Forget the national golf ties of America and Shinnecock and Maidstone. Forget Garden City and Piping Rock and Creek Club. And please save yourself the sea on your ferry on Fishers Island.
As it turns out, you don’t have to be a blue blood to be the most exclusive time of Long Island. As long as you’re well playing on someone’s front lawn.
Three pond farm are not just someone’s front lawn, is Ivan Kaufman’s front lawn. Today, after a $ 35 million purchase in 2019, the Long Island Real Estate Sition is the owner and the main beneficiary of “Club K on the three ponds farm“In Bridgehampton, NY-A 58-hectare plot of agricultural land that has become one of the wildest golf courses with 18 holes in the world.
Fifty -eight hectares are not much to build a golf course, especially when some of those hectares are already dedicated to the living neighborhoods, the Sun’s room, the ornate road, the pool, the guest villa and the museum -quality gardens sides. As such, the golf on the three ponds farm is as effective in space as a studio apartment in the western village. No palm of wealth is lost, with bunkers formed to cornize from any angle and by placing greens of the snake of the greens with slopes and shelves for maximum variety.
The story of the origin of the three Ponds farms is no different from that of many other excellent golf courses. A sandy plot of agricultural land in a wonderful corner of the world. An interested investor (Edward Gordon) making a affordable purchase (original sale price: less than $ 1 million!). A bold idea-to build a world-class golf course-and a course designer (Rees Jones) with a sparkle of creative glow and a concern for waste.
Eventually, a Golf Course was built, and Ryan Lounslager, the guardian in another of Jones’ courses, Bethpage Black, was hired as a full -time super. Over time, ownership changed, nine holes were 18 years old, and the three pond farms became “K-Klub”.
“It is very charming, right?” Jones says with a fuss. “And not small, as.”
Today, the K club on the three Ponds farm is really much larger than life. Some golf experiences are in unforgettable silence but how much are they quiet quiet? On a busy day, three Ponds farms can have 15 players. On a quiet day, like a Tuesday in September after the high season? Well, you can simply be golf player of any kind. (And, to respond to continuous follow -up: Yes, It is still a common courtesy to fill the divotine and repair the ball signs, even in a course without other players.)
Play in the course occurs at the order of the owner, but thankfully, he is a little of a golf walnut. At the stimulus of Kaufman, the rate of three Ponds farms has doubled, from a loop of nine holes he has best played twice in a story with 18 holes with some distinct acts. Lounslager, who went from 35,000 rounds a year to Bethpage to the “about 500” on K-Kclub, keeps lush, fiery and fast property. But he and Kaufman are not made there: new Tee boxes appear around the property every spring, presenting new holes and course selection options.
The result is five multi -flame greens and a dozen roads that players intersect in every direction, making the holes feel exotic and popular immediately. One considerable reason for the impact is the path, which is not chronological as much as it is orbital, circulating the property around Kaufman’s mission style as planets of good manicing around an elegant sun.
In some holes, the favorite line and the landing area is “The Barn” – technically “invited villa” of the property – which once served as storage for the milk farm that existed on the golf course. The barn sits located in a valley between the two greens, located in the center of a green road carpet that spreads more than 100 wolf. The type of use-what-you are given by the quirk that one can wait to see in the ancestral homeland of Scotland’s golf, and his role in Golf is responsible for three of the best property holes.
In general, experience is proudly one by one and not only for the waters of Fiji and high-speed golf carts. One afternoon in three ponds, it is not difficult to find yourself dreaming. How many holes can you play within a day? How fast can you play them? Is the best way to play a solo 36? Or is it a match with four balls, or a six ball … or a 10-top?
The answer, for these and any other questions, is yes. This is the beauty of golf on K-Kclub: the extension of your stimulation is equal to the extension of your imagination.
“This place is like golf Disneyland,” says Lounslager, and of course he is right. But he is also wrong.
In Disneyland, Wonder is a business. Here is the passion project – and the passion is in NO Absence.
