Leewood Golf Club

Leewood Golf Club does not say whether you can book it, and its own website argues with itself about the answer. The home page markets versatile event spaces for weddings, corporate gatherings and social celebrations, and the club runs an open Host an Event enquiry form whose only instruction is to fill it in and wait for a call. There is no membership question on that form and no sponsor field. Then the About page lists membership required among its planning considerations, and the Wedding and Exclusive Events page frames the offer around private events or member gatherings and exclusive access for members. We read all five of those pages on 11 September 2026 and we cannot reconcile them. So we are recording the policy as not published, and telling you to ask the club before you fall for the place. What is clear is the size: up to 250 guests in the dining room and up to 400 for corporate outings.

The pages we read, and exactly what each one says

We checked the home page, the About page, the Private Events page, the Wedding and Exclusive Events page and the Host an Event form. In favour of outside events: the home page sells event spaces for weddings, and the enquiry form is public, short and free of any membership screening. Against: the About page lists membership required among its planning notes, and the weddings page talks about member gatherings and exclusive access to club amenities for members.

Eventective lists the club as a wedding venue with no membership caveat and no starting price. We did not find a listing on The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola or Wedding Spot carrying a starting price. A marketplace listing is not evidence of policy in any case, and we will not treat it as such.

One phone call settles this. Ask whether a couple with no connection to the club can hold a wedding there, and if the answer is conditional, ask what the condition is. Everything else on this page is secondary to that question.

The course is a Devereux Emmet from the early 1920s and the club cannot agree which year

The About page says the club was founded in 1921. Another part of the same site says October 1922. We are recording both rather than choosing, because a club’s founding year is the kind of detail that ends up engraved on something.

The original eighteen hole course was designed by Devereux Emmet on a 99 acre property in Eastchester, close to the New Rochelle and Bronx lines. Beyond golf the club runs a full lifestyle operation with dining, a gym, tennis and pickleball, a pool and children’s camps.

The location is genuinely useful for a southern Westchester guest list. Eastchester is an easy drive from the Bronx, from New Rochelle and from the parkways, which spares you the hour long convoy north that a Hudson Valley venue imposes on everyone. If half your guests are coming from the city, that is worth real money in transport and in goodwill.

A 250 seat dining room is a large room for this part of the county

The club states it can accommodate up to 250 guests in its dining room or 400 for corporate outings, and Eventective repeats the same figures. That puts Leewood at the larger end of what lower Westchester clubs offer, and it is the strongest practical reason to chase down the membership question rather than move on.

No individual room names, terraces or tents are published, and no separate ceremony or cocktail capacity is given. Ask which room the 250 refers to, whether a ceremony can be held on the property, and where cocktails happen if it rains.

Be careful with the 400 figure. It attaches to corporate outings, which usually means a golf day with a buffet and people standing, and it will not translate into 400 seated at round tables with a dance floor. Use the 250 as your planning number until somebody at the club tells you otherwise in writing.

There is no published price and no published rule about anything else either

No per person rate, site fee, food and beverage minimum, service charge or end time appears on any club page. No marketplace listing carries a per person figure. The club describes customisable catering options run by its own banquet team under a named executive chef, which implies in house catering without stating a rule about outside caterers.

For a club this size that silence is normal and it is still a problem for planning. If you get past the membership question, ask for a written banquet package with the per person rate, the service charge percentage, the bar options and the end time, before you talk about dates.

Eventective carries the club as a wedding venue and publishes no starting price for it, and we found no listing anywhere with one. So there is no marketplace figure to anchor against and no first party figure either. Anyone quoting you a number for Leewood before you have spoken to the club has made it up.

What we would do with this venue if it were on our shortlist

Call the event line during the published hours, which run Monday to Sunday from 9:00am to 6:00pm for event enquiries. Ask the membership question first and in plain words. If the answer is that you need a member, stop there and save yourself the visit. The club is otherwise attractive enough that couples will talk themselves into a hopeful reading of an ambiguous page, and we would rather they did not.

If the answer is that outside weddings are welcome, ask them to put that in the contract. Then ask whether member dining continues alongside your event. Ask whether the clubhouse is exclusively yours, and what happens to your outdoor plans in bad weather. The club publishes nothing on any of those points.

We would also ask what a member sponsored booking would cost against an open one, if both exist. Clubs that sit in this middle ground often price the two differently, and a couple who happens to know a member may be able to convert that acquaintance into a materially better contract. It is an awkward question and it is worth asking.