October 4 — You know how golf has this reputation for being a pastime of the pampered and wealthy? Boston golfers need not look beyond Chestnut Hill’s The Country Club, site of the memorable 1999 Ryder Cup, for a good example of why the people involved with the game often deserve their bad press.
Real life. You’ll have to excuse those horrified by the recent brutal murders of four people, including a mother and her two-year-old child, in Boston’s Mattapan section, just a few miles but a world away from TCC, or too busy trying to eke out a living and maybe play a round or two in the supposedly post-recession economy. Living in the real world, they may have missed the news about the burning issue concerning privileged people and a precious golf course.
It seems that Boston real estate developer Jonathan Davis and TCC powers-that-be are having a bit of a spat about some vegetation growing along the border between Davis’ McMansion and the über-exclusive golf club. In what the Boston Globe reported has blossomed into a full-scale legal battle, the rich folks are squabbling over a 100-yard area; Davis contends he has the right to landscape the patch, but TCC says no.
Lives of the rich and famous. Seems that the overgrown “vines, trees, and scrub” between the two properties block the view of The Country Club’s nine-hole Primrose Course from the huge stone house Davis and his wife built on land they bought for $5.8 million in 2005, according to the Globe.
While the Davises are not members of TCC, they are reportedly long-time residents of the upscale Boston village and were shocked! shocked! that people they knew could be so mean.
Betrayal. Really? “The sense of betrayal has been a nightmare for us,’’ Davis told the Globe. “To be misled by people you thought you could trust is just very, very painful.’’
The Country Club’s general manager David Chag would not talk about the lawsuit with the Globe, which provided way too much detail about who said what about the disputed patch of land and when.
In the scheme of, you know, real life, these are just the sorts of goings-on among self-absorbed entitled elitists that give golf a bad name.
(Emily Kay is a regular contributor to New England Golf Monthly. Check her out at the Boston Golf Examiner and National Golf Examiner websites.)
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