The Tuxedo Club vs West Hills Country Club for Golf Living

The Tuxedo Club's residential story is a 19th-century one: founder Pierre Lorillard IV built the club and the gated Village of Tuxedo Park together in 1885-86, and for decades the Tuxedo Park Association would not sell land to a non-member -- membership preceded ownership. More than 250 houses were built in the community's first 30 years under this model. West Hills' story is a 21st-century one: Residences at West Hills Country Club is a 158-unit luxury RENTAL apartment community built in 2022 directly on the golf course, whose $159/month fee bundles in a social club membership -- a completely different property type (rental apartments vs. for-sale single-family estates) and era.

At Tuxedo Park, no -- per the Village's own current official FAQ, home buyers are NOT automatically Tuxedo Club members today; that historic automatic link has been clarified/loosened, and membership requires a separate application process. At West Hills, yes -- the $159/month community fee for Residences residents currently includes a social club membership, a confirmed and currently-operating arrangement, though the exact scope (golf play vs. clubhouse-only) was not fully confirmed.

A buyer drawn to a historic, gated, single-family-estate village with deep American social history, who understands club membership must be separately obtained today, should look at Tuxedo Park. A buyer or renter who wants a modern rental apartment with a golf-club social membership already bundled into a modest monthly fee, without a separate initiation process, should look at West Hills -- keeping in mind it is a rental product, not homeownership.