Memphis Golf Living Guide
Shelby County, Tennessee
- Golf clubs researched
- 8
- Communities researched
- 4
- Destination-caliber
- 1
- Flagship guides
- 2
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Memphis is Tennessee's smallest of the state's three core metro golf markets, with a real but modest golf-residential footprint concentrated in three geographic clusters: Southwind/East Memphis (TPC Southwind, Ridgeway, Windyke, Memphis Country Club, Chickasaw Country Club), Cordova (Colonial Country Club and its neighboring Legacy at Colonial development), and Collierville (Spring Creek Ranch and Memphis National Golf Club). Unlike Southwest Florida's dense bundled-golf corridors, no Memphis-area club researched here automatically includes golf membership with a home purchase -- every club, including the two most community-integrated ones (Colonial Country Club/The Legacy at Colonial and Memphis National Golf Club/The Fairways), sells membership as a separate product, even to homeowners in a directly adjacent or embedded residential development.
Memphis's strongest single credential is TPC Southwind's continuous hosting of the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the opening event of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup Playoffs, every year since 1989 -- genuine, sustained national tournament pedigree that qualifies as a destination_exception independent of direct homeowner access. Colonial Country Club, genuinely distinct from the similarly-named clubs already documented in Fort Myers, FL and Fort Worth, TX, pairs its own historic PGA Tour pedigree (30-plus events through 1989, including Al Geiberger's record 59) with an active, still-under-construction $400 million residential development built on the club's former North Course. Germantown Country Club, named as a candidate in this state's research brief, closed permanently in 2019 and is documented in this market's exclusions rather than as an active anchor.
Golf Character
Memphis's private clubs split into two recognizable groups. A cluster of old-guard, freestanding in-town clubs -- Memphis Country Club (1905, Donald Ross's 1915 expansion), Chickasaw Country Club (1922, William Langford, 2018 Bill Bergin restoration), Ridgeway Country Club (1971, Ellis Maples/Ed Seay) and Windyke Country Club (1962, George Cobb) -- offer real membership barriers to entry but are explicitly confirmed, in Ridgeway's and Windyke's cases, to not be gated communities, and none has a formal bundled residential development. A second group sits at the center of purpose-built or purpose-adjacent residential development: TPC Southwind (inside the gated Southwind community), Colonial Country Club (beside The Legacy at Colonial), Spring Creek Ranch (built directly around its own 820-acre master-planned community), and Memphis National Golf Club (with The Fairways, a 103-home gated neighborhood built within its property). Even within this second group, though, golf membership itself remains a separate purchase in every case researched here -- Memphis has no confirmed deeded/bundled-golf community on the scale seen in some Florida or Texas markets.
Submarkets & Neighborhood Clusters
Three geographic clusters organize this market. Southeast Memphis/38125 (TPC Southwind, Windyke Country Club) centers on the gated Southwind community and the FedEx St. Jude Championship's home course. East Memphis and neighboring Germantown (Memphis Country Club, Chickasaw Country Club, Ridgeway Country Club) hold the market's old-guard, freestanding historic clubs. Cordova and Collierville, on the metro's eastern edge, hold this market's two most residential-integrated anchors: Colonial Country Club/The Legacy at Colonial in Cordova, and Spring Creek Ranch and Memphis National Golf Club/The Fairways in Collierville.
Membership & Access Patterns
No golf anchor researched in the Memphis market bundles membership automatically into home purchase. TPC Southwind and Colonial Country Club are both private clubs sold separately from any surrounding real estate, even though both sit inside or beside genuinely golf-oriented residential development (Southwind and The Legacy at Colonial, respectively). Memphis National Golf Club is invitation-only, and its embedded Fairways neighborhood does not itself grant or improve sponsorship odds. Spring Creek Ranch's golf club likewise maintains a separate membership process from its surrounding residential community. The market's four old-guard freestanding clubs (Memphis Country Club, Chickasaw, Ridgeway, Windyke) are private with real initiation costs but, in Ridgeway's and Windyke's cases specifically, confirmed not to be gated or bundled to any development at all.
