Country of Clubs Directory

Country Clubs in Maine

Country of Clubs currently tracks 14 active Clubs across 12 cities in Maine. Membership costs, access, golf and lifestyle details appear when they are supported by the directory evidence.

The documented Club timeline in Maine includes early records such as Portland Country Club (1895), Cape Arundel Golf Club (1896), and Tarratine Club of Dark Harbor (1896). Across 13 Clubs with a usable founding year, the median documented founding year is 1900; these dates describe the current directory evidence rather than a complete history of golf in the state.

Active Clubs
14
Detailed profiles
12
Cities represented
12

Club profiles

Private Invitation1 coursePoolPickleballFitnessDining
Initiation
$5,000
Dues
$241.67 / month
Documented minimum first-year cost$7,900.04Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $5,000 initiation (Maine Resident 2016, effective 2016) + $241.67 / month dues (Maine Resident 2016, effective 2016).
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Private1 coursePoolFitnessDining
Initiation
$37,500
Dues
$750 / month
Documented minimum first-year cost$31,000Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $25,000 initiation (Full Golf, effective 2026) + $500 / month dues (Full Golf, effective 2026). Uses the documented minimum initiation on file, not the estimate shown above.
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Private1 coursePool
Initiation
$75,000
Dues
$1,250 / month
Documented minimum first-year cost$59,999.96Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $50,000 initiation (Full Golf, effective 2026) + $833.33 / month dues (Full Golf, effective 2026). Uses the documented minimum initiation on file, not the estimate shown above.
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Cape Elizabeth, ME

Purpoodock Club

Private1 courseDining
Initiation
$2,000
Dues
$490.42 / month
Documented minimum first-year cost$7,885.04Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $2,000 initiation (Full Golf) + $490.42 / month dues (Full Golf).
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Kennebunk, ME

Webhannet Golf Club

Private1 courseDining
Initiation
$17,500
Dues
$750 / month
Documented minimum first-year cost$16,000Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $10,000 initiation (Full Golf, effective 2023) + $500 / month dues (Full Golf, effective 2023). Uses the documented minimum initiation on file, not the estimate shown above.
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Maine Club statisticsOpen the price, access, lifestyle and historical report

State research snapshot

What the Club data shows in Maine

This report turns the currently documented Club records into comparable state-level context while keeping missing information out of the calculations.

Membership market

How documented Club costs in Maine compare

These benchmarks compare recent records with the same fee type, currency, billing period and membership category. They provide market context, not a quotation for every Club.

Documented initiation fees

$21,500

Median for 6 compatible Individual records. The middle half falls between $12,625 and $35,625. That is 14.0% below the compatible nationwide median of $25,000, calculated from 1,262 records.

Comparable effective years: 2024–2026

Access landscape

How Clubs in Maine are accessed

Private membership is the largest documented access group in this sample, representing 78.6% of 14 Clubs with a known access type.

Private membership78.6%
11 Clubs in the state sample · 72.6% of the comparable nationwide sample
Other documented access14.3%
2 Clubs in the state sample · 10.2% of the comparable nationwide sample
Semi-private7.1%
1 Club in the state sample · 5.1% of the comparable nationwide sample

Club life

What stands out in Maine Club life

Only meaningful, adequately sampled differences from the nationwide Club data appear as percentages. Positive-only amenity evidence is reported as a documented count, never treated as proof that other Clubs lack the feature.

Golf depth1.00

documented courses per Club across 14 records with a known course count

Multi-course Clubs0.0%

0 Clubs in the state sample compared with 11.4% nationwide

Documented lifestyle combinations

  • Golf, racquets and poolDocumented at 6 Clubs
  • Golf, pool and diningDocumented at 5 Clubs
  • Golf, fitness and diningDocumented at 5 Clubs

Documented timeline

Club history represented in Maine

Founding years are currently documented for 13 Club records. The earliest entries and distribution by era are shown below.

  1. Portland Country Club1895
  2. Cape Arundel Golf Club1896
  3. Tarratine Club of Dark Harbor1896
Before 192076.9%
10 Clubs
1920–19497.7%
1 Club
1980–199915.4%
2 Clubs

Documented culture

Recurring Club culture signals in Maine

Culture labels appear only when supported by researched Club evidence and should not be read as a judgment of every Club in the state.

  • Golf-first100.0% of 12 researched records
  • Traditional75.0% of 12 researched records
  • Racquets-focused75.0% of 12 researched records
  • Socially active66.7% of 12 researched records
  • Family-oriented50.0% of 12 researched records
  • Seasonal50.0% of 12 researched records