What does golf actually cost at Fairfield Glade?

Five courses is the number in every listing, and it's true. Dorchester, Druid Hills, Heatherhurst Brae, Heatherhurst Crag and Stonehenge, all inside the gates, all owned by the Community Club. 2

In summer a member pays $64 for eighteen holes with a cart at Dorchester, Druid Hills or Heatherhurst, and $69 at Stonehenge. Play once a week from April through October, about thirty rounds, and that's roughly $1,900 before a sleeve of balls. Walking is cheaper at $30, though you can't walk Stonehenge at all. 1

Then there's the line above it on the same card. Preferred Member, $47, same course and same cart. The Club prints the rate and never says what a Preferred Member is or how you become one.

Both schedules below are the Club's own, and every figure here was read from its live rate page on 28 August 2026. Prices include Tennessee sales tax. The Club states that rates are subject to change at any time without notice, so treat these as current rather than fixed. 1

Afternoons are cheaper. A Preferred Member pays $35 for eighteen after 2pm from March through October, and a member pays $51 after 2pm in June, July and August only. Nine holes runs roughly half the eighteen-hole rate in every tier.

Winter is the part worth noticing if you're deciding whether to live here year-round or come for the season. The same eighteen holes that costs a member $64 in July costs $46 in November, and the gap between member and guest nearly closes.

Three of these catch people out. A rider fee is not your cart. It's what the Club charges for a person riding along who isn't playing, which matters if a spouse comes for the ride. A guest who arrives without you pays $103 for eighteen at Stonehenge, so visiting family is not a small line in a golf week. And walking, which is the cheapest way to play here, is not offered at Stonehenge in either season. 1

The Preferred rate is the most useful number on the card and the least explained. It isn't only a golf tier. The Club's 2026 amenity schedule prints Preferred Member rates for pickleball at $7.50 an hour against a member's $8.50, for the pools at $4.00 against $6.00, and for the Robin Hood Park bocce courts. The racquet section adds a line about a ten percent discount on rates and passes paid with a preferred card. 2

So the Club's own documents establish two things: a Preferred tier exists across most of the amenities, and it works through a card. What they do not say anywhere public is what the card costs or how a member gets one.

Two independent sources fill that gap, and neither is the Club. A local real-estate site says members in good standing open the card with a $600 deposit and reload it with a $300 minimum, and that it can be used at point-of-sale across the property including dining. 4 An owner answering a question on TripAdvisor describes the same arrangement at $500 to open with the same $300 reload, and adds that the card names two people at check-in. The two agree on the mechanism and the reload floor, and disagree on the opening deposit, which is what you would expect if the figure rose and one account is older.

Treat the mechanism as reported and the amount as unconfirmed. What matters for a buying decision is simpler: the advertised member rate is not the best rate a member can get, and the difference is $17 on every eighteen holes.

The Club prices a single annual pass at $2,500 and a couple pass at $3,750. Both carry the same three words, cart not included. That is the whole of what it publishes. 1

It doesn't say whether the pass covers green fees at all five courses or some of them, whether Stonehenge is included, what a cart costs on top, whether the pass and the Preferred card stack, or whether the pass runs a calendar year or a season. We looked for an answer in the Club's rates page, its golf pages, its golf packages page and its amenity schedule, then in a real-estate site, an owner question thread and a golf-rate roundup. The only place the pass appears at all is the Club's own rate card, listing a price and nothing else. An owner forum turned up round cards and green fees from 2006 and 2007, which are no use to anyone buying now.

This matters because the arithmetic is close enough to be decided by the missing detail. A couple who both play eighteen once a week from April through October play about thirty rounds each. At the member rate that's $3,840 for the two of them, calculated from the published $64. At the Preferred rate it's $2,820. The couple pass sits at $3,750, between the two, and carts are extra on top of it. Which of those three is cheapest depends entirely on what the pass includes, and the Club hasn't said.

The reason to ask now rather than later is that golf is the thing most people move here for, and it's the one cost the assessment doesn't carry. A couple who play weekly are looking at something in the range of three to four thousand dollars a year on top of the $1,644 assessment, and the spread inside that range is a decision the Club will explain over the phone in about five minutes.