Colonial Country Club

Both of Colonial's original courses -- North and South -- were designed by Joe Finger for the club's 1971-72 move to Cordova. The South Course, at 7,334 yards and par 72, was the tournament venue: it hosted more than 30 PGA Tour events historically, most notably the 1977 Danny Thomas Memphis Classic, where Al Geiberger became the first player to shoot 59 in a PGA Tour event, two days after President Gerald Ford made a hole-in-one in the pro-am. The South Course underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation by architect Nathan Crace (Watermark Golf) in 2023, restoring bunkering and infrastructure while lengthening the course to roughly 7,630 yards from the tips. The North Course, by contrast, was closed and its land redeveloped starting in 2022 as The Legacy at Colonial/Countrywood -- Colonial today operates one active 18-hole course, not the historic two, and buyers should not assume the club still offers 36 holes.

Colonial Country Club membership is a private-club product with real initiation and dues costs, though this research pass could not resolve, from public sourcing, whether it is structured as an equity or non-equity membership under Heritage Golf Group's ownership -- confirm directly with the club. Reported figures conflict sharply across third-party aggregators (from roughly $10,000 up to $50,000-$75,000 initiation, and from roughly $6,000 to $10,000 annual dues), and Colonial does not publish an official rate sheet. Legacy at Colonial residents are described in local news coverage as having the 'option to join' the club, not automatic or required membership -- club access there reads as available_separately, not bundled to the home.

The Legacy at Colonial (also referenced in Memphis development/incentive coverage as 'The Legacy at Countrywood') is a roughly 170-acre, $400 million mixed-use community built on Colonial's former North Course, at I-40 and Highway 64 in Cordova. Its residential component includes 541 planned single-family lots plus a 302-unit senior-living campus and roughly 300 multifamily units, alongside 40,000 square feet of retail/restaurant space and a 130-room hotel -- one of the larger mixed-use developments in the Memphis area in decades, according to local coverage. The project broke ground in December 2022 with Memphis city and Shelby County officials in attendance.

Colonial's clubhouse and amenities include six tennis courts, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a fitness center, a 300-yard practice facility, and full dining -- a traditional full-service country-club amenity set. The Legacy at Colonial adds a hotel, retail, and restaurant space immediately next to the club, giving the corridor a mixed-use, walkable character distinct from a purely residential golf-course subdivision.

Colonial Country Club and The Legacy at Colonial sit in Cordova, an eastern Memphis/Shelby County suburb, at the I-40 and Highway 64 interchange -- convenient to both downtown Memphis and the Collierville/Germantown suburban corridor.