Sandridge Golf Club

For October 1 to 31, 2026, Sandridge Golf Club lists 18 holes with half a golf cart at $35 for a player without a Sandridge ID card and $28 for an ID cardholder (Sandridge Golf Club rates).

The October card at Sandridge also lists a PGA Passport rate of $30 for 18 holes with half a cart, and the extra rider charge is posted once for all players (Sandridge rates page). The same page posts separate winter season rates, with the highest 18 hole rate at $75 without an ID card and $56 with one, and it links a complete 2026 to 2027 rate sheet in PDF form.

The rates page belongs to the Indian River County club, and the home page describes Sandridge as owned and operated by Indian River County (Sandridge home page). At the July 8, 2026, budget workshop, the county budget message said non-card holder fees would be increased by $5 for 9 hole rounds and $10 for 18 hole rounds, bringing in approximately $217,000 in additional revenues (FY 2026/27 budget workshop book).

The Sandridge ID card costs $70 for an Indian River County resident and $95 for a Florida resident (Sandridge ID card terms).

The Vero Beach club says the discounted rates are available to eligible Indian River County and Florida residents through the Sandridge ID Card program, requires proof of residency when a card is bought, and states that utility bills are not accepted as that proof (rates page, ID cards). In the posted October 2026 rates, the ID cardholder column runs below the non-cardholder column for riding and walking rounds alike, at $28 against $35 for 18 holes with half a cart.

The Sandridge rates page prints the card expiration date beside the card prices, and the Indian River County club is reached at (772) 770-5000 (rates page, contact). The county budget workshop book of July 8, 2026, ties the fee changes to non-card holders only, describing increases of $5 for 9 hole rounds and $10 for 18 hole rounds (FY 2026/27 budget workshop book).

Sandridge Golf Club is at 5300 73rd Street, Vero Beach, FL 32967, phone (772) 770-5000, and posts pro shop hours of 6:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Sandridge Golf Club home page).

The Vero Beach club describes itself as owned and operated by Indian River County, with 36 holes of public golf on two courses (home page). Tee times are booked through the club site or by calling (772) 770-5000, and the county facilities map layer lists the same number for SANDRIDGE GOLF CLUB at 5300 73RD ST with the note Call for tee times (Indian River County facilities layer).

The mailing city is Vero Beach, and the Census geocoder places 5300 73rd Street in the Winter Beach census designated place and returns no incorporated place for it (Census geocoder result for 5300 73rd Street).

Sandridge has two 18-hole courses: the Dunes Course, opened in April 1987 around an ancient ridge along Florida's East Coast, and the Lakes Course, opened in December 1992 with an island green on its par 4 14th hole (Sandridge Dunes Course page).

The Dunes Course winds around a ridge that runs along Florida's East Coast and that the club says was once used for mining operations (Dunes Course page). Its first hole is a par 4 of 385 yards from the gold tees, and hole 2 is a par 5 of 539 yards from the same tees.

The Lakes Course opened in December 1992, and the club calls its par 4 14th, played to an island green, one of the toughest holes in South Florida (Sandridge Lakes Course page). The Lakes opener is a par 5 of 585 yards from the gold tees. Both Vero Beach course pages list six sets of tees, from gold to orange, and an expected pace for each hole.

Indian River County broke ground on June 20, 2025, on a new Sandridge clubhouse, and county documents state its cost differently (Indian River County 2025/26 Budget Book).

The groundbreaking announcement describes a 22,000-square-foot clubhouse and event space with a full-service restaurant and bar seating 80 guests indoors and 60 outdoors, a commercial kitchen and a 200-person banquet facility that can be subdivided into two 100-person rooms (county groundbreaking announcement). The construction contract went to a West Palm Beach contractor, and the plan lists a dedicated catering kitchen for banquet operations separate from the main restaurant, an event lawn for up to 250 guests, a paved parking lot expanded from 85 to 204 spaces and a golf cart staging area relocated onto the current clubhouse footprint.

Sandridge runs as Indian River County's Fund 418, an enterprise fund for a club made up of two 18-hole courses and a driving range, and the 2025/26 budget message says the course continues to realize financial growth (budget book, Fund 418). The July 8, 2026, workshop book says a food and beverage manager and a marketing and venue manager had been onboarded for the clubhouse operation (FY 2026/27 budget workshop book).

Indian River County issued a bond in 1985 to build an eighteen hole public golf course on part of an existing park site, according to the county's comprehensive plan (Comprehensive Plan, Recreation and Open Space Element).

That bond followed a 1982 issue of five million dollars to buy beachfront property, and the plan describes an Indian River County policy that focused on beachfront sites, beach and river access and a county-owned golf course while giving a lower priority to neighborhood parks (Comprehensive Plan, Chapter 10). The first Sandridge course, the Dunes, opened in April 1987 (Dunes Course page), and the Lakes Course followed in December 1992 (Lakes Course page).

The comprehensive plan maps Sandridge Golf Course on its Figure 10.1 next to the 27 park sites in unincorporated Indian River County, but it states that the golf course, the boat ramps and the county firearms range are not counted as county parks (Comprehensive Plan, Figure 10.1 note). The same plan counts 70 parks across jurisdictions, including 20 in the City of Vero Beach, 13 in the City of Sebastian and 7 in the City of Fellsmere, plus the state park at Sebastian Inlet and Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. Last verified: October 22, 2026, after a fresh read of the Sandridge home, rates, Dunes and Lakes pages, the county 2025/26 budget book, the FY 2026/27 workshop book, the groundbreaking announcement, the county facilities layer, the geocoder and Chapter 10 of the county comprehensive plan.