Most of what the club does is a production: a drive with a staging time, a dinner with a seating chart, a flagship weekend booked months out. The lounge is the opposite of all of that.
It is a bar at Deerwood Castle that opens for members only, two hours a month, and asks nothing of you. No route. No tickets. No dress code beyond your own judgement. Which is exactly why it is where most members actually get to know each other.
The monthly Happy Hour sits outside the Gold monthly event credit. Gold members still get their one included qualifying club event each month, and the Happy Hour is separate and included on top of it.