Maidstone Club
The Maidstone Club is a private country club on the Atlantic Ocean in the village of East Hampton, New York.
In addition to a private beach, pool, tennis house, and club house, Maidstone has both an 18-hole and 9-hole private golf course.
The Club derives its name from the original name for East Hampton, which was Maidstone, named after Maidstone in England. It was founded as a nine-hole course in 1891 and expanded to eighteen holes in 1899.[1] The golf course was originally designed by William H. Tucker and is one of the first 100 golf courses in the United States.[2]
The club has also been plagued by first- and second-hand accounts of racist and antisemitic membership policies and, as of 2015, having never had granted membership to a non-white person. Author Steven Gaines reported that "after Jewish senator Jacob Javits played there, members claimed the grass he stepped on turned brown," and "how members threw a fit after a nearly drowned South American housekeeper had the gall to drag herself ashore on their beach."[3]
Willie Park, Jr.[4] designed the 80-acre (320,000 m2) Gardiner Peninsula addition in 1922.[5] The expansion resulted in the club having two 18-hole courses, but this was reduced to the current 27-hole layout by the Hurricane of 1938.[1]
In 2011, the Maidstone Club was ranked 93rd in Golf Digest's list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.[6]
Course layout
| Tee | Rating/Slope | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 71.9/133 | 380 | 537 | 408 | 171 | 325 | 403 | 335 | 153 | 402 | 3112 | 382 | 442 | 179 | 490 | 145 | 493 | 471 | 328 | 378 | 3311 | 6423 |
| White | 70.1/130 | 359 | 512 | 365 | 157 | 294 | 393 | 312 | 130 | 370 | 2895 | 362 | 397 | 165 | 452 | 129 | 481 | 466 | 292 | 367 | 3111 | 6006 |
| Par | Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 35 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 37 | 72 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Quirin, William L. (2002). America's Linksland: A Century of Long Island Golf. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press. pp. 36–37. ISBN 1-58536-087-2.
- ↑ "Maidstone Club in East Hampton, NY". Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ↑ de Jonge, Peter (September 5, 2005). "Barbarian at the Tee". New York Media, LLC. New York (magazine). Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ↑ "Willie Park, Jr.". Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ↑ "The Maidstone Club". Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ↑ "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses/2011-12". Golf Digest. May 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
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Coordinates: 40°57′10″N 72°10′39″W / 40.952872°N 72.1774°W