Explore Golfing in Jupiter, Florida: Your Ultimate Guide
Most people move here for the golf and then discover the hard part is not choosing a house. It is choosing a club.
The clubs do not make it easy. Almost none publish what it costs. Some require membership with the deed, some forbid it, and a handful of the best ones cannot be bought into at all, no matter what you spend on the house. Buyers routinely fall in love with a home inside a gate, go to contract, and only then learn that the membership attached to it is not the one they wanted, or that there is no membership available to them at all.
This guide covers every club worth knowing from Palm Beach north to Stuart, in both Palm Beach and Martin County. It is written for someone deciding where to live, not for someone booking a tee time. Everything here was verified in August 2026 against club sources. Where a number could not be verified, we say so rather than guessing.
If you want the short version first, we also ran ten of these clubs through a head-to-head bracket with Fat Perez.
Before you tour a single club, answer these. They eliminate more options than any amount of course-walking.
1. Does the house require a membership?
Three different answers exist in this market. At Mirasol, Frenchman's Reserve and Willoughby, membership is required and attached to the property. At Turtle Creek, Old Marsh and Monarch it is optional, and non-residents can belong. At Lost Tree, Loblolly, Jupiter Island Club and Medalist, the club is by invitation and completely separate from the deed, so buying the house gets you nothing.
2. Is the membership equity or non-equity?
Equity means you buy an ownership stake and may get part of it back when you leave, subject to the club's rules and its resale queue. Non-equity means you are buying access only. Jupiter Country Club, Monarch, PGA National and Trump National are non-equity. BallenIsles, Frenchman's Reserve, Old Marsh and Mirasol are equity.
3. What actually comes back to you?
This is the question almost nobody asks and it matters more than the sticker price. Harbour Ridge refunds $1,000 of a $125,000 contribution. The Loxahatchee Club refunds $1,000 of $125,000. Tequesta Country Club issues an Equity Certificate that is non-refundable. Mirasol refunds $240,000 of $300,000 to tenured members and $80,000 to everyone else. Two clubs with identical initiation fees can differ by a quarter million dollars in what you actually spend.
4. Does the specific house carry the membership category you want?
At Mirasol the membership travels with the individual home. A Sports-membership house cannot simply be upgraded to Golf because you want it to be. The club tells buyers outright to choose the membership level before starting the home search. Frenchman's Reserve works the same way.
5. What is coming that nobody has priced yet?
Capital assessments are the least disclosed cost in this market. Harbour Ridge has a clubhouse and marina project with payments beginning in 2027 and no published number. Turtle Creek has a full course rejuvenation ahead. Mirasol's current assessment ends and Phase II begins in 2027. Ask what has been approved but not yet billed.
Worth reading first, because it saves wasted tours. These are golf clubs with no residential real estate inside them. You cannot purchase your way in through a house.
Club | Town | Why people get confused |
|---|---|---|
Seminole Golf Club | Juno Beach | Donald Ross, 1929. People buy in Lost Tree or Juno Beach to be near it, not in it. Finishing a Hanse and Wagner restoration, back nine summer 2026 |
The Dye Preserve | Jupiter | Pete Dye, invitation only. A four-suite golf cottage for member stays, nothing for sale |
McArthur Golf Club | Hobe Sound | Two courses, Fazio and Coore/Crenshaw. No homes, by design |
Apogee Club | Hobe Sound | Three courses on roughly 1,200 acres. The villas on site are member accommodations, explicitly not for sale |
Grove XXIII | Hobe Sound | Michael Jordan's club. No public site, no membership path, no real estate |
The Medalist Golf Club | Hobe Sound | See the warning below. The most common mix-up in Martin County |
Palm Beach Country Club | Palm Beach | Donald Ross, 1917, ocean to lake on 83 acres. Surrounded by estates, none inside |
The Everglades Club | Palm Beach | Seth Raynor, at the head of Worth Avenue. No public website at all |
The Medalist warning. Medalist Golf Club and Medalist Village Club are two different clubs. Buying a home in Medalist Village gets you the Village Club, which has a Greg Norman par-3 short course, tennis, spa and dining. It does not get you the championship Norman and Dye course that Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas play. That membership is by invitation and has nothing to do with the real estate. Listing copy conflates these constantly.
