Beyond Boca Raton’s largest clubs, the next tier of country clubs charges anything from no upfront joining fee (per The Club at Boca Pointe’s undated directory listing) to a reported $325,000, and five of them require homeowners to join. As of October 28, 2026, membership is mandatory at The Polo Club (a reported $325,000 capital contribution since June 1, 2026, with 2025/26 annual costs reported at about $28,900 to $44,000), Boca Grove (a reported $250,000 golf equity fee as of April 15, 2026, and $48,288 a year), Bocaire ($200,000 and $57,175 a year in dues and assessments on its 2025/26 schedule), Stonebridge ($150,000 plus a $1,000 equity bond and $25,853 in base golf dues for 2025/26) and Boca Woods (about $150,000 as reported in August 2026, against $120,000 on its 2025/26 sheet), while Boca Pointe, Boca Lago and Boca Greens have optional clubs and Boca Rio is an invitation-only golf club with no homes attached. By entry fee, the most expensive country club in Boca Raton is St Andrews Country Club, at a reported $550,000 including its $50,000 property owners contribution from September 1, 2026.

We are Steven, Elliot, and Wendy Koolik. Buyers who have read our comparison of the big clubs usually ask the next question within a week: what about the clubs that do not make every list? Some cost as much as the famous names, a few cost a fraction, and two are not what their names suggest. This guide takes each club’s structure from its own website (or, where the site is silent, from brokerage reports and listings), its fees from the club’s 2025/26 schedule wherever we could obtain one, and later changes from dated brokerage reports.

Boca Raton’s Other Country Clubs at a Glance

None of these clubs posts fees on its website. The figures below come from the clubs’ printed 2025/26 schedules, which circulate to brokers, and from dated brokerage reports where a club has changed fees since. Entry fee is the one-time payment to the club. Annual charges are the mandatory recurring items on the club’s schedule; some clubs bill an HOA assessment inside that total and some do not.

Sources: club fee schedules (2025/26; Boca Lago January 2025); club websites, October 28, 2026; The Entel Group, August 15, 2026; Isabella Scott; City of Boca Raton rate pages. Confirm with each club.

What Does Each Club Charge?

The Polo Club of Boca Raton

The Polo Club covers 1,100 acres at 5400 Champion Boulevard (33496), with two championship golf courses, 22 lighted Har-Tru tennis courts, 18 lighted pickleball courts, and a 35,000-square-foot spa and fitness center. Membership is mandatory: the club states that “the minimum membership requirement is a Social Only Membership,” and it offers Social Only, Social with Racquets, Social with Golf, and Social Full.

The entry fee is a new member capital contribution. The club’s schedule for October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026 set it at $250,000 for every tier, and The Entel Group reported that it rose to $325,000 effective June 1, 2026, a $75,000 increase. One 2026 listing reported that contracts received by the membership office before April 16 kept the old rate regardless of closing date. The schedule describes no refund of the contribution.

The gap between the columns is mostly one line: the clubhouse renovation assessment rose from $85 to $185 a month in January 2026, adding $1,200 a year to every category. Social Only dues are not taxable because of the club’s tax status.

Golf and racquets memberships are 10-year commitments for as long as you own a Polo home, after which a one-time, non-refundable conversion fee lets you continue year to year. On the 2025/26 sheet, a member who sells a Polo primary residence and buys another Polo home within 18 months pays the Prior Polo Owner rate of $20,000; confirm it was unchanged by the June 2026 increase. The sheet also lists legacy discounts for certain relatives of members and a $2,220.25 membership transfer fee. The 2026/27 schedule, effective October 1, 2026, was not public when we checked on October 28, 2026.

Boca Grove

Boca Grove is at 21351 Whitaker Drive (33433), across from the Glades Road exit of Florida’s Turnpike. Founded in 1983, it has an 18-hole course, 10 Har-Tru courts plus a clay stadium court, and five pickleball courts, with roughly 430 residences in seven subdivisions, from a six-story condominium building to 250 single-family homes. The club calls itself “a mandatory membership community.”

Boca Grove has since eliminated its social category. As reported by Isabella Scott as of April 15, 2026, there is one golf membership with a $250,000 golf equity fee, a non-refundable one-time payment at closing. Published annual charges total $48,288, none taxable (the line items below add to $48,285, so confirm the total with the club):

• Golf dues: $27,267
• Sports and Wellness Center assessment: up to $399 a month ($4,788 a year)
• Community assessment (POA, non-recreational): $9,230
• Capital contribution and POA road assessment: $2,500
• Food and beverage service charge and non-tipping fee: $2,000
• Food and beverage minimum, July 1 to June 30: $2,500

Because it includes the community assessment, Boca Grove’s total is closer to all-in than dues alone at most clubs. We found no published transfer terms.

