A 1924 Tillinghast club in Scarsdale that advertises weddings and never says whether a non member may book one.
Fenway Golf Club says it hosts weddings. It does not say who is allowed to hold one. Its Special Events page lists golf outings, bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings and corporate events, and names a Director of Events, but nowhere on the site does it address membership, sponsorship or outside bookings. We read the Special Events, About Us and Contact Us pages on 11 September 2026. The About Us page points to guest rules and visitor guidelines and says the directory is dedicated to the membership, past and present. The Contact Us page carries no public event inquiry form. So the policy is unpublished, and a couple has to ask the club whether a member sponsor is required before spending another hour on it. The club itself is a serious piece of Westchester golf. It was established in 1920 as Fenimore Golf Club and reorganised as Fenway in 1936, on a course A.W. Tillinghast laid out in 1924 and Gil Hanse has since restored.
Nothing about the cost of a wedding at Fenway exists in public. The one number floating around, 90,000 square feet on Cvent, describes the property and tells you nothing about how many people fit in a room. Do not convert it into a guest count. Settle the membership question first, in writing. Then ask for the per person rate by season and day, what the club adds for service and administration, the minimum, and the seated capacity of the actual room.
The club’s Special Events, About Us and Contact Us pages, plus the Cvent venue listing for Fenway Golf Club. All read 11 September 2026. Checked September 2026. First party means the business’s own site or rate card. Marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
The member policy is unresolved at a private club, and no pricing, capacity or vendor information exists from any source. Do not treat the Cvent quote button as evidence that the public may book.
The course dates to 1924 and is A.W. Tillinghast’s work, in the dense cluster of historic clubs around Scarsdale. Gil Hanse has since restored it. The club hosted the 108 hole Westchester Open in 1938, with Ben Hogan and Sam Snead playing.
The club itself was established in 1920 as Fenimore Golf Club and reorganised under the Fenway name in 1936. It marked its centennial recently.
That history is the reason a couple would want the place, and it is also the reason the club has no commercial need to sell weddings to strangers. Both things are true at once, which is why the booking question has to be settled first.
It says the club specialises in golf outings, bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings and corporate events, and that every event is customised. It publishes a Director of Events, Lauren Gray, on 914-874-5140. That is the entire published offer.
No rooms are named. No terraces or tents. No capacities, no prices, no menus, no vendor policy, no end time. Cvent lists the club with one meeting room and 90,000 square feet of total meeting space, which reads as a property level figure rather than a banquet room and should not be treated as a guest count.
Cvent also shows a request a quote button and no membership caveat. A marketplace listing is not evidence of a club’s policy, and we do not treat it as any. Listings get built from public data and they do not ask clubs who is allowed in.
Golf outings, bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings, corporate events. At a private club, every one of those can be a member event. Bar and bat mitzvahs in particular are usually member family celebrations, and corporate outings are often booked by a member’s company.
So the list does not settle anything. It is equally consistent with a club that quietly takes outside business and a club whose entire event calendar belongs to its own families. That is precisely why the question has to be asked rather than inferred.
There is one small tell pointing the other way. The About Us page refers to guest rules and visitor guidelines, and describes the club directory as belonging to the membership. Language like that is written for members about their guests, and it is the vocabulary of a club that thinks in terms of who brought you.
No per person rate, no site fee, no food and beverage minimum, no service charge, no administrative fee. The club publishes none of it and no marketplace listing carries a per person figure either. This is the most completely unpriced venue in this batch.
That is not a warning sign by itself. Private clubs often price events only for members and only on request. It does mean you will have no anchor, so ask for the rate by season and day of week, the service charge as a percentage, and what the minimum is before you visit.
Ask about the guest minimum with particular care at a golf club. Clubs with one banquet room and a busy member calendar often set a high floor on a Saturday in order to make the date worth releasing.
And ask what the room is. The club names no rooms at all, which is unusual even among private clubs, so you cannot tell from anything published whether a wedding here means a dining room, a tent on the lawn or something in between.
The club’s page titles still read Fenway Golf Club 2022, which suggests the site has not been refreshed in a while. Everything on it may still be accurate.
It does mean a phone call beats the website on anything that matters, including whether the Director of Events named there is still the person to ask for. Four years is long enough for a room to be renovated, a policy to change or a staff member to move on.
Can a couple with no connection to the membership sign a contract at Fenway. Ask it plainly on the first call and ask for the answer in writing. If the answer is that a member must sponsor or host, the rest of the questions are academic until you find that member.
If the answer is yes, ask next which room a wedding actually gets and what it seats, then the per person rate, the service charge, the minimum, the end time and the wet weather plan. The club publishes a Special Events page and no figures behind it, so every one of those is a conversation rather than a lookup.
The calendar is the other thing to settle. Ask what happens to your wedding if the club has a tournament or a member event that weekend. At a club whose own history page leads with the 1938 Westchester Open, the golf schedule comes first and a wedding is the guest at that table.
None of this is a reason to skip the call. A restored Tillinghast course in Scarsdale is a real thing to be married at, and a club that publishes a Director of Events is a club expecting the phone to ring. Just make the first question the one that can end the conversation, rather than the seventh.
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