Only three clubs in this entire market publish a dollar figure on their own website. Everything else circulates as club-issued fee sheets handed to agents, or as estimates on brokerage blogs.
We are showing you the numbers anyway, because the alternative is pretending the question does not exist. But read the source column before you budget around anything here, and confirm current terms with the club in writing before you write an offer. Clubs raise these figures without notice.
Club | Initiation or equity | Dues | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Frenchman's Reserve | $275,000 Full Golf, $140,000 Social | Not published | No food minimum, but a $75 monthly service charge. 349 full golf memberships capped by bylaws |
Miles Grant | None | $1,950 per family, Social | $350 per person food minimum. No initiation, no equity, no assessment. The floor of this market |
Medalist Village Club | Not published | $5,200 Golf, $3,000 Social | Village Club only, not Medalist Golf Club |
These are real documents on club letterhead, given to agents. They are not published by the clubs, so treat every figure as of its document date.
Club | Initiation or equity | Annual dues | Doc date |
|---|---|---|---|
Admiral's Cove | $375,000 Golf down to $225,000 Social | $47,106 Golf down to $30,030 Social | FY 2024-25 |
Mirasol | $300,000 Golf, $175,000 Sports, $115,000 Social | $33,671 / $20,202 / $8,417 | Late 2025 |
BallenIsles | $295,000 Full Golf, $220,000 Sports, $170,000 Racquets or Social | $31,522 down to $20,475 | Effective 1/1/2026 |
Old Palm | $350,000 equity | $38,500 | 2024-25 |
Old Marsh | $225,000 equity, by invitation | $20,175 | 2023 |
Sailfish Point | $75,000 POA capital + $75,000 golf capital + $15,000 renovation | $26,461 POA + $15,796 golf | 2022 |
Harbour Ridge | $125,000, of which $1,000 is refundable | $39,432 all-in including POA and capital | Effective 10/1/25 |
The Loxahatchee Club | $125,000, of which $1,000 is refundable | $19,350 | Revised 2020 |
Jupiter Country Club | $100,000 Full Golf, $50,000 Associate | Waitlist dues $560 per month | FY 2024-25 |
Jonathan's Landing | $88,500 Golf Equity, 80% of the equity portion refundable | Not in the document | Oct 2020 |
Hobe Sound Golf Club | $80,000 equity, $5,000 Social | $13,240 single, $14,655 family | Revised 2022 |
Turtle Creek | $80,000 waitlist, non-refundable | $9,850 | 2022 |
PGA National | $75,000 Full Golf, $42,000 Sports, $25,000 Resort Social | $22,500 individual | Effective 2/2025 |
Tequesta Country Club | $75,000 equity golf, non-refundable | $11,720 full golf, scaled by age band | 2021 |
Eastpointe | $65,000 non-resident Full Golf | $8,869 individual, $10,868 family | 2023 |
Mariner Sands | $50,000 golf, elective on top of mandatory resident social | $13,215 social + $9,790 golf | 2022 |
Monarch | $10,000 Monarch, $5,000 Regent, $0 Social | $10,750 / $5,000 / $2,510 | 2025-26 |
Club | Reported figure | Source and date |
|---|---|---|
Panther National | $500,000, or $400,000 for buyers inside the gates. Dues reported in the low $30,000s | OutKick, March 2024 |
Apogee | $500,000, stated on the record by owner Michael Pascucci | Bloomberg Businessweek, February 2024 |
Trump National Jupiter | $500,000 Full Golf, $35,000 dues | Brokerage table, 2026 |
Frenchman's Creek | $375,000 equity, $53,447 dues, the highest dues figure in Palm Beach County | Brokerage table, 2026 |
The Bear's Club | $350,000 bond, 75% refundable, $31,200 dues | Brokerage table, 2026 |
McArthur | $300,000 | Cigar Aficionado, 2023 |
Atlantic Fields | $200,000, property owners only. Lots $6M to $15M | Cigar Aficionado, 2023 |
Willoughby | $50,000 transfer fee + $45,000 equity certificate, $23,500 golf dues | Club-supplied search profile, Dec 2024 |
Piper's Landing | $65,000 equity + $30,000 non-refundable HOA capital | Brokerage, 2024 |
Clubs that publish nothing, anywhere. Seminole, Jupiter Hills, McArthur, The Medalist, Lost Tree Club and Jupiter Island Club all operate behind member logins with no public content. Anything you read online about their costs is unsourced. We would rather tell you that than repeat a rumor.
