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Review: Minerals Golf Club

February 21, 2022

The only 9-hole course at Crystal Springs Resort, Minerals offers strong value, decent variety, and good conditions on a hilly terrain. At just a par 31, this is a course I recommend to both novices and better golfers looking for some practice.  … More Review: Minerals Golf Club

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Review: Berkshire Valley Golf Course

October 28, 2021

With strong conditions, beautiful views, and a number of memorable holes, Berkshire Valley is criminally underrated in the New Jersey public golf scene and is a course I’d recommend to all in the area. … More Review: Berkshire Valley Golf Course

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Review: Fox Hopyard Golf Club

January 5, 2019

Located just off the Connecticut coastline, Fox Hopyard is another upscale Roger Rulewich design featuring dramatic elevation changes, good conditioning, and strong variety. Although not an elite course, Fox Hopyard is certainly one of the best public options in Connecticut and worth a play. … More Review: Fox Hopyard Golf Club

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Review: Ballyowen Golf Club

October 15, 2018

While I feel Ballyowen is overrated and falsely advertised as a links course, there’s no denying it’s a very good upscale public course. With strong conditioning, tremendous views, and several very good holes, this is clearly one of the best public courses in New Jersey and a viable option for those in the New York City area. … More Review: Ballyowen Golf Club

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Review: Yale Golf Course

August 19, 2018

While conditioning and the closing stretch are a bit underwhelming, Yale is easily amongst the most architecturally magnificent courses in America, featuring numerous world-class template holes on a difficult terrain. I suggest all serious golf aficionados play this brilliantly quirky gem if given the opportunity. … More Review: Yale Golf Course

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Review: Meadow Brook Golf Club

October 1, 2016

While Newport National is the prized gem of Rhode Island public golf, Meadow Brook is an underrated course that offers better value and fantastic conditions. This is a course I would recommend to anyone in the area. … More Review: Meadow Brook Golf Club

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Review now up for Mid Pines Golf Club! Mid Pines is a great public course in the Pinehurst area designed by Donald Ross in 1921 and renovated by Kyle Franz in 2013. A perennial top 100 public course in the US, this layout features excellent greens and a number of world-class holes (especially its par fours).
The 337 yard 10th hole at We-Ko-Pa Saguaro is a really fun risk/rewark hole that features two templates: a Reverse Cape on the teeshot and Lion’s Mouth by the green. This is certainly one of the easier holes out there and one of several holes on the course that provides the golfer numerous options.
Had the fortune of playing We-Ko-Pa’s Saguaro Course last Spring, the first round for me in Arizona. Known as one of the top courses in the blossoming Scottsdale golf scene, this Coore/Crenshaw design is thoroughly enjoyable with minimal houses, an easily walkable, intimate routing, and plenty of strategy and variety. The conditioning and scenery were also fantastic.
The 126 yard 9th hole is Cabot Cliffs’ shortest hole. A fine hole in its own right, this short one-shotter features a front-to-back sloped green with a giant bunker short and cliffs long. This hole is perhaps the course’s only routing blemish as the 8th green is near the 9th and you have to walk the length of the hole backwards to reach the teebox.
The oldest public course in New Jersey, Weequahic Golf Course was originally 9 holes built by Baltusrol Pro George Low in 1913. In 1969, Hal Purdy lengthened the course to a full 18 holes. At just over 5700 yards, this par 70 plays more difficult than you’d expect with small greens, tight fairways, and a hilly terrain. The course is located in South Newark and is operated by Essex County along with classics Francis Byrne and Hendricks Field. This has to be one of the better and more robust muni systems in America. Although my least favorite of the three, Weequahic offers strong value and a more than adequate layout for public golfers in the New York metro area.
The 470 yard par 4 17th is one of my favorite holes at Cascata as a beautiful sweeping, downhill dogleg left. Longer hitters can cut the corner over the hills and leave a shorter approach into a back-to-front sloped green. Par is a great score here.
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