Bonnie Briar Country Club
Larchmont, NY · Country club · founded 1921
Opening up
Initiation revenue rose sharply year over year. This club appears to be actively taking members.
$100k
No flags
No financial flags in the latest public filing.
How it rates
Scored out of ten from documented facts only — court counts, ranking lists, published fee and sponsor requirements. Nothing here is an opinion poll, and a category the club has not documented is left blank rather than guessed at.
Composite 6.7 across 8 scored categories. How we score
What it costs, by category
Every figure carries its source and a confidence rating. Where a source gave a range rather than a number, we show the range.
| Category | Initiation | Annual dues | Minimum | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full (forum report, disputed) | $100,000 | — | — | Unverified 20/100 · 2025 | Reddit r/Westchester ↗ |
- · Actively contradicted in the same thread by a poster saying $25-35k. We hold no document for this club. Published only to show the disagreement exists, never as the headline figure.
The golf
Devereux Emmet (1921, further work 1928); A.W. Tillinghast (1923); Robert Trent Jones Sr. (1936)
What people say
Unverified accounts from members and applicants on public forums. Treat every figure here as hearsay, not fact.
“Leewood and Lake Isle are good options. You're looking at $100K initiation fee at Bonnie Briar.”
“Zero shot that's true. Maybe 25k-35k”
“Oh wow that's crazy. My friends joined like 10 years ago the initiation fee was nowhere near that back then.”
What the public filings show
From this club's IRS Form 990 returns. Initiation-fee revenue is the closest public proxy there is for how many members a club admitted in a year.
| Fiscal year | Total revenue | Initiation fees | Expenses | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $14M | $4.5M | $10M | $16M |
| 2022 | $10M | $1.7M | $9.6M | $13M |
| 2021 | $10M | $1.6M | $8.8M | $12M |
Initiation-fee revenue moved +171% year over year.
Know Bonnie Briar Country Club?
The filings tell us what the club collected. They cannot tell us the fee, the dues, or how long the list really is. Members and applicants supply that. It takes a minute, it's anonymous, and it makes the next person's search better.
Contribute what you knowSources
Everything on this page traces back to one of these.
- Bonnie Briar Country Club — Tennis — Bonnie Briar Country Club
- Bonnie Briar Country Club — Our Course — Bonnie Briar Country Club
- Forum claim, disputed in thread — Reddit r/Westchester (2025)