Hamptons Polo Club — Saturday & Sunday Matches

The actual Hamptons polo, and the East End's only USPA club. Worth a Saturday afternoon if you want the real thing — but marquee days are ticketed through ShowPass from $267, so don't drive out expecting a free field.

The East End's only club recognised by the US Polo Association, with five fields, a training barn and its own polo school. Matches run most weekend afternoons through the summer; a chukker is a seven-minute period, and there are four to six of them. At half-time everyone walks onto the field to stamp the torn-up turf back down — the divot stomp, and the part most people remember. The big fixtures are the Hamptons Festival of Polo (22 August) and the Labor Day Cup; an October visit is a gamble, because the last chukkers are 27 September even though the grounds stay open to 15 October.