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RDC Golf Affiliate Acquires Shackamaxon Golf and Country Club – WORLD PROPERTY CHANNEL Global News Center: The venerable Shackamaxon Golf and Country Club in Scotch Plains, N.J., has been purchased by an affiliate of RDC Golf Group, Inc., a leading New Jersey-based golf course ownership and management company. Shackamaxon was founded in 1916 and features a historic A.W. Tillinghast golf course. The championship, par-71 layout boasts one of the most famous holes in the New York-metro area: the ninth-hole island green, one of Tillinghast’s first island green creations.

New site for Shackamaxon at http://shackcc.com/ .

New Date!

The event will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth County. Please join us for the 1st Annual Sands Trap Invitational!!! Friday October 7th at Rumson Country Club

You can play golf, come for dinner and open bar, be a hole sponsor or just donate! Please contact Gil Sanchez at SandsTrapInvitational@gmail.com or (732) 620-7002 for more info.

Deadline to sign up is September 30th 2011

Outing details

• Location: Rumson Country Club
• Time : Shotgun start at 1:00 pm
• Format : ScrambleDinner Time : 6:00 pm
• Fees:Golf + Dinner and 3 hrs open bar $225.00
• Dinner and 3 hrs Open Bar $100.00

On 7 October 2011, Breast Wishes will be hosting its first ever golf outing at The Meadows Golf Club in Lincoln Park. Check-in is at 9:30am, and the day consists of a shotgun (best ball scramble) start at 10am, treats throughout the day, an open bar at the 19th hole, an early dinner, and lots of fun. All for only $125 per player!

Breast Wishes is a team of walkers from Lincoln Park who participate in the Avon Walk in NYC, the proceeds from which go towards breast cancer research and treatment. The walkers complete a marathon and a half (that’s 39.3 miles!) over the course of two days, and are obliged to raise at least $1,800 per walker. For this year’s team of five walkers, that’s a total minimum of $9,000!

We are hoping you’ll help us make this golf outing a great success by contributing in one or more of the following ways:

• sponsor a hole for $100
• golf (individually or in a foursome) for $125 per player
• donate a gift or gift certificate of your choice for our prize table

Each donation is 100% tax deductible, as the Avon Foundation for Women is a 503(c)(3) charity.

Please email us at breastwishesgolf@gmail.com or call us at 201-914-8725 for the entry and sponsorship forms.

Shackamaxon Plan May Add Condos: The eventual owners of Shackamaxon Golf and Country Club will be permitted to build up to 60 age-restricted luxury condos on a 12-acre parcel at the center of the property, according to a preliminary settlement reached by Shackamaxon, New Jersey Golf Group, the Township of Scotch Plains and the Scotch Plains Planning Board. In exchange for the deal, the club’s owner – almost assuredly New Jersey Golf – must pay the township $475,000 for the deal on the club, which reportedly owes millions of dollars to Valley National Bank.

This is from a story on the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Patch… Patch is doing some interesting things for local journalism.

Mercer County courses bounce back via NJ.com: “…as of this morning, three of the four Mercer County golf courses will have been reopened after Hurricane Irene swept through the county and the state over the weekend, causing all four of the county courses — Mountain View, Princeton Country Club, Mercer Oaks East and Mercer Oaks West — to close on Sunday. The Mercer County Park Commission had its golf course work crews on a huge cleanup detail Monday and yesterday, removing debris, fixing bridges and cart paths, and helping Mother Nature to dry the fairways and greens. The results were that Mercer Oaks East reopened yesterday for a morning tournament and Mountain View resumed golf action yesterday afternoon. Mercer Oaks West was scheduled for reopening at 7 a.m. today.”

The Y of Western Monmouth County’s 9^th Annual Golf Outing will take place on Monday, October 3^rd at Battleground Country Club.

• Registration and Continental Breakfast begin at 7:30 a.m.
• Team Scramble Format
• Cost: $275 per player
• Sponsor opportunities available.

All proceeds benefit the YCares Financial Assistance Program. This program enables us to offer scholarships and subsidies to children and families who cannot otherwise afford our Board approved fees.

Download the flyer at www.ymcanj.org and send in your registration.  For more info contact Annie Stattel: astattel@ymcanj.org or 732-462-0464 ext. 132.

Barclays buzz: What’s your favorite New Jersey golf course?: The