The local lore holds that his ashes are buried near the 14th green. Morefar is now owned by a subsidiary of a company called Starr International. According to an A.I.G. spokesman, Mark Herr, Starr International “was a sister entity to A.I.G. It is no longer.”.
Morefar is now owned by a subsidiary of a company called Starr International. According to an A.I.G. spokesman, Mark Herr, Starr International “was a sister entity to A.I.G. It is no longer.”. Starr International accepted questions from a reporter via e-mail but did not respond.
The course rating is 73.0 and it has a slope rating of 133 on Bent grass. Designed by Edward Ryder/Val Carlson, the Morefar golf course opened in 1962. Victor Boyd manages the course as the General Manager.
The 18-hole "Morefar" course at the Morefar Golf Course facility in Brewster, New York features 6,748 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72 . The course rating is 73.0 and it has a slope rating of 133 on Bent grass. Designed by Edward Ryder/Val Carlson, the Morefar golf course opened in 1962. Victor Boyd manages the course as the ...
Morefar Golf Course. The 18-hole "Morefar" course at the Morefar Golf Course facility in Brewster, New York features 6,748 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 73.0 and it has a slope rating of 133 on Bent grass. Designed by Edward Ryder/Val Carlson, the Morefar golf course opened in 1962.
The course rating is 73.0 and it has a slope rating of 133 on Bent grass. Designed by Edward Ryder/Val Carlson, the Morefar golf course opened in 1962. Victor Boyd manages the course as the General Manager.
BREWSTER, N.Y. -- There are many private golf courses in the affluent suburban countryside north of New York City , but some are more private than others. Few have heard of Morefar Back O'Beyond. It is perched on 500 acres of land here, where tumble-down stone walls thread along wooded hillsides and Revolutionary War markers adorn the roads.
One piece is in a sand trap. And the pace is so leisurely that stopping for a sit-down lunch after nine holes is de rigueur. Morefar is also part of an empire in upheaval, and its future is not assured.
Wondering if anyone here has ever been able to get into Morefar in Brewster NY. Kind of a mysterious club it's owned by AIG and borders a great public track Richter Park in CT. Supposed to be an awesome course with only a handful of rounds every season. I've honestly never seen anyone on the course.
Sorry to bring back a thread from the dead... I search Morefar now and again just to see the stories about it and always see the same as above. If anyone is looking for a bit of history about the course, there is a book called Fallen Giant. It is about Hank Greenberg and his days at AIG. Chapter 10 is about Morefar.
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I was able to get out to the Sony Open today to take a few pics. I guess due to Covid precautions they kept the spectators pretty far from the players. Also due to camera...
But the mysteries tied into the legend of Morefar go back to its founder, Corneilius Vander Starr. He used his wealth and connections in Asia to construct the course with Chinese laborers. The origin of the name is said to be from these immigrant workers, when asked where they were working, “More far, more far.”.
Morefar is no typical golf course. Although the myths and questions about Morefar are rooted in artificial mystery, the questions asked are still mostly unanswered. This well-guarded property will most likely remain shrouded in mystery for a long time. The Stone Chambers of Putnam County.
Stumbling through the woods, the night embraces the trees and chill permeates the air. You hold your breath as the dark harmony is pierced by the screech of an owl. You finally burst through a thicket of brambles to come across a large arched stonework entrance.
A member of the Hudson River Valley Society cites ideas from the book Manitou (a name meaning “Great Spirit” in Algonquin that refers to the spiritual presence that resides throughout the world) which states that the stone chambers were used for astrological purposes: to observe signs in the heavens.
There is little known about archaeological digging in the area of the stone structures. There is always the possibility of something, anything, hiding within the earth of these complexly-structured stone dwellings. The only way to know for sure is to start digging.
Wall Street billionaire Dirk E. Ziff is one of about two dozen member/owners of Cherokee Plantation near Yemassee, South Carolina. The property is a few thousand acres large, with a Donald Steel-designed golf course at the heart which hosts fewer than a thousand rounds in most years. The scant writings that exist about the club place the joining fee around $1 million and the annual dues around $85,000. But just because you have the money, it is far from guaranteed you'll get in.
This Johnny Miller/Gene Bates-designed course, located in Colts Neck, New Jersey, used to be the private territory of Robert Brennan, who headed a penny stock trading company until he was jailed for a decade for money laundering in 2001 (after being released from prison, Brennan went to work at the course). The course, named after the associated thoroughbred racing stable, eventually ended up in the possession of a former Goldman Sachs executive and one of the co-founders of Arizona Iced Tea. Now, it is probably the least-exclusive course on this list, with a relatively large membership (between 100 and 150, we hear), each in at a reported $350,000 initiation fee.
You may have read about Tim and Edra Blixseth, who developed the extremely private (but still too well-known for this list) Yellowstone Club in Montana and subsequently fell on hard times when the now-divorced couple's financial house collapsed on them.
Thomas McBroom is little-known in the States, but he is one of Canada's best-regarded architects. So when late Canadian energy billionaire Paul Desmarais wanted to build a private golf retreat for himself and invited guests, he turned to McBroom, who fashioned the course on Desmarais' hilly, enormous and remote private estate northeast of Quebec City. Invitees have historically been flown to the course in helicopters owned by Desmarais' company, Power Corp.
So when late Canadian energy billionaire Paul Desmarais wanted to build a private golf retreat for himself and invited guests, he turned to McBroom, who fashioned the course on Desmarais' hilly, enormous and remote private estate northeast of Quebec City .
The Prince of Morocco's palace contains a golf course within its crenellated walls, which even border a couple holes of the Robert Trent Jones, Jr. design. Unless you're an invited guest of the Prince, you'll have to qualify for the European Tour's Trophée Hassan II event (or its pro-am) in order to tee it up here, where many months sometimes pass between rounds, though the course is always kept in perfect shape just in case the Prince has the urge to play a round.