Tom Nevin has managed Clubs all over the East Coast, most recently at Hope Valley Country Club in Durham North Carolina and Trump National Golf Club in Virginia before settling into Sleepy Hollow Country Club in March of 2014.
Mr. Nevin worked for Restaurant Associates right out of college. He spent six years with Restaurant Associates and worked at five different locations, one of which included the West Side Tennis Club (Forest Hills, New York).
After Restaurant Associates he worked for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel as a Catering Sales Manager. In 2000 he began his first day as a Club Manager at Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Sleepy Hollow Country Club was founded in 1911 by embers of some of the nation’s most prominent families, including the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts and the Harrimans.
Hallmarks of Gilded Age wealth and power remain to this day in the form of an imposing stone entry gate and a palatial clubhouse riginally designed by Stanford White as a private mansion.
The club’s current membership includes several Rockefellers as well as the best-selling author James Patterson
Sleepy Hollow clearly one of the most spectacular locations in the country. When you offer an elegant Vanderbilt Estate with bucolic views of the Hudson River it is very easy to attract well healed members.
C.B. Macdonald and his partner designed and oversaw construction of the original 9 hole course in the summer of 1911.
Later in the 1920s, the course was expanded with another 18 hole course.
The signature 16th hole is a challenging par three which overlooks the Hudson River.
The 5th hole also has great river views, and on the 18th, the Club House Mansion rises in front of you.
The country club received Reader's Digest "America's Best New Course" and "Best New Remodel" awards in 2008.
In 2011 Golf Week recognized the Sleepy Hollow Country Club as one of "America's Top Classic Courses."
There's also a Golf Shop and a Golf Learning Center on the grounds.
For non-golfers, riding lessons with a professional horse-trainer are available through the Riding Academy.
There's a 40-horse stable, 2 indoor and 2 outdoor riding arenas, and miles of equestrian trails in neighboring Rockefeller State Park Preserve.
There are many other sporting activities to enjoy at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club. Facilities include 10 tennis courts, 3 squash courts, adult and kid sized swimming pools, 2 paddle courts, and Trap & Skeet shooting.
If you are they type to wonder or care about a place's unique history in the world, then please, read below. If not, feel free to skip!
- In the early 1890s, Elliot Fitch Shepard, a prominent lawyer and influential citizen, purchased this land high above the Hudson River in what's now called Briarcliff Manor.
- Shepard and his wife, Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt, begin construction of the 75 room, Italian Villa overlooking the Hudson River valley and called their estate Woodlea.
- Before construction completed in 1893, Shepard died un-expectantly while doctors removed a bladder stone. Margaret oversaw the remainder of the project, but later sold their Woodlea estate to William Rockefeller and Franklin Vanderlip in 1910.
- The very next year, in 1911, William Rockefeller, his John Jacob Astor IV, (who died on the Titanic in 1912), Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and others, founded the Sleepy Hollow Country Club.
Needless to say, with such a roster of founding fathers, the place soon became a hub for the leaders of society, for people of wealth and influence.
Today, the Sleepy Hollow Country Club, continues to attract the leaders of business and social life - captains of industry on wall street, best-selling authors, and the "Gatsbys". And of course, it is one hell of a course to play on!
With a $100,000 initiation fees, a "members only" sign at the gate, and a parking lot that resembles a stable of collector cars there are many club stereotypes that flourish in the area.
Common folk joke that all members are worth over fifty million. Everyone has at least two houses other than the one they live in.
Everyone owns a horse and rides it either there or at another barn. The idea of vacationing is never anything short of a private yacht or a private plane.
Skiing locally means out west and skiing far away is in Europe.
The men golf on the nicest course in westchester, daily, then come in to the clubhouse have a bottle of scotch and a cigar and meet the family for dinner. An idea of a "bad day" on the golf course is 2 over par.
The local rumors are that the kids from sleepy hollow are brats whose response to most things is "do you know who my father is". The kids here dont have to do anything for themselves because they know that they can always live off daddys money. A relaxing day is taking your boat out on the hudson river.
The last big stereotype is that people want to be members but once your on the inside you claim you hate it when you know that the country club will get you more places than college ever will.
Actor Bill Murray, who starred in the popular 1980 film “Caddyshack.”
The Sleepy Hollow Country Club has been used on several film sets. Scenes from 2010's "Bounty Hunter" starring Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston were filmed on the course.
And, Beyoncé Knowles filmed her music video for the 2011 hit single, "Best Thing I Never Had," here as well.
(In the video she's a bride getting married. You can see her running down the fairway in her wedding dress with a hudson river sunset in the background.)
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