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Palm Beach Gardens Golf Communities
Old Palm is the smallest of the Palm Beach Gardens clubs by a wide margin and the most expensive per home. Roughly 316 residences share one golf course and a membership capped at 330. Buyers here are usually choosing between scale and privacy. Here is how the alternatives compare. Click into any community to browse its listings.
Old Palm Golf Club
About 316 residences on roughly 650 acres, with a single Raymond Floyd course, a 33-acre golf studio, and an equity membership capped at 330. Estates and custom homes only.
The Bear's Club
The closest peer in philosophy and the one club that is even smaller and more private. Founded by Jack Nicklaus in 1999, invitation-only, with fees that are not published.
BallenIsles
Roughly five times the size, with three courses, 34 racquet courts, and a far broader price range. Where Old Palm offers seclusion, BallenIsles offers breadth and a much lower entry point.
The Country Club at Mirasol
Thirty-six holes, 23 neighborhoods, and full family programming across 2,300 acres. A busy, amenity-rich club, and the direct opposite of Old Palm's quiet golf-only model.
Four Reasons Buyers Choose Old Palm
A course you can actually get on
The membership is capped at 330 across all categories, for a single 18-hole Raymond Floyd course playing 7,401 yards at par 72, plus a nineteenth bye hole. Most clubs in this county run several times that ratio of members to holes. Tee-time pressure is the practical reason many golfers move here from a larger club, and the cap is written into the club's own membership plan rather than being a promise.
A 33-acre practice facility, not a range
The Golf Studio is a genuine differentiator: a dedicated practice campus with three full practice holes, opened alongside the club. For a serious player, having three real holes to work on rather than a mat and a target green is the kind of amenity that does not show up in a price comparison but changes how you use the club every week.
Recently renovated, including a new wellness center
A major clubhouse and course renovation completed around 2024 added a 20,000 square foot health and wellness center, converted the old fitness space into a casual bistro, added an outdoor pool bar, expanded the bar and dining rooms, and replaced the course irrigation. That work is behind the monthly renovation assessment on member statements, and it is finished rather than pending.
Estate lots and a non-tipping service model
Product runs from golf estates on quarter-acre lots up to custom homes of 7,000 to 15,000 square feet on full-acre sites, with roughly 650 acres for about 316 residences. The club also operates as a non-tipping club across valet, locker rooms, caddies, and outside golf operations, which is a small thing that materially changes the day-to-day experience.
Old Palm: The Membership & Community Facts
Old Palm does not publish its fees publicly, so most of what circulates online about this club is either stale or invented. What follows is drawn from the club's own recorded membership plan and from the community development district's adopted budgets, which are public government records. There are three cost layers here, and the third one catches most buyers by surprise.
| Community established / developer | Founded 2004 by WCI Communities and sold in September 2010 to Clarion Partners. Raymond Floyd designed the course and serves as honorary chairman under a service agreement referenced in the club's membership plan. The community holds Audubon International Gold Signature Sanctuary certification. |
| Size / density | 316 residential units per the community development district's adopted FY2027 assessment roll, on roughly 650 acres. Many published sources say 294 home sites; that appears to be an earlier plat or marketing figure. We use the government roll. |
| Neighborhoods / product | Marketed as Golf Estates on roughly quarter-acre lots, Isle Estates on third-acre lots, Grand Estates on half-acre lots, and Custom Estates on full-acre lots, plus a small group of two-story Golf Cottages. Homes run from roughly 3,400 square feet to over 15,000. |
| Governance (three layers) | The Club, an equity not-for-profit corporation with a Board of Governors; a property owners association under the community's Declaration of Covenants; and the Old Palm Community Development District, a Florida special-purpose government that levies assessments on the property tax bill. |
| Membership requirement | Mandatory for most buyers, and it is a covenant running with the land. Any owner acquiring a homesite or residence in the chain of title from the developer after September 2, 2010 must acquire a Premier Membership and keep it in good standing while they own. It applies to resale buyers. Owners outside that chain of title may join but are not required to. Confirm which applies to a specific property. |
| Membership structure and cap | Equity club with an ownership and voting interest; the Club owns the facilities. Three categories: Premier for property owners, plus Signature and Select for non-owners. Total equity memberships are capped at 330. Membership is by invitation and requires sponsorship and approval, and must be completed on or before closing. |
| Buy-in and dues (2024 schedule) | Membership equity $350,000; annual club dues $38,500 plus Florida sales tax, which includes the golf trail fee. The club does not publish fees publicly and the only schedule we could verify at source is 2024, so treat these as a baseline and confirm current-year figures with the membership office. |
| Renovation assessment | $258.33 per month applied to member statements for a 20-year term, roughly $3,100 a year and about $62,000 over the full term. This funds the clubhouse and course renovation. |
