This page was updated July 2024.
The Wellesley Country Club, located at 300 Wellesley Ave. is the place in town for the best in golf, tennis, swimming, and rubbing elbows with the movers and shakers of the area. Corporate executives from some of the biggest companies in Boston can be found here, networking like mad on the course, the courts, and over dinner and drinks.
Membership is by invitation only. We can only guess at what initiation fees and dues cost. Given that the Country Club always has a major capital project or renovation in the works, and the place always looks pristine, we’d say it’s not inexpensive to socialize, relax, and enjoy its amenities.
The Club frequently hosts golf tournaments, and still brags about scoring the 2010 Massachusetts Open, held as part of the Club’s centennial celebration. The course welcomes golfers of all skill levels and plays to a par of 71. Its six sets of tees provide yardages ranging from 4,730 to 6,903 yards.
Year-round indoor tennis and pickleball is on offer, and the Club’s six outdoor courts are the only clay-surfaced tennis options in town.
It wouldn’t be a country club if its members didn’t have a competitive streak. Things really heat up in the summer with women’s and men’s tennis and golf matches—winners have their name added to a plaque for posterity.
Every now someone sinks a hole-in-one on the links, and that golfer’s name is added to a plaque (whether the golfer is a member or a guest).
Many members’ kids (and the kids of non-members, as well) work as caddies, lifeguards, or food and beverage servers.
The pool area, new in 2014, is gorgeous. Its Sunset Terrace area is our favorite part of the Club. (We’re not members, mind you, but sometimes we get invited to events.)
Kids are embraced at the Club. Gotta give them happy memories of long afternoons perfecting their backhand to ensure a pipeline of members. Youth golf, a caddying program, swimming, tennis, and more keep the progeny moving in the right circles.
So with all of that, the Country Club is a home-away-from-home for those lucky enough to make it off the waitlist, and with the deep pockets that membership requires.
Most recent Wellesley Country Club project
In 2022 the Club broke ground on a 100,000-plus sq. ft. racquet facility, designed in keeping with other buildings on the property through the use of cupolas, shingles, and “horizontality.” The project made it through Wellesley’s design review process after project managers addressed landscaping and other concerns. The structure, which elevates to a peak of 50 feet and was repeatedly referred to as “massive” by Design Review Board members, replaces a 50-year-old two-court structure with one that doubles the number of indoor courts from two to four. Overall, the club retained 10 courts between indoor and outdoor, plus added a couple of golf simulators to the new indoor building, which also now includes a pro shop and lounge.
A heads up: be careful when you drive by the club. In spring of 2021 Wellesley Police Officer Scopa spoke with a female party who stated she was traveling on Wellesley Avenue when her windshield was struck by a golf ball. Officer Scopa noticed that there was moderate splintering of glass on the front windshield. The reporting party had gone to the Wellesley Country Club and asked to speak with the manager. The manager indicated that they had an insurance policy, but was unsure if they would pay for the damaged windshield. Officer Scopa advised the reporting party he would document the incident for her.
