Berkeley Hall Club
Bluffton, Beaufort County, South Carolina · Bluffton golf market
- Access
- equity
- Holes
- 36
- Architect(s)
- Tom Fazio
- Gated
- Yes
- Golf access
- Bundled
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Berkeley Hall is a private, gated golf community on the Okatie River in Bluffton, built on 980 acres with a deliberately low density of roughly 5.3 homesites per hole. Its defining structural feature is a 554-member equity membership cap that exactly matches its 554 planned homesites, with every home/homesite bundled to a transferable family membership; a limited number of non-equity Signature memberships extend club access to non-owners.
Golf & Course
Berkeley Hall features the world's only pair of Tom Fazio-designed 'core' golf courses -- North and South -- meaning no interior roads or homes interrupt play on either course, a deliberately pure golf environment with no tee times required. The club has been recognized among the top 50 Platinum Clubs of America and holds Distinguished Club status from BoardRoom magazine.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Every home and homesite includes a Berkeley Hall equity family membership that transfers with resale, capped at 554 to match the community's 554 total homesites. A limited number of non-equity Signature memberships are also sold to those who do not own property in the community. The club has been member-owned and operated since January 2005.
Living in Berkeley Hall Club
Berkeley Hall spans 980 acres along the Okatie River with a low-density plan (roughly 5.3 homesites per hole) and a Jeffersonian-style clubhouse as its social center.
Location & Surrounding Area
Located on the Okatie River in Bluffton, near Oldfield and within the broader western-Bluffton plantation-club cluster.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Initiation (range low)
Historical$80,000
Reported as the property-owner equity membership initiation fee by one source; conflicts with a $90,000/$115,000 transfer-fee figure from another source and a $100,000-$150,000 range cited for the separate non-equity Signature tier in the discovery pass. Not the club's own published figure.
Initiation (range high)
Historical$150,000
Upper end of the range cited for the non-equity Signature membership tier per the discovery pass; not independently re-confirmed this session.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Resolve the conflicting initiation/transfer-fee figures ($80,000 vs. $90,000/$115,000) directly with the club.
- Resolve the conflicting annual-dues figures ($25,418 vs. $26,714) directly with the club.
- Confirm current amenity list (tennis, pool, fitness, dining) directly with the club -- not found this session.
Notable
- The only pair of Tom Fazio-designed 'core' golf courses in the world (no interior roads or homes along either course).
- Equity membership is capped at 554, exactly matching the community's 554 planned homesites.
- Recognized among the top 50 Platinum Clubs of America; member-owned and operated since January 2005.
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