Country Clubs...I want facts.

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Anonymous wrote:The facts are you gotta be a big ol' tool to join one.

Look in the mirror, ye olde ignorant one.

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Anonymous wrote:What club has the best junior golf program?

Congo, then Columbia

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Anonymous wrote:For whoever mentioned networking, my understanding that networking at CC in general is a huge no-no around here. I know at my CC it is frowned upon.

As for those who don't get the point of a CC, understand that the intiation fee buys no only you a life long membership, but your children a membership at a very reduced initiation fee. And if your children plan to stay near DC that is a huge bonus to them.

As for the monthly dues, if you add up the cost of golfing on a public course on a weekly basis, a gym membership, tennis membership, a swim membership, the monthly dues are a drop in the bucket. Plus food prices for dining at a CC are excellent and there is no tipping involved. The social events are fun and cheap and the summer camp options are excellent.

How could any child have such a plan?

Most clubs give legacies till their late 20s to decide to join and offer payment plans in addition to drastically reduced fees.

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Anonymous wrote:What club has the best junior golf program?

Congo, then Columbia

I wouldn't join Columbia for the golf unless/until the purple line issue is definitively settled. It would suck to pay all that money to join a club, only for the course to essentially be ruined in 5 years or so.

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Is there a trial membership you can buy, to see if you like it?
Can one sell the membership if they no longer have use for it?

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CCs are pretty much out of style and the only people that still go are the pre-dead and catty housewives with border line drinking problems. Join a swim/tennis club, hit the public golf courses (there are some excellent ones in the area) and spend what's left on a vacation property at the beach, the mountians or on the eastern shore. The Mad Men days of networking at "the club" are long gone.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a trial membership you can buy, to see if you like it?
Can one sell the membership if they no longer have use for it?

LOL

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Anonymous wrote:The facts are you gotta be a big ol' tool to join one.

Look in the mirror, ye olde ignorant one.

Pro Douche Alert!

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Anonymous wrote:What club has the best junior golf program?

Congo, then Columbia

Crofton country club has the best junior program in the state.

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the whole thing is beyond me, we have $3M+ free cash but wouldn't think of blowing $60-100k on a CC and all the pretention, etc., that goes with it.

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Country clubs make me think of Trading Places.

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Strangely, at the private school where I work there are lots of teachers that belong to these clubs. Now, THAT boggles my mind.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs. But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment. Plus, we don't golf. All our friends who joined clubs are golfers. We just join a pool for the summer.

I'm with you PP. We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time. I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.

Our three children have spent 12 plus years in "top 3" private schools and the club we belong to is filled with the parents of their classmates. The other clubs also have tons of private school families.

A more interesting question would be "How many cc families have kids that go to public school"? The only ones I know are ones that yanked their kids out of private when economy tanked.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs. But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment. Plus, we don't golf. All our friends who joined clubs are golfers. We just join a pool for the summer.

I'm with you PP. We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time. I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.

Our three children have spent 12 plus years in "top 3" private schools and the club we belong to is filled with the parents of their classmates. The other clubs also have tons of private school families.

A more interesting question would be "How many cc families have kids that go to public school"? The only ones I know are ones that yanked their kids out of private when economy tanked.

But they kept the Congressional membership.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs. But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment. Plus, we don't golf. All our friends who joined clubs are golfers. We just join a pool for the summer.

I'm with you PP. We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time. I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.

Our three children have spent 12 plus years in "top 3" private schools and the club we belong to is filled with the parents of their classmates. The other clubs also have tons of private school families.

Interesting. I'm a K-12 alum of a "top 3" and none of us belonged to those clubs. I'm now preparing to send mine to the same school and, again, we know very few families that belong to them. Most of our friends are in NW - I wonder if many of these families live in MD/VA.

My guess is there are less GDS and Sidwell families than Cathedral school families.

I think that's right. Given the history of GDS and the Quaker values of Sidwell (at least back in our parent's generation), it would be hard to imagine that very many families who sent their children to those schools would have condoned the blatant discrimination of many of these country clubs in the 60s and 70s.

Exactly - my school was not Cathedral, and I'd guess there are more Beauvoir/Cathedral/St. Albans families at these clubs than, say, GDS, Sidwell, Maret. My school was one of the latter, and I didn't know anyone who joined them.

I agree- our kids are at the Cathedral schools and we know 30+ families who are members of Chevy.