 |
the golf and tennis pro shops, croquet court, and several guest cottages, all built around the 80-acre, 18-hole golf course. The entire community is fenced and secure, with a 24-hour manned gatehouse built from original packinghouse stones standing at the main entry on East Valley Road. Click Here For A Visual Map Of The Holes Membership Information: Purchasing a home within the gates of Birnam Wood Golf Club designates the buyer as a Corporate Member. The initiation fee for a corporate membership is $92,000, along with monthly Club dues of $600 and monthly homeowner’s fees of $305. Full Club privileges are afforded Corporate Members. These include use of all golf, tennis, and clubhouse facilities. PIC OF BILL ON SWING All other classes of Membership are by exclusive invitation only, including Resident, Non-resident, Out-of-State, Intermediate, Clubhouse, and Tennis memberships. Membership category prices change periodically.
|
|
Birnam Wood History: Scottish memories and Shakespearian verse coincided with Robert McLean’s vision to transform the landscape of Las Fuentes Rancho into what is now one of the most exclusive residential golf club communities in the world: Birnam Wood Golf Club, located in Montecito, California. McLean, owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press, purchased the 223.6 acre lemon orchard that had been processing lemons from central coast groves, in 1964. He and his business partners, including realtor William W. “Pete” Sears, landscape architect Thomas D Church, and golf architect Robert Trent Jones, Sr., created what Jones considered as the toughest short course in the United States. The architectural firm of Warner, Morris and Wilson undertook the task of preserving and remodeling the old packing house that Chinese stone masons had hand built in 1892 from native quarried rocks. The Club House today includes a state of the art fitness center, 19th hole, casual grill dining room, main dining room, and library, as well as traditional locker rooms for men and women. Extensive renovations to the interiors and kitchen took place in 2009-1010. Today the Birnam Wood Community consists of approximately 140 homes,
|
 |
|
|
|
|
