Two years after optioning a 10-year lease extension and pledging to grow with St. Johns County, World Golf Village restaurant anchor Murray Bros. Caddyshack closed June 27 after 25 years in business.
The more than 8,000-square-foot restaurant was World Golf Village’s longest continuously operated tenant.
In a June 27 Facebook post, cofounder Andy Murray announced the closure.
“We are sad to say, today will be the last day Murray Bros Caddyshack will be open,” Murray wrote. “We’d like to thank you all for your love and support. We’ve had 25 wonderful years here at the World Golf Village, but it is now time to slip away.”
The post gave no specifics for the restaurant’s closure.
The golf-themed restaurant at 455 S. Legacy Trail E106 in St. Augustine opened in June 2001, when cofounder Mac Haskell said the site was “surrounded by cow pastures.”
In late 2024, Murray and Haskell confirmed the lease extension through World Commercial Realty of Palm Beach and spoke optimistically about the restaurant’s future. Murray cited St. Johns County’s growth as a tailwind.
“In St. Johns County there’s all these new people, new money,” Murray said at the time. “It’s building like crazy.”
The closure comes during a transition at World Golf Village. The World Golf Hall of Fame and Museum closed in 2023 and relocated to Pinehurst, North Carolina. The adjacent IMAX theater closed in late 2024. The Renaissance hotel sold in July 2025 for $24.25 million to Indianapolis-based SUN Development & Management Corp.
Murray had previously said the Hall of Fame closure created confusion about whether Caddyshack had also shut down.
“Since the Hall of Fame closed down, there’s a lot of people who think we closed down and it’s simply not true,” Murray said earlier this year.
Andy Murray owned the restaurant with his five brothers, who include comedic actors Bill Murray and Brian Doyle-Murray, and business parter Mac Haskell. Bill Murray and Brian Doyle-Murray were both in the 1980 golf comedy, “Caddyshack.”
A second Murray Bros. Caddyshack location in Rosemont, Illinois, outside Chicago, opened in August 2018.
Calls seeking comment from Caddyshack were not immediately returned.