Sebastian Municipal Golf Course — Sebastian, Florida

Sebastian Municipal Golf Course is the City of Sebastian's own public golf course, an 18-hole layout at 100 Brushfoot Drive on the grounds of Sebastian Municipal Airport. The city facility page describes it as an 18-hole, championship golf course that offers PGA professionals, practice facilities, a fully stocked pro shop and a full service restaurant. It appears as Golf Course in the list of parks and facilities kept by the Sebastian Parks and Recreation Department.

The city sets out a plain purpose for it. The golf course page gives the mission as promoting the game of golf, Sebastian Golf Course and the City of Sebastian through customer service, golf events and junior golf activities. Hours, effective November 3, 2024, are 6:45 AM to 5:00 PM seven days a week, and the golf shop and tee time line is 772-589-6801. Tee times can also be booked through an online system linked from the city website.

The course sits inside a city of 25,759 residents with a median age of 57.6, according to the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023. The City of Sebastian publishes its golf rates, membership rules, junior pricing and tournament calendar on its own website, alongside its parks, airport and riverfront pages; the airport page describes the course as a City-owned, public facility.

The course occupies former military airfield land. According to the city's Airport History, the airport was built by the United States Navy in 1943 as Roseland Satellite Field, a naval flight training station, and was transferred to the City of Sebastian on January 29, 1959. The same page states that the noted championship Sebastian Municipal Golf Course was built in 1981 on a 155-acre plot of land occupying a large portion of the airport property, which today covers about 620 acres.

That arrangement still defines the course. The city Airport page notes that Sebastian Municipal Airport has ten airport tenants, including Sebastian Municipal Golf Course, which it calls a first-class, City-owned, public facility. Fairways and runways share the same city property on the northwest side of Sebastian, between Vero Beach and Melbourne.

Projects at Sebastian Municipal Airport have touched the course directly. In its list of airport infrastructure improvements, the city includes an eastside renovation with a new entrance road and landscaping, a new location for the golf course maintenance building, and building sites for new small businesses. The city course records page also divides its records into those set after a renovation in summer 2001.

Greens fees in Sebastian change with four seasons. The city rates and fees page divides the year into fall (October 1 to December 20), winter (December 21 to April 30), spring (May 1 to June 21) and summer (June 22 to September 30). For fall 2026 the city lists 18 holes with cart at $50.00, 9 holes with cart at $31.00 and an afternoon 18 hole walk at $30.00. Winter, from December 21, 2026 through April 30, 2027, is the peak, with 18 holes with cart at $66.00.

Summer is the cheapest season in Sebastian. From June 22, 2027 to September 30, 2027 the city lists 18 holes with cart at $40.00, and walking rounds after 11 am on weekends and holidays at $18.00 for 18 holes. A discount card costs $100.00 per year and lowers each rate; fall 2026 drops from $50.00 to $42.00 for 18 holes with cart with the card. Other fees include $5.00 range ball tokens, $35.00 for 18 hole club rentals and a $30.00 handicap service, and the city notes that all fees include sales tax and are subject to change.

Annual memberships run on the Sebastian fiscal year. The membership page states that the fiscal year begins on October 1st, 2026 and ends on September 30th, 2027, and lists a single membership at $1,100 and a family membership at $1,800, subject to 7% sales tax. Members pay a daily rate of $18 for 18 holes with cart all day, and in summer members walk 18 or 9 holes at no charge on weekdays. Memberships bought after October 1 are prorated for the first year only.

Junior play is priced well below adult rates in Sebastian. On the city rates page, juniors 15 years and younger can walk 9 or 18 holes after 2 pm for $5.00 in every season, and may ride with another player who holds a valid driver license. The range ball token for juniors is $2.00, and a 30 minute junior lesson is listed at $20.00.

The city junior golf page describes individual and small group lessons at $20 for one junior, $15 each for two and $10 each for three or four, normally 45 minutes to an hour. The same page states that SMGC is the North Campus home of the Indian River Golf Foundation, a junior program covering developmental through experienced junior golfers in Indian River County.

Weekly league play fills much of the Sebastian schedule. The city events page lists the Sebastian Women's Golf Association on Tuesdays, the Sebastian Men's Golf Association on Wednesdays, a Thursday Blitz League and an afternoon Sebastian Business League nine hole scramble, a Saturday couples league at noon and a Sunday Blitz League.

Saturdays are often given over to charity events organized by Sebastian groups. The 2026 tournament list includes the Sebastian Chamber of Commerce on May 2nd, 2026, the VFW of Sebastian on September 19th, 2026, the Sebastian PD Cope Unit on October 17th, 2026, the Italian-American Club of Sebastian on October 24th, 2026 and Sebastian Rotary on November 11th, 2026, most with 8am shotgun starts. Course maintenance is scheduled the same way: the city lists aerification on May 11 to 14 and August 31 to September 1, 2026, with 9 holes open each day.

The clubhouse has also changed. The city golf course page announces the Pelican Diner and Fore Winds Sports Lounge as now open at the Sebastian course, and the facility page describes a full service restaurant alongside the pro shop and practice facilities on Brushfoot Drive.