Housing & Community Patterns
Confirmed home-price data is thin across this market's four researched communities. Southwind homes are reported starting in the $300,000s and reaching well over $1 million, with no confirmed ceiling. The Fairways at Memphis National is reported in the $400,000s to $600,000s. The Legacy at Colonial's single-family section (541 planned lots) and Spring Creek Ranch's residential sections did not have independently confirmed current price ranges available this research pass.
Lifestyle
TPC Southwind's national profile peaks each August with the FedEx St. Jude Championship, drawing PGA Tour galleries to southeast Memphis. Colonial Country Club and The Legacy at Colonial pair club amenities (tennis, pool, fitness, dining) with a genuinely mixed-use surrounding development, including retail, restaurants and a hotel. Spring Creek Ranch brands itself as a 'Golf | Dine | Stay' private retreat with a spa alongside its golf and residential offerings, distinct from the more purely golf-focused old-guard in-town clubs.
Geography & Getting Around
The Memphis golf market spans Shelby County, from far southeast Memphis (Southwind, Windyke, near the Mississippi state line) through East Memphis and Germantown (Memphis Country Club, Chickasaw Country Club, Ridgeway Country Club) to the eastern suburbs of Cordova (Colonial Country Club) and Collierville (Spring Creek Ranch, Memphis National Golf Club). Memphis International Airport sits centrally, generally a 20-40 minute drive from any anchor in this research set.
Nearby Alternative Markets
Memphis sits geographically apart from Tennessee's other golf markets researched on this site -- Nashville/Williamson County, Chattanooga, and Knoxville are each roughly 3-4 hours away by car, on the opposite side of the state. Unlike those markets, Memphis has no comparably golf-dense neighboring metro to cross-shop within Tennessee; a Memphis-area golf buyer's most relevant comparisons are within this market's own three geographic clusters (Southwind/East Memphis, Cordova, and Collierville) rather than to another Tennessee metro.
Golf Clubs & Anchors
TPC Southwind
Colonial Country Club
Ridgeway Country Club
Memphis Country Club
Spring Creek Ranch
Memphis National Golf Club
Windyke Country Club
Chickasaw Country Club
Residential Communities
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fees and dues directly with each club researched here -- no Memphis-area club in this research set publishes an official rate sheet, and third-party aggregator figures conflict in several cases (TPC Southwind, Colonial Country Club).
- Confirm precisely whether Colonial Country Club is currently operating as an equity or non-equity club under Heritage Golf Group ownership -- not resolved this pass.
- Confirm current home prices and HOA fees for The Legacy at Colonial and Spring Creek Ranch's residential sections -- not independently found this pass.
- Do not assume any Memphis-area golf-adjacent or golf-embedded residential address includes club membership -- every anchor in this market sells membership separately; confirm directly with each club.
Notable
- TPC Southwind has continuously hosted the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the opening event of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup Playoffs, every year since 1989.
- Colonial Country Club's South Course hosted more than 30 PGA Tour events historically, including the 1977 Danny Thomas Memphis Classic, where Al Geiberger shot the PGA Tour's first-ever 59.
- Colonial Country Club's historic North Course was closed in 2022 and its footprint redeveloped as The Legacy at Colonial, a roughly $400 million mixed-use community with 541 planned single-family lots.
- Germantown Country Club, once a candidate for this market, closed permanently in February 2019 and its site is being redeveloped as Glasgow, a non-golf residential subdivision -- it is documented in this market's exclusions rather than as an active anchor.
- No golf anchor researched in the Memphis market automatically bundles club membership into home purchase, even at its two most community-integrated clubs (Colonial Country Club/The Legacy at Colonial and Memphis National Golf Club/The Fairways).
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