When it opened in February of 2021, Sterling Grove Golf & Country Club was the first 18-hole golf course built in the greater Phoenix area in five years. In 2026 it remains the most recently built venue in this golfing mecca of close to 200 courses.
Now the club in Surprise, Arizona, has gone fully private. That was the plan all along, so everything’s right on schedule. The shift was official Nov. 1.
The course allowed public play for five years as a semi-private club, but membership has grown to more than 300. The community also has 1,100 homes, so the time was right for the change…