Sea Ranch Golf Links Reopening!

Larkin found this update in Facebook. Sharon and I couldn't be happier. We have been lamenting the closure. Sea Ranch is one of our favorite places in the world. Although we played on it in late January, the course has been closed since January 5, 2025.

From Golf.com

The Sea Ranch homeowners' association is reportedly working on a deal to lease and reopen the Sea Ranch Golf Links, closed in early 2025 due to financial losses.

It now has a new management company helping to operate the course, with the goal of making it financially viable. After its closure, the course's greens and fairways were maintained by a skeleton crew, presumably to keep it in decent condition for a potential sale or reopening.

Public access: A pre-existing agreement with Sonoma County requires the course to remain accessible to the public, not just Sea Ranch homeowners, if it were to continue operating.

The Sea Ranch community received this update on September 4 from the management company, Kemper Sports:

Good evening, good people of the Links,

First, just wanted to let you know that we have signed the Lease to run the course for the next five years! We are very excited and the end of a long uphill battle is finally coming to fruition.

We will start in earnest with Kemper to get the course and clubhouse ready for operations this next week. You should see more guys working out there if you are playing or walking by. Jason and Richard are chomping at the bit to get to work. Kemper should have them onboarded next week at some point. They feel we will be able to actually start taking paying customers with a soft opening on October 1st. We are hoping to get the clubhouse stained and tidied up inside and stocked for customers! In the meantime, if you are playing, please be respectful of the crew and give them a wide berth. Time is of the essence and they really cannot afford to wait patiently aside while you play through, like they would once we are charging to play 🙂

Lastly, We are doing a walk through with the ownership reps next Friday (9/12) at 3:00 to take note of what condition everything is in as we take control.

We should have control of the website (SeaRanchGolfLinks.com) soon and will post all of our news and temporary price structure on there. Those of you who wish to purchase memberships at any level will be able to do so on October 1st.