For market context: Florida's median club initiation fee rose from roughly $120,000 in 2019 to about $200,000 in 2023, per Club Benchmarking, reported by the Financial Times in April 2024.
The Bear's Club. Jack and Barbara Nicklaus founded it in 1999. Jack designed the course: 18 holes, 7,164 yards, 354 bunkers modeled on Royal Melbourne, on 369 acres about a mile from the Atlantic. By invitation. A golf club with houses rather than a community with a course.
Admiral's Cove. 45 holes across four courses, an 18-hole East by Robert von Hagge plus the three-nine Golf Village redesigned by Kipp Schulties in 2015. A marina taking vessels to 165 feet with a fuel dock, two miles from the Jupiter Inlet. Bluewater Wellness spa, a 32-room private hotel in the clubhouse, nine hydro tennis courts, twelve pickleball. Five membership categories. The broadest amenity package in the county.
Jonathan's Landing. Three courses on one membership: The Village, a Beau Welling design that opened in 2024 at the coastal property, where the 17th includes a ferry across the Intracoastal; The Medal by Tom Fazio and The Match by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, both at Jonathan's Landing at Old Trail in western Jupiter. Golf Digest ranked The Match #4 on its 2023 Best Transformation list. The widest price range of any club here, condos through waterfront estates.
The Loxahatchee Club. 285 homes on 340 acres, with 71 acres of freshwater lakes and 40 of greenbelt. Jack Nicklaus Signature, mid-1980s. Named by Forbes in January 2025 among the 20 most exclusive clubs in America. The smallest residential footprint of any full club in Jupiter.
Jupiter Country Club. Greg Norman Signature, 18 holes, opened 2007. Operated by Invited, which makes it non-equity, with access to 350-plus clubs nationally. The entry point to Jupiter club life, and the structure is why.
Trump National Golf Club Jupiter. Jack Nicklaus Signature, 7,531 yards, opened 2002 as the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club and Spa, bought by the Trump Organization in 2012. Non-equity with reciprocity across 18 Trump properties. The residential side is platted as Eagle Tree.
The Dye Preserve. Pete Dye, invitation only, golf-only. Member roster includes PGA Tour, LPGA and LIV players. No homes. Buyers relocating for it need a house nearby and a separate invitation.
Tequesta Country Club. Dick Wilson, opened December 1957, restored by Tom Fazio II in 2013. Member-owned. Sits on a peninsula wrapped on three sides by the north and northwest forks of the Loxahatchee River. The most old-Florida club in the area.
Turtle Creek Club. Joe Lee, chartered 1969, lengthened by Kipp Schulties from 2016. The club states plainly that you do not have to live in the neighborhood to belong and homeowners are not required to join. A full course rejuvenation is ahead, so ask about assessments before you write.
BallenIsles. Three courses: East and North by Dick Wilson and Joe Lee, South redesigned by Rees Jones and reopened January 2020, East rebuilt by Nicklaus Design and unveiled January 2023. Nearly 1,600 residences across 33 neighborhoods. Mandatory equity, homeownership required. A 71,000 square foot sports complex with 34 racquet courts. Originally the home of the PGA of America.
