It falls within the ZIP Code boundaries of Locust Valley, New York, in Nassau County, on Long Island.
[5] It was the "Augusta of its Day" and boasted members like J. P. Morgan Jr., Benjamin Strong Jr., the first president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Percy Chubb, co-founder of the insurance company, Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass, Frank Nelson Doubleday, publishing, Condé Montrose Nast, publishing, William L. Harkness, Standard Oil, Frederic B. Pratt, George Dupont Pratt, Harold I. Pratt, Standard Oil heirs and philanthropists, W. Averell Harriman, future New York Governor, Payne Whitney, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Vincent Astor.
[citation needed] In Mad Men: "The Quality of Mercy" (the season 6 penultimate episode), Jim Cutler invites the agency's St. Joseph's client to golf at Piping Rock "while there's still grass left".
In Nelson DeMille's The Gold Coast, the narrator John Sutter describes Piping Rock as one of only two country clubs that count.
In Dominick Dunne's 1990 novel An Inconvenient Woman, the club is described as extremely exclusive and is frequented by a character's bridge-playing father.