Some club members were playing cards inside the building Sunday night when they smelled smoke and joined a club worker to investigate.
``Smoke was everywhere,'' club member Gary Wilson said. ``It went up pretty quickly.''
No injuries were reported, but firefighters needed more than an hour to extinguish the flames at the club on the city's south side.
A cause of the fire was not immediately know, Perry-Clear Creek Fire Chief Bill Hobbs said.
Hobbs estimated that as much as 70 percent of the building was engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived.
The club's golf pro, Denny Dennis, said his shop was in another building on the grounds but that the club would face a difficult struggle.
``It's been a great club, and it will be again,'' Dennis said. ``We just have to hunker down and make the best decisions to go forward.''
