Columbia Country Club
Blythewood, Richland County, South Carolina · Columbia / Midlands golf market
- Access
- unknown
- Holes
- 27
- Architect(s)
- Ellis Maples
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Columbia Country Club is a private, member-owned club founded in 1904, with 27 holes across three nines (Ridgewood, Tall Pines, Lakeside) designed by Ellis Maples. It carries real institutional pedigree -- historically ranked among the state's top clubs and named South Carolina's 2020 Club of the Year -- but is physically located in the Town of Blythewood, immediately north of Columbia, rather than the City of Columbia itself.
Golf & Course
27 holes across three Ellis Maples-designed nines (Ridgewood, Tall Pines, Lakeside), founded 1904, historically ranked top-25 in the state and named South Carolina's 2020 Club of the Year.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Membership is private with several named tiers (Full Golf, Social, Junior Executive, Family). A third-party aggregator reports a wide initiation-fee range ($0-$2,500) and dues range ($0-$5,000) across tiers; this session could not confirm current figures against the club's own schedule.
Living in Columbia Country Club
Columbia Country Club is a freestanding historic club in the Town of Blythewood; no evidence was found this session of it anchoring a single developer-built residential community in the way Woodcreek Farms or Timberlake Plantation do.
Lifestyle & Amenities
A 25,000 sq ft clubhouse includes a fully stocked golf shop, men's and women's locker facilities, a casual dining room, the '19th Hole' bar, and banquet/event space. On-site amenities include an Olympic-sized swimming pool with snack bar, tennis courts, and a professional practice facility.
Location & Surrounding Area
Located in the Town of Blythewood, Richland County, roughly 15-20 minutes north of downtown Columbia -- an important naming-trap correction: 'Columbia Country Club' is not in the City of Columbia.
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.
Golf membership initiation
Historical$0
Third-party aggregator (privateIQ) reports an initiation-fee range of $0-$2,500 and annual dues of $0-$5,000 across membership types (Full Golf, Social, Junior Executive, Family). A $0 low end for a club with this pedigree is surprising and was not independently confirmed against the club's own fee schedule -- treat with caution and confirm directly; this may reflect a junior/legacy tier rather than the standard full-golf initiation. This session re-attempted verification: the club's own membership-cost page (columbiacc.org) is member-login-gated and not publicly readable, and the same wide $0-$2,500 / $0-$5,000-style bucket ranges recur across multiple unrelated Columbia-area clubs in aggregator search results, which suggests these are generic aggregator tier placeholders rather than reliable club-specific figures. Fee data remains unresolved/conflicting.
Initiation (range low)
Historical$0
See initiation_fee notes -- aggregator-reported range, low end likely reflects a reduced membership tier, not confirmed.
Initiation (range high)
Historical$2,500
See initiation_fee notes.
Annual dues
Historical$5,000
Aggregator-reported high end of a $0-$5,000 annual dues range across membership types; not the club's own published schedule.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fee and dues directly with the club -- the club's own fee page is member-login-gated; only conflicting/generic aggregator ranges were found this session.
- Confirm exact county (Blythewood spans the Richland/Fairfield county line) for this specific club address.
- Confirm gated/access-control status and membership waitlist policy -- not researched this session.
Notable
- Named South Carolina's 2020 Club of the Year.
- 27 holes across three nines (Ridgewood, Tall Pines, Lakeside), designed by Ellis Maples.
- Founded in 1904, over a century of institutional history.
- Physically located in Blythewood, not the City of Columbia, despite its name.
- 25,000 sq ft clubhouse with Olympic-sized pool, tennis courts, and a professional practice facility.
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