Westchester Country Club vs Saint Andrew's Golf Club for Golf Living

Westchester CC's residential component is literally inside the club: roughly 53-55 apartments leased directly from the club within the Main clubhouse building, plus 40-70 guest suites, available exclusively to existing members on typically annual leases. There is no separate developer, HOA, or open real-estate market -- a non-member cannot buy or rent into this arrangement. Saint Andrew's model is the more conventional bundled-community pattern: St. Andrews at Hastings on Hudson is a separately built, 86-unit gated townhome community (1986) on/adjacent to the club's grounds, sold on the open real-estate market, where ownership includes a complimentary social club membership (dining/clubhouse access), with full golf membership available as an additional purchase.

Only existing Westchester CC members can access its member-apartment arrangement -- it is a members' benefit, not a path INTO membership. St. Andrews at Hastings on Hudson works the opposite way: any buyer on the open real-estate market can purchase a townhome there and receive the included social membership as a result, without first being a club member -- a genuine entry path, even if it caps out at social (not full golf) privileges without a further purchase.

Westchester CC carries the deeper competitive resume: a PGA Tour event hosted for decades under several names (Westchester Classic, Buick Classic, The Barclays), plus the 2011 Senior Players Championship and 2015 KPMG Women's PGA Championship, across 45 holes (two 18-hole championship courses plus a 9-hole executive course). Saint Andrew's carries the deeper historical significance instead: founded 1888, one of five founding USGA member clubs in 1894, and widely cited as the oldest continuously operating golf club in the United States.

A buyer who is already an established private-club member and wants a pied-a-terre-style apartment inside a major-tournament-pedigree clubhouse has a genuinely unique option at Westchester CC. A buyer who wants to purchase a home on the open market and receive at least some guaranteed club connection as part of that purchase -- without needing existing club membership first -- has that option at Saint Andrew's, understanding the included membership is social-tier only.