The Rose is a municipal golf course located south of Perth Amboy in Matawan between the Garden State Parkway and NJ 9 on Highway 34.It’s on a natural track of land without homes or development along the holes.
The layout features a mix of open and forested fairway corridors over generally level topography. There several water features, about 30 sand bunkers, and green sites of varying sizes and degrees of undulations. There’s four sets of tees from 5,045 yards to 6,509 yards, designed by Stephen Kay.
Hendricks Field, originally Branch Brook, is a municipal golf course located in Belleville off the Garden State Expressway at Belleville Avenue to the east.It’s located 18 miles west of Manhattan through the Lincoln Tunnel and onto Route 3.
The layout is a classic from the early 1900s featuring some unique Scottish design elements including the Principal’s Nose bunkers, a Biarritz green, a reverse Redan, and a par 3 almost completely surrounded by bunkers. There’s a stream impacting play on several holes, a host of sand bunkers both defending the landing zones as well as the green complexes, and narrow tree lined fairway corridors.There’s five sets of tees from 4,549 yards to 6,150 yards off the tips, 69.2/123, course/slope ratings, originally designed by Charles “Steam Shovel” Banks with a redesign by Stephen Kay.Banks was a protege of Seth Raynor, who was originally designated to build this course He was given the steam shovel moniker for the prodigious amount of soils he moved using steam shovels to build golf courses.
Paramus is a municipal golf course in Northern New Jersey off the Garden State Expressway at Route 17 in Paramus.It was originally the Saddle River Golf and Country Club which the city purchased for $4.5 Million in 1976.
It’s located adjacent to and on similar land as Ridgewood C.C. which has hosted PGA Tour’s Barclays and Northern Trust tournaments, the U.S. Amateur, and the Ryder Cup.The golf course features hardwood tree lined, parallel fairways over level terrain with 35 sand bunkers defending the landing zones and greens, and ponds or streams in play on 1/3 of the holes. There’s four sets of tees from 4,539 yards to 6,309 yards at the blue tees, 70.2/124, course/slope ratings, redesign work by Stephen Kay.
