Friar's Head
Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, New York · The Hamptons (East End) golf market
- Access
- invitation only
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw
- Gated
- No
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Friar's Head, designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw and opened in 2003 on a 350-acre bluff above Long Island Sound in Baiting Hollow, is regularly ranked among the top 15 or so courses in the United States by major golf publications -- a level of architectural reputation that makes it nationally significant to golf-oriented buyers despite never having hosted a major championship. It is a private, invitation-only, caddie-mandatory club with no bundled residential development; a 2019 property-tax court case confirms the site is assessed and operated purely as a golf facility.
Golf & Course
Coore and Crenshaw routed the course across dramatic dune and bluff terrain overlooking the Sound, with the design philosophy explicitly built around player options and creativity rather than penal, single-line golf. It is widely considered one of the finest modern golf courses built in the U.S. since 2000.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Membership is private and invitation-only; caddies are mandatory for all rounds. There is no public, resort, or residential-purchase pathway to access.
Location & Surrounding Area
Sited on a remote, largely undeveloped stretch of Long Island Sound bluff in Baiting Hollow, well north of the Hamptons' Southampton/Bridgehampton/East Hampton corridor -- geographically distinct from, but grouped with, the East End's destination-golf cluster.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Initiation (range low)
Historical$250,000
Aggregator/estimate source; club does not publicly disclose fees.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fee and dues directly with the club; only an aggregator estimate was found.
Notable
- Opened 2003; Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw design.
- Regularly ranked among the top ~15 courses in the United States.
- A 2019 NY State Supreme Court ruling reduced the club's property-tax assessment, rejecting a valuation based on hypothetical future residential development on the site.
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