports) was not independently confirmed against an official source.

Amenities include tennis and a swimming pool alongside dining, consistent with a traditional country club rather than a resort-spa model; Hershey Lodge and Hotel Hershey (both part of Hershey Entertainment & Resorts) provide the broader hospitality infrastructure golf visitors typically use.

The club sits in Derry Township, Dauphin County, within the town of Hershey -- a planned company town whose identity as a national tourism destination (Hersheypark, Hershey's Chocolate World) is arguably as large a draw for area homebuyers as the golf club itself.