Country of Clubs Directory

Country Clubs in Michigan

Country of Clubs currently tracks 117 active Clubs across 85 cities in Michigan. Membership costs, access, golf and lifestyle details appear when they are supported by the directory evidence.

The documented Club timeline in Michigan includes early records such as Epworth Heights Golf Course (1894), Kent Country Club (1896), and Pointe Aux Barques Golf Course (1896). Across 106 Clubs with a usable founding year, the median documented founding year is 1926; these dates describe the current directory evidence rather than a complete history of golf in the state.

Active Clubs
117
Detailed profiles
89
Cities represented
85

Club profiles

Private1 courseDining
Initiation
$5,500
Dues
$2,050 / year
Documented minimum first-year cost$4,600Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $3,000 initiation (Membership Packages, effective 2026) + $1,600 / year dues (Membership Packages, effective 2026). Uses the documented minimum initiation on file, not the estimate shown above.
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Residential Private3 coursesPoolPickleballFitnessDining
Initiation
$10,000
Dues
$424 / month
Documented minimum first-year cost$15,088Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $10,000 initiation (Property Membership, effective 2025) + $424 / month dues (Property Membership, effective 2025).
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Private1 coursePoolFitnessDining
Initiation
$20,000
Dues
$12,504 / year
Documented minimum first-year cost$32,504Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $20,000 initiation (Full Member, effective 2026) + $12,504 / year dues (Full Member, effective 2026).
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Private1 coursePoolPickleballFitnessDining
Initiation
$40,000
Dues
$10,686 / year
Documented minimum first-year cost$50,686Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $40,000 initiation (Regular Full Golf, effective 2026) + $10,686 / year dues (Regular Full Golf, effective 2026).
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Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

Country Club of Detroit

Private1 coursePoolPickleballFitnessDining
Initiation
$77,500
Dues
$900 / month
Documented minimum first-year cost$43,400Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $35,000 initiation (Full Golf Member Reports, effective 2023) + $700 / month dues (Full Golf Member Reports, effective 2023). Uses the documented minimum initiation on file, not the estimate shown above.
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Private2 coursesPoolFitnessDining
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 (Golf Membership Estimate, effective 2026) + $500 / month dues (Golf Membership Estimate, effective 2026). Uses the documented minimum initiation on file, not the estimate shown above.
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Private1 courseDining
Initiation
$42,000
Dues
$5,900 / year
Documented minimum first-year cost$47,900Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $42,000 initiation (Full Golf, effective 2026) + $5,900 / year dues (Full Golf, effective 2026).
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Private2 coursesPoolFitnessDining
Initiation
$18,500
Dues
$220 / month
Documented minimum first-year cost$21,140Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $18,500 initiation (Golf Membership, effective 2025) + $220 / month dues (Golf Membership, effective 2025).
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Commerce Township, MI

Edgewood Country Club

Private1 coursePoolFitnessDining
Initiation
$23,000
Dues
$705 / month
Documented minimum first-year cost$31,460Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $23,000 initiation (Class A Golf, effective 2026) + $705 / month dues (Class A Golf, effective 2025).
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Michigan Club statisticsOpen the price, access, lifestyle and historical report

State research snapshot

What the Club data shows in Michigan

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 Michigan 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 minimum first-year cost

$29,128

Median for 33 compatible Individual records. The middle half falls between $12,240 and $50,686. That is 9.8% below the compatible nationwide median of $32,302.50, calculated from 1,026 records.

Comparable effective years: 2024–2026

Documented initiation fees

$18,500

Median for 41 compatible Individual records. The middle half falls between $6,000 and $40,000. That is 26.0% below the compatible nationwide median of $25,000, calculated from 1,262 records.

Comparable effective years: 2024–2026

Documented monthly dues

$695

Median for 27 compatible Individual records. The middle half falls between $409.50 and $984.50. That is 11.2% above the compatible nationwide median of $625, calculated from 983 records.

Comparable effective years: 2024–2026

Access landscape

How Clubs in Michigan are accessed

Private membership is the largest documented access group in this sample, representing 82.0% of 111 Clubs with a known access type.

Private membership82.0%
91 Clubs in the state sample · 72.6% of the comparable nationwide sample
Public or municipal5.4%
6 Clubs in the state sample · 3.3% of the comparable nationwide sample
Semi-private5.4%
6 Clubs in the state sample · 5.1% of the comparable nationwide sample
Other documented access4.5%
5 Clubs in the state sample · 10.2% of the comparable nationwide sample
Residential or property-owner2.7%
3 Clubs in the state sample · 7.3% of the comparable nationwide sample

Club life

What stands out in Michigan 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 depth1.10

documented courses per Club across 111 records with a known course count

Multi-course Clubs8.1%

9 Clubs in the state sample compared with 11.4% nationwide

Documented lifestyle combinations

  • Golf, pool and diningDocumented at 66 Clubs
  • Golf, racquets and poolDocumented at 47 Clubs
  • Golf, fitness and diningDocumented at 40 Clubs

Documented timeline

Club history represented in Michigan

Founding years are currently documented for 106 Club records. The earliest entries and distribution by era are shown below.

  1. Epworth Heights Golf Course1894
  2. Kent Country Club1896
  3. Pointe Aux Barques Golf Course1896
Before 192034.0%
36 Clubs
1920–194931.1%
33 Clubs
1950–197921.7%
23 Clubs
1980–199911.3%
12 Clubs
2000–present1.9%
2 Clubs

Documented culture

Recurring Club culture signals in Michigan

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-first90.2% of 102 researched records
  • Family-oriented65.7% of 102 researched records
  • Socially active54.9% of 102 researched records
  • Traditional52.0% of 102 researched records
  • Dining-focused34.3% of 102 researched records
  • Community-oriented31.4% of 102 researched records