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COVER FROM THESTORY EDITOR
The Meadows Golf And Country Club Changing With The Times
Sarasota hasn’t always been the busy city that it is today. Just a decade ago a great deal of the land being developed on University Parkway was farmland, the Mall at University Town Center was swampland, and there were nearly 100,000 fewer people living here. Sarasota has evolved, and so has the Meadows Country Club. First conceived in 1974 as Taylor Woodrow’s dream of a diverse community with a theme of teamwork and volunteerism, the Meadows has grown from a community club with a small tennis facility into one of Sarasota’s premier full-service country clubs with 54 holes of golf, 17 har-tru tennis courts, pickleball, a junior Olympic pool, a fitness center, two restaurants, and six unique event spaces that host over 200 events per year. The team at the Meadows hasn’t GolfCoastMagazine.com
stopped – most recently working to build a new type of Country Club, focused on amenities, culture and programming for the whole family. The Meadows’ evolution has been a multiyear project – from developing world-class social facilities, to an enormous renovation of the Meadows (members-only) golf course (2020), to expanding the outdoor dining and spectator galleries around the highly regarded tennis facility. The community has just broken ground on a new building to house meeting rooms and community gathering facilities plus a new state-of-the art fitness center. The team at the Meadows is focused not only on providing its membership outstanding amenities; they are also dedicated to creating a warm, inviting atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable and where friendships and fun flourish. In