| Equity refund on resale | Per the club's membership plan, members joining after September 2, 2010 receive the greater of 80 percent of the membership contribution charged when the membership is resold, or 80 percent of the amount previously paid. Critically, it is paid only after the membership is resigned and then resold by the Club, so it is subject to a queue and is not payable on demand. The Club may change the percentage prospectively. |
| Community development district assessment | A separate, mandatory charge on the property tax bill. For FY2027 the maintenance assessment is $2,383.40 per residential unit, up from $2,094.30 the prior year, and the total assessed per unit including Series 2019 bond debt service runs from about $3,743 to $7,977 depending on the assessment category. This is on top of club dues and any association fee. |
| Property owners association fee | Not published and not verifiable from any documented source. A figure circulating on an unsourced blog should not be relied upon. Ask for the association's current budget and estoppel on the specific property. |
| Food & beverage minimum | No fixed annual dining minimum is stated in any retrievable club document. The club applies a food and beverage monthly service charge to member statements, which is a service charge rather than a spend requirement. Confirm with the membership office. |
Sources: Old Palm Golf Club, Inc., Plan for the Offering of Equity Memberships, amended and restated December 2010, for governance, the mandatory-membership covenant, the 330 cap, the refund formula, and the course and facility description; Old Palm Community Development District adopted budgets for FY2024 through FY2027 for unit counts and assessments; the club's 2024 membership fee sheet on club letterhead for equity, dues, and the renovation assessment; project records for the clubhouse renovation scope. Verified July 2026. The club does not publish current fees publicly, so any figure you read elsewhere, including here, should be confirmed with the membership office before you rely on it. Dylan can request the current schedule and pull the association and district estoppels.
Those numbers appear on numerous aggregator and brokerage pages and are roughly half the club's own 2024 figures of $350,000 equity and $38,500 in annual dues. Because Old Palm does not publish a public fee schedule, stale numbers propagate freely and are rarely corrected. The same is true of the widely repeated 294-home count and of tennis courts, which appear in listing boilerplate but not in any club facility description we could find. If a cost matters to your decision, get it from the membership office rather than from a search result.
Old Palm Market Context, Mid 2026
This is one of the thinnest markets in northern Palm Beach County. With roughly 316 homes and a low single-digit to mid-teens number of closings in a year, there are periods when almost nothing trades. That has a direct consequence for how you should read any statistic about it, including ours.
Sources: BeachesMLS-derived market reports and public portal data for Old Palm, various windows in 2026, accessed July 2026; Old Palm Community Development District adopted budget FY2027 for the residence count; the club's membership plan for the 330 cap. We are publishing a range rather than a single median on purpose. Across overlapping twelve-month windows in 2026, one MLS-derived report showed a median near $7.15 million on just 4 closings with 131 days on market, another showed 15 closings averaging about $6.55 million at 57 days, and public portals reported medians from $6.6 million to $7.84 million with year-over-year changes from plus 26 to plus 52 percent. At this transaction volume, a single median and especially a single year-over-year percentage are artifacts of which handful of houses happened to close, not measurements of the market. Ask Dylan for the actual closed comparables on the neighborhood and lot size you are considering.
When Old Palm May Not Be the Right Fit
Old Palm is built for a specific buyer: a serious golfer who wants an estate home, a quiet club, and no waiting for a tee time, and who is not looking for the club to be the center of family life. Here is where buyers usually belong elsewhere.
This is a golf club with a clubhouse, a wellness center, and dining. There is no marina, no beach club, and no racquet program that we could verify in any club document, despite tennis appearing in some listing boilerplate. If you want tennis and pickleball at scale, BallenIsles has 34 courts; if you want family programming, camps, and a sports complex, Mirasol is built for it.
There is one membership category for owners, at $350,000 equity and $38,500 in dues on the 2024 schedule, plus a 20-year renovation assessment, plus a district assessment of roughly $3,700 to $8,000 a year on the tax bill, plus an association fee. There is no social tier and no cheaper way in. Clubs with tiered memberships such as BallenIsles start at $170,000, and PGA National does not require membership at all.
Roughly 316 homes and often fewer than fifteen sales a year makes this a genuinely illiquid market, with reported days on market ranging from 57 to 161 depending on the period. Add a buyer pool restricted to people who will qualify for and accept a $350,000 mandatory membership, and an equity refund that only pays out once the Club resells your membership, and exit timing becomes a real planning question rather than a footnote.
Old Palm is inland in Palm Beach Gardens with no water access. Membership is also by invitation, requires sponsorship and approval, and must be completed on or before closing, so an accepted contract is not the end of the process. If you want oceanfront, look at Juno Beach; if you want golf paired with deep-water boating, look at Admirals Cove.