Bocaire Country Club

Bocaire is a private, member-owned club at 4989 Bocaire Boulevard (33487), with 236 custom single-family homes as reported by Isabella Scott, and a mandatory golf membership for all purchasers.

Its schedule for the November 1, 2025 to October 31, 2026 fiscal year lists a $200,000 non-refundable initiation fee: $1,000 with the application and $199,000 at least ten days before closing. Mandatory annual fees, none subject to sales tax, are recreational facilities dues of $37,834, a $3,000 capital assessment, a $5,760 improvement assessment, a $2,640 service charge and a $7,941 common property (HOA) assessment, for $57,175; four small funds on the same mandatory list add $395, for $57,570 in all. The Entel Group’s August 2026 report agrees. Without the HOA line, Bocaire’s five main club charges are $49,234. The schedule runs through October 31, 2026; ask for the one that applies from November 1.

Stonebridge Golf and Country Club

Stonebridge is 398 homes on about 400 acres in west Boca Raton, with its clubhouse at 10343 Stonebridge Boulevard (33498) and a course redesigned in 2015 by Kipp Schulties. The club’s property owners fee sheet for November 1, 2025 to October 31, 2026 lists golf membership as mandatory and social membership as “inquire about availability.”

Recurring golf charges come to $35,673 a year. Prices exclude 7 percent Florida sales tax, which the sheet says does not apply to the equity bond or renovation charges, so ask which lines carry it, and confirm whether the capital reserve contribution recurs. The property owners association adds a one-time $15,000 capital infrastructure fee and $4,380 a year, covering cable, internet, alarm monitoring and common areas.

The initiation fee, a $300 processing fee and a copy of the contract go to the club with the application at least one month before closing. The club holds it in escrow and refunds it in full if the sale does not close. When an equity bond is sold, the member receives its value less a 20 percent transfer fee, capped at $20,000: $800 back on a $1,000 golf bond. The $150,000 is not refundable. This schedule runs through October 31, 2026, so ask the club for the one that applies from November 1, 2026; as The Entel Group advises, do not rely on an older sheet.

Boca Woods Country Club

Boca Woods is at 10471 Boca Woods Lane (33428), with two championship 18-hole courses and gated access around the clock; its Woods Course reopened after a Rees Jones renovation in December 2023. Membership is mandatory, as brokerage reports and 2026 listings consistently state.

The entry fee is the one live conflict here. The club’s 2025/2026 Full Golf schedule lists a $119,000 non-refundable initial capital contribution plus a $1,000 refundable certificate. The Entel Group reported on August 15, 2026 a $149,000 non-refundable initiation fee plus a small certificate, about $150,000, and July 2026 listings describe a $150,000 mandatory membership. Isabella Scott reports the $149,000 initiation effective March 3, 2026; we have not seen the club’s notice of the roughly $30,000 increase.

On the 2025/2026 schedule, Full Golf dues are $25,045 plus tax billed in six payments, or $25,543 over twelve. Add a $125 monthly service charge, an $84 monthly 2018 facilities fee, a $98 monthly 2023 Woods Course assessment, and a $2,000 dining minimum for the November to October year. On the six-payment option, dues and assessments total $28,729 before tax. Only the certificate is refundable.

Boca Pointe Country Club (The Club at Boca Pointe)

Boca Pointe is about 1,000 acres in Boca Raton with more than 3,400 condominiums, villas, townhomes and single-family homes around an 18-hole course designed by Golforce, then a division of Jack Nicklaus Golf Services. Homeowners belong to the community association; club membership is optional, and the club at 7144 Boca Pointe Drive (33433) is open to non-residents.

Boca Pointe is no longer an equity club. After more than 90 percent of its equity members voted for the sale in 2021, ownership passed to Heritage Golf Group. The club offers Golf, Sports and Social, and Executive and Junior Executive versions of each, with annual or six-month seasonal terms in the main categories on a space-available basis. Its undated directory listing says there are “no upfront joining fees.” Dues are not published, members hold no equity, and pricing is set by the owner rather than a member vote.

