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Champion Hills.

A member-owned Tom Fazio favorite eight minutes from Hendersonville, debt-free and consistently the top year-round golf community in Western NC.

Chimney Rock above Hickory Nut Gorge near Asheville
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Champion Hills

A member-owned Tom Fazio favorite eight minutes from Hendersonville, debt-free and consistently the top year-round golf community in Western NC.

Southern Escapes Score
81/100
Lifestyle & Setting17
Amenities & Club17
Value & Appreciation17
Access & Location16
Exclusivity & Prestige14

Champion Hills, near Hendersonville, is built around a Tom Fazio course that Fazio himself has called a personal favorite, ranked among the best year-round layouts in Western North Carolina. It is entirely member-owned with no outside developer, which creates an engaged, active culture, and the community runs from established neighborhoods to new custom sections with seventeen miles of marked trails. Hendersonville fared better than Asheville in Helene recovery, a real consideration right now.

Median listings sit near $979K, with custom homes roughly $600K to $2.5M-plus and townhome entry lower. Membership is optional rather than required to buy, and golf dues are modest relative to the destination clubs. It carries less national name recognition than Biltmore Forest or the Cliffs, which is precisely why it is the best value-for-dollar luxury address in this cluster.

Homes
~$600K to $2.5M+
The draw
Member-owned Fazio course, Hendersonville access
Membership
Optional; golf dues modest
Why locals rate it
  • A genuinely elite Fazio course, member-owned
  • Best value-for-dollar in the Asheville cluster
  • Hendersonville recovered faster from Helene
What to weigh
  • Less national prestige than the nameplate addresses
  • HOA and club figures vary by source; confirm them
  • More suburban-feeling than pure wilderness
Your Weekend Itinerary

Fazio's home course, a Main Street with a general store, and theater at Flat Rock.

Saturday morning

Champion Hills, the course Tom Fazio built to live on; his office still sits at Fourth and Main in Hendersonville. It plays like a course the architect never stopped polishing.

The town

Hendersonville's Main Street: Mast General Store, thirty years on the street, and the best small-town window shopping in the mountains.

The afternoon

DuPont State Forest's waterfall triple, or apple country in the fall when Henderson County smells like cider.

The show

Flat Rock Playhouse, the State Theatre of North Carolina, with a full season on the boards ten minutes from the gate.

Sunday

Drive into Asheville for brunch and the Grove Arcade, or stay and play the back nine again. Fazio would.

Currently Offered

What is quietly available, right now.

Inventory inside these gates moves quietly, and the best of it often trades before it is broadly marketed. Ask us what is available in Champion Hills this week, including what has not hit the portals.

Considering Champion Hills?

We know this address from the inside.

Before you tour a single home, an Advisory Conversation tells you whether Champion Hills actually fits the life you are trying to build, and what the move is worth under the new Carolina tax math.