Old Palm Golf Club. Raymond Floyd, par 72 at 7,401 yards, plus a 19th bye hole. The 33-acre Golf Studio is the real asset: a double-ended range, short game facility, and three full-length practice holes built to mirror every shot on the championship course. 650 acres across four neighborhoods by lot size. Beach access through a Singer Island resort arrangement.
Frenchman's Creek. Two courses, North by Jim Fazio and South by Robert Cupp. Just over 600 homes. Equity, residency required. A new $74 million clubhouse completed late 2024, and a $10.48 million golf and practice renovation by Frye/Straka underway since May 2026. Private oceanfront beach club six miles away in Juno Beach.
Frenchman's Reserve. Arnold Palmer Signature, 6,735 yards. 341 single-family homes, 56 coach homes, 50 custom homes. The most transparent club in the market: mandatory equity, $275,000 full or $140,000 social, published on the club's own site.
The Country Club at Mirasol. Two courses, Sunrise by Tom Fazio and Sunset by Arthur Hills. 2,300 acres, 23 neighborhoods, 850 acres of preserve. Mandatory membership that travels with the individual home. Pick your membership level before you start looking at houses.
Old Marsh Golf Club. Pete Dye, 1987, renovated 2016. A gated 456-acre community of just 180 homes. Equity, by invitation, held by residents and non-residents alike. No tee times, a renowned caddie program, Audubon certified. Dye called it possibly his finest work.
Eastpointe Country Club. Two courses, East by George and Tom Fazio fully restored in 2025, West a Tom Fazio original playing par 70. Non-residents can hold Full Golf. All new homeowners must carry at minimum a Resident Social membership. The value play among Gardens golf communities.
Panther National. Nicklaus and Justin Thomas, opened November 2023, roughly 8,000 yards from the tips, plus a Nicklaus nine-hole par 3. Golfweek ranked it #1 residential course in Florida for 2026. Membership capped at 300. The trade is location: it is far west in Avenir, roughly 25 to 30 minutes from the beach.
PGA National. Five courses: The Champion, The Palmer, The Fazio, The Match and The Staple. The Champion hosts the Cognizant Classic and is home to the Bear Trap. Access is reserved for resort guests and members, not walk-on public play. Extensive residential across many gated enclaves. Non-equity members club open to residents and non-residents.
Lost Tree Village. About 450 acres in North Palm Beach running ocean to Intracoastal, with a private beach club. Course originally by Mark Mahannah, redesigned by Jack Nicklaus in 2002. Golf membership is by invitation and separate from home ownership. Buying the house does not get you the club.
Seminole Golf Club. Donald Ross, 1929, roughly 140 acres in Juno Beach between the ocean and the Intracoastal. Finishing the largest renovation in its history under Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, back nine summer 2026. No homes, national invitation-only membership.
Sailfish Point. The south tip of Hutchinson Island. Jack Nicklaus Signature, 7,088 yards. A full-service deep-water marina with 84 wet slips and direct St. Lucie Inlet access, a private Atlantic beach, oceanfront clubhouse, spa, tennis and pickleball. The only club in Martin County combining oceanfront, private beach, marina inside the gates and a Nicklaus Signature course. No tee times.
Mariner Sands Country Club. Two courses, Gold by Tom Fazio and Blue by Frank Duane. Member-owned. The structure matters: Resident Social is the foundation for every resident membership and golf is elective on top of it. A non-golfer can buy in here far more cheaply than at a golf-mandatory club.
Willoughby Golf Club. Arthur Hills, recently renovated top to bottom. 375 member homes on 403 acres across eight connected neighborhoods, single-family only. Every homeowner becomes a club member automatically through ownership. Rolling, pine-shaded terrain the club itself compares to North Carolina.
