Country Club

A Country Club (in some countries as a short form and Country ) is one of a club or association operated with exclusive access requirements park-like grounds with sports and recreational facilities in rural areas or on the outskirts of large cities.

The term is used both for the system and for the operated club or association. The term is also used for gated communities in the midst of such recreational parks. Just to country clubs approach with housing opportunities for the members to inside the plants to gated communities.

Country Club as a recreation facility

As a recreation facility Country clubs offer their members in addition to sports facilities and recreation areas also provide accommodation and dining options. Often the focus is on sports golf, tennis and horse riding. The clubs tend to have high membership fees and restrictive regulations provisions, so that they are primarily used by the upper middle and upper classes. The buildings are architecturally mostly inspired by the classic villa, ranch or the mansion of a plantation.

Country Club as a condominium

In Argentina the first country clubs were opened in the 1940s. You were first purely recreational areas in which the upper class had a weekend house in the country and devoted himself there, especially various sports: golf, horse riding and tennis.

Since the 1980s, country clubs were built as a pure residential areas, also in the sense of an exclusive gated community and experienced a temporarily strong growth. It played for the boom, the feeling of insecurity in the cities and the contact with nature, a role which meant that the upper classes withdrew into these clubs and this almost left only to work. This in turn led to some country clubs today often have a very diverse infrastructure with shops, schools and places of entertainment.

A trend back in the metropolitan area is emerging since 2000. Architecturally, now some inner-city clubs and sports venues to lean against the cottage and villa architecture of the Country of clubs.

Country club membership as a political rallying cry

As a country-club Republican wealthy members of the U.S. Republican Party in the USA are referred to, which can be distinguished from less wealthy citizens clearly and have very left, or liberal views on social issues such as abortion, political ecology or gay marriage and to a lesser extent a Religion exercise practical.

When prominent democratic multi-millionaires like Ned Lamont or John Kerry whose affiliation or campaigning became negative and discussed Clubs of political opponents in exquisite country.