100 Shadow Tree Lane, Briarcliff Manor I know so many people, as well as myself, that felt her pain and related to that pivotal moment of being discriminated against and yet, not finding the words to speak out. Trauma distorts our perceptions and recollections, but you captured vividly your feelings in the ensuing decades. Private. 10 Old Jackson Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson Books You cant form the thoughts. MUSE delivers outstanding results to the scholarly community by maximizing revenues for publishers, providing value to libraries, and enabling access for scholars worldwide. And I cant explain it. 234 Bedford Center Road, Bedford Hills I felt how good itmore, Last week I was on the grounds of this country club on a beautiful fall day.more. In that moment I became a bystander in her attempt to have me erase my essence. Hudson National, the Golf Club of Purchase, Trump National Golf Club Westchester, and Anglebrook burst on the scene in the 1990s, followed soon after by GlenArbor, Hollow Brook, and, in 2008, the countys premier daily-fee course, the Pete Dyedesigned Pound Ridge Golf Club. Thank you Jessica for this awesome read. One day Patty Prendergast (wow, I still remember her name from over 60 years ago! Ah it was a different time. Im ashamed of myself and my inaction. 914.669.5485 I grew up in a similar environment in similar circumstances. 914.864.3000 YP - The Real Yellow PagesSM - helps you find the right local businesses to meet your specific needs. I felt something twist in my gut. Julien J. Soubiran, former president, referred the matter to the club office. The Apawamis Club in Rye began as a social club in 1890, but added a rudimentary nine-hole golf course in 1896. Learn More. Id already dealt with a few of my husbands less enlightened acquaintances, and had no problem saying anything. Willie MacFarlane, winner of the 1925 US Open, was Old Oaks first head pro. You provide a gratifying social context that illustrates both the sad reality of innocent young people forced by events to live in an environment of ignorance and prejudice. I'm really fortunate that over the years I have enjoyed the golf course with my family. Tillinghast design hosts the Mittelmark Invitational, a top tournament for select young golfers. Wow I just read your comment. Thank you for sharing. Just beautifully writtenand does it ever resonate with me! This course begins with 473 yards of intimidation, a long par four that sets the tone for play on this Westchester classic designed by Devereux Emmet and A.W. Host of five U.S. It is also considered the home of the Westchester Golf Association, which was founded in 1916, and today provides more than a million dollars in college scholarships on a need basis to caddies every year. 914.941.8070 The Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour) made Sleepy Hollow a regular stop from 1986 to 1993. Although clearly an awful experience for you as would be for anyone, I wonder how much it influenced your ability to stand up for what is right. Relatively new owners have transformed this course into one of the most challenging in the county. Three of the clubs - Huguenot, American and Larchmont YC - are yacht clubs and have more of a boating than beach focus, but lots of members dont boat. In 1895, John Reids wife, Elizabeth, and several other Saint Andrews women leased land on North Broadway and established Saegkill Country Club. This is a very well written piece. Private Clubs. Rehashing this incident decades later with my husband, he pointed out that as a non-member of the club the only way I could see Christopher Reeve was if I went with her. Sarazen, born Eugenio Saraceni, was a major rival of Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, and is one of only five golfers to win all four majors in his lifetime (the others are Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods). Four top professional golfers of the day were invited to play a competition of their own on the course, with a first-prize gold medal and $100 going to the champion. The course plays long and tough but includes some of the most picturesque holes in the county. Westchester Hills also features practice facilities including a driving range and two large greens to fine-tune your short game. held at Quaker Ridge in Westchester County. They have a nice pool with a divingmore, First of all, Siwanoy is not a restaurant, it's a country club. At the time, I couldnt completely identify that it was in part because of my Jewishness, but I knew I was different. Sam Snead took the $5,000 first prize, beating out soon-to-be greats ByronNelson and Ben Hogan, among others. Here are some more photos. She and I werent really that close. Lake Merced Country Club in San Francisco, CA is one of note as well--but was hacked by Rees Jones' firm (IMHO). Also, in a funny way your friends casual thoughtless bigotry actually was a gift. I hope our childrens generation have not had similar ones. I love personal pieces like this and the way she conveyed her feelings brought it all together and gave it life .. Still, we can piece together some general impressions. Your writing is so captivating. Westchester is where the greatest golfers of every age, from Harry Vardon and Gene Sarazen to Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, teed it up in the most important tournaments of their day. It wouldn't be summer without the organized swim team and many swim games each weekend. Music was always playingoften classical, sometimes Gregorian chants, many times jazz, and those symphonic tangos beloved by my dad. Im glad we are friends from across the sea and I hope to meet you one day. Mr. Healy said he did not have the authority to answer such questions and that only "the top man, " the president, Joseph J Lordi, could supply the information. 975 Anderson Hill Road, Rye Brook Public. My parents werent only not Italian and Catholic. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. 