Cedar Hammock Golf & Country Club

Two full kitchens work out of the Cedar Hammock clubhouse, and between them they cover the day. Lunch is served every day, in the Grill Room or outside on the Veranda. Evenings go to the Main Dining Room or to The Hammock, the club's cabana bar and restaurant, with a daily happy hour, outdoor entertainment and club nights such as Trivia and Bingo. Hours and menus shift with the season.

Beyond the dining rooms, the club has four clay tennis courts, two bocce courts, a two-story fitness center, the main pool and an 18-hole course where nearly every hole brings water into play. The club gives the whole community as 400 acres and says more than half of it is lakes, wetlands and wildlife corridors. It lies in East Naples between Santa Barbara Boulevard and Collier Boulevard, behind a guard house on Davis Boulevard where visitors are admitted. Residents' cars carry RFID gate tags.

Who laid out the golf course, and how is it set up?

Jed Azinger and Gordon Lewis designed it: 18 holes, par 72, about 6,680 yards. Kipp Schulties redesigned the course in 2014. It threads through pines, cypress and lakes, with nine sets of tees and TifEagle Bermuda greens.

The club has its own range, a short-game practice area and putting greens. Tee times go through the pro shop, and club staff run the golf leagues.

What happens on the courts and in the fitness center?

The four tennis courts are Har-Tru clay, with a pavilion, and a tennis professional teaches private lessons and clinics. Through the season the pro runs leagues and matches both in-club and against other clubs, along with tennis socials, cocktail hours and an awards ceremony. Bocce leagues play on the two courts close by, organized by members.

The fully renovated Fitness and Wellness Center takes up two floors. Inside are True Fitness cardio and strength machines, a studio for yoga and group exercise, and personal trainers. In season, classes cover yoga, barre, Power Hour, cardio circuit, stretch and balance, water aerobics and golf fitness, among others, mostly free to members. Line dancing and ballet barre carry a fee.

The community has four pools in all. Members also run their own groups: canasta, mahjong, euchre and other card and tile games, plus knitting and a book club.

How far is the drive to the Pier, the hospital and the airport?

From the Davis Boulevard gate, the Walmart Supercenter on Collier Boulevard is about 1.7 miles by road, roughly 4 minutes. Physicians Regional Medical Center, also on Collier, is about 5 miles and 9 minutes. Fifth Avenue South is about 6.6 miles, the Naples Pier about 7.4 and Coastland Center about 8.2, at around 12, 14 and 15 minutes. Southwest Florida International Airport is about 32 miles, around 40 minutes. Those are empty-road times; winter traffic stretches them.

Condo, villa or house: what is there to buy?

The club describes the homes as condominiums, attached villas and single-family houses. Its own documents name two kinds of condominium building: Terrace buildings, which have elevators, and Veranda buildings. According to the club, US Homes developed Cedar Hammock and finished it in 2004. Homes were going up by 2000.

Homes run from about 1,150 to about 2,350 square feet, with 2 to 4 bedrooms. They have sold from the $170,000s to around $700,000. Nearly all of those sales were condominium homes, so the range doesn't tell you much about the villas and houses.

Is golf included when you buy?

Yes. The club calls itself "a bundled community in which each Owner becomes a Member of the Club with the purchase of their property," and adds: "There are no other categories of membership offered." There's no golf membership to apply for, wait for or turn down.

Bundled doesn't mean free at the first tee. The club's March 2026 rate sheet charges owners a fee for every round, cart included, plus sales tax, and bag storage is billed by the year.

What does the club bill, and what is due at closing?

The club bills owners directly. Its March 2026 rate sheet lists:

• an assessment of about $9,800 a year, paid quarterly
• cable and internet at about $1,200 a year, also billed quarterly
• a food-and-drink minimum of about $1,000 a year at the club's restaurants
• a special assessment of about $415 a quarter through 2032, on homes enrolled in its payment plan

That last line is the one to settle before making an offer. Some sellers paid the special assessment off in full. Where a home is still on the plan, the rate sheet says "the plan must continue with the new owner, who does not have the option to pay in full or prepay."

Each home also belongs to one of 17 neighborhood associations, which bills its own quarterly fee separately from the club; the amount depends on the address. The club gives out the right association's contact for any address, so get the figure for the exact home before you add up costs.

At closing, the same March 2026 rate sheet has the buyer paying the club a Resale Capital Contribution of about $12,000 and a transfer fee of about $550, waived for someone who already owns here. An estoppel fee of about $150 is added, or about $250 if the estoppel is needed in under 30 days. Membership switches on only after every payment has arrived and the club has a copy of the deed, and set-up takes up to three business days after that.

What are the rules on leasing and parking?

Leases must run at least 30 days, or one full calendar month where the month is shorter, with no exceptions. There are two kinds. A transferee lease hands club privileges from owner to tenant, two people at most, and suspends the owner's use for that period; the club's application fee is about $550. A renter lease gives the tenant no use of the clubhouse, golf, pools, courts, fitness center, dining or social events except as a member's accompanied guest, and the club charges about $150. The neighborhood association adds its own application fee of about $150 either way. The paperwork is due 30 days ahead of move-in, and a tenant has to collect a gate tag in person at the club office. Only an owner who bought before 17 July 2024 is given the choice of leasing without passing on club privileges.

The club's rental rules require pickup trucks to be kept in a garage overnight, and one left on the street risks a tow. A carport doesn't count as a garage.