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Round of golf for three at Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, NY, lunch, caddie fees, and drinks included.

And if you haven't tried a Southside at Piping Rock -- you are in for a special treat!! 

*Date and time must be agreed upon by member-host Kate Gellert '93.*

*Round must be played within 1 calendar year of auction close on November 26.*

Top100GolfCourses.com ranks Piping Rock Club as the 64th-best golf course in the US and 73rd-best in the World. Golf Digest named it "Best New Remodel of 2016."

Courtesy top100golf.blogspot.com
"Piping Rock's original membership rolls were a who's who of the pre-war establishment including J. P. Morgan, Jr., Louis C. Tiffany, Conde Nast, Averell Harriman, Percy Chubb, John S. Phipps, William Vincent Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Frank N. Doubleday. President Theodore Roosevelt was an honorary member. In addition to being the course designer, Charles Blair Macdonald was also a member and chairman of the golf committee.

Piping Rock was established in the model of a classic club of its era, organized to allow its members to enjoy country pursuits. The club was named based on a legend that Native Indians used a large rock on the property as a location to smoke the "pipe of peace," thus, the piping rock. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, writing in 1909, described the fact that the property the club secured was done so, "because of its absolute perfection of country sports," and noted that it was set in "the land of princely estates," and was ideal for, "providing on a large and elaborate scale for out-of-door sports with polo, pony racing, tennis, and possibly golf, and in any event cross country riding well to the fore. " As noted, the club's focus was not golf; they also established a steeplechase course which included a grandstand for spectators.

Piping Rock today retains the air of its founding days. Driving up to the Dutch Colonial clubhouse flanked by a stone wall gives the visitor a sense of being a country gentleman or lady. The entire scene is one of a leisurely enclave. Nearby the clubhouse are beautifully maintained grass tennis courts. Like the C.B. Macdonald-designed St. Louis Country Club, the visitor at Piping Rock is also drawn immediately to the prominence of the old polo field behind the clubhouse.

Surrounding the tennis courts, clubhouse, and polo fields is the rolling terrain of the golf course. As courses designed by C. B. Macdonald and built by Seth Raynor do, both Piping Rock and The Creek follow their usual "prototype" hole patterns. Piping Rock includes renditions of a Long, Road, Biarritz, Redan, Eden, Knoll, Short, and Home holes.

Piping Rock is a fun course to play and has an interesting and varied routing. It is beautifully conditioned and offers challenging greens."

Item Special Note

Golf must be used within a year of purchase, November 26, 2020.