Sumner County / Old Hickory Lake Golf Living Guide

Tennessee Grasslands Golf and Country Club's 36 holes are both Bill Bergin designs on Old Hickory Lake: the Fairvue Lakes Course (par 72, 7,116 yards, opened 2004, built to appeal to a wide range of player abilities) and the Foxland Links Course (par 72, 7,200 yards, opened 2007, generally described as the more demanding of the two). No Jack Nicklaus involvement was found in any source for either course despite that attribution appearing in the original research brief -- this appears to be a factual error in the brief rather than a genuine industry conflict, since every club, aggregator, and golf-directory source independently and consistently credits Bergin Golf Design for both courses.

Club membership at Tennessee Grasslands is separate and optional from home ownership in both the Fairvue Plantation and Foxland Harbor communities -- it is not bundled into either community's HOA, and neither HOA requires it. That said, the club functions as each community's headline shared amenity, and its own marketing and community HOA pages both frame it as central to the neighborhoods' identity. Reported membership pricing conflicts across sources: community-level discovery research citing the club's own tiered structure found a low entry-tier initiation as low as $1,500-$3,000 with dues of $185-$378/month across six membership categories, while a third-party membership-cost estimator (privateiq) instead reports a $25,001-$50,000 initiation range and $5,001-$10,000 annual dues -- a meaningfully different picture that this research could not resolve to a single confirmed figure. Treat this as a genuine, unresolved conflict, not a settled number, until confirmed directly with the club.

Fairvue Plantation and Foxland Harbor are both gated, lake-oriented communities but differ in housing stock and scale. Fairvue Plantation is the larger and more varied of the two, ranging from attached patio homes and townhomes (The Knoll, under-construction 211 units) through a 55+ age-restricted enclave (The Retreat at Fairvue, 130 homes) up to large estate lots in sections like Gracie Lake, The Peninsula, and Jacobs Point; HOA fees range from roughly $575-$1,950/year for estate lots up to $4,200-$4,500/year for The Retreat's 55+ section. Foxland Harbor is a smaller, more uniformly upscale lakefront community (median sale price reported around $860,000) with HOA fees reported across a wide $300-$9,228/year range depending on property type and section.

Both communities sit directly on Old Hickory Lake, and boating, fishing and lake access are as central to the area's identity as golf -- Fairvue Plantation includes its own boat dock on the lake, and Foxland Harbor's real-estate marketing leans heavily on lake and golf-course views alike. Fairvue Plantation also preserves a National Register-listed 1832 antebellum mansion on the property, used as part of the club's clubhouse/event infrastructure -- a distinctive historic amenity not found at most Nashville-area golf communities.

Gallatin is the Sumner County seat, roughly 30 minutes northeast of downtown Nashville via TN-386 and US-31E, on the northern shore of Old Hickory Lake (a Cumberland River reservoir). Both Fairvue Plantation and Foxland Harbor sit along this lakefront on Gallatin's southern edge, a few miles apart from each other.