1995 American Jewish Historical Society With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world. It would be a big mistake to not mention the course at Del Boca Vista, Phase 2, an original design of Morty Seinfeld and Cosmo Kramer. I felt frozen in time with you as you experienced the ignorance and prejudice not fit for an adult, at such a tender age. I agree with Saras comment above, in middle school it is tough to respond to a situation like that, even as an adult it could be. Not one bit. Probably not. You became one, not part of the many but one. When she says never again, you say it with her because her story is our story. DISCOVER ALL WE CAN OFFER Play Our Video Club Life That sh*t wouldnt fly today, so dont judge yourself too harshly. A blizzard stopped the fun soon after, but when the ground thawed in April, the men moved to a 30-acre meadow owned by the neighborhood butcher, John Schotts, at North Broadway and Shonnard Place (across the street from St. Michaels Ukrainian Church today) where they could lay out a six-hole course. Knollwood was a nationally known tournament site in the early days of the game. A number of truly spectacular courses have opened in Westchester in the last two decades. Private Golf Club sites by MembersFirst | Terms of Use | Privacy | Request My Information. Our new simulator room will cure the winter blues and keep your swinging smooth all winter. Search results are sorted by a combination of factors to give you a set of choices in response to your search criteria. Filed under American Jewry, Family history, history, Jewish, Jewish identity, Jewish writing, Judaism, Tagged as assimilation, Country Club, family history, family rituals, Family roots, immigrant experience, Jewishness, silence, too Jewish, Westchester, Workmen's Circle. P.O. With my dad it would have been: You may not have been ready to confront that situation as a young person but you are a fighter today for all that is just. Im not a person who particularly minds feeling angry. They were Bohemian and liberal. Francis Ouimet, winner of the milestone US Open of 1913, played at Knollwood, as did the legendary Bobby Jones, who at one time held the course record with a round of 68. Confronting your own memory was at least as difficult as confronting a childhood friends betrayal. Preferred listings, or those with featured website buttons, indicate YP advertisers who directly provide information about their businesses to help consumers make more informed buying decisions. There are always a few times in our young lives when we regret our decisions. A pattern of exclusion by most private sports clubs in the New York metropolitan area of Jewish and Negro members, on the basis of unwritten rather than written regulations, emerged today from a spot survey by the New York Times of club membership policies. Never one to let such slips go unchallenged, I missed such a cue about six years ago when my wife and I invited a seemingly charming woman we met in her used bookstore to visit us in our home. It took a while before I fully recognized and accepted that in many ways, they were not my people and I was not theirs. Its practically part of our DNA. Golf and Saint Andrews continued to grow. Thank you. The course is open year-round and also offers a practice green and a catering facility. Sorry it took pain to birth this in you but that is how becoming one is birthed. The impact is obvious here where the memory has stayed with the author for decades, and the experience is still as vivid now as it was then. I knew this because a friend (and I use the term loosely especially in retrospect) told me about it because her Irish Catholic parents did have a membership at the club. Id been married for a couple years already. . Forgive yourself for not speaking up. "It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing your whole life." In the Westwood thread that I started about 2 months ago, there was this comment: "Westwood was built as the Jewish equivalent of St. Louis CC" This has prompted me to ask about the courses of these clubs. You have expressed the frustration that many of us have experienced being a Jew. Extensive course revisions in recent years have made this perennial Westchester favorite even more attractive and a greater challenge to golfers of all skill levels. I dont remember what I wore, but I know I must have dressed with particular care. It hit you like a punch to the solar plexus and you did what we all have done. It must be eradicated either in the moment or, if necessary, years later. And as you can read in the essay, the fact that I was silent has been a smoldering fire within me for decades so Im very glad I was able to release this piece out into the world. That said, some years ago I arrived at the sad conclusion that its next to impossible to educate those who choose ignorance over enlightenment. Jessica Ursells excellent memoir has obviously touched a lot of nerves and memories. I agree with what others have said about how hard as a young teen it would have been to know what to say or how to respond in the moment, and even as adults there are times we dont know how to handle those situations. Our childhood innocence is often unprepared for such ignorance. It should be noted that Hollywood and Engineers were not originally Most likely. That is not to say it is alright, but we do learn a lot through pain and adversity. History of Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck. In fact, had I had any time to think about it, it wouldve been obvious that acquiescing to her demand would be the very antithesis of everything that Superman represents. By the 1960s, five new clubs had sprung up (Hampshire, Brynwood, Brae Burn, and Rye) and two more (Somers Pointe and Lake Isle) were added in the 1970s. Preferred listings, or those with featured website buttons, indicate YP advertisers who directly provide information about their businesses to help consumers make more informed buying decisions. How true, and, in this