Villages Golf & Country Club (Eighteen Hole)

Overview: The Villages Golf & Country Club’s Eighteen Hole course is the private 18-hole centerpiece of a 55-plus community in San Jose’s Evergreen foothills. Robert Muir Graves designed the layout, which current course references date to 1968 and list at par 72 and 6,707 yards from the back tees. Hillside terrain, lakes, mature landscaping and views across Silicon Valley give the course a distinctly inland Bay Area character. A separate short nine exists at the same property and is kept outside this profile.

History: The Villages was established on the site of a former hillside vineyard and winery, and the golf course became the focal point of a large planned community. Current references identify the 18-hole course as a 1968 Robert Muir Graves design. The community has since grown across roughly 1,200 acres, with the course, lakes and residential neighborhoods arranged together in the Evergreen foothills.

Did You Know? The property’s golf offering is larger than the directory’s Eighteen Hole label suggests: the club has a regulation 18-hole course plus a separate nine-hole par-three course. The main course also uses the natural hillside setting rather than hiding it behind a flat suburban grade. Waterways, rolling ground and mature landscaping help make the course feel more like a foothill retreat than a conventional retirement-community layout.