Shooting Star
Teton Village, Teton County, Wyoming · Jackson Hole golf market
- Access
- invitation only
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Tom Fazio
- Gated
- Yes
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Shooting Star sits at the south end of Teton Village, in the shadow of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort's tram and the Grand Teton Range, and is the clearest example in Wyoming of a purpose-built, ultra-private golf-anchored residential community. Developed on a 250-acre core-golf meadow within a much larger 1,300-acre property, all of it protected by conservation easements, the community is organized around an 18-hole Tom Fazio design that opened in 2009 and was ranked the best course in Wyoming by Golf Digest for 2021-22 -- a ranking this batch verified directly against Golf Digest's own course-rankings pages rather than assuming it from reputation alone (Golf Digest separately places the course at No. 123 on its America's Second 100 Greatest list nationally, distinct from the Wyoming-specific ranking).
Residential development is deliberately capped by the community's own master plan: 100 home sites (averaging roughly 1.3 acres, many adjoining ponds, lakes, or Fish Creek) plus a limited set of built product the club's own site breaks out as 30 Cabins, 22 Lodges, and 3 Homesteads. Homes here are described by the club as predominantly built for owner-occupancy rather than marketed for resale, and lots have historically traded in the $2 million-$4 million range with built product running considerably higher. Golf membership is a separate, invitation-only equity purchase -- real estate ownership earns a reduced initiation fee but does not itself confer club access, a real and independently confirmed barrier to entry (Business Insider reported the club maintains an extensive membership waitlist as of September 2024) layered onto genuinely deep residential integration.
Golf & Course
The Shooting Star course is an 18-hole, par-72, roughly 7,550-yard Tom Fazio design built as a core-golf routing (no housing lines the fairways) through a 250-acre meadow beneath the Tetons and the resort's ski runs. It opened in 2009 and was named Wyoming's best course by Golf Digest for 2021-22; it also appears on Golf Digest's America's Second 100 Greatest Courses list nationally. Fish Creek, a Class I trout stream, runs through the property and doubles as a fly-fishing amenity for members.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Shooting Star operates as an invitation-only equity club with a confirmed, extensive waitlist (per September 2024 reporting). Real estate ownership at Shooting Star is reported to reduce the golf membership initiation fee (roughly $120,000 for owners versus roughly $140,000 for non-owner applicants, per undated third-party guides), but ownership does not automatically include membership -- a prospective member, owner or not, still applies and is admitted through the club's own invitation process. A seller's membership can reportedly be purchased by a buyer of their home, subject to the seller relinquishing it and the buyer paying the then-current initiation rate.
Living in Shooting Star
Shooting Star's built environment is intentionally limited: 100 home sites (average 1.3 acres) plus, per the club's own real estate pages, 30 Cabins (3,500-5,000 sq ft, designed by Paul Bertelli of JLF & Associates), 22 Lodges (built with reclaimed log timbers, barn wood siding, Corten steel, and Montana moss rock), and 3 Homesteads (designed by Logan Leachman of JLF & Associates). All sit within the same 1,300-acre conservation-easement-protected property and share the same clubhouse, golf, and amenity base -- this batch found no evidence of a differentiated membership structure by product type, so Cabins/Lodges/Homesteads/home sites are modeled here as a single community rather than fragmented into separate records. The community is gated, per independent confirmation of exterior security cameras and controlled access.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Beyond golf, amenities include a clubhouse with private dining, a spa and fitness center, a tension-edge lap pool, tennis courts, fly-fishing on Fish Creek, and on-call shuttle service to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort for Nordic and alpine skiing -- a genuine four-season resort amenity base.
Location & Surrounding Area
Shooting Star sits at the south end of Teton Village, roughly 12 miles northwest of the Town of Jackson and about two miles from Grand Teton National Park, immediately adjacent to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort's ski terrain.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Golf membership initiation
Historical$140,000
Shooting Star does not publish official membership pricing. Third-party guides report a golf membership initiation fee of roughly $140,000, reduced to roughly $120,000 for owners of real estate in the development, but do not date this figure. A separately dated 2011 club-management-recruitment listing put the initiation fee at $100,000 with $10,200 annual dues at that time. Given the roughly 15-year gap and no officially published current rate sheet, treat all figures here as directional only and confirm current pricing directly with the club (307-739-3298).
Initiation (range low)
Historical — as of 2011$100,000
2011 club-management-recruitment listing; the club's own opening-era (2009) initiation fee was reported at $100,000. Significantly dated relative to today.
Initiation (range high)
Historical$140,000
Undated third-party estimate for a non-owner applicant; owners of Shooting Star real estate reportedly pay a reduced ~$120,000 initiation. Not an official club-published figure.
Annual dues
Historical — as of 2011$10,200
2011-dated figure from a club-management-recruitment listing; no current official dues figure was found published. Confirm directly with the club.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm the current cabin/lodge/homestead unit count directly -- the club's own real estate pages break the total down as 30 Cabins + 22 Lodges + 3 Homesteads (55 built units), while some third-party aggregator summaries describe a combined '82 cabins and lodges' figure (consistent with the pre-brief's framing); this batch could not reconcile the two counts from available sources and flags it as a genuine, unresolved conflict rather than picking one.
- Confirm current initiation fee and annual dues directly with the club (307-739-3298) -- no officially published current rate sheet was found; the most complete figures available are a 2011 listing ($100,000/$10,200) and an undated third-party estimate ($140,000, or $120,000 for owners).
- Confirm whether membership is ever effectively required for homeownership in practice (e.g., social expectation or resale considerations), even though it is not formally required -- this batch found no evidence either way.
Notable
- Ranked Wyoming's #1 golf course by Golf Digest for 2021-22, and separately listed on Golf Digest's America's Second 100 Greatest Courses.
- The entire 1,300-acre property is protected by conservation easements, and residential development is capped by the community's own master plan.
- A September 2024 Business Insider report confirmed the club maintains an extensive membership waitlist, corroborating its invitation-only reputation with a current, dated source rather than assumption.
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