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Atlantic City Country Club: More than a century of golf tradition
Since opening in 1897, Atlantic City Country Club has accumulated a history that puts it in an elite class. It's played host to six USGA championships and scores of celebrities who played while entertaining in Atlantic City.In 1901, noted golf course architect, Walter Travis won the U.S. Amateur there.
... full article »Atlantic City golf courses: Gambling golfers have a full house of options
A building boom of upscale golf has transformed the South Jersey region around Atlantic City into a legitimate golf destination. The mix of great old courses and some top-notch modern designs is drawing some much warranted attention. All this is located within a half-hour drive of Atlantic City.
... full article »Baltusrol's 'monster,' no. 17 could actually be birdie friendly at the PGA
It's a joke. A freak show not fit for a major. That’s how some of the tour's best largely regard the revamped 17th hole at Baltusrol Golf Club's famed Lower Course. They may say the new, 650-yard incarnation of the hole is a monster but don't buy the hype, writes Chris Baldwin. For all the grousing sure to be heard at the 2005 PGA Championship, Baltusrol's finish is setting up as a potential scoring bonanza.
... full article »Cash in your chips at these Atlantic City golf courses
Thanks to a course-building boom of the '90s, Atlantic City is now known to golfers up and down the Eastern seaboard for more than just gambling. It's become a bonified golf destination with a dozen resort and public tracks worth checking out. Four-star ratings abound, and even during the high season, few rounds will run you more than $125. Try finding those rates in Vegas, baby!
... full article »Munis From Heaven?: Two courses defy the odds on the Jersey Shore, but one's better than the other
Hominy Hill and Howell Park — two golf courses owned by Monmouth County — keep consistently getting rated among the Top 5 public courses in New Jersey. Golf Digest places them in the same rarified air as Ballyowen, Pine Barrens and Blue Heron Pines West — a royal trinity of carefully-plotted, celebrity-designer, big-money machines. Those courses have nothing on these two munis.
... full article »Jersey Shore still searching for its golf identity
It seems like there is something for everyone on the Jersey Shore. Except when you start asking about golf. Then it seems like there is little of anything. At least, if you're not in the know. Now though, a group of developers is working to change the Jersey Shore's sense of golf inadequacy. They are big moneyed and bigger visioned. The last 10-15 years has seen a golf building boom with high-priced, high-profile courses cropping up from Colt's Neck to Cape May Point.
... full article »Baltusrol stretches out for 2005 PGA Championship
When is a 630-yard golf hole not long enough? When it's the 17th at Baltusrol Country Club in Springfield, N.J., site of the 2005 PGA Championship.
... full article »New Jersey has plenty of acclaim when it comes to golf
Not impressed that New Jersey is home to both the world's top-ranked course (Pine Valley) and one of the game's governing bodies (the United States Golf Association)? Alrighty then. It's time for a history lesson that will leave you marveling at the lofty place New Jersey holds in this country's golf history.
... full article »Jersey Jim McGovern stands above the rest
Yes, Jim McGovern watches the Sopranos faithfully and has seen Springsteen live. He's spent many a summer weekend stuck in traffic on the Garden State Parkway en route to the Jersey Shore. And he's heard bad jokes about his home state as many times as Tiger Woods has heard, "You're da man." But what sets him apart from his 8.4 million fellow New Jersey residents is this: he's won an event on the PGA Tour.
... full article »USGA and New Jersey are perfect together
The USGA did the exact same thing most New York City residents do when they need more space: It moved to the suburbs. And in this case, that meant New Jersey. Headquartered in Manhattan until 1972, the USGA then settled in the affluent suburb of Far Hills, almost 50 miles west of Manhattan. Set among sprawling estates and farms in New Jersey's horse country, the 70-acre site includes an extensive collection of memorabilia and a moving exhibit of golf-related items found in the rubble of the World Trade Center.
... full article »New Jersey's Blue Heron Pines East reportedly closing
New Jersey golfers will soon have one less golf course to choose from as the Blue Heron Pines East, former site of the U.S. Amateur Public Links, is going under. The golf course, considered one of the best upscale public courses in the region, is the victim of declining revenues, and will most likely be turned into a 55-and-older development with a nine-hole course.
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