{"id":129708,"date":"2025-05-25T04:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T04:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129708\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T04:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T04:03:15","slug":"new-private-golf-clubs-are-impossible-to-get-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129708\/","title":{"rendered":"New Private Golf Clubs Are Impossible to Get Into"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bored rich men do a lot of strange things with their money. One particular folly they\u2019ve been indulging in for generations is building private golf clubs.<\/p>\n

Sometimes there\u2019s a clear reason for starting a club, and it works out well. For example, 30 years ago, longtime Wall Street executive Ed Hajim got so fed up with being denied admission to the old-line, 102-year-old Sankaty Head Golf Club, on the eastern edge of Nantucket, that he and his wealthy friends decided to build a rival club around the corner.<\/p>\n

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