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It has been a very busy and productive week accomplishing to-do lists and completing errands… Now it’s time to relax. Isn’t there a nearby place where you would just like to unwind? A massage or a cooling dip in a swimming pool would be heaven right now, don’t you think? Or, if you’re the athletic type who’s looking forward to his or her weekly dose of happy hormones, why not play tennis with friends? Golf sounds great too – not too heavy on the muscle work, but still keeps you active. Come to think of it… why should you choose only one activity? Why not do it all?
Country Clubs in America offer you more than relaxation and exercise. Activities are not limited to golf and tennis some country clubs also offer facilities for things like: yoga, aerobics, badminton, fencing, and even croquet! There is something for every age at most country clubs these days. Children may get to enjoy scurrying in playgrounds and toddlers may even have a great time at daycare centers too!
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Edelweiss Chalet Country Club
New Glarus, WI
Edelweiss Chalet Country Club is a 18 hole semi-private golf club that was established in 1968. The club has a fully stocked, full service golf shop to meet and exceed your expectations, as well as a full service bar and both men’s and women’s locker rooms with showers too.
Tunxis Plantation Country Club
Farmington, CT
Tunxis Plantation is a 45 hole public golf course with indoor and outdoor Banquet Facilities for weddings, social and corporate events. Located in Hartford County, Tunxis Plantation is just minutes from I84 in scenic Farmington Valley.
Honolulu Country Club
Honolulu, HI
Honolulu Country Club prides itself in its full-service Clubhouse and its championship golf course designed by Arnold Palmer and Francis Duane. Honolulu Country Club also features two restaurants that is currently serving a variety of dishes.
El Paso Country Club
El Paso, TX
El Paso Country Club was established in 1906 and is currently featuring a variety of amenities, including tennis, swimming, and fine dining. El Paso Country Club has a reputation for being one of the finest country clubs in the Southwest with a championship golf course.
Chenal Country Club
Little Rock, AR
Chenal Country Club is all about recreations, sports and leisure activities, as well as fine dining and social and professional events. The club also aims to maintain its a beautiful atmosphere in a warm setting with welcoming friendship.
California Country Club
California, MO
The California Country Club’s Golf Course is open to the public while the use of other facilities, Membership is required. They also have swimming lessons, Club House Rental for parties, banquets, etc. Some of the facilities that they also have are the following, 9 Hole Golf Course (Cart Rental Available) and Swimming Pool (Seasonal).
Charlotte Country Club
Charlotte, NC
Charlotte Country Club was founded in 1910 and it is well-known today for its 18-hole Donald Ross golf course, historic 68,000 square foot Clubhouse, and outstanding tennis facilities. Charlotte Country Club is also proud to be providing the perfect setting for weddings and special events.
Sparrows Point Country Club
Baltimore, MD
A private, member-owned club with natural woodlands and waterways which overlook scenic Chesapeake Bay tributaries. Their golf course features 27 Championship holes that rank among some of the most challenging in Maryland. Complementing the golf course is a full service clubhouse with facilities for formal and casual dining, weddings and parties, as well as other fun social events year round. Their main dining room features an impressive waterfront view overlooking Bear Creek, along with a charming copper fireplace and a spacious wood dance floor. They also have a uniquely picturesque Olympic-sized pool area, a 62-slip marina, Har-tru tennis courts and a wooded picnic area and playground.
Somersett Golf and Country Club
Reno, NV
Somersett Golf and Country Club is known as an award winning master planned golf community. Its main amenity is its golf course which is supposedly offering players of varying ability the appropriate challenge for their levels.
Valleybrook Golf and Country Club
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Hixson, TN
Valleybrook Country Club features 18 beautiful and challenging holes that play to 6,704 yards, featuring Championship Bermuda greens in a charming residential setting. They also feature indoor seating for Lunch, Dinner & Award presentations afterwards.
Hillcrest Country Club is a historically Jewish country club located on the west side of Los Angeles, California, United States.
The club[edit]
Located in the city's Cheviot Hills neighborhood, Hillcrest opened in 1920 as the first Los Angeles country club for the city's Jewish community. In 1972, the Los Angeles Times referred to Hillcrest as 'the leading Jewish country club in Southern California.'[1] The property includes tennis courts, an Olympic-size swimming pool, and an 18-hole golf course, as well as a clubhouse with dining and meeting facilities for its members and their guests. The golf course, originally designed by Willie Watson, was redesigned and renovated by renowned architect Kyle Phillips in 2019.
