New Jersey FAQ's

Well, they've found room in the Garden State for over 200 courses private and public, so you're never far from a course at all, whether its on the Jersey Shore, Atlantic City or in the greater Philadelphia area.

New Jersey is 8,722 square miles, making it the 47th largest state. Its 150 miles long and 70 miles wide. Trenton, the capital of New Jersey is just five miles northwest from the center of the state.

Actually, you'd be surprised. New Jersey has quite an imprint in the golf world. It is home to what is widely regarded as the best course, and probably toughest course in America, Pine Valley Country Club. The USGA also calls New Jersey its home, and the U.S. Open will be played in the Garden State in 2005 at Baltusrol Country Club in Springfield. The list goes on, check out Tom Mackin's article on New Jersey golf's prestige.

The southern part of the state is primarily considered to be in the greater Philadelphia region and gets TV news from Philly and generally roots for Philly sports. On the other hand, northern Jersey gets New York stations and roots for New York teams, especially the Nets, Jets and Giants which play at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford anyways.

There are ten courses in the greater Atlantic City area. There are two multiple-course facilities in the Seaview Marriott Resort and the Blue Heron Pines East and West courses west of Atlantic City on I-30. Further south on the Garden expressway, you can play Shore Gate Golf Club and Sand Barrens Golf Club. For more information, visit the Greater Atlantic City Golf Association at www.gacga.com.

There's a Six Flags theme park in Jackson, which provides a day's worth of entertainment, which also offers the Hurricane Harbor Water Park and the Wild Safari Animal Park. Along more educational lines, Trenton offers a variety of museums, including the State Planetarium, the Old Barracks Museum featuring tales from the American Revolution, the State Aquarium. And in Camden there's the Camden Children's Garden, a natural playground for kids.

Golf Digest's top five public courses are some beauties. Pine Hill Golf Club is a Tom Fazio course and rated tops in the state. Hominy Hills, located in Colts Neck, just 20 minutes inland from the beach in Monmouth County, is a Robert Trent Jones Sr. design and a historic Jersey course that plays host to some of the USGA's biggest state tournaments. Sand Barrens Golf Club and Blue Heron Pines West round out the top, both located in greater Atlantic City. Ballyowen at the Crystal Springs resort is the best on the property as well as one of the best in the state.

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8 million New Yorkers have to go somewhere for a premier golf weekend. With the opening of a new 175-room hotel last December, Crystal Springs Golf & Spa Resort is now the undisputed champion of resort golf in the greater metropolitan New York area. Tucked away in the northwest corner of the Garden State, the resort offers four 18-hole courses (one the best public track in the state), a nine-hole executive layout with a famous heritage, a golf academy led by a former PGA Teacher of the Year - all located an hour away from Manhattan in the Kittatinny Mountains of Sussex County. The Seaview Marriott resort, as mentioned in the question about Atlantic City, is another multi-course resort and the next best thing to Crystal Springs.

Absolutely. Located in Far Hill, the USGA Golf House and Museum has all kinds of exhibits should a rainy day keep you off the course. The museum is home to Ben Hogan's famous 1-iron from the 1950 U.S. Open as well as Alan Shepard's famous 6-iron as well. The testing facility is something else too, with its 14,000 square foot lab, home to Iron Byron, the game's governing robot.

Yes! Don't be frightened by tall tales of a state filled with factories and suburbs, because New Jersey has over 120 miles of white sand beaches which is one of the state's main tourist attractions. Some of the most popular beachside cities include Sandy Hook, Cape May, Seaside Heights, Belmar, Avon and Bay Head.

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