#2 - Sebonack in The Hamptons
Sebonack Golf Club
Price: USD $1,000,000
An important step in rich people’s lives is an invitation to the private club. Members-only clubs may be lavish golf courses with national tournaments, renaissance-styled urban monuments or non-descript edifices with nothing more than a private buzzer and a doorman. What they all have in common are outrageous membership fees that only give access to people that are exactly like themselves. It’s like throwing a party at your home with a lot of people you don’t like and somebody else makes rules about what you can wear…probably a blazer with a god-awful crest, white pants and for god’s sake…tuck in your shirt.
There is an important distinction between private clubs and private clubs. The former are for people that believe they are successful, the latter are for the truly wealthy. The former drive Porsche boxsters and dream of 911s while the latter may have driven a Ferrari in high school…if they were driving themselves at all. Insanely exclusive, private clubs are for the white-shoed, old money, pedigreed, well-named and educated-at-the-right-school crowd; you can pick them out by the number of lips stuck to their ass, politicians hanging on their every word and the ever so drôle laugh that casually rolls off their recently collagenated lips. Rich people believe that municipal bonds and credit swaps are excellent “getting to know you” conversation starters and that you simply must have a nanny.
Not sure if you and your friends are privy to the private club lifestyle? Here’s a quick quiz. Is it a pity that the Metropolitan Club opened because your family already held a membership at the Union Club? Are you outraged that members at Shinnecock Hills and Maidstone Club on the South Fork hold memberships at The Bridge? Have you turned down an invitation to The Atlantic? If you answered yes then you most certainly belong at private clubs.
To give you an idea of how exclusive some clubs are; memberships at Sebonack and The Bridge Golf Clubs are rumored to cost $1,000,000 (yes count those zeros) and $850,000 respectively. Money alone does not guarantee entry, but as the saying goes membership has its privileges. The Bridge restricts membership to 150 to ensure that members never have to wait for a tee time while Sebonack offers accommodations at one of the many 4 bedroom guest quarters next to the lavish clubhouse. Furthermore, Sebonack has built a par three 19th hole where members can play tie breakers or settle wagers. Not yet convinced? Annual dues are less than $20,000, include as much golf as you can play but of course does not cover tips to the caddy and other incidental expenses.
Given that beach house rentals in The Hamptons can top $400,000 a month in summer, a million dollar golf membership seems quite civilized indeed.
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Old clubs are racist! It’s a fact. The new tactic is to swear to God that they’re not, but we know they really are. No minorities allowed. It’s well protected within their secrets. Before they were old$…they started out as new$. So let the so called old keep their clubs and look down at the new. Who cares.
i honestly do not understand clubs at all. why be there when one could be on a private island or seeing the world and eating much better food. i just don’t subscribe to all that nonsense. it’s annoying to deal with small minded people when one could be with kind, evolved people with bigger ideas on the hippocampus than gossip. i do love a man in french cuffs thought and i like to dress well… so there is that.
we have a club in town and a junior league and really the women there seem very entitled and they seem to think they are accomplishing something and important because of it. i am friends with a lot of these women but i feel like a lot of them are just not worldly enough for me to enjoy their company. #JustBecauseYouDoYogaDoesntMeanYouAreEvolved #JustBecauseYouHaveMoneyDoesntMeanYouHaveToWasteYourLIfeGolfing :)
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Love this site so funny. Some of these things are very true. One of my friends emailed me a link to this because she was mad at me for going to an all girls school. cute!
Im at my pc laughing about when my grandmother told me. You must have a nanny for children. I was 20. Rosario Castro Pagan
ummm i’v seen better by 1000,000% so that place is a dump
A lot of country clubs have been lowering their membership rates and canceling their initation fees in this recession. I find a lot of “new money”and trashier people gaining acceptance to these clubs. The truly “old money” clubs are simply not standing for this–good for them I say.
The clubs you have mentioned are all pathetic new money ones for the people that can’t gain admission into worthwhile ones. I’d be dead before I was caught playing golf at the Bridge or Sebonack. Despicable.
100% agree. Please…Sebonack??? That’s like basically the Nantucket Golf Club for people who can’t even get on the waiting list at Sankaty. Just stop it before you embarrass yourself.
You’d rather die before joining a club like that? People like you are exactly the reason why the other 99% of human beings despise people with money. I’m a member of a very private club, but also regularly play my local muni. If it’s good golf then I’ll play it, and enjoy it.
Simply awesome.
Athough I have never experienced that level of wealth, I could just imagine as my company designs and builds outdoor living projects for the most successful. I am happy just helping them make their dreams and desires come to life in their own backyard. It is very gratifying superceding their expectations. As the owner of Preferred Properties landcaping and masonry we have had the privelege of designing and building outdoor kitchens and poolscapes of distinction. http://www.OutdoorlivingCt.com
Our firm located in Connecticut, just came back from assisting with outdoor lighting at Baywood Greens in Delaware. Great looking place. http://www.Baywoodgreens.com to see how awesome the landscape, lighting and greens are. I could only imagine what these places listed above look like. Does anyone have pics of these country clubs?