New England quarterback, Tom Brady, and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen, have applied to join The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., but the club may find the couple too public for their private place.
The 133-year-old institution prizes privacy and discretion above all else, and Brady and Bundchen are often trailed by paparazzi - and occasionally controversy - which attracts the sort of attention loathed by the multimillionaires who belong to the golf club on Clyde Street in Chestnut Hill, according to the Boston Globe.
"I don't know what they'll do about Brady," an unnamed Boston businessperson told the Globe. "The Country Club believes your name should appear in the newspaper just two times: When you're born and when you die."
As one of the five founding clubs behind the U.S. Golf Association, The Country Club is one of America's most important and prominent private clubs, according to the Washington Post. One of its courses routinely ranks inside the top 20 in the United States, according to Yahoo! Sports.
One longtime member, who insisted her name not be used, said she hopes that Brady and Bundchen's application isn't spiked. She concedes that TCC can be finicky about whom it admits. "I would support them, yes," she said. "My husband isn't around to gawk at Gisele, but if Tom Brady wants to come home with me, he can do that anytime."
