Dunhill Clubhouse - one of the best views in golf

From Executive Golf Magazine

Each year, The Dunhill Clubhouse, overlooking the Road hole at St Andrews, is where money, power and A-list celebrity mingle. Now the company has a new home in London’s Mayfair. Executive Golf takes it’s place at the top table and finds a luxury men’s brand exporting the best of British style. Story by Richard Gillis

Inside however, is another story. Few people are allowed in to what is the most exclusive hospitality suite in European golf, a place where Hollywood royalty mix with their equivalents from the worlds of international sport, business and politics. Put another way, if you’re not famous, you’d better be very rich.

Samuel L Jackson stands at the bar talking to Johan Cruyff and Sean Fitzpatrick, the former All Black captain. Alongside them Hugh Grant, stands with both hands in his jacket pocket like a minor royal, swapping anecdotes with Mission: Impossible star Dougray Scott and his beautiful American actress wife Claire Forlani. Across the dining room, at a large round table, a collection of sporting legends has gathered: Ian Botham pours Darren Clarke a glass of red, while Michael Vaughan and Shane Warne are deep in conversation, discussing who knows what; whether Warne is going to come back to haunt England one more time perhaps, or how much money he made from winning the Indian Premier League.

Former American vice president Dan Quayle takes the microphone and gives a speech of thanks to the Dunhill supremo. Johann Rupert is the reclusive South African chairman and chief executive of Richemont, the company that owns Dunhill and is the man who greenlights this tournament.

Behind Quayle, Huey Lewis, Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres and a member of The Eagles who isn’t Don Henley or Glenn Frey, tune up for what has become a Dunhill tradition: the Saturday night jamming session. The first few bars of Some Kinda Wonderful, the old Drifters hit, is the cue for a dancefloor invasion as Ernie Els vies for room with JP McManus the Irish billionaire and golfing partner of Padraig Harrington. Meanwhile, Ted Forstmann, one of the pioneers of the private equity industry retires to the balcony to smoke a cigar the size of a canoe.....


Sounds like a good time for the Rich and Famous.... lol

~ Hath