Why? Because the 133-year-old institution prizes privacy and discretion above all else.
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After all, seeing as the Club seems to believe people should only be in the newspaper twice – “when you’re born and when you die” (that’s an actual quote) – the Brady Bunch’s odds are somewhat stacked against them.
Staff at The Country Club are keeping quiet about how the couple’s membership chances are looking.
Those snot-nosed, over-privileged, trustafarian blue blood Brahmins at The Country Club can talk all they want about understatement and insularity but the rest of us know better.
Established in 1882 as an equestrian and social club, with golf added a decade later, The Country Club of Brookline – or TCC – has an impressive pedigree. “Deflategate” could wind up keeping the New England Patriots quarterback out of one of the country’s most exclusive golf clubs forever.
But that might not help him at a club which didn’t admit its first Jewish member until the 1970s, no women until 1989 and no blacks until 1994. Ex- Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, who is black, has written he and his wife, Diane, were rejected for membership. One of its courses routinely ranks inside the top 20 in the United States.
“It’s really about who you are”.
“When it comes to issues related to members or membership, it’s our policy not to comment”, said David Chag, the general manager of The Country Club.
The Deflategate controversy is somehow still a thing, and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has more at stake than just a four-game suspension.
Members say Brady and Bundchen, who live in a new multimillion-dollar home they built near Pine Manor College, are being treated like any other applicants.
As a four-time Super Bowl champion, Tom Brady’s a member of a pretty exclusive club. They also have to mingle at a cocktail reception with the admissions committee, which ultimately makes the final call.
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That, of course, would be a major problem for the couple, who are frequently in the press and tailed by paparazzi as they roam about the city with their children Benjamin and Vivian and Tom’s son John from his relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan.
