Best Golfing Communities to Retire

The Best Golfing Communities to Retire to in 2015

If you consider yourself a golfer, you’ve probably dreamt of a retirement filled with beautiful weather, long fairways, navigable hazards and perfect putting greens. But in order to make that happen, you need to start looking for the perfect retirement location now, especially if you plan to retire in the next 15 years or so.

While there are a wealth of retirement communities that can provide you with access to the links, it can take a decent amount of research to find the right golfing community for you. As a golfer, there will be golf-related considerations to be taken into account like greens fees, country club memberships, and how many courses are nearby. Nevertheless, it’s important to remember that finding the right retirement community is about more than golf. It’s about balancing your ideal location with any other wants and needs you have.

Prioritizing your list of retirement wants and needs is the first step toward a happy retirement. Some of the wants and needs you’ll want to consider include proximity to family and loved ones, weather, cost of living, available amenities, and access to proper health care. In fact, access to proper health care should be high on any retiree’s list of priorities. Determining what local health and wellness facilities you will have access to and what types of medical care they can offer is important when deciding where to retire. Don’t forget to take your future medical needs into account when looking into these facilities.

Once you have your priorities laid out, you can use the guides below to really start your search for the retirement community that’s right for you.

Rancho San Lucas - Cabo San Lucas

Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico

Rancho San Lucas is an exclusive, 834-acre resort community located just 30 minutes from the Los Cabos International Airport in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Enjoying sweeping vistas of the Pacific Ocean and Baja's stunning desert landscape, this landmark community offers visitors and owners a private respite and an unparalleled collection of residential options including The Villas at Rancho San Lucas with Santa Barbara-style single family homes and five floor plans to choose from. Read More...

MEX

Select

Briarwood - Active 55+ Resort

Port Orange, Florida

Step into this active 55 plus community just minutes from the beach in Port Orange, Florida and be amazed at how affordable a resort lifestyle can be! You will discover friendly people, luxury amenities and homes for sale and rent. Read More...

FL

Select

The Grove Resort & Spa

Orlando, Florida

A 106-acre retreat for those who seek to escape the ordinary and looking to experience a reality infused with magic and wonder, The Grove Resort & Spa is Orlando's newest vacation home resort; your home away from home while on vacation! The Grove boasts a full offering of resort amenities that includes a luxurious full-service lobby, bars, Surfari Water Park with lagoon pool and lazy river, two FlowRider ® surf simulators, full service restaurant and convenience store, spa and much more! Read More...

FL

Select

Desert Mountain

Scottsdale, Arizona

Desert Mountain is an 8,000-acre private, gated Arizona golf community, which features a collection of six (7th in 2019) Jack Nicklaus Signature golf courses set at an altitude of about 3,000 feet in the spectacular High Sonoran Desert terrain of northern Scottsdale. This member-owned community encompasses a gallery of custom homes designed by renowned architects, along with an array of club amenities that includes golf, tennis, swimming and fitness facilities and a golf performance center. The development borders the Tonto National Forest, with easy access to Scottsdale and downtown Phoenix and convenient to restaurants, shopping and nightlife in the Scottsdale, Cave Creek and Carefree areas. Read More...

AZ

Select

Birchwood at Brambleton

Brambleton, Virginia

Life Refreshes at 55! Birchwood at Brambleton is the freshest, youngest feeling 55+ community in Northern Virginia. In fact, it is outright fun - tailor-made for people who never learned how to act their age and perfectly located for keeping connected. Read More...

VA

Select

Champion Hills

Hendersonville, North Carolina

At Champion HIlls you'll enjoy life in perfect balance. Our golf and tennis community and country club, situated in the mountains of Western North Carolina with breathtaking views of the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains, is secluded, but not isolated-casual yet elegant-relaxed, but with easy access to the unlimited activities and entertainment of Asheville and Hendersonville. Read More...

NC

Select

K. Hovnanian’s Four Seasons at Belle Terre

Lewes, Delaware

Located in Lewes, DE,. Four Seasons at Belle Terre is a 55 Plus active lifestyle community featuring low-maintenance single family homes. Residents will enjoy a 6,000 sq. ft. clubhouse with outdoor pool, as well as a state-of-the-art fitness center, billiards room, game room, lounge and aerobics room. Step outside to enjoy an extensive trail system, fire pit, outdoor kitchen, pickle ball and bocce courts. Read More...

DE

Select

The Landings on Skidaway Island - Savannah's Choice for Island Living

Savannah, Georgia

The Landings on Skidaway Island is a private gated community known as much for its beauty as for its personality. Located on the Intracoastal Waterway and just 12 miles from the charming and historic city of Savannah, GA, The Landings celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2012. Read More...

GA

Select

Haig Point Club

Daufuskie Island, South Carolina

Haig Point is on a sea island and the lifestyle here is very special. It has the serenity and seclusion of a most idyllic, sea island life. But extraordinary privacy isn't the only thing you'll enjoy at Haig Point on Daufuskie Island Read More...

SC

Select

Logan Homes - Home Builders in Premier North Carolina Communities

Leland, North Carolina

Logan Homes offers 80+ beautiful home plans, tons of choices, quality craftsmanship, energy efficiency and the innovation that will enhance your lifestyle - all for a very smart price. Read More...

NC

Select

Glacier Club | Colorado Gated Communities

Durango , Colorado

Glacier Club is a very special place. Situated in the majestic San Juan Mountains just outside the historic and colorful town of Durango, CO, your private golf community is a home away from home... Read More...

CO

Select

Hilton Head Lakes | South Carolina Communities

Hardeeville, South Carolina

Whether you?re looking to relocate permanently for that well-deserved retirement or a weekend retreat, you can find your dreams fulfilled at Hilton Head Lakes. Read More...

SC

Select

Sunrise Village - Active 55+ Resort

Mesa, Arizona

Step into this active 55 plus community in East Mesa and be amazed at how affordable a resort lifestyle can be! You will discover friendly people, luxury amenities and newly remodeled homes from the $30s. Our gated community offers a year-round calendar of social events planned by our Activity Director. Read More...

AZ

Select

Scotch Hall Preserve - Pristine North Carolina Coastal Golf Community

Windsor, North Carolina

This remarkable lifestyle community sits majestically on North Carolina's Albemarle Sound. Surrounded by water, ancient Cypress and live Oaks, there is no other place as unspoiled. Featuring an Arnold Palmer Signature golf course, marina, swim pavilion, Scotch Hall Preserve offers waterfront, golf and woodland homesites. Read More...

NC

Select

St. James Plantation - NC Gated Community

Southport, North Carolina

With its private oceanfront beach club, 81 holes of signature golf and Intracoastal Waterway marina, St. James Plantation personifies the relaxed coastal Carolina lifestyle. Read More...

NC

Select

Find the Best of Ideal-LIVING