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Laver Cup Rules: The Team-Format Mixer That Closes Your Fall League With a Waitlist

The Laver Cup’s escalating-points scoring solves the exact problem that kills most fall tennis leagues: matches that stop mattering by week six. Here’s how to run a capped, team-format finale on Laver Cup rules — and why the waitlist you generate matters more than the event itself.

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The Presidents Cup at Medinah: What It Takes to Host a Team Championship Without Losing Your Members

Medinah opens Presidents Cup 2026 week on Course No. 3, but the real test isn’t the turf — it’s whether members still feel like the club is theirs. Here’s how Medinah, Bellerive, Quail Hollow, and Hazeltine turned championship disruption into pride, and what any private club can borrow from their playbooks.

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Revival Weekend: Why Driving Clubs Are Adding Heritage Programming (and What Goodwood Gets Right)

The Goodwood Revival turns nostalgia into six-figure waitlists — and it’s not the only club proving heritage programming pays. From Charlotte’s Ten Tenths Motor Club to a golf course on Hilton Head, here’s the playbook driving clubs and traditional clubs are borrowing this fall.

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Social & City Clubs

Fashion Week Overflow: How City Clubs Win the Eight Nights of NYFW

From September 10–15, New York Fashion Week floods Manhattan with the ultra-wealthy clients every club wants. Here’s the data-backed playbook — and the real clubs, from Zero Bond to Spring Place — turning eight nights of NYFW into a year of membership pipeline.

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Wellness & Lifestyle

Nationals and a Paris Major: The Two Racquet Formats Growing Faster Than Tennis

The Veolia Pickleball Nationals, Premier Padel’s Paris Major, and the US Open final all land within two weeks of each other this September. Here’s what the capacity and capital-spend data says about where club racquet sports investment — including padel club membership — is actually heading, with real examples from five clubs already building for it.

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Labor Day in the Mountains: Telluride, Aspen and the Shoulder-Season Membership Window

The Telluride Film Festival and Jazz Aspen Snowmass turn Labor Day weekend into the single best mountain club membership fall window of the year. Here’s how Snowmass Mountain Club, Telluride’s Racquet Club, Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis, and AspenX are already capturing it.

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Designing the Wine-Club Ladder: Tier Architecture and Pricing From Entry to Collector

A framework for designing wine-club tiers and pricing, from an accessible entry level to collector and allocation tiers, and what each should include.

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The Longevity Boom: Why Premium Wellness Clubs Are the Fastest-Growing Category in Private Membership

Premium wellness and longevity clubs are the fastest-growing category in private membership. What is driving demand, and what it means for club leadership.

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Harvest Season Is Your Best Acquisition Window: Turning the Crush and Fall Release Into Wine-Club Growth

How wineries and clubs can turn harvest events and the fall release calendar into their strongest wine-club acquisition and retention window of the year.

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The Pickleball Backlash: Why Top Clubs Are Quietly Removing Courts

Pickleball reached 56% amenity penetration — but 41% of club leaders now flag it as an overcapacity concern. The strategic case for converting courts to padel, wellness, and longevity programming.