A country club quote can include six separate costs: initiation, recurring dues, required annual charges, food-and-beverage minimums, capital fees or assessments, and taxes. Ask for the current fee sheet and confirm the membership category. Age, family status, employer, or university affiliation can change the price and eligibility.
Rattlesnake Ridge’s 2026 membership packet lists the Individual Golf package at $8,000 initiation plus 7% tax and $400 per month. It also requires a $200 quarterly food-and-beverage minimum and annual range, locker, GHIN, and hole-in-one fees. The listed initiation, tax, dues, and required food-and-beverage spending total $14,160 for the first year, before those annual fees and any promotional dues credits. Family, senior, junior, associate, and corporate categories have different schedules. The club says Social is waitlisted. Confirm golf-category availability directly.
The Ohio State University Golf Club has eligibility rules that affect the price. The university’s membership page limits membership to qualifying students, faculty and staff, alumni, Buckeye Club affiliates, and young professionals. Its Board-approved 2026 schedule sets the standard initiation fee for a newly accepted full member at $25,000. Annual individual dues are $3,492 for faculty and staff and $4,363 for alumni or Buckeye Club members. Ohio State reported a waitlist of about 422 people for 2026. Student conversions are exempt from that waitlist and pay a separate $16,250 initiation fee.
Licking Springs’ current membership page, checked September 9, lists Executive and Jr. Executive packages with no initiation fee. It does not publish their current monthly dues. The page separately lists a $500 one-time initiation fee for Social & Pool membership and $250 for Club House membership. Ask the club for a written current fee schedule, including any food-and-beverage, cart, trail, capital, or other required charges, before comparing a first-year total.
Get a written first-year total and renewal-year total for the exact category you can join. Before signing, ask which charges are mandatory, refundable, taxable, prorated, or subject to change.