Fourteen golf courses sit within a twenty mile radius of St. George, Utah, and only two of them are private clubs. Six belong to a city. The rest sell tee times to whoever books one. Some version of this comes up on nearly every showing I do near a fairway, usually phrased as whether the house comes with golf, and the answer across Washington County is no. What your address changes is the price you pay and how easily you get a tee time in February.
Six of the fourteen courses belong to a city
St. George City owns four golf courses: Dixie Red Hills, Sunbrook, Southgate and St. George Golf Club. The city lists all four on its own City Golf Courses page, and its fee page calls them the four City-owned golf pro shops. See the city's golf course page here. Washington City owns Green Spring and runs it out of the same recreation department as the community center and the city parks. Hurricane owns Sky Mountain, and that course says so on its own home page: a public eighteen hole golf course owned and operated by the City of Hurricane, Utah. All three were verified on September 17, 2026. That municipal ownership matters to a buyer: the rates are set in public, and the long term future of the land gets argued about in council meetings rather than decided quietly by an owner looking for an exit.
The local discount runs on a Utah ID, not on your address
St. George City sells a Golf Loyalty Card for $80 a year per golfer, good for reduced green fees at all four city courses. You buy it at any of the four city pro shops and you present a valid Utah driver's license or Utah state identification card, so the qualifier is Utah residency, not a St. George address and certainly not a lot on the fairway. The savings are real: at Sunbrook from October through May, eighteen holes with a cart is $88 at the counter and $59 on the loyalty rate, and the loyalty rate is not honored on Fridays and Saturdays between October 1 and April 30. Those figures come off the city's published course fees and loyalty program page, read September 17, 2026. That fee page is here.
Sky Mountain handles it differently. Its published rate sheet lists a Washington County resident discount on green fees at all three seasonal tiers and says you must show ID, but it does not print the discounted number, so that one is a question for the pro shop. Green Spring publishes a single seasonal rate table, $70 for eighteen with a cart Sunday through Thursday in the fall and $50 any day in midsummer, with no resident discount on it at all.
Two private clubs, and private means something different at each
Entrada at Snow Canyon Country Club is the stricter of the two. Its own website is titled Private Golf in St. George, and its membership inquiry form lists three categories: equity golf, associate, and a social membership limited to Cliffs owners. That social category is the only place in the county I am aware of where owning a particular piece of real estate connects to club access at all, and it is social rather than golf. Buying elsewhere inside Entrada does not put you on the tee sheet.
Bloomington Country Club, open since 1969, is the other one. Washington County's tourism office describes it as a membership course where non-members play as guests of a member, and notes that a stay at Bloomington Villas comes with access. The club publishes no public green fee anywhere I could find, which is the practical test: if you cannot book it online and you cannot see a price, you need a member or a room.
Everything else sells tee times, and at one course the price depends on where you sleep
Sand Hollow Resort states on its own golf page that its facilities are open to the public. The Ledges Golf Club sells public tee times and stay and play packages out of the same operation that rents the vacation homes and runs Ledges Realty. Coral Canyon has had a new majority owner, Z Golf Management, since the fall of 2020. SunRiver sits inside a 55 and older community and still takes public play, and Copper Rock in Hurricane is public too.
Black Desert Resort in Ivins prices by where you are staying rather than by who you are. Its published 2026 rate card charges a resort guest $250 or $325 by season and a non-resort guest $325 or $450, with green fee, cart, forecaddie and food on course included. The card has exactly two categories, so a neighbor who is not booked into a room pays the visitor rate. I wrote a fuller piece on Black Desert Resort and what it has done to Ivins. Read that one here.
