Wedgewood Golf and Country Club is an established single-residential neighborhood in north Lakeland, Polk County, off Carpenters Way south of Lake Gibson, in ZIP 33809 (zipdatamaps neighborhood profile, 2026; neighborhoods.com community profile, 2026). Real estate guides describe it as a neighborhood of midsize, reasonably priced homes that dates back to roughly 1983 and continued to build out over the years.
Listing data describes homes generally built from about 1982 into the early 2000s, broadly in the range of about 1,300 to 2,900 square feet, with two to four bedrooms, and a modest association fee on the order of a low monthly or annual figure (neighborhoods.com community profile, 2026). Confirm the exact year built, square footage, bedroom count, and the current HOA dues and rules for any specific home, since these vary lot by lot.
The neighborhood is named for the Wedgewood Golf Course, originally opened in 1931 on the historic Carpenters Home property and redesigned and renamed Wedgewood in 1983 (LkldNow, 2022). That course has since closed. It was sold in December 2021 to Mulberry based SJD Development, and the city has worked through plans to redevelop the roughly 117 acre property into housing, so the course is now a redevelopment site rather than a working amenity.
The pitch is an established, low fee north Lakeland address with quick access to Interstate 4, U.S. 98, and the Lake Gibson area shopping and schools. The work is the diligence: confirm the HOA and any deed restrictions, read what the former golf course land is becoming and how close it sits to the specific home, and factor in the planned Carpenters Way and Lakeland Park Drive road work tied to the redevelopment.
