Buckskill Tennis Club

East Hampton, Long Island, New York · grass courts in an English garden

East Hampton North, New York, United States · Members club

No. 13, World's Greatest Grass Clubs

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No. 13, World's Greatest Grass Clubs

The Hamptons' finest grass court teaching experience.

Scores out of 10: Surface Excellence 9, Historical Pedigree 8, Tournament Credentials 5, Scale & Facilities 7, Prestige & Exclusivity 9, Ecosystem Contribution 7.

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A small East Hampton club with three grass courts in summer and an ice rink in winter.

Location: Buckskill Road, East Hampton, New York
Founded: Not published
Grass courts: 3, with six Har-Tru courts and one DecoTurf court
Visitors: Members; numbers deliberately limited
Also: Four clay courts become an ice rink each winter, a practice begun in 2002
Season: Members
Address: 178 Buckskill Road, East Hampton North, New York, 11937, United States

Why it is special

The Hamptons were once the centre of American lawn tennis, and the great example remains the Meadow Club in Southampton. Buckskill, in East Hampton, keeps the same tradition on a small scale: ten courts in what the club calls an English garden setting, three of them grass, with six Har-Tru courts and a single DecoTurf court.

The club keeps its membership limited so that members can book court time in advance, and its teaching professionals arrange games and run clinics. Its social calendar includes pro-ams and a ‘Tea at Wimbledon’. In 2010 and 2011 it was described as open to the public by the hour, with two grass courts in use from the start of the season and the third from the Fourth of July.

Each winter since 2002 a hockey-sized ice rink, the Buckskill Winter Club, has been built over four of the clay courts. The club shows how a grass court can survive on a modest site in the Hamptons: not as an estate’s statement, but as one surface among several, maintained for a membership small enough to use it.

About the club

Buckskill Tennis Club in East Hampton, New York, is a small, relaxed members club with 3 grass courts in an English garden setting. Membership numbers are kept limited so that court time remains available to everyone, and members can book their courts in advance. Coaching is led by the club’s teaching professionals.