Boca Lago Golf and Country Club

Boca Lago’s club, at 8665 Juego Way (33433), has 27 holes across three nines. The surrounding Boca Lago neighborhoods total more than 1,700 residences, and club membership is optional. The club calls itself “a members-only, privately owned, non-equity club,” and its 2025 sheet says it has no assessments. Its Full Golf pricing, effective January 1, 2025:

• Full Golf Single: $14,700 initiation; $800 a month, or $1,100 all-in; $85 monthly food minimum
• Single with Spousal Social Upgrade: $16,500; $875, or $1,175 all-in; $120 minimum
• Full Golf Family (the club’s category name): $22,500; $1,100, or $1,500 all-in; $120 minimum

All-in covers cart fees, bag storage and a locker, putting Full Golf at $13,200 to $18,000 a year, plus sales tax. These prices are 21 months old; ask for the 2026 sheet.

Boca Greens

Boca Greens is a gated community whose club is optional and non-equity; a September 2025 guide to Boca Raton clubs lists it with “no membership required.” One brokerage’s listing data put the median HOA at about $286 a month in September 2026; confirm the current assessment with the association. The club does not publish membership rates, so ask the Boca Greens office for the current golf schedule.

Boca Rio Golf Club

Boca Rio is a member-owned golf club founded in 1967 on about 200 acres at 22041 Boca Rio Road (33433), with “no developed real estate,” a 7,100-yard Robert von Hagge course, and membership limited to 175 members with golf privileges. There is no house to buy into it.

Membership is by invitation only: a current member sponsors the candidate, the Admissions Committee recommends, and the Board of Governors approves. Boca Rio publishes no initiation fee or dues, we found no reliable dated report of either, and the club directs membership questions to the member extending the invitation. We also looked at Boca Delray Golf and Country Club, but sources conflict on whether its club is mandatory, so we left it out rather than guess.

What About Public Golf? Boca National and the City Courses

Some buyers still ask about Boca National Golf Club as the low-cost alternative. It does not exist. The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District bought the former Ocean Breeze course, closed since 2016, to build it. In October 2020 the owners of the Boca Raton resort donated the 167-acre Boca Country Club to the city, which reopened its course on November 1, 2021 as the Boca Raton Golf & Racquet Club, and in February 2021 the District began seeking other recreational uses for Ocean Breeze, now its North Park project. The public courses that exist are the city’s:

The card is a discount, not unlimited golf. As an illustration, a city resident playing 60 winter rounds at $82, if the card’s 20 percent discount applies to that rate, pays about $3,936 plus the $375 card, roughly $4,300 a year, with no initiation fee. The course has a clubhouse with a restaurant, SW Grill, but it is a public course: resident card holders book tee times up to 10 days ahead rather than holding member tee times. Parts of Boca Raton with a Boca Raton mailing address are in unincorporated Palm Beach County, so check the city limits map first.

How Do These Clubs Compare With Boca Raton’s Largest Clubs?

Our complete 2026 comparison of Boca Raton and Delray Beach country club membership fees covers the big clubs tier by tier. The headline figures:

The next tier is not uniformly cheaper. The Polo Club’s reported $325,000 sits above Broken Sound’s reported $300,000 top tier, and both it and Boca Grove’s reported $250,000 sit above Woodfield’s current Full Equity fee and Boca West’s reported $215,000.

What Is the Most Expensive Country Club in Boca Raton?

It depends on the measure. By entry fee, it is St Andrews Country Club: a reported $500,000 club contribution plus a $50,000 property owners contribution, $550,000 from September 1, 2026. Addison Reserve’s $400,000 is next in the area, but it is in Delray Beach; within Boca Raton, The Polo Club’s reported $325,000 follows. By first-year club cash, adding one year of published mandatory charges (before property taxes, and before HOA dues except where the club bills them):

By annual cost, St Andrews leads: its reported 2025/26 club charges (dues of $50,566 plus 7 percent tax, a $4,500 capital assessment, a $6,000 debt repayment assessment and a $250 holiday fund) come to about $64,900 with tax, before its $8,208 and $7,500 POA assessments. Within this guide’s group, Bocaire’s $57,175 is the largest mandatory total, though it includes a $7,941 HOA assessment. By home price, Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club stands apart, with an average sale of about $11 million over the 12 months to early 2025 in our Royal Palm guide, but its club is optional. The Boca Raton’s private club works on a different model, covered in our guide to The Boca Raton club membership cost in 2026.

How to Read a Club Fee Sheet

Equity vs non-equity

An equity club is owned by its members; a non-equity club is owned by a company. Equity rarely means a meaningful refund in this group. Stonebridge’s equity bond is $1,000, Boca Woods’ refundable certificate is $1,000, and Boca Grove’s $250,000 golf equity is reported as non-refundable. Among the big clubs, Woodfield’s Full Equity carries a reported $45,000 refundable portion. Read the refund line, not the label.