| Course | Who owns or runs it | How you get on it |
|---|---|---|
| Black Desert Resort, Ivins | Resort | Public, and the rate depends on whether you are a resort guest |
| Bloomington Country Club, St. George | Private club | Members, their guests, and Bloomington Villas stays |
| Copper Rock, Hurricane | Private operator | Public tee times |
| Coral Canyon, Washington | Z Golf Management, majority owner since fall 2020 | Public tee times |
| Dixie Red Hills, St. George | City of St. George | Public, city rates, $80 loyalty card |
| Entrada at Snow Canyon, St. George | Private club | Members and guests staying on property |
| Green Spring, Washington | Washington City | Public, city rates, no resident discount published |
| Sand Hollow, Hurricane | Resort | Open to the public, per the resort |
| Sky Mountain, Hurricane | City of Hurricane | Public, Washington County resident discount with ID |
| Southgate, St. George | City of St. George | Public, city rates, $80 loyalty card |
| St. George Golf Club, St. George | City of St. George | Public, city rates, $80 loyalty card |
| Sunbrook, St. George | City of St. George | Public, city rates, $80 loyalty card |
| SunRiver, St. George | Private operator inside a 55 and older community | Public tee times |
| The Ledges, St. George | Resort operation | Public tee times and stay and play packages |
Verified September 17, 2026 from each course's own website, the three cities' pages and the Greater Zion course list published by the Washington County tourism office. Where a course publishes no ownership statement I wrote private operator rather than name a company I cannot source.
What a golf course lot actually buys you
In my experience showing homes on these fairways, the premium buys the view, the open space behind the fence and the near certainty that nobody will ever build a two story house forty feet off the back patio. Those things hold their value here, but they are not golf, and I would rather a buyer know that before the pro shop counter tells them. A fairway lot also brings a list nobody raises during a showing: stray balls, the netting conversation with your HOA, mowers before sunrise, and in a few spots a cart path close enough to hear every word. Walk the lot and look at which tee box is pointed at it.
The other half of the question is the HOA, and that is where the genuine differences between these communities live. Dues, what they cover and whether any club fee is bundled into them varies by community and sometimes by phase inside one community, and the only documents that settle it are the recorded declaration for that subdivision and a current resale certificate. I go through that community by community, with price ranges and HOA structures, on my St. George golf course homes page. Current county figures sit on my St. George market summary, and SunRiver and the other age restricted options are covered on my 55 and older communities page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are St. George golf courses public or private?
Almost all of them are public. Of the fourteen courses within twenty miles of St. George, Utah, only Entrada at Snow Canyon and Bloomington Country Club are private clubs. Six are owned by a city and sell rounds at published municipal rates, and the remaining six are daily fee or resort courses that book tee times online. Verified September 17, 2026.
Does buying a home on a golf course in St. George include golf?
No. No golf course in the St. George area grants playing privileges to a homeowner simply for owning a home along it, including the two private clubs. Entrada's membership inquiry form does list a social membership limited to Cliffs owners, but that is a social category rather than golf access. Everywhere else you pay the same green fee or buy the same membership as anyone else.
Do St. George residents get a discount on the city golf courses?
Not for living in St. George specifically. The city sells a Golf Loyalty Card for $80 a year per golfer that lowers green fees at all four city courses, and to buy one you show a valid Utah driver's license or Utah state identification card at any of the four city pro shops. The qualifier is Utah residency. Sky Mountain in Hurricane publishes a Washington County resident discount with ID, and Green Spring in Washington City publishes no resident discount at all.
Which St. George area golf courses are owned by a city?
Six. St. George City owns Dixie Red Hills, Sunbrook, Southgate and St. George Golf Club. Washington City owns Green Spring. Hurricane owns Sky Mountain. The other eight courses in the twenty mile radius are private clubs, resort courses or privately operated daily fee courses.
Thinking about a home on one of these courses?
I have sold real estate in St. George for thirteen years and I have walked most of these fairways from the homeowner's side of the fence. Call or text me at 435-200-5508 and tell me which course you are looking at. I will tell you what the lots along it trade for and what the HOA there does and does not cover. You can also send me a message here.