Sawgrass Country Club is located in beautiful Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, within a gated residential community with a delightful variety of home styles ranging from villas and patio homes in a price range from around $350,000 to $2.5 million. The area enjoys a sub-tropical-but-temperate four-seasons climate. While protected from overdevelopment and congestion, the Club is just 20 minutes easy drive to downtown Jacksonville, a few more minutes to Jacksonville International Airport, and an equally short run south to St. Augustine. We are also about a 2 hour drive to Orlando and Disney World.

Our members include a stimulating mix of current as well as retired high level corporate executives, military and government officials, consultants, educators and entrepreneurs. Yet the social climate is relaxed and low key, with 20% of our members under the age of 55. Overall, there's a delightful and refreshing absence of posturing and, as you gain new friends, you may only learn of their notable accomplishments from others.  In recent years,  Ponte Vedra Beach area has experienced a surge in families relocating to the area to take advantage of the excellent school systems.  In response, the Club has created  an exciting array of family friendly offerings including family friendly dining options at the Beach Club, child care while using the facilities, .kids night out on the weekends, after school. and summer camp recreational programs, swim team  and  family fun nights at the Beach Club.

While there are generally villas and luxury homes available for sale or rental within our gates, you don't have to live here to be a member. In fact, 32% of our members live in Ponte Vedra Beach  and surrounding  communities just beyond our gates and 20% have their second (or primary) home in other areas of the country.

Sawgrass Country Club and the Sawgrass Home Owner's Association operate as two separate entities.   For more information on the Sawgrass Country Club Community, please visit their website at www.sawgrassassociation.com

COURSE INFORMATION OVERVIEW

USGA Rules are in effect. Please check the ForeTees golf homepage for updates on course condition.

Golf Course Closure Dates

The golf courses will be closed for maintenance on the following dates:

Monday, August 24 - All Facilities Closed (Construction)
Monday, August 31 - All Facilities Closed (Construction)
Monday, September 14 - All Facilities Closed (Construction)
Monday, September 21 - All Facilities Closed (Construction)
Monday, September 28 - All Facilities Closed (Construction)


 
 *Note: The practice tee is closed until 10am on Monday mornings for maintenance and after 10:00 all use is restricted to the matts. (In order to maximize the hitting tee through the dormant season, all practice is on matts on Mondays and Thursdays effective Monday, January 14, 2019.) The putting green adjacent to #1 East is closed when East is closed for maintenance; the short game area next to Clubhouse is closed when West is closed for maintenance. 

Practice Facilities:

During Construction:
7:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday - Sunday

Winter:

Mondays Closed due to Construction
Tuesday – Sunday: 7:00 am – 5:30 pm

Summer:

Mondays Closed due to Construction
Tuesday – Sunday: 7:00 am – 6:30 pm

Our members enjoy a private club experience with all the features of a multi-star, ocean-front resort, including 27 holes of tour-proven, championship golf with our newly built 68,000 sq ft Clubhouse; a world-class racquet club, a fully equipped, convenient Fitness and Wellness center, full range of Junior and family activities, and a pristine uncrowded beach fronting our 25,000 sq ft Beach Club.

Let Sawgrass Country Club assist you in reaching your 2023 fitness/health goals with our packaged meal plan. Click below for the order form. Orders are accepted from Tuesday at 12pm until Friday at 5pm each week.

• Beach Club Dinner Menu
• Golf Clubhouse Lunch Menu
• Topsider Lunch Menu

Located in the heart of the Sawgrass Country Club campus, the Racquet Club of Sawgrass Country Club has been ranked among the nation’s “50 Best” by Tennis Magazine and as a “Five Star” tennis destination by World Tennis.

Sawgrass Country Club was the former host of the  MPS Group Championships, a WTA event and the Lipton Doubles . 

We proudly host the very popular annual senioRITAS CHARITY EVENT which benefits Breast Cancer research.  

The complex features an elevated pavilion overlooking 13 Har-Tru courts (four lighted) that are individually fenced and tiered, an arrangement that enhances player focus. A stadium court provides spectators with fine views of tournament finalists.

A wide range of lesson plans and clinics are available for all ages and skill levels. Year round Junior tennis opportunities are presented through summer camps and after-school programs in the fall and spring. 

A devastating fire sparked a family's dream and that eventually became Sawgrass. In 1901, most of downtown Jacksonville burned down. The fire started in a broom­making company and quickly spread, leaving thousands homeless. But not for long, as developers such as James R. Stockton quickly sold the inventory of homes in close­in suburbs such as Riverside, Avondale and San Marco ... and got wealthy along the way.

Stockton and other developers concentrated on the central part of Duval County. With the opening of the Acosta Bridge in 1921, no longer was a ferry required to reach the Southside and the boom continued there.For many, that was enough. For Stockton, the horizon never ended and his business expanded past homebuilding. One subsidiary was Telfair Stockton Inc., a property management firm.

Skip now to 1928, when the National Lead Company decided to do some expansion of its own. National Lead was a mining company that found rich deposits between Jacksonville and the ocean and owned, among many other land holdings, an enormous piece stretching along the Atlantic Ocean. They had built an executive retreat on part of it and decided to convert it into a resort.

To plan and develop this, they hired Telfair Stockton Inc., and James Stockton now had an entree into the oceanfront. The Great Depression slowed things down, but the Inn  at Ponte Vedra finally opened in 1937.

The onset of World War II gave National Lead other priorities — such as developing the atomic bomb. They asked Stockton to broker a land sale. There were no takers so National Lead offered to radically cut the price. Stockton didn't have the cash but had borrowing power, and ended up owning what now has, perhaps, an inestimable value: 18 miles along the Atlantic Ocean.

Stockton didn't stop there, adding land south of Ponte Vedra — now known as the Guana tract —  and kept expanding the business. Stockton kept merging. The real estate company added Brown Whatley and Joseph Davin and the name reflected it: Stockton, Whatley and Davin. A new face in the company was the man who eventually built Sawgrass: James Stockton Jr.

Another merger was SWD with Great American Oil of Texas. Another new company was Telfair Corporation with young Jimmy, his uncle and his father. A notable part of that deal was a 600­acre tract south of the Ponte Vedra club. Yet another merger was the Telfair Corp. with Industrial America.

And that's where Sawgrass comes in. The oceanfront land, plus the 600 acres, are now the Sawgrass community. The senior Stockton died in 1969 and, three years after, Jimmy and sister Preston became developers of what is now one of Florida's most prestigious residential country clubs.

"It was truly a swamp," said Jimmy Stockton. "The  lakes were full of alligators. If you walked around without snake boots, you weren't very smart. It was nowhere with nothing. no water, no power, no roads. It was as raw as you could find."

The first real structure was the office building at what is now the South entrance. The North entrance didn't come until the mid­80's. "We had a generator to produce power," said Stockton. "Eventually, JEA ran lines from the Davis property across the Intracoastal."

The building became an attraction for two reasons. "It was where I put a lot of my safari trophies," said Stockton, "so there were all kinds of wild animals. "And, we had a helicopter that we used to take tours for potential land buyers. That was a big deal, too."

Welcome to Sawgrass Country Club, a premier, member-owned private Club located in coastal Northeast Florida. The Sawgrass member experience is a lifestyle that transports you beyond the golf and country club experience. 

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