Mandatory vs optional

Mandatory means the obligation runs with the home: you cannot close without applying and paying the entry fee. The minimum tier varies. At The Polo Club it is Social Only, so golf stays optional; at Boca Grove, Bocaire and Stonebridge it is golf, whether or not you play. The Club at Boca Pointe accepts non-residents, so its fees are not tied to your house, and both Boca Pointe and Boca Lago are privately owned, so prices are set without a member vote. Our guide to Boca Raton gated communities without mandatory club membership sorts the optional structures.

Capital contributions at purchase

The club’s entry fee is often not the only one-time payment. Stonebridge’s property owners association collects $15,000 and St Andrews’ $50,000. Boca West’s Master Association contribution was $10,000 and is reported at $20,000 from October 1, 2026, per MLS disclosures cited by The Entel Group; Broken Sound’s master association listed a $4,000 compliance fee on its December 2024 information sheet, and Addison Reserve a $3,600 capital contribution on its reported 2025/26 schedule. Florida’s estoppel statute requires the association to state whether “a capital contribution fee, resale fee, transfer fee, or other fee” is due, and under the standard homeowners association rider the buyer pays initial contributions.

Minimums, service charges, and assessments

Most clubs here pair a food and beverage minimum with a service or no-tipping charge: Boca Grove $2,500 and $2,000, Stonebridge $2,000 and $2,000, Boca Woods $2,000 plus $125 a month, Bocaire a $2,640 service charge. Ask whether unspent minimum is billed at year end. Assessments fund capital projects: Stonebridge bills $2,520 for clubhouse renovation and $1,620 for its course, Boca Woods $84 and $98 a month, and Bocaire $5,760 for improvements. Ask what the board has approved, because a new assessment lands on every member, including the newest.

How fee schedules change each season

Entry fees tend to jump in large steps announced months ahead; dues and assessments rise each fee year. Among the big clubs, Boca West’s reported increase took effect October 1, 2026 and Woodfield’s takes effect November 2, so many resets in this market fall between June and November, ahead of the season, though Addison Reserve and Mizner changed entry fees on January 1, 2026 and Boca Lago priced from January 1, 2025.

Selling in One of These Clubs: How Membership Terms Shape Your Buyer Pool

In a mandatory club, your buyer compares your price plus the club’s entry fee with the same total elsewhere, so club fee changes reach your sale. The Polo Club’s reported move to $325,000 means a buyer now brings $75,000 more to join, and Boca Woods’ reported increase adds about $30,000. In practice, some of that comes out of what a buyer will pay for the house, and a seller who can close before an announced increase has a pricing argument that disappears the day after.

Some clubs keep part of the pool inside the gates. The Polo Club’s Prior Polo Owner rate, $20,000 on the 2025/26 sheet, makes current members moving within the community a natural buyer group, worth marketing to directly. Optional clubs widen the pool: a home in Boca Pointe, Boca Lago or Boca Greens can sell to buyers who want no club bill as well as to golfers.

Do not count on a refund. At Stonebridge it is $800 on a $1,000 golf bond (the bond’s value less a 20 percent transfer fee), at Boca Woods a $1,000 certificate on the 2025/26 sheet, and the schedules and reports for The Polo Club, Boca Grove and Bocaire show no refund of the entry fee. Price the home on what the next buyer pays in total. Our guide to selling a country club home in Boca Raton covers approvals, estoppels and who pays what, and our guide to the best time to sell a luxury home in Boca Raton covers timing.

What to Ask Before You Write an Offer

• Is membership mandatory for this home, at what minimum tier, and where does the declaration say so?
• What is the current entry fee, is an increase approved, and which date decides the fee you pay?
• What is refundable, on what terms, and what transfer fee applies when you sell?
• What are this fee year’s dues, assessments, service charges and minimums, and which carry sales tax?
• What association contributions are due at closing, per the estoppel certificate?

Considering Delray Beach too? See our guide to Delray Beach private club membership costs in 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

Club fees, membership requirements and admission rules are drawn from the clubs’ 2025/26 fee schedules (Boca Lago’s from January 2025), the clubs’ websites, the City of Boca Raton, the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, and dated reports from The Entel Group and Isabella Scott, as of October 28, 2026. Clubs reset fees each fee year and can change entry fees, assessments and membership structures by board action. Confirm every figure with the club and the association before contract, and have a Florida real estate attorney review the governing documents.