Membership at Chevy Chase Club

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Obama joined Bethesda CC?

Why? Are you looking for him. Here ya go.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/former-president-barack-obama-joins-a-second-dc-area-golf-club/amp

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Brett is at CCC. Still up in the air who paid his initiation fees. Then each month, I’m not sure. Is he paying plus his indoor can of balls and a winter center salad and beer? Who the eff knows

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Anonymous wrote:Why isn't Obama joining Chevy if it is so great?

He knows he might be blackballed by someone.

Can you imagine how embarrassing that would be for an ego like his? He'd never risk it getting out. Far better to just continue mooching.

He has joined Chevy Chase, CC. You’re a loser, PP. A huge loser.

I found PP’s comment distasteful, but I thought President Obama joined Columbia and not ChevyChase.

Obama joined Columbia, not CC.

While it is correct that Obama joined Columbia not Chevy I highly doubt it was because he thought he would be blackballed. The golf course is better at Columbia.

Agree. The golf course I have heard is better at Columbia and Congressional for sure obviously, as it has hosted the PGA. Have also heard burning tree has a beautiful course.

Was Obama told tp stay away from playing at Woodmont because of his lack of support for Israel's policies of settlement in the Palestinian lands?

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Anonymous wrote:The initiation fee is closer to $125-$150K. My sister belongs to CCCC, they live in CC Village. They joined in maybe 2002 and I think the fee (though I have never asked or been given specifics) was about $100K. I thought you needed 25 letters of recommendation (but maybe it's 18) and they are from people that have been to YOUR house and you have been to theirs. Basically, you have to be in the CCCC social circles to get in.

I have never seen any African Americans at the pool and I don't know of any Jewish families there, either. It is pretty Waspy/Catholic. Lots of bigger families. I think most of the families fall in the income range of $300-$600K. Everyone else is probably upwards of that and not beneath $300K. I don't know what the yearly dues are but I wouldn't be surprised if they are $60-80K.

There is a no cell phone policy and I think it is nice when I am the pool. Sometimes I forget and no one yells at me, I just go out into the parking lot.

My husband makes $300,000 and we would never even consider joining a club like this. We have over million in savings but we would never consider dumping a tenth of it into a country club. The members must make more, come from money or be idiots to join if they are joining at $300,000.

Oh, lord. It is not about how much your husband makes or how much is on your bank statement. It is about having facilities that you enjoy using, like golf courses, tennis, bowling alleys. ice rink, a place to eat with your friends.

More obviously it’s about social capital, networking if you are a lawyer, and bragging rights/elite status for your kids who “grew up there,” later in life.

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Anonymous wrote:At Chevy can a member be the main sponsor for two families simultaneously. Or just one family at a time

No limit.

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Anonymous wrote:You also have to be racially and religiously 'appropriate', or no chance in hell of getting in.

You have to be invited. You sound like a social climber and you do not stand acsnowball's chance in Hell.

You have to be sponsored by current member who will help you with the 14 letters of rec thing. Typically they will host a cocktail party for you to meet members who will draft a letter on your behalf. Initiation is around 100k dues around 700 a month. It’s a lovely club, very family oriented. We belong to Congressional, but always enjoy our time with friends at Chevy. Food is quite good!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just wondering how the teachers at DD's private school, and some that live in quite modest houses, could possibly afford to be members of any of these clubs....and yet they are. I guess they are sponsored by students parents?

No...plenty of private school teachers previously had lucrative careers or they married well or they come from money. Very, very common.

Probably legacy

Yes, in a previous generation that was what “good girls from good families” did. Often very highly educated, from money, married well. High powered men like private teaching type women who want to stay at home, as long as they are well-bred. Typically at home while raising kids then might return to teaching.

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Can anyone share current initiation + annual dues info, and whether the initiation fee is paid all at once or over several years, as a PP mentioned? We have friends who have offered to sponsor us, but we aren't comfortable asking and though we could afford the numbers I've seen referenced upthread, I'd like to have a more concrete idea before we start the process. Also, we are big tennis players, but not particularly interested in golf. Have heard there's no non-golf membership option. Can anyone confirm?

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share current initiation + annual dues info, and whether the initiation fee is paid all at once or over several years, as a PP mentioned? We have friends who have offered to sponsor us, but we aren't comfortable asking and though we could afford the numbers I've seen referenced upthread, I'd like to have a more concrete idea before we start the process. Also, we are big tennis players, but not particularly interested in golf. Have heard there's no non-golf membership option. Can anyone confirm?

Amenities are not ala carte. Costs are not published. Ask your friends and they will gladly tell you. It’s not offensive to ask what something costs.

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I’ve been there a few times as a guest with old family friends and it is very nice. Nicer than other clubs I’ve been to by a wide margin. Also, when I was growing up and friends’ families belonged there it was a good source of activities and a social life for the kids and teens. So, that is the plus side. People there are extremely conservative, and as far as I could hear politics are constantly discussed, even on the tennis courts and ice rink. If you are even a moderate Republican, it would be awkward.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not surprised that people can have a home, international travel, etc and still have money for a country club. I am just shocked that you would spend $100k on a country club, of all things. Imagine all you could do with that money by scaling back just a tiiiiiny bit.

This. It's hard to even fathom anyone spending that kind of money so frivolously when some of us don't even have a house to live in.

It is their money and they can spend it how they wish. A few people have $50,000 watches, you can tell time just as well on a $1,000 watch, but it's their money and they can spend $100,000 on a watch, country club membership, whatever. Some people don't have a car and some people drive cars that cost more than $75,000. Again, it is their money. There is not obligation, moral or legal, for the very rich to buy a house or car for anyone else. There is a moral obligation to give to charity but no legal obligation.

Frankly, I enjoy seeing the very rich enjoying themselves as it gives me a better perspective on my own life. I can't have their life style but I like my life and I am happy.

Again, no one is telling them they CAN’T. People are expressing, and will continue to express, their opinions that their choice to do is bizarre and not in keeping with the teachings of Christianity (real Christianity, not MAGA megachurch Jesus).

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Anonymous wrote:this thread has been an interesting anthropological study for me. thank you.

hahaha agree. i drive by there all the time and the other night for their fireworks show was trying to figure out what the place was- so many white families who looked like they had just walked out of catalogs hahhaha. no thank you.

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Chevy Chase Club fireworks this year were on July 5. So you, given the date of your post, you didn't walk past it the other night. Do you just make stuff up and post it?

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been there a few times as a guest with old family friends and it is very nice. Nicer than other clubs I’ve been to by a wide margin. Also, when I was growing up and friends’ families belonged there it was a good source of activities and a social life for the kids and teens. So, that is the plus side. People there are extremely conservative, and as far as I could hear politics are constantly discussed, even on the tennis courts and ice rink. If you are even a moderate Republican, it would be awkward.

So basically they are now rightwing extremists? I mean, are they saying the n-word in public?

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Totally wrong on Chevy Chase politics. it's a wide mix of Republicans and Democrats. That tends NOT to be any kind of criterion for membership. The members tend to not discuss politics without first gently measuring the views of the person they are talking to. No one is interested in getting into a political duel while there. It's a time for friendship and relaxation. I'm a member and a moderate Democrat. One of my long time golfing friends is as liberal as anyone I know. Yet there are sure to be plenty of Republicans playing with us side by side, having a pleasant lunch or dunner with us, etc. And that's the way it should be.