Tellico Village

Tellico Village's three courses were built in stages and share a common design lineage through Ault, Clark & Associates, though each has a distinct character. Toqua opened first, in 1987, designed by Ault, Clark & Associates with Bill Bergin and David Johnson, and was nominated for Golf Digest's Best New Course honors; it was extensively renovated in 2008 and a further clubhouse renovation was reported underway in 2026. Tanasi opened in 1996, credited to Tom Clark of Ault, Clark & Associates, with a more modern routing that runs along Tellico Lake for a stretch (notably its 440-yard par-4 10th, which borders the lake down the entire left side). The Links at Kahite opened in 2002, also a Tom Clark/Ault, Clark & Associates design, built in an unusual true links style for inland Tennessee -- tall fescue rough, minimal tree-lining, and 93 bunkers across the course (12 on the par-6 18th alone) -- and was nominated by Golf Digest as a Best New Private Course in 2003. Together the three courses give Tellico Village 54 holes under one ownership/membership-rights structure, an unusual density for a single residential community of this size.

The honest answer to "does buying in Tellico Village give me golf membership" is: yes, in the specific sense that every property owner's mandatory TVPOA assessment (~$189/month, reported 2026) includes membership RIGHTS to Tanasi, Toqua, Kahite, and the Yacht Club, with no separate club initiation fee. But it is not free or unlimited golf -- playing itself is priced pay-as-you-play on top of that included right, at roughly $41/round (cart included, TVPOA-member rate) or via 2026-reported unlimited annual packages of about $3,325/individual or $4,970/household plus a separate annual cart fee. A separate, optional TVRA (Tellico Village Residents Association) golf membership add-on of about $20/person/season (April-October) was also reported. Buyers should not assume this is a mandatory-country-club model with a large upfront buy-in (it is not) or a purely pay-to-play public-adjacent model with no bundling at all (it is not that either) -- it sits in between, and the distinction matters for budgeting: the membership right itself is bundled and effectively free of initiation cost, while the ongoing golf usage cost is not.

Tellico Village is organized into multiple named neighborhoods (including Chota, Toqua, and Kahite among others) built around and near the three courses, each with a somewhat different price band and housing stock -- reported 2026 ranges run from the mid-$200Ks in Chota and Kahite up past $1M-$1.5M for premium lakefront lots in Toqua, with condos running roughly $270K-$570K. The community is not gated at the village-entrance level, though its interior roads are privately maintained through the TVPOA assessment, and the Kahite neighborhood has a constructed gatehouse that is not currently staffed. Marketing materials for Tellico Village -- and for Kahite specifically, which several third-party directories list as a '55+ community' -- lean heavily on an active-adult framing, but this is a marketing characterization, not a legal age restriction; multiple sources confirm there is no enforced age-based deed restriction covering the village or Kahite. Buyers who want a genuinely age-restricted community should verify this directly rather than assume it from the marketing language, in either direction.

Beyond golf, the TVPOA assessment funds the Tellico Village Yacht Club on Tellico Lake (membership rights bundled the same way as golf), and the village supports an active social and recreational calendar typical of a large Cooper-Communities-style planned development. This record does not attempt to verify every individual amenity (pools, fitness centers, pickleball/tennis facilities, etc.) to the same first-party standard as the golf and access-model facts above -- treat unconfirmed amenity claims as a starting point for direct verification with the TVPOA, not a finished inventory.

Tellico Village sits on Tellico Lake in Loudon and Monroe counties, roughly midway between Knoxville and Chattanooga and close to Vonore, Lenoir City, and Loudon. It anchors the broader Tellico Lake corridor that also includes Rarity Bay (Vonore, on its own peninsula), WindRiver and Avalon Country Club (both Lenoir City), and Tennessee National (Loudon, on adjacent Watts Bar Lake) -- distinct communities from Tellico Village itself, though frequently discussed together given the shared lake corridor and comparable retiree/second-home buyer profile.