situation, how ironic! Westchester Country Club hosted annual PGA Tour events for nearly 50 years and in 2015 was the site of a PGA of America major, the first KPMG Womens You learned . Let's just put it this way: take a look at the photos and keep inmore, Tamarack is a exceptional country club in Greenwich, CT. Dad: You know what Marx said about country clubs! Golfers are treated to a beautiful view of much of the 7,000-yard course on the first tee, and can choose four sets of tees to match their unique skill level and playing style. The bans are applied through membership selection procedures which begin with the requirement that applicants must be proposed by members. Ive never been more Jewish! The fact is that because of centuries of pogroms and because of the Holocaust, Jews constitute only a small percentage of the worlds population. Jewishness was less of my identity than Jessicas but this same feeling of angst permeated me for weeks (a lifetime for a middle schooler). @Douglas Shane Reading your comment gave me chills and flashbacks to precisely how I felt standing at the gates to the country club. Tillinghast course has some of the most pronounced elevation changes in Westchester golf. My mother used to sunbathe topless on the back patio of our ten-acre home way out on a country road. Private. 914.834.0992 Very beautiful story that encapsulates the age old conundrum regarding how much anti semitism and discrimination Jews in the diaspora are willing to put up with. Members can enjoy competitive golf tournaments, tennis, swimming, fitness, a full calendar of social events, casual and gourmet dining, and much more. All 18 tees and many bunkers have recently been renovated and upgraded. Very well written and something many of us can relate to, even if not to the particular form of bigotry (anti Semitism). No shame in that!! Member Lawrence Van Etten, a prominent civil engineer who designed many residential communities in New Rochelle and later the original course at Wykagyl, laid out the first 18 holes at Knollwood, a par-69 test at 5,305 yards. If you have the opportunity to play golf here or enjoy a meal, I know you will agree. Our new pool facility features a Junior Olympic heated pool, kiddie pool area, luxury chaise lounges & day beds, along with our Pool Grill that provides some delicious poolside offerings. It struggled under several different ownership groups until it finally closed in 1982 and the property was sold for development. Really powerful and moving account of how were made to compromise who we are to fit in to a world we never really want to be a part of. You were eager for an experience that you would treasure. The 75-room mansion includes a ballroom, library, formal dining room, and 18 guest rooms, as well as the golf pro shop and locker rooms. There are probably scores of predominantly Jewish clubs in South Florida-with almost all of them being on flat, uninteresting terrain. The Bedford Tennis Club added golf in 1896; Scarsdale Golf Club opened in 1898; Waccabuc Country Club in 1912; and Blind Brook, where President Dwight Eisenhower was a member, was built in 1915. Members at the time included steel mogul and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and architect and bon vivant Stanford White. Westchester Golf & County Club Maintenance Private Clubs Golf Courses (561) 734-3204 12440 S Jog Rd Boynton Beach, FL 33437 9. Fenway is one of the toughest short courses in Westchester. The first time I heard the expression to Jew one down, was from my former mother-in -law. Great Essay. It's 162 acres and definitely a family favorite.more, Anyway, back to the country club. To paraphrase the brilliant Elie Wiesel, Jews are the only people of antiquity to have survived antiquity as a people. Dick Wilson did part of it and I believe it was Joe Finger who did the other, but I'm working from a weak memory. The Rosenbergs. It is obvious now. I read Jessica Ursells story about Superman at the Country club. The members werent happy with the way their course compared to nearby Winged Foot, however, so they retained A. W. Tillinghast to create a new layout. 400 Croton Dam Road, Ossining Yasher Koache, Sister! After marrying a non-Jew, living in an area where Jews are not abundant, I have been able to more fully appreciate and embrace my Jewishness, and to stand up for what it means to me and to my family, to my children. I was sent to ask the head partner of the camp for a decision. I concur with SL Solow's economic analysis on the changes taking place within "historically Jewish clubs" and all clubs in Chicago with respect to membership policies. Phone: 914.967.6000. Your actions or inactions that day did not change or detract from the person you are and were meant to be. Regardless of the decade, the club has been home to several players who made their marks on the game, including one Ben Hogan, who was an assistant pro at Century. It was in the Knollwood grill room that, according to local lore, Jones met with club member Clifford Roberts and discussed the creation of the Masters Tournament at Augusta National. Dumbfounded, I just said oh, and slowly left. Fenimore Road, Mamaroneck Macdonalds loss prompted him to denounce the championship because it wasnt run by a national organization, so later that year, Saint Andrews secretary and founding member Henry Tallmadge invited representatives of four other leading clubs, the Chicago Golf Club, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Newport (Rhode Island) Golf Club, and the Country Club of Brookline, Massachusetts, to dinner at the Calumet Club in New York City. But your dad would have been funnier. The simulators feature state-of-the-art technology from Foresight golf, a brand-new putting lab, and lounge area. You missed Tillinghast's Alpine (originally named Aldecress) in New Jersey. I really enjoyed your piece. Address 99 Biltmore Avenue, Rye, NY 10580. I didnt know how to respond. 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