The Yacht & Country Club of Stuart. Charles P. Martyn, the first golf course community built in Stuart, established 1969. Member-owned. Canal properties with deep-water access minutes from the St. Lucie Inlet. The deep water is the differentiator here more than the golf.
Miles Grant Country Club. An executive-length 18. Annual, non-equity, and explicitly open to people who do not live there. No initiation, no equity, no assessment. The low-commitment option in the county.
Piper's Landing Yacht & Country Club. Gene Bates championship design, 6,922 yards, on 600 acres with a third to a half acre between houses. Resident-member-only equity: outside memberships are not offered at all. A naturally protected deep-water yacht basin with direct access to the Indian River and the Atlantic. The lowest density of any club community in the county.
The Floridian National Golf Club. Originally Gary Player, completely reconstructed by Tom Fazio, plus the Harmon par-3 course. Owned by Jim Crane. Commonly misreported as golf-only, and that is wrong: the club sells private waterfront custom residences, condominiums and golf cottage home sites, with custom home sites $1,000,000 to $3,000,000. A 68-slip marina, Butch Harmon Learning Center, two on-site helipads.
Monarch Country Club. Arnold Palmer design, owned by Invited. Non-equity and open to people living inside or outside the gates, with age-banded categories for buyers under 44 and 45 to 55. Reciprocal access to 1,000-plus affiliated clubs. The most flexible membership in the county.
Harbour Ridge Yacht & Country Club. Two courses, Golden Marsh and River Ridge, credited to Pete and P.B. Dye, Joe Lee and Bobby Weed. 28 villages, two miles of St. Lucie River frontage, a 98-slip marina. Important: despite the Palm City address, the parcel sits in St. Lucie County, not Martin. That changes the tax rate and school assignment. Verify parcel by parcel.
Crane Watch Club, formerly The Evergreen Club. The Evergreen Club name is stale; the golf operation now trades as Crane Watch Club under new ownership, and the course has been renovated. The community is Evergreen: 299 custom residences on one-acre homesites, guard-gated. Club membership is separate from the POA. A 40-foot drainage and buffer easement runs behind every fairway-adjacent lot, which affects pool cages, fences and additions.
Palm Cove Golf & Yacht Club. Now a private club, not semi-private as most directories still list it. Roughly 235 guard-gated homes with a private 93-slip marina, seven nautical miles to the St. Lucie Inlet. HOA dues cover the riverfront clubhouse, fitness, pool and tennis, but not golf.
Cape Club of Palm City, formerly The Fox Club. Private, reopened November 2022 after renovation, now part of the Cape Club Collection with reciprocals in Massachusetts. No residential component inside the club itself.
Loblolly. Pete Dye, bordered by parks, the Intracoastal and the Jupiter Island National Wildlife Refuge. Two neighborhoods, The Bay and The Pines, with an on-site brokerage. Member-owned, by invitation only, sponsor required. The club states outright that membership is separate from the purchase of a home. A buyer can close on a Loblolly house and be denied the club. Sort sponsorship before contract.
Hobe Sound Golf Club. Tom Fazio II redesign completed 2019, 7,150 yards from the championship tees, on the Atlantic Coastal Ridge in pine scrub. Member-owned, capped at 240 golf members, currently full with a waitlist. Social memberships available. Marketed as an ideal second club.
Jupiter Island Club. The top of the Martin County market, in the Town of Jupiter Island. Founded 1916, course by William Diddel with 2017 work by Jan Bel Jan. By invitation, members-only website. The club does not own the real estate. The clearest example in the county of the house and the club being separate transactions.
Atlantic Fields. The major new residential club in Martin County. Discovery Land Company, 317 luxury homes on more than 1,500 acres, a Tom Fazio championship course plus a 10-hole short course. Wellness center, racquet club, equestrian, beach concierge. Roughly 30 minutes to Palm Beach.