In the 1950s, oil was discovered on Hillcrest's land, and the club decided to permit drilling.[2][3] Members who had shares in the club collect tax-sheltered dividends on their original initiation fees, and 'B.O.' (for 'before oil') memberships became so valuable that they were willed from father to son.[4]
Hillcrest was the site of the PGA Championship in 1929, one of golf's major tournaments. Then a match play competition, it was held in early December and won by defending champion Leo Diegel. It was the first major tournament held in the western United States. Hillcrest later hosted the Los Angeles Open on the PGA Tour in 1932 and 1942, won by Macdonald Smith and Ben Hogan, respectively.
From the back tees in 2013, the course rating was 73.1 with a slope rating of 136.[5]
Nearby is Rancho Park Golf Course, a municipal course that has hosted the Los Angeles Open seventeen times, and was the site of events on the Senior PGA Tour (1990–94) and LPGA Tour (1978–80).
Early years[edit]
In the early days of the movie industry in Hollywood, when Jews were not permitted to join non-Jewish country clubs, they instead joined Hillcrest, all of whose members at the time were Jewish. In An Empire of Their Own, Neal Gabler described charity dinners of the 1930s where movie moguls would gather at Hillcrest and outbid one another with gifts to the United Jewish Welfare Fund and other Jewish causes.[6][7] In the 1940s, Hillcrest attracted many of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Danny Thomas, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Danny Kaye, the Marx Brothers, George Burns, George Jessel, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor and the Ritz Brothers.[8][9] According to various accounts, mogul Louis B. Mayer reportedly punched producer Sam Goldwyn in the nose while they were either in the showers or the steam room at Hillcrest.[9][10]
In his book on the William Morris Agency, author Frank Rose described the prestige of Hillcrest as follows:
...Hillcrest Country Club was as close to invisible as 142 acres (0.57 km2) on the south side of Beverly Hills could be. No sign, just a number on the stone entrance gates...Ever since the Depression, this had been the preserve of Hollywood's elite. All the great moguls had belonged to Hillcrest—Louis B. Mayer and the Warner brothers and Harry Cohn of Columbia and Adolph Zukor of Paramount.[11]
Groucho makes an exception to his policy[edit]
Groucho Marx was a member of Hillcrest, even though he once famously proclaimed that he would not want to be a member of any club willing to have him as a member.[12] (When one club offered to waive its no-Jews rule for Groucho, provided he abstained from using the swimming pool, he remarked, 'My daughter's only half Jewish, can she wade in up to her knees?')[12] Groucho once noted: 'As you may recall, the Hillcrest is the only country club in all of Greater Los Angeles that will accept Talmudic scholars such as myself as members.'[13]
His ad-libbing and joking with the staff at Hillcrest became legendary. Alistair Cooke told of having lunch with Groucho at Hillcrest Country Club. There were many others sitting at the famed Hillcrest Comedians Round Table, and when the waiter came to take the dessert orders, he could not keep track of who was having what. 'Two éclairs and four coffees—no, four éclairs and two coffees—no, wait a minute—...' Groucho interrupted, 'Four eclairs and seven coffees ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new na- ... oh, skip the rhetoric and bring the dessert!' After lunch, Groucho lined up to pay his bill behind a fat, fussy lady fiddling around in her bag for change. The impatient comedian instructed the young cashier: 'Shoot her when you see the whites of her eyes!' The woman turned around and was thrilled that her abuser was none other than Groucho. 'Oh!' she said. 'Would you be Groucho Marx?' The quick-as-a-flash response: 'What do you mean 'would I be Groucho Marx'? I am Groucho Marx! Who would you be if you weren't yourself? Marilyn Monroe no doubt. Well pay your bill, lady, you'll never make it.'[14]
Ultimately, Groucho considered his Hillcrest membership precious enough to pass on to his son in his will.[15]
The Hillcrest 'Round Table'[edit]
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For years, many of Hollywood's top comedians, including Jack Benny, George Burns, George Jessel, Groucho Marx, Danny Kaye, and later Milton Berle and Don Rickles, got together for a regular Friday lunch at Hillcrest, where they would socialize, try new material out on their friends, and talk 'shop.'[16][17]Alan King said the Friday lunches at Hillcrest were like a college for comedy.[17] In 1972, the Los Angeles Times referred to the comedians' table at Hillcrest as the 'Round Table' in a corner of the main dining room.[1] The members of the Round Table included Al Jolson, Harpo Marx, Eddie Cantor, Lou Holtz and Irving Brecher.[18]
