The Harlingen Country Club is located in the small municipal oasis of Palm Valley, a suburb to the city of Harlingen. The population of Palm Valley is approximately 1500, and many of the residents of this Texas golf community are club members. Nearly one-half of the total acreage of Palm Valley consists of the golf course itself. The primary street is configured as an oval that encloses the golf course and abutting private homes. Biking, jogging and walking are popular forms of outdoor exercise by the local citizenry and the weather is almost always accommodating. One lap around the oval is approximately 3.5 miles and the street is conveniently marked in quarter mile intervals.

The City of Palm Valley and the Harlingen Country Club have a close working relationship. The Club allows personal golf cart ownership and the City permits cart travel to the clubhouse over municipal streets. The City maintains its own police and street departments. By virtue of the limited area to cover, police surveillance of the residential areas is frequent and thorough. Residents of Palm Valley enjoy a level of safety and security usually associated only with gated golf communities.

The Harlingen Country Club was founded on August 18, 1949 and originally was located on the site of the present day Tony Butler public golf course in Harlingen. The 3000 square foot, one-story wooden clubhouse opened in May of 1951 with about 150 members. A fire razed the original clubhouse in 1968 and the Harlingen Country Club moved to its current location. A grand opening ceremony was held July 18-20, 1969. The current clubhouse offers 3 banquet halls, formal and informal dining rooms, golf and tennis pro shops and locker rooms with attendants. A recently completed state-of-the-art fitness center features Cybex equipment.

Harlingen Country Club hosts the annual South Texas Junior Golf Classic, which attracts top male and female junior players from throughout the state of Texas. HCC also is home to the "Life Begins at Forty" tournament, a match play event for players 40 years of age or older. The event has been held each spring since 1952 and includes 5 days of golf with dinner parties in the evenings. This tournament is so popular that there is waiting list to enter. A blind drawing is held each year to select the fortunate new entrants and those not drawn go back in the bowl for another year.

Club membership is approximately 540, currently consisting of 320 full privilege, equity members, and 220 limited or social/dining. Some of our members belong to the "Winter Texan" group, escaping the cold of the northern states during the winter but returning north after the spring thaw. Many more are northern transplants who have become permanent residents of Texas and partially fund the good life with money saved by the absence of a state income tax.

If you are yearning for a southern climate and would like to evaluate one of the best values in Texas country clubs, give our Manager, Tom Bloemendaal, a call.