Tom and Gisele Wait Two Years to Get Accepted Into Country Club Next to Home
The article says that "application was stalled for two years while members debated whether the high-profile couple was a good fit."
What in the hell were they debating? Brady seems to be a model citizen, so it can't be a "crazy athlete" fear. Could it be the immigrant supermodel wife? That would seem absurd, even for the white-bred East Coast set...
http://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2017/07/tom_brady_gisele_b…
If it was Chicago my guess is that those patrons did not include Scottie "No tippin" Pippen.
Scottie got so hosed by his financial people, he might not even belong to a club anymore. He and Nazr Mohammed popped up as the group behind us after we made the turn at a public course in the north burbs of Chicago a couple years back. And not Glen Club or some other absurdly pricey public one.
"Don't sell yourself short, Judge ... you're a tremendous slouch."
that someone would post that in response. I win :-)
Pretty sure they could've just bought the damn place, or even built their own country club. That would've made things a lot faster.
Who could take a crap on Brady's net worth.
A big one. People are under the mistaken impression that professional athletes are wealthy. It's not true. Professional athletes are rich. The guys who sign their checks are wealthy. Those are the guys who go to country clubs.
Probably a serious dilemma for the membership committee. /s
Good old East Coast crusty Country Club politics.
Hey now, there ain't nothing wrong with "new money".
It's the only kind I'm ever going to have.
They only want people there who are like them. The other thing is neither went to a snooty private eastern school.
The old men didnt need Tom going Super Bowl hero, and smashing their club's records. They had no clue how good he was at golf, how skilled he was with a golf cart, nor if he could tell taller tales while chugging booze at the club house.
Besides that, how would you like see his wife, then go home to the same ole crackers*?
I bet some members are still pissed he got in.
*= reference to the Eddie Murphy skit about thinking a woman was a Ritz, only to realize she is a regular cracker after waiting months to get some. No racist.
When will something finally go well for Tom Brady?
Pretty sure all the stuff that happens to Brady does not happen to most folks. Most folks don't win five Super Bowls, get married to supermodels, and then proceed to get admitted to one oft the oldest, most prestigious country clubs in America.
I think if most of us applied for membership to Brookline the only thing we'd get is a foot in the ass and a toss out the door.
Two years?! If I'm Brady, now I tell them to go f*ck off.
it was because the membership commitee was afraid Tom and Gisele couldn't afford the stock purchase (entry fees) and the monthy dues . . .
But seriously, as several have already pointed out, it's true that the Country Club is dominated by old money and traditional politics. It's run by folks who've had everything their way forever. Maybe the thought of a "celebrity" (gasp!) infiltrating their hallowed halls raised fears of media intrusions and members at the practice tee looking agahst at seeing Alan Branch whacking golf balls before his round with Tom and two other teammates.
But the more likely explanation is that a country club's golf-playing memberships are limited to the number who can play the golf course pretty much on demand. At a place like the Country Club, an applicant probably has to wait until a "A" membership opens up, and there were undoubtedly a number of qualified applicants ahead of Tom. So a 2-year wait for a spot in such a place would not be unheard of.
The vast majority of Country Club members are probably happy to welcome Tom to their ranks, but only according to their own rules.
Virtually all private clubs have limits on the number of members permitted. The waiting lists are chronolgical and the opportunity is provided to the next person on the list. It would really be frowned upon if any potential member jumps the line in front of others that are on the list.
You are corrent regading the number of golf or full memberships.......it is based on the number of rounds that can be played in a year so that the course does not become too crowded or worn down.
The Pacific Club in Newport Beach CA, which hosts the Mr. Irrelevant award each year, black balled Georgia Frontiere for at least five consecutive years.
She inherited the Los Angeles Rams when her then husband Carroll Rosenbloom drowned in 1979.......when the Rams were a good team. The Rams went downhill every year under her ownership and I believe were 2 -14 the last year before they moved to St. Louis. The team became so terrible that season tickets went into the drink so she could make the argument to move to a new stadium in St. Louis.
I had season tickets then and hated her for that move. It sure was fun when the Rams were a good team.
A real man in his real sheep-skin Uggs boots
And this is why people don't like New England and Boston.
Is Tom Brady that much of a d-bag that he wants to be part of a country club like this?
Probably just wants to golf frequently and drink occasionally
Two years seems like a pretty long time unless they only consider new members once or twice a year. There's a process, so I applaud both sides for keeping things as close to private as possible.
I mean, it's actually really clear and stated in the quote: whether they were a "good fit". Yes, of course, money and things like that are important, but at the end of the day these are clubs where it's important that the people actually like each other and will get along. I am sure you can think of plenty of "model citizens" who you just actually don't really like that much (think: the "would it be fun to have beers with this person" standard). Pretty much a lot like recruiting when people don't understand why a player, who is perfect on paper, chooses a school that makes no sense on paper.
Man, country club admissions sound a lot more fun when you put it that way.
They had to review the W2s from the both of them.
Tom went to a public school in "Indian country" out west and Gisele is not from the U.S. originally. That's the way the blue-blood snobs from the East think.
of old school Michigan grads in that club already.
has a three year wait list. Of course, it's a badminton club and the only reason the wait list is that long is because we only have a dozen parking places. If we let folks on the waitlist in, the parking lot would quickly be overwhelmed. We'd have to park on the street and the neighbors would go effing crazy.
#Humblebrag
I like to fart
Places like that? No thanks. Not if I had all the money in the world.
Of course, that is why we DON'T have all of the money in the world!
That is the real reason - they wanted Tom to serve his time before letting him in.
Have to pronouce it properly. Had the opportunity to play there once, place is a proctologist dream!!!! Traditionally, THEE Country Club only wanted members whose name would appear in the newspaper 3 x in their life:
1. Birth announcement
2. Wedding announcement
3. Obituary
Hey, I'm right on track!
When do I get in?
I would assume that the problem lies with what goes with a couple like them. You know if they show up for the Friday night walleye fry there is a certain amount of baggage that travels with them. Whether they want it or not.
There's no gambling at Bushwood. And I never slice.
Besides Oakland Hills C.C., are there Michigan country clubs with lengthy waiting lists and vetting process?
I would assume Crystal Downs Country Club