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Milton Berle told a story about an incident at the 'Round Table' involving George Jessel, who was known as the city's ultimate toastmaster: An elderly businessman approached the Round Table (occupied by Jessel, Berle, Groucho, Benny, Burns and others), timidly approached Jessel and said, 'Mr. Jessel, my wife, Rosie, had a little poodle she was crazy about who just died. It would very much please her if you would do the eulogy at the dog's funeral.'[19]
Comedian David Steinberg noted that Hillcrest “is a little like an inverted New York Athletic Club: there is no discrimination, but it sure helps if you’re Jewish and a comedian.”[12] Milton Berle, a long-time member, described Hillcrest—known for its food—as “a dining club with golf.'[12]
In December 1963, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax was roasted at Hillcrest by the Round Table comedians, along with guest roasters Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. In what the Los Angeles Times called just about the only printable comment of the evening, George Jessel called Koufax, 'without question, the most important Hebrew athlete since Samson.'[20]
Hillcrest was George Burns' home away from home, as he regularly held court there with his fellow comedians and friends. Unless he was out of town, he showed up every day from noon to 3 p.m. for his bridge game.[21] At the time of his death in 1996, one of Burns' friends recalled: 'The last time I saw George was two days before his death, when he arrived in a wheelchair for his bridge game.'[21]When he died in 2002, Milton Berle had been a Hillcrest member for 70 years. In a 1994 interview with Cigar Aficionado, Berle recalled joining Hillcrest in 1932: 'It cost me $275 to join in those days. Now the initiation fee is $150,000, if they'll accept you, which all depends on how much money you've given to the United Jewish Appeal.'[19]
Admission of non-Jews[edit]
When Hillcrest membership opened to non-Jews, their first choice for a new member was Danny Thomas, a Lebanese Catholic. At the time, Jack Benny quipped to Thomas that the least the club could have done was to admit a member who looked like a gentile.[1][9][22] Other notable non-Jewish members over the years have included Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, actor Jack Lemmon,[1]Sidney Poitier, and Oscar-winning film producers Darryl F. Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck.
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Notes[edit]
- ^ abcd'Hillcrest Country Club'. Los Angeles Times. 1972-08-06.
- ^Thomas, Bob (April 2, 1960). 'Oil helps ailing studios'. Daytona Beach Morning Journal. Florida. Associated Press. p. 4.
- ^'Oil well is thing of beauty>'. Deseret News. Salt Lake City, Utah. July 4, 1972. p. 6A.
- ^'Rising Club Handicap'. Time. 1972-10-23.
- ^'Hillcrest Country Club'. USGA. Course Rating and Slope Database™. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ^James Traub (2008-03-09). 'The Celebrity Solution'. The New York Times.
- ^Gabler, Neal (1988). An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. Crown. p. 274. ISBN9780517568088. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- ^Scott, Vernon (November 20, 1961). 'When it comes to golf, Groucho and Miltie are real comedians'. Milwaukee Journal. UPI. p. 2, Green Sheet.
- ^ abc'20th Century Fox Studios'. Seeing Stars: The Ultimate Guide to Celebrities & Hollywood.
- ^'Leaves and Conceits: George Burns at Hillcrest'. American Humor Review and Opinion.
- ^Frank Rose (1995). The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business, p. 1. ISBN0-88730-749-3.
- ^ abcdJohn Steele Gordon (Sep–Oct 1990). 'The Country Club'. American Heritage Magazine. Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ^Ron Goulart (2005). Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle: A Mystery Featuring Groucho Marx, pp. 58-59. Macmillan. ISBN0-312-32216-X.
- ^'Groucho Marx'. Tribe. 2006-10-02. Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ^David Margolick (1991-03-22). 'At the Bar; A probate lawyer's obsession with wills offers yet another peek at the world of the rich and famous'. The New York Times.
- ^Bacon, James (April 2, 1961). ''Funniest show' a secret'. Tuscaloosa News. Alabama. Associated Press. p. 23.
- ^ abDaniel D. Stuhlman (August 2002). 'Jewish Comedians part III'. Librarian's Lobby.
- ^'Members of the Hillcrest Country Club Comedians' Round Table'.
- ^ abArthur Marx. 'Forever Young: Milton Berle was Television's First Superstar and Remains One of America's Top Comedians'. Cigar Aficionado. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
- ^Larry Harnisch (2007-12-31). 'The Daily Mirror'. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
- ^ abTom Tugend (1996-03-15). 'George Burns: 'I don't believe in dying...it's been done''. Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
- ^Baum, Gary (June 23, 2011). 'L.A.'s Power Golf Clubs: Where the Hollywood Elite Play'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
External links[edit]
- Leonardo Ciampa, 'The Hillcrest Round Table: Remembering George Burns, Jack Benny, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Milton Berle, the Marx Brothers, the Ritz Brothers, and Lou Holtz'ISBN978-1-4259-8338-3
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