Jupiter Hills Club. Two courses, Hills and Village, both Fazio. The address says Tequesta 33469, but the property sits in Martin County. The Village of Tequesta itself is Palm Beach County, which is exactly why this is the most mislabeled club in the region. Different tax roll, different schools, different comparables.
You do not have to join a club to play well here. This is where most residents actually play.
Course | Town | Type | Holes | Designer | Green fee band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
North Palm Beach Country Club | North Palm Beach | Municipal | 18 | Seth Raynor 1926, Nicklaus Signature redesign 2006 | Resident and non-resident rates. Golf memberships currently waitlisted |
Abacoa Golf Club | Jupiter | Public daily fee | 18 | Joe Lee, 1999, his final design | $75 to $85 summer, $215 peak season |
Sandhill Crane Golf Club | Palm Beach Gardens | Municipal | 18 + par 3 | Dusenberry 2013; The Nest by Nicklaus Design 2023 | $59 summer to $139 peak. PBG residents $25 annual pass, veterans free |
The Park West Palm | West Palm Beach | Public | 18 + lit 9 | Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, 2023 | Dynamic pricing. City resident card $25. Closed Mondays |
Okeeheelee Golf Course | Unincorporated county | County municipal | 27 | Not published, opened 1995 | Mostly under $50. Audubon certified |
Palm Beach Par 3 | Palm Beach | Municipal | 18 par 3 | Dick Wilson and Joe Lee 1961, Raymond Floyd redesign 2009 | $50 to $100 in season. Resident passes only |
Jupiter Dunes Golf Club | Jupiter | Daily fee, walk-on | 18 par 3 | Thomas Fazio 1973, redesigned 2003 | $35. No tee times needed |
The Golf Club of Jupiter | Jupiter | Public with members | 18 | Not published | Not published, reported $49 to $65 |
Coverage note. Riviera Beach, Palm Beach Shores and Juno Beach have no public golf. Juno Beach's only course is Seminole, which is private. Buyers in those towns play North Palm Beach Country Club, Sandhill Crane or the Jupiter courses.
Course | Town | Type | Holes | Designer | Green fee band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sailfish Sands, formerly Martin County Golf Course | Stuart | County municipal | 18 + reversible 9 | John Sanford rebuild, opened circa 2021 | $44.95 resident, $54.95 non-resident weekday |
The Champions Club at Summerfield | Stuart | Public daily fee | 18 | Tom Fazio, 1993 | $44 to $65 summer. Annual membership $4,575 single, no equity or assessments |
Hammock Creek Golf Club | Palm City | Public, semi-private | 18 | Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II, mid-1990s | $100+ peak. Rate sheet is stale, call to confirm |
The Florida Club | Stuart | Public daily fee | 18 | Dick Gray, 1996 | $85 summer, $100+ in season |
Jensen Beach Golf Club, formerly Eagle Marsh | Jensen Beach | Semi-private | 18 | Tommy Fazio, late 1990s | $39.95 to $49.95 summer. Tiered memberships $4,195 to $6,295 |
Martin Downs Golf Club | Palm City | Public, semi-private | 18, Osprey Creek | Charles Ankrom | Reported $40 to $80 |
Heritage Ridge Golf Club | Hobe Sound | Semi-private | 18 | Reported Fazio, 1981 | Around $75. One of the few public options in Hobe Sound |
Indianwood Golf Club | Indiantown | Semi-private | 18 | Ted McAnlis, 1984 | Under $50. The most affordable golf in the county |
The Ocean Club at Marriott Hutchinson Island | Stuart | Resort with member club | 18 executive | Charles Ankrom, 1978 | Not published, phone only |
Sailfish Sands is the only course in either county where living in the county directly cuts your green fee. A Martin County driver's license gets you the resident rate, and veterans get it seven days a week.
Jupiter Hills Club is in Martin County, despite a Tequesta 33469 address. Martin County tax roll, Martin County schools.
Harbour Ridge is in St. Lucie County, despite a Palm City address and a Martin County reputation. Buyers relocating specifically for Martin County schools need this flagged before they fall in love with a house.
