A Not-So-Country-Club
A Not-So-Country-Club
Founding Membership · Presale
The first table is being set.
The Cellar beneath the green awning is opening as a private club, built around relationships, not golf. Before it opens, a limited number of places are held for the people who were there when it started.
34 founding places remain of 100
01 — What a Founding Member holds
Countable, from the first night.
Every place in the presale is a named allotment, scheduled inventory you can point at, not a benefit list. Four things are true of all of them.
01
A rate that does not move
Your founding rate is held for five years, through every tier revision after opening.
02
First call on the Cellar
Founding allotments are placed on the Cellar calendar before general members book a night.
03
A seat at the first table
Ten to twelve people sit down on opening night. Founding Members choose from those seats first.
04
Your name in the room
Permanent recognition Downstairs, for as long as the membership is held.
02 — The Cellar
The room you cannot book.
The secret is the place. The club is the people.
Below the lobby of what was then The Newporter Inn, there is a private room where John Wayne held his weekly poker game. The brick, the stairs, the mirrors and the carpet are still there. It has been holding storage and the occasional banquet for forty years.
Nobody needed to build a clubhouse. Somebody needed to set the table again: ten to twelve at the main table, seventy standing, a kitchen upstairs and a course outside.
03 — The day
Nine holes before your first call. Dinner downstairs at seven.
The same four people, morning on the par-3 and evening at the table. That cut is the whole membership in two frames: golf, when it is useful.
Morning on the par-3, then evening at the Cellar entrance.
04 — Founding tiers
Three ways to hold a place.
Annual dues, billed on opening. Reserve now with a refundable deposit; you confirm the tier after you have seen the room.
Individual Host
$3,500 – $6,500
One member. Guest hosting, social and family use.
- Two Cellar table occasions
- Held patio tables
- The 90-Minute Round
- Member events and amphitheater seats
Corporate Host
$7,500 – $15,000
Named executives. Client hosting and team use.
- Four Cellar table occasions
- One full-cellar buyout
- Protected 90-minute golf blocks
- Boardroom hours
- Annual company event allowance
Anchor Partner
$20,000 – $30,000
A visible home for a company or a community.
- Six Cellar table occasions
- Two full-cellar buyouts
- Programming and hosted rooms
- Brand participation
- Named seats at property events
Working ranges for the paid design-partner test. No tier is final until five corporate partners have paid one.
05 — How the presale works
Four steps, no surprises.
Step
What happens
When
Hold a place
A refundable $1,000 deposit reserves a founding number in the order it was taken.
Today
Walk the property
You see the Cellar, the par-3, the patio and the meeting space with a founder present.
Within two weeks
Set the plan
We record your goals, preferred uses, important guests and the allotment that fits them.
At the walk-through
Sign and open
Dues are billed on opening. Your founding rate is held for five years.
At the first table
Important limit
The deposit is refundable in full until you sign a membership agreement. The club creates the conditions for stronger relationships. It does not promise leads, referrals, contracts, or investment results.
06 — Reserve a place
Tell us who you would bring.
We read every one of these. If the fit is right, you will hear from us within two business days with a time to walk the property and see the room before anything is signed.
Refundable deposit · $1,000