'PASSING' ON TOM
Brady home near ritzy country club that may snub him
He’s the reigning Super Bowl MVP — and he’s building a multimilliondollar mansion (below) right next to this lush green fairway — but Tom Brady is having trouble scoring a coveted membership at the country club next door.
The New England Patriots quarterback and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bündchen, have their hearts set on joining The Country Club, an exclusive hangout that borders their custombuilt, 14,000squarefoot mansion in Brookline, Mass.
But members of the oldline club told The Boston Globe that the celebrity couple may have to throw out their game plan — because they’re too famous.
“I don’t know what they’ll do about Brady,” one prominent business person said. “The Country Club believes your name should appear in the paper just two times: When you’re born and when you die.”
Brady’s recent headlines have centered on the “Deflategate” scan dal, in which he was hit with a fourgame suspension for likely knowing that air was being let out of his footballs so they’d be easier to grip.
Bündchen, the world’s highestpaid supermodel, is no stranger to controversy either, with dramas that include posting an online photo of herself breastfeeding daughter Vivian in 2013.
The Brazilianborn beauty also infamously defended Brady following the Pats’ 2012 Super Bowl loss to the Giants, saying: “My husband cannot fking throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.”
The Country Club, which was established in 1882, is one of the founding clubs of the United States Golf Association and has hosted three US Open championships.
It’s also been extremely picky in admitting members, having barred Jews until the 1970s and blacks until 1994, according to the Globe.
“It’s really about who you are. Do you have good values?” one member told the paper. “It’s that old New England mentality.”