Explore the world's most iconic golf clubhouses. Best Clubhouse covers clubhouse architecture, design, renovations, and the buildings that define the golf experience, from historic landmark clubhouses to modern masterpieces at private and resort courses.
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Gleneagles Country Club west of Delray Beach, Florida, has approved a clubhouse renovation capped at $54 million. Construction started in late June 2026 and runs in two phases through October 2028.
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FireRock Country Club will open its renovated clubhouse on September 15, 2026, in Fountain Hills, Arizona. The member-owned club is finishing a top-to-bottom redo with three new dining rooms, rebuilt Men's and Ladies' Lounges, and an expanded patio facing Red Mountain and the 18th green.
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Escalante said in June it has broken ground on a new clubhouse at Kingsley Club in Kingsley, Michigan, which has used a retrofitted construction trailer since 2001. Mark P. Finlay Architects is designing a 4,000-square-foot Cotswolds house behind the ninth green for spring 2027.
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Warminster clears a $25 million loan for a new Five Ponds clubhouse by Kimmel Bogrette. About 30,000 square feet, paid from golf revenue.
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The Club at Ibis has started clubhouse interiors in West Palm Beach. Club materials list $63 million; trade coverage of the job says $40 million.
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Keen designed clubhouses at Pine Valley and Aronimink, two of America's most revered private golf clubs. He also built Reynolda House for R.J. Reynolds, now a nationally recognized art museum. This week, Aronimink hosts the PGA Championship for the first time since 1962.
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Medinah Country Club's 120,000-square-foot clubhouse was designed in the 1920s by Richard G. Schmid, a charter club member who trained at MIT and worked under H.H. Richardson before designing Moorish Revival temples for the Shriners.
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The clubhouse at Cypress Point was designed by George Washington Smith, the father of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in California. Smith died six months before the building opened in 1930. Steve Jobs later bought one of his houses and spent 27 years trying to demolish it.
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The clubhouse at Myopia Hunt Club was not designed to be a clubhouse. It was built in 1772 as a farmhouse for Colonel Robert Dodge, a Revolutionary War hero who fought at Bunker Hill. The club moved in, and much hasn't changed since.
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The 77,000-square-foot clubhouse at TPC Sawgrass was designed by Chapman Coyle Chapman Architects and completed in 2007, modeled after an 1888 Spanish Renaissance hotel in St. Augustine that launched the career of the firm that designed the New York Public Library.
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The clubhouse at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania was designed in 1911 by Furness, Evans and Company. It still hides an 1824 stone farmhouse inside it, and a two-story locker room that has watched Bobby Jones finish the Grand Slam and Ben Hogan win the 1950 U.S. Open.
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The Country Club's primrose yellow clubhouse in Brookline started as an 1860 farmhouse. Today it is three stories of Colonial Revival clapboard behind the 18th green, still holding a room from the original structure and a copy of the USGA charter signed in 1894.