New Jersey Golf Course Reviews
Classic Atlantic City Country Club now New Jersey's top public golf course
The gates have opened to one of the most storied private country clubs in New Jersey. In July of 2005, Harrah's Entertainment opened the Atlantic City Country Club to the daily-fee golfer and it immediately shot to the top of everyone's list of best public golf courses in the Garden State.
... full article »Hendricks Field anything but an oasis in the New Jersey golf jungle
It's not always easy finding a good place to play in the New Jersey, with many courses being private and unimpeachable to the average golfer. Unfortunately, the public courses are often not the best to play, either. Hendricks Field Golf Course is one of those municipal courses that maintenance and manners forgot. So while, yes, there are some solid public courses you can hunt down in New Jersey, Hendricks isn't one of them.
... full article »Pine Barrens brings to mind many things and adds good golf
Pine Barrens Golf Club in Jackson, N.J. is a good golf course. You'll be aware of that with the amount of work the course goes through to tell you it's a good one. But the hype doesn't hurt the sell. Pine Barrens is in the process of making the transition from a public course to a members-only one and it and memberships are selling fast. Just keep your ball out of those dreaded waste bunkers.
... full article »Treeless, fescue challenge - not bagpipes - makes Ballyowen sing
Ireland in New Jersey? At the Ballyowen Golf Course, you could find yourself greeted by kilt-wearing bagpipers, making you wonder where you really are. "It's a surreal feeling. It's pretty isolated here. A lot of people say it's hard to believe you are still in New Jersey," said Ballyowen Manager Adam Donlin. Not just the ambience is Irish at Ballyowen, as you'll find out when your ball is stuck in the dreaded fescue fringe.
... full article »Robert Trent Jones short course measures up at northern N.J.'s Minerals Golf Club
Executive courses get a bad rap but every once in a while you run into one like Minerals Golf Club, a 4,610-yarder designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and tucked away in what qualifies as wilderness in Northern New Jersey. While no one is suggesting the celebrity architect obsessed over this track. But he did enough to keep it interesting for more seasoned golfers playing with novices or kids, or those just looking for a quickie round.
... full article »85-year-old Galloping Hill lives up to its name, especially on wide-open Saturdays
Galloping Hill Golf Course in Kenilworth, N.J. doesn't include any one monster hill; it's just a seemingly endless succession of decent hills. Playing a round here is enough to make you appreciate old-school design. Sure, Galloping Hill architect Willard Wilkinson is no household name - but he knew a little something about making a golf course that lasts when he mapped out this track in 1920. More than eight decades later, Galloping Hill is still a challenging, fun play.
... full article »At Cape May, National on Jersey Shore, strolling in nature is best part
Many courses tout nature but Cape May National Golf Club on the Jersey Shore, is nature. Unlike so many golf courses where your good walk includes too many views of a rich man's backyard, Cape May National sits smack dab in the middle of one of the largest private bird sanctuaries in the state. As sacrilegious as that might sound to a non-golfing nature lover, it works. This course delivers unexpected pleasures with each swing.
... full article »Golf not something Ocean City promotes, unless it's miniature golf
The course-building boom in the 1990s is testament to the promise of the Ocean City area. The scene at Ocean City Golf Course, though, is a testament to the arduous climb still ahead. It's hard to see the course until you realize you're standing on it. Described by some as ‘a small course set along the wetlands,' it's mostly set along an airport fence. And the old guy in the golf shop seems surprised to see anyone.
... full article »Past and present a fine blend at The Architects Golf Club
The Architects Golf Club in Phillipsburg features 18 holes designed using the traits of some of the great names in architecture: Old Tom Morris, Donald Ross, Alister Mackenzie and Robert Trent Jones. A gimmick? Sure. But it's a gimmick that works. If you're interested in the roots of the game, this track will get your blood flowing like few others. But even if you have zero appreciation for history, you'll still enjoy a great round.
... full article »Blue Heron members feel course is being taken out from under them
Many residents of the Blue Heron Pines subdivision in Cologne, N.J., feel that Blue Heron Pines East is the better of two golf courses there. Yet, Blue Heron Pines East is slated for extinction, making way for another housing development with a scaled down nine-hole course. This is the worst kept secret in Jersey Shore golf, even if Blue Heron officials have yet to publicly acknowledge it, Chris Baldwin reports.
... full article »- Don't call golf-only Manasquan River a country club
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