Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen may be too public to join Mass. country club
New England Patriots quarterback and his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen have applied to join The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., where they own a home not too far from the club’s 27 holes of golf.
However, the membership at the home to the 1999 Ryder Cup — and, potentially, the 2022 U.S. Open — may find the oft-photographed couple too public for their private penchant.
“The Country Club believes your name should appear in the newspaper just two times: When you’re born and when you die,” said a source at the 133-year-old club to the Boston Globe.
That’s a bit of a problem for the couple, who is in the news quite often and routinely followed by paparazzi.
As one of the five founding clubs behind the U.S. Golf Association, The Country Club is one of America’s most important and prominent private clubs. One of its courses routinely ranks inside the top 20 in the United States.
The club has a membership around 1,300, according to the Globe, which includes a who’s who of sports, culture and business in the Boston area. However, getting into the club apparently has as much to do with your character as it does your bank account and news clippings.
“It’s really about who you are. Do you have good values?” one member said to the Globe. “It’s that old New England mentality.”
So, where does deflating footballs fall on the Good Values scale?
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