Old Palm vs. the Communities Buyers Shortlist Against It
vs. The Bear's Club
The two most exclusive golf-only communities in the northern county, and the comparison is mostly about access. Old Palm publishes an equity structure with a stated cap and a documented refund formula, and it can be bought into by anyone who is approved. The Bear's Club, in Jupiter, is invitation-only with fees that are not published at all, and it is meaningfully smaller.
The Bear's Club if you have an invitation and want maximum privacy; Old Palm for a comparable golf-first experience with a knowable cost structure and a Palm Beach Gardens address.
vs. Mirasol
A straight choice between concentration and breadth. Mirasol offers 36 holes, 23 neighborhoods, three pools, a sports complex, camps, and tiered memberships from $115,000, across roughly 1,200 homes. Old Palm offers one course, roughly 316 homes, a membership capped at 330, and essentially no programming beyond golf, dining, and wellness, at more than double Mirasol's Golf buy-in.
Mirasol if the club is the center of family life; Old Palm if you want an estate lot, an uncrowded course, and to be left alone.
Buying in Old Palm: What to Know
Is club membership required to buy a home in Old Palm?
For nearly all buyers today, yes, and it is a covenant running with the land rather than a club policy. Under the club's membership plan, anyone acquiring a homesite or residence in the chain of title from the developer after September 2, 2010 must acquire a Premier Membership and maintain it while they own, and this applies to resale buyers as well. The plan does note that owners outside that chain of title may join but are not required to, so the correct step is to confirm which applies to the specific property rather than assume either way. The membership must be completed on or before closing.
What does membership cost?
On the club's 2024 schedule, membership equity is $350,000 and annual club dues are $38,500 plus Florida sales tax, which includes the golf trail fee. There is also a renovation assessment of $258.33 per month applied to member statements for a twenty-year term. The club does not publish fees publicly, so figures elsewhere online, commonly $175,000 and $22,000, are substantially out of date. Confirm current-year numbers with the membership office before you rely on them.
Is the equity membership refundable?
Yes, in part, and with an important condition. The club's membership plan provides that members who joined after September 2, 2010 receive the greater of 80 percent of the membership contribution charged when their membership is resold, or 80 percent of what they previously paid. The condition is that payment comes only after the membership is resigned and then resold by the Club, so it depends on the resale queue rather than being payable on demand. The Club also reserves the right to change the percentage going forward.
What is the community development district assessment?
It is a third cost layer most write-ups about Old Palm miss entirely. The Old Palm Community Development District is a Florida special-purpose government that levies non-ad-valorem assessments collected on your property tax bill, separate from club dues and any association fee. For fiscal year 2027 the maintenance portion is $2,383.40 per residential unit, up from $2,094.30 the year before, and the total per unit including Series 2019 bond debt service runs from roughly $3,743 to $7,977 depending on the assessment category your property falls in.
What are the golf and club facilities?
An 18-hole signature course designed by Raymond Floyd playing 7,401 yards at par 72, plus a nineteenth bye hole, and a 33-acre Golf Studio practice facility with three full practice holes. The clubhouse has fine dining, a grille and lounge, a pro shop, locker rooms with spa suites, and four golf casitas for overnight guests. A renovation completed around 2024 added a 20,000 square foot health and wellness center, a casual bistro, and an outdoor pool bar, and replaced the course irrigation. Note that despite appearing in some listing descriptions, we could not find racquet facilities in any club document.
How many homes are there, and what are the neighborhoods?
316 residential units according to the community development district's adopted budget for fiscal 2027, on roughly 650 acres. You will often see 294 home sites quoted; that appears to come from an earlier plat or marketing material, and we prefer the government assessment roll. The community is marketed as four estate neighborhoods, Golf Estates on about quarter-acre lots, Isle Estates on third-acre lots, Grand Estates on half-acre lots, and Custom Estates on full-acre lots, plus a small group of two-story Golf Cottages.
About Dylan Snyder
Dylan Snyder is a second-generation real estate professional and lifelong Floridian based in Palm Beach, and the founder of the Snyder Group, one of the top-producing teams in the state with over $100 million in annual sales. A licensed Realtor with more than 20 years of experience, he holds the e-PRO, Seller Representative Specialist, Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist, and Graduate Realtor Institute (GRI) designations and is a member of the National Association of Realtors. He advises buyers and sellers across the Palm Beach Gardens golf communities, including Old Palm, and can request the current membership schedule, confirm whether the mandatory membership covenant attaches to a specific property, and pull the association and district estoppels before you write an offer.
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