Turtle Creek Club's county is genuinely ambiguous between sources. Verify the specific parcel.
In all three cases the difference shows up in the property tax rate, the school assignment and the comparable sales an appraiser will use. This is not a technicality.
Do I have to join the club if I buy a house in a golf community?
It depends entirely on the club, and all three answers exist here. Mirasol, Frenchman's Reserve, Willoughby and Eastpointe require it. Turtle Creek, Old Marsh and Monarch do not. Lost Tree, Loblolly, Jupiter Island Club and Medalist keep the club entirely separate from the deed, so buying the house gets you nothing at all.
What is the difference between an equity and a non-equity club?
At an equity club you buy an ownership share, and part of it may come back when you leave, depending on club rules and the resale queue. At a non-equity club you are buying access only. Jupiter Country Club, Monarch, PGA National and Trump National are non-equity. BallenIsles, Mirasol, Old Marsh and Frenchman's Reserve are equity.
Which club has the best golf course?
For pure course quality among clubs you can buy into, The Bear's Club, Old Marsh and Panther National come up most. Golfweek ranked Panther National the #1 residential course in Florida for 2026. Among clubs you cannot buy into, Seminole is the historic answer.
Which club has the best practice facility?
Old Palm Golf Club, by a wide margin. The Golf Studio covers 33 acres and includes three full-length practice holes built to replicate shots on the main course.
Which golf communities have a marina?
Admiral's Cove takes vessels to 165 feet. Sailfish Point has 84 wet slips with direct inlet access. Harbour Ridge has 98 slips. The Floridian has 68. Palm Cove has 93. Piper's Landing has a protected deep-water basin.
Which communities have a private beach?
Lost Tree Village and Sailfish Point have their own. Frenchman's Creek has an oceanfront beach club six miles away in Juno Beach. Loblolly runs a beach shuttle. Old Palm provides access through a Singer Island resort arrangement.
What does a golf membership cost here?
It ranges from no initiation at all at Miles Grant to a reported $500,000 at Panther National and Apogee. Only three clubs publish their numbers. Florida's median club initiation rose from roughly $120,000 in 2019 to about $200,000 in 2023. Budget for dues, capital assessments and food minimums on top, not just the entry fee.
Is PGA National open to the public?
Not for walk-on play. The resort courses are reserved for resort guests and members. The residential community has its own separate members club. These are different things and buyers mix them up constantly.
Where can I play without joining anything?
Sailfish Sands in Stuart, Sandhill Crane in Palm Beach Gardens, Abacoa in Jupiter, The Park West Palm, Okeeheelee, and the two par-3 courses at Jupiter Dunes and Palm Beach. Sandhill Crane and Sailfish Sands both have resident discounts worth having.
Which club is easiest to get into?
Monarch and Miles Grant have the lowest barriers and both accept members who live outside the gates. Jupiter Country Club and Eastpointe are the accessible options on the Palm Beach County side. Eastpointe also sells non-resident Full Golf.
How long are the waitlists?
They move. As of August 2026, North Palm Beach Country Club's golf memberships are waitlisted, Hobe Sound Golf Club's equity category is full with a waitlist, and Turtle Creek has a Waitlist Membership category. Ask for the current position in writing.
The house is the smaller half of this decision. Two identical homes in two different clubs can carry completely different total costs once initiation, dues, capital assessments and food minimums are in, and completely different outcomes when you sell.
Before you write an offer anywhere on this list, we pull the current membership documents, the dues schedule, any approved-but-unbilled assessments, and the refundability terms. We confirm whether the specific house carries the membership category you want. And we tell you plainly when a club is not going to happen no matter what you offer on the house.
If you want the honest version of any single club here, including the parts they will not put on a website, call us at (561) 247-3733.
Club terms, fees and availability change without notice. Figures were verified in August 2026 against the sources noted and should be confirmed directly with each club before you rely on them.
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