Sunrise Golf Club is an established residential community in the Palmer Ranch area of south Sarasota, off Clark Road west of Interstate 75 (community and Sarasota County guides, 2026). It was built largely in the 1970s and 1980s around an 18-hole golf course that opened in 1971, designed by Roy Albert Anderson, and grew to roughly 350 homes.
The defining change is the golf. The course closed in 2013 after years of decline, and in 2016 Canadian builder Mattamy Homes bought the roughly 115-acre former course for redevelopment into a separate new community (Your Observer, 2016). For the established Sunrise Golf Club homes, that means much of the former fairway land now reads as green space and trails rather than a working golf amenity, which is a very different buy from a bundled-golf club.
The housing is several distinct types: single-family Mediterranean-style homes, attached villas, and low-rise condos, with different sub-associations and fee structures by section. The Sunrise Golf Club name covers all of them, so the money is made or lost on the home type, the specific sub-association, condition on a 1970s and 1980s build, and the green-space view, not the headline price.
The pitch is an established, affordably positioned community in a sought-after Palmer Ranch area location near Siesta Key and Clark Road shopping. The work is sorting single-family from villa from condo, verifying the sub-association fee and reserves, and reading roof, systems, and insurance on an older home before you fall for a price.
