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12 LOTS ON THE BOARD · JUL 13 – JUL 20, 2026
It's a heavy week at the top of the board, so let's get right into it. We have twelve lots close between now and the 20th, with most of the field closing on the 15th. Three of them are genuine top-100 courses — Oakmont's threesome has climbed to $9,250, Sleepy Hollow's sits at $8,750, and Maidstone, out on the East End of Long Island, has drawn $6,250. Oakmont you'd expect to run hot, since it hosted the U.S. Open just over a year ago and that kind of shine doesn't fade in twelve months, but the lot I keep coming back to is Sleepy Hollow, which has quietly bid its way past what the course normally goes for with days still left to run. Underneath the marquee names there's a solid run of Pennsylvania clubs in Aronimink, Fox Chapel and two additional Philadelphia clubs, and then the quieter value further down the board at Glen View, La Jolla and Salem, where the bidding hasn't caught up to the golf yet. The TapeCurrent Bid and Course Average show the whole-lot total with the per-golfer figure beneath. Featured — nationally & state-ranked courses
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Course SpotlightSleepy Hollow Country Club (SLPY)US No. 52 · NY No. 10 
Sleepy Hollow is one of those places where the backstory is half the draw. It sits on a bluff over the Hudson on an old Vanderbilt estate, and the clubhouse isn't so much a clubhouse as it's a 140-room mansion better known as Woodlea. The course opened in 1911 as a C.B. Macdonald design, Tillinghast added a few holes in the 1920s, and for a long stretch it lived as a mix of the two. Then, in the mid-2000s, Gil Hanse made a call you don't see very often: instead of restoring the Tillinghast work, he rebuilt all eighteen holes in Macdonald's template style. The logic was simple enough — if you wanted Tillinghast in Westchester you already had Winged Foot and Quaker Ridge right down the road, but nobody was really carrying the Macdonald torch, so he committed to it all the way. Play it now and you get the classic hole templates, a Redan, a Road hole, a Punchbowl, plus a couple that lean into the setting: the 4th is the Headless Horseman, the 11th is Ichabod's Elbow. That decision aged well, and the course has climbed the rankings steadily ever since, up to No. 52 in the country — which is exactly why a lot like this one is worth paying attention to. A round at Sleepy Hollow has averaged just under $1,900 a player across seventeen sales on our board, in a spread that runs anywhere from $750 to $3,666 depending on the event and the cause behind it, and yet the threesome that's live right now is already at $2,917 a player with the lot still open. It's the rare case where the course's reputation and the room bidding on it have lined up at the same moment, and the number is showing it. While it's certainly enticing for an opportunity to play a top course, there will likely be a better deal out there at some point. Market InsightWhat's worth watching this week is how the marquee names line up against their own long-run averages. Oakmont and Maidstone are the mirror image: Oakmont is at $3,083 per player against an all-time average north of $3,350, and Maidstone is down at $2,083 despite a history closer to $3,050, so both are still bidding below what the course typically brings — which, on a board this crowded at the top, is usually where the late money ends up going. Further down, Glen View, La Jolla and Salem don't have enough auction history yet to set an average, but the bids on them are light enough that the quieter value is probably hiding in that part of the board.
ResultsNothing to settle up yet — starting next week, this is where we recap what the previous issue’s courses actually sold for. What's Ahead
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