Golden Hills Country Club
Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina · Columbia / Midlands golf market
- Access
- semi private
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Ron Garl
- Gated
- Yes
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Golden Hills Golf & Country Club is an 18-hole, Ron Garl-designed course (1988) in Lexington, SC, operated as a semi-private club (public green fees alongside membership) at the center of Golden Hills, a genuinely bundled, gated 300+ acre golf-course residential community of 285 homes. The club combines real membership tiers and fees with public daily-fee accessibility, and its surrounding community carries the kind of mandatory HOA/architectural-review structure and home-price depth ($545K-$1.199M) that supports a residential-integration qualification even without a hard private-club barrier.
Golf & Course
18-hole championship course designed by Ron Garl, opened 1988, par 71, 6,461 yards, TifEagle Bermuda greens; ranked among the top courses in South Carolina's Midlands by the South Carolina Golf Guide.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Semi-private: public green fees run $40-$60, and the club also sells Golf, Single Golf, and Young Executive memberships (initiation $4,000-$7,500 depending on tier, effective after 12/31/2026; monthly dues begin 12/1/2026, amount unpublished). No hard gate on golf access itself, but the surrounding residential community is gated.
Living in Golden Hills Country Club
Golden Hills is a real, named gated golf-course community: 300+ acres, 285 homes total when fully built out (currently in its final phase), mandatory HOAs and architectural review boards, prices $545,000-$1.199M, average home size ~3,948 sq ft, Lexington 1 School District. This is genuine residential-golf bundling, not just marketing language, even though club membership itself is not confirmed mandatory for homeowners.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Amenities include 4 lighted tennis courts, pickleball, a fitness center, spa services, a Junior Olympic-size outdoor pool plus a children's wading pool, a driving range/practice facility, and a clubhouse with a Scottish-tavern-style '19th Hole' restaurant, banquet facilities, and a golf pro shop.
Location & Surrounding Area
Located in Lexington, Lexington County.
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$7,500
Full Golf Membership and Single Golf Membership initiation fee 'after 12/31/2026' per the club's own membership page -- implying a lower, currently-running pre-deadline promotional rate that was not separately confirmed. Young Executive (ages 25-34) tier is $4,000 after 12/31/2026. Monthly dues begin 12/1/2026; the specific monthly dues amount was not found this session.
Initiation (range low)
Historical$4,000
Young Executive (25-34) tier.
Initiation (range high)
Historical$7,500
Full/Single Golf Membership tier.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm whether golf or social club membership is required for Golden Hills homeowners -- not resolved this session.
- Confirm the exact current (pre-12/31/2026-deadline) initiation fee and the new monthly dues amount taking effect 12/1/2026.
- Confirm membership_tied_to_property / transferability policy.
Notable
- Golden Hills is Lexington's premier gated golf-course community -- 300+ acres, 285 homes when fully built out.
- Course designed by Ron Garl, opened 1988; ranks among the top courses in the Midlands.
- Semi-private: public green fees ($40-$60) alongside a real membership program (initiation $4,000-$7,500).
- Home prices in the surrounding community run $545,000 to $1.199 million.
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