The Woods, elevated.
A strategic restoration focused on playability, conditioning, pace, and memorable green-to-tee transitions—with a signature tree at the heart of the story.
A private-club vision · Riverhead, New York
Find your game in the woods.
Reimagining The Woods at Cherry Creek as a modern private golf club—deeply rooted in place, built around memorable play, and designed for the next generation of Long Island membership.
Concept presentation · Private and confidential
The idea
A destination people will talk about before they ever play it.
Wizard Tree turns a familiar Long Island property into an ownable world: mysterious, playful, exacting, and unmistakably different.
The vision pairs serious golf with a distinctive cultural identity—signature course moments, warm hospitality, limited membership, public access, and a celebration business with personality. Wizard Tree National becomes the private forest flagship. Wizard Creek Links carries the open-course experience forward for daily-fee play, outings, and the famous par 6.
The goal is not exclusivity for its own sake. It is a complete 296-acre destination with a point of view—and three complementary businesses capable of feeding demand into one another.
36holes across the combined property
296approximate acres in the acquisition thesis
625target full-time-equivalent membership at stabilization
The experience
Three reasons to belong.
Tradition without stiffness.
Serious standards, light touch. A club where the Invitational, the high-score board, and a spontaneous nine all feel equally native.
A place worth staying.
Food, drink, events, and member service designed as part of the product—not an afterthought attached to the golf course.
One estate · Three businesses
The Wizard Tree portfolio.
Wizard Tree National
The forest game. A limited-membership private club built around serious golf, distinctive rituals, and elevated hospitality.
Membership · initiation · dining · guest play · Invitational
Wizard Creek Links
The open game. Wind, distance, farmland, and the famous par 6—where the property's Cherry Creek heritage flows into the wider Wizard world.
Green fees · carts · range · outings · tournaments · shop
The Grove at Wizard Tree
The celebration game. A dedicated venue and catering identity for weddings, milestone events, corporate gatherings, and off-site hospitality.
Weddings · private events · corporate · outside catering
Founding membership
Belong at the beginning.
A limited founding group helps shape the traditions, culture, and first chapter of Wizard Tree National.
Founding Full Golf$10,000 initiation
$20,000 annual dues
$20,000 annual dues
Future categoriesFull · Young Executive
National · Social
National · Social
Illustrative, non-equity membership terms for market validation. Final privileges, policies, availability, and pricing remain subject to ownership, financing, design, and legal approval.
Membership revenue lens
See how the founding proposition scales before golf, events, dining, sponsorship, or public-course revenue.
Annual dues$12.5M
Initiation proceeds$6.3M
Illustrative gross revenue only; not a forecast or securities offering. The full underwriting includes operating costs, debt service, renovation capital, ancillary revenue, and a multi-year membership ramp.
The Grove at Wizard Tree
A revenue arm built for the moments beyond golf.
The setting already does the hardest part: arrival, landscape, photographs, and a sense of escape. The opportunity is to turn that setting into a professionally operated celebration business.
Weddings anchor the calendar. Rehearsal dinners, showers, milestone celebrations, golf outings, corporate retreats, member events, and off-site catering improve utilization across weekdays and shoulder seasons. The Grove gets its own sales identity while using Wizard Tree's grounds, culinary team, purchasing power, and audience.
CeremoniesReceptionsWelcome partiesGolf outingsCorporate retreatsOutside catering
Illustrative stabilized scenario
60 weddings× $40,000
$2.40M
$2.40M
50 private & corporate events× $15,000
$750K
$750K
80 off-site catering events× $7,500
$600K
$600K
$3.75M gross revenueBefore direct event costs, staffing, commissions, and allocated overhead
Illustrative potential, not a forecast. Final capacity depends on venue design, approvals, kitchen capability, seasonality, event mix, and local demand validation.
The commercial thesis
Long Island does not need another generic country club. It needs a club with a story strong enough to travel.
Phase 01
Validate
Trademark, site diligence, market interviews, pricing, and founding-interest list.
Phase 02
Acquire
Capital stack, negotiated purchase, approvals, and definitive renovation scope.
Phase 03
Transform
Golf, arrival, clubhouse, identity, service model, and pre-opening campaign.
Phase 04
Open
Founders Invitational, member rituals, destination partnerships, and disciplined growth.
Start the right conversation
The first round is not on the course. It is around the table.
Use this private concept page to introduce the vision, qualify interest, and open separate conversations with potential capital partners and founding members.