Comments on: The Myth of the Golf Nazi https://www.isegoria.net/2014/11/the-myth-of-the-golf-nazi/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bill https://www.isegoria.net/2014/11/the-myth-of-the-golf-nazi/comment-page-1/#comment-1879121 Bill Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:47:53 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36748#comment-1879121 I don’t know about the distant past, but I spent an afternoon at Ravisloe, a storied Jewish country club in Chicago, on a beautiful summer weekday in about 1995. Gorgeous, immaculate facilities, with lots of well-scrubbed, polite, competent teens (obviously the sons and daughters of less-wealthy members of Jewish community given the chance to make college money) to see to your every request. Unfortunately, I was dressed too informally to enter the clubhouse, which was a very sumptuous venue indeed.

“…more luxurious and expensive”? I’ve been to some exclusive yacht clubs and country clubs, but Ravisloe was at the top end of the scale. Jews were excluded from gentile clubs, but in creating their own facilities, they set a new standard of excellence. I wonder what gentile guests were thinking in the 1950′s, say, when they saw how well the excluded minority was doing.

I googled it and found that it had finally failed in 2010 and was now open to the public. I can’t see how it can be maintained in the same style as a public golf course.

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