Vice Dale Country Club

An old-money country club in Vice Dale's country-club district, with two golf courses, a membership process designed to exclude, and a back-room culture older than the state.

The Vice Dale Country Club has been filtering Leonida's upper crust since 1953, and it takes its exclusivity very seriously. The two golf courses are both nationally ranked, the clubhouse is a mid-century architectural gem that no member is allowed to photograph, and the back-nine clubhouse — a smaller, woodier, more private building near the 14th tee — is rumored to be where more state legislation gets decided than in the actual capitol. Membership requires a sponsor, a background check that somehow manages to be both financial and moral, and a waiting list that is measured in years. The members are a who's who of Vice Dale's doctors, lawyers, real estate developers, political fixers, and the occasional old family whose name is on a hospital wing somewhere. The culture is polite, traditional, and absolutely ruthless — crossing someone at Vice Dale Country Club is the kind of thing that ends careers via mechanisms you won't see coming.