The Fitler Club, scheduled to open in early 2019, is being built in a former motor car factory on the edge of Philadelphia’s Center City downtown area and touted by its developers, few of whom have had any previous connection with the club business, as “the next evolution in private lifestyle club space.”

Only bad weather has thwarted a round-a-day vacation pace, with Farm Neck GC and Vineyard Golf Club hosting Presidential foursomes.