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Santa Rosa Golf & Beach Club Homes for Sale

Thirty-nine single-family lots on Golf Villa Drive beside the Santa Rosa Golf & Beach Club course, the one bounded real-estate product this name reaches, with two separate club properties nine tenths of a mile apart across Scenic 30A and open county streets between them that carry no shared association.

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Golf Villa Drive is the one bounded product a search under this name can ever reach: thirty-nine single-family lots the state's parcel record classes as LOT and BLOCK against a recorded plat, with the streets and common areas held in a separate association parcel and no condominium classification anywhere in the group. The same record dates the houses and names the ground's holder: recorded construction on the lots runs from 2006 to 2013, and the streets and common areas belong to Santa Rosa Golf Villas Owners, the association the roll names. They sit immediately beside the course the club's name advertises, and understanding that name is worth doing before anything else, because it invites a bigger claim than the lots themselves ever make. Santa Rosa Golf & Beach Club is two club properties under one name, and the distance between them is the part most descriptions skip: the golf side stands at 334 Golf Club Drive on the high ground north of Scenic 30A, where the club opened nine holes in August 1971 and did not reach eighteen until the back nine opened in October 1988, on acreage bought from St. Joe Paper Company in the mid 1980s; the beach club and the Vue on 30a dining room sit at 4801 West County Highway 30A, about nine tenths of a mile away across the road, on a gulf-front parcel the county roll puts at roughly two and a fifth acres with about 345 feet of width. That is a drive or a ride between the two, not a walk across one campus. Both the golf club and the beach club post members-only hours; the restaurant posts its hours without that restriction. Neither club property is real estate a buyer can own: membership is sold by the club in equity, junior and social categories, with equity members holding an ownership stake and a policy vote, and nothing the club publishes ties any category to owning a lot nearby. It follows that a Golf Villa Drive lot carries no beach right of its own, and that the club and a deed are two separate purchases, priced and bought separately. That is the commitment this page keeps throughout: the lots are the product, and every club fact here is context a lot buyer prices around rather than a second thing for sale. The housing between the two club properties sits on ordinary county streets rather than inside one platted community: the county's parcel roll returns a mix of ordinary residential classes with no single association over them, and the county's list of adopted neighborhood plans names no overlay for this area, so architectural rules there come from whatever is recorded against an individual subdivision, not from this page. Bill Bergin rebuilt the course in 2021, keeping the routing while clearing trees and exposing the same white sand that runs under the beach, and the trade press covering that work recorded the fourth and fifth holes reaching out toward the highway. Two of the county's public beach accesses, West Allen Loop and Lake Causeway, lie about 0.6 and 0.7 miles south of the villas respectively, and the county maps others between them, so neither is offered here as the nearest.

  • Eighteen-hole course at 334 Golf Club Drive, completed in two stages
  • Members' beach club and dining room on a gulf-front parcel on 30A
  • Equity, junior and social memberships sold by the club
  • Open county streets with no single association over them

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These listings are the Golf Villa Drive lots. The club and the course sell no real estate of their own, and there is no way to search for the ordinary county streets around them.

The short-term rental badge above is not a permission of record. It reflects the MLS short-term-rental field where a listing discloses one, and otherwise where the home sits. Confirm the association's current rules and the local registration requirement before relying on it.

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Santa Rosa Golf & Beach Club FAQ

What can I actually buy under this name?

One thing: a single-family lot on Golf Villa Drive. The state's parcel record lists 39 of them, platted as LOT and BLOCK with their own recorded plat and their streets and common areas held by a separate association parcel - no condominium classification anywhere in the group. The golf club and beach club are not real estate for sale; they are membership organizations, and the ordinary county streets between the two club properties carry no shared association and no search token that reaches them.

Are the golf club and the beach club in the same place?

No, and the gap is the thing to get right. The club publishes the Golf Club at 334 Golf Club Drive on the inland side of Scenic 30A and the Beach Club with the Vue on 30a dining room at 4801 West County Highway 30A on the Gulf side. Geocoded federally, the two addresses are about nine tenths of a mile apart, so a round and a meal over the water involve crossing the highway rather than walking one campus.

Does buying a house near the course come with club access?

No. The club sells equity, junior and social memberships by inquiry and publishes no property qualification for any of them, and the converse holds too: owning nearby neither grants membership nor is required for it. Both the golf club and the beach club post members-only hours and the club lists private beach club access as a benefit of membership, so beach use here is bought from the club rather than conveyed with a deed.

How old is the eighteen-hole course?

The eighteen dates from 1988, not from the club's founding. The club's own timeline records a steering committee in October 1967, a Florida charter in January 1969, the beach club house finished in July 1971, nine holes opening that August, and the back nine opening in October 1988 on acreage bought from St. Joe Paper Company a few years earlier. Bill Bergin rebuilt the layout in 2021, and the trade coverage of that project describes the routing being kept while trees came out to expose the sand underneath.

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