Hood Canal Golf Living Guide
Mason County, Washington
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Hood Canal, on the Olympic Peninsula's eastern shore in Mason County, is home to Washington's clearest example of golf genuinely bundled to homeownership: Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club, whose corporate structure is itself the community's homeowners association. Property owners here are mandatory HOA members whose dues include unlimited golf for two adults plus dependents, reciprocal play at other regional clubs, and boat mooring at the club's own marina -- a real, verified bundling mechanic rather than mere proximity to a course.
The club and community trace to 1959, when Hoodsport broker Wesley M. Johnson bought the original Alderbrook Inn and uplands and set out to build a golf course and vacation community; the present-day club/HOA structure was formalized in 1968. Buyers should take care not to confuse Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club with the separately owned and operated Alderbrook Resort & Spa, a historic lakefront hotel nearby that shares the same 1959-era origin but has been under different ownership since 1998.
Membership & Access Patterns
Access here is unusually direct for Washington: buying property in the Alderbrook community carries mandatory HOA membership in Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club Inc. itself, and that membership includes unlimited golf for two adult owners and dependents, not merely a discount or an optional add-on. People who want to golf at Alderbrook without owning property there can instead join on a separate paid annual basis ($2,500/year single, $4,000/year couple, no joining fee).
Geography & Getting Around
Union, WA sits on Hood Canal, a distinctly rural, water-oriented part of the Olympic Peninsula, well outside any other Washington golf market covered in this build and oriented toward boating and canal-front living as much as golf.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm the current property-owner HOA dues figure directly with the club/HOA; a ~$245/month figure was found only in secondary real-estate marketing sources.
Notable
- Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club Inc. is legally organized as the community's homeowners association, not a separate club entity -- an unusually direct bundling structure.
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