Mayfair CC Nears Completion of New Clubhouse

Mayfair Country Club in Sanford, Fla., is nearing completion on the construction of its brand new clubhouse, a project that’s been nearly a year in the making.

Opened in 1922, the Mayfair Country Club was one of the first designs of Donald Ross, widely regarded as one of North America’s top golf course designers. Over the last century, the clubhouse has been a staple of the local community and a space for legends, hosting the PGA Tour in the 1950s and allowing legendary golfers like Arnold Palmer to walk its historic grounds. In the decades since, the country club has seen many upgrades, bringing it from nine holes to a full eighteen, complete with a putting green and practice bunker, but the clubhouse has remained largely the same - until just recently.

In November 2024, the old clubhouse was demolished to make way for a new clubhouse, tentatively named “The Verandas.” The new clubhouse will reportedly contain a larger pro shop, 2,030 square-foot banquet hall with seating for 70, a full restaurant kitchen, an indoor-outdoor bar, and a 1,296 square-foot open-air patio. In total, the new space will contain nearly 8,000 feet of indoor space, plus more on the patio, and 80 parking spaces. Mayfair Country Club reports that their new clubhouse will be aimed at offering “a distinctive dining experience” and an “ideal venue for events like weddings and parties.”

When asked for the reasoning behind the new construction, Assistant City Manager Craig Radzak said, “[The old clubhouse] was 100 years old. It needed to be updated, but it had some structural issues and at a certain point it was easier to demolish it and build something new”, later adding that the old clubhouse had been “showing its age.”

According to Radzak, construction on the new clubhouse is estimated to be completed in November. The eventual grand opening ceremony, including a ribbon cutting and speeches from Sanford’s elected officials, has been tentatively planned for early December, though the details regarding the opening are reportedly still being teed up and are subject to change. In the meantime, the golf course will remain open, as it has throughout the construction.