SUN CITY CENTER, FL. Cypress Creek Golf Club was ordered closed by state inspectors on May 27 after they documented active rodent activity inside the permanent food service facility at 1011 Cypress Village Blvd, the second time inspectors have shut the restaurant down for the same reason in ten weeks.
The closure order required the facility to vacate by May 28. A follow-up inspection that same day found zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations, and the restaurant was cleared to reopen at 11:16 a.m.
What Inspectors Found
Cypress Creek Golf Club: Recent Inspection History
The May 27 inspection that triggered the closure listed one intermediate violation in addition to the rodent activity finding. The closure itself was ordered under the state's emergency shutdown authority, which inspectors invoke when a condition poses an immediate threat to public health.
The March closure followed the same pattern almost exactly. On March 12, inspectors documented rodent activity and ordered the facility shut. A follow-up inspection the next day, March 13, cleared the restaurant to reopen.
Two months later, the rodents were back.
What This Means
Rodent activity inside a food service facility is one of the conditions Florida inspectors treat as grounds for immediate closure without warning. The reasoning is direct: rodents contaminate food contact surfaces, preparation areas, and stored ingredients with urine, droppings, and hair, all of which carry pathogens including Salmonella and Leptospira. Unlike a temperature violation, which can be corrected in minutes by moving food to a working cooler, rodent activity signals an infestation that requires professional extermination and a thorough cleaning before any food can safely be prepared or served.
The risk is not theoretical. Customers eating at a facility with active rodent activity may consume food that has come into contact with contaminated surfaces or that rodents have accessed directly. Neither contact is visible to a customer placing an order.
What makes the May 27 finding more significant than a first-time citation is the recurrence. The March 12 closure at Cypress Creek was also for rodent activity. A facility that passes a follow-up inspection has demonstrated it corrected the immediate problem. A facility that triggers the same emergency closure two months later has demonstrated the correction did not hold.
The Pattern
The May 27 closure was not the product of a sudden, isolated finding. The inspection record at Cypress Creek stretches back across 29 inspections and 178 total violations, and the recent months tell a concentrated story.
In February 2025, inspectors cited five high-severity and four intermediate violations in a single visit. Eight months later, in October 2025, they returned and cited five high-severity and three intermediate violations again. Both of those inspections preceded the first emergency closure in March 2026.
The two weeks between the March reopening and the May closure also included a troubling data point. On May 12, inspectors visited and cited three high-severity and one intermediate violation. That inspection came 15 days before the second rodent-triggered shutdown.
The Longer Record
Across 29 inspections on record, Cypress Creek Golf Club has accumulated 178 total violations and now carries three emergency closures in its history, two of them for rodent activity and both occurring in 2026.
The facility's history does not read as a restaurant that stumbled once and corrected course. The February 2025 and October 2025 inspections each produced five high-severity violations, the most serious category in the state's classification system. High-severity violations are the ones inspectors connect most directly to the potential for a customer to get sick: improper food temperatures, contaminated equipment, and conditions like the rodent activity that triggered both closures this year.
The March closure and rapid reopening suggested the immediate problem had been resolved. The recurrence in May, after an intervening inspection in early May that itself produced three high-severity violations, suggests the underlying conditions at the facility have not changed in any durable way.
The facility was cleared to reopen the morning of May 28. Whether the correction holds this time is not reflected in any inspection record yet filed.