Country of Clubs Directory
Country of Clubs currently tracks 60 active Clubs across 43 cities in Maryland. Membership costs, access, golf and lifestyle details appear when they are supported by the directory evidence.
The documented Club timeline in Maryland includes early records such as Elkridge Club (1878), Chevy Chase Club (1892), and Green Spring Valley Hunt Club (1892). Across 51 Clubs with a usable founding year, the median documented founding year is 1932; these dates describe the current directory evidence rather than a complete history of golf in the state.
Timonium, MD
Bethesda, MD
Germantown, MD
Bethesda, MD
Glenwood, MD
Owings Mills, MD
Severna Park, MD
Chestertown, MD
Chevy Chase, MD
Chevy Chase, MD
Bethesda, MD
Towson, MD
Crofton, MD
Cumberland, MD
Phoenix, MD
Baltimore, MD
Salisbury, MD
Hagerstown, MD
Beallsville, MD
Gibson Island, MD
State research snapshot
This report turns the currently documented Club records into comparable state-level context while keeping missing information out of the calculations.
Membership market
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 minimum first-year cost
$23,500
Median for 14 compatible Individual records. The middle half falls between $16,000 and $88,400. That is 27.3% below the compatible nationwide median of $32,302.50, calculated from 1,026 records.
Comparable effective years: 2024–2026Documented initiation fees
$21,250
Median for 18 compatible Individual records. The middle half falls between $11,250 and $64,375. That is 15.0% below the compatible nationwide median of $25,000, calculated from 1,262 records.
Comparable effective years: 2024–2026Documented monthly dues
$625.04
Median for 17 compatible Individual records. The middle half falls between $500 and $750. That is near the compatible nationwide median of $625, calculated from 983 records.
Comparable effective years: 2024–2026Access landscape
Private membership is the largest documented access group in this sample, representing 83.3% of 54 Clubs with a known access type.
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.
documented courses per Club across 54 records with a known course count
5 Clubs in the state sample compared with 11.1% nationwide
Documented timeline
Founding years are currently documented for 51 Club records. The earliest entries and distribution by era are shown below.
Documented culture
Culture labels appear only when supported by researched Club evidence and should not be read as a judgment of every Club in the state.
