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The club was founded 124 years ago in 1899 and was moved to its current location in 1921. [4] [5] Golf Connoisseur Magazine rated Phoenix Country Club among top 100 Most Prestigious Private Clubs in America in 2006. The club was chosen for the “ultimate mix of course, history, membership, tradition and class.”
While the club had once offered a membership discount to members of Congress, this had been discontinued in the 1970s, and the club's high initiation fees (then over $100,000) and long waiting list dissuaded most from joining. [9] By 2011, it was said that zero members of Congress numbered amongst its members.
A country club is a privately owned club, [ 1] often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining. Typical athletic offerings are golf, tennis, and swimming. Where golf is the principal or sole sporting activity, and ...
70. Length. 6,908 yards (6,317 m) [9] Course rating. 74.6. Slope rating. 138 [10] Oakland Hills Country Club is a private golf club in the central United States, located in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, a suburb northwest of Detroit. It consists of two 18-hole courses designed by Donald Ross: the South Course (1918) and the North Course (1923).
Coordinates: 38.0616°N 78.5419°W. The Farmington Country Club is a country club in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. The octagonal east wing of the clubhouse, constructed in 1802 near the University of Virginia as an addition to a pre-1780 structure, was designed by Thomas Jefferson. [ 1] Membership is by invitation only.
Following the success of the first golf club organized in Houston (a nine-hole course built on 45 acres of land leased from Rice University west of the city) the Houston Country Club was chartered in 1908. Under its first president William M. Rice Jr. it purchased and developed an 18-hole course southeast of downtown Houston on 152 acres. [1]
The Country Club in 1913 The Country Club in 1913 William Howard Taft at the 1913 U.S. Open Fred McLeod and Harry Vardon at the 1913 U.S. Open. The Country Club, located in Brookline, Massachusetts, is the oldest golf-oriented country club in the United States. [1] (The Philadelphia Cricket Club, founded in 1854, was the first country club for ...
Membership in the male-only, private Bohemian Club takes a variety of forms, with membership regularly offered to new university presidents and to military commanders stationed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Regular, full members are usually wealthy and influential men who pay full membership fees and dues, and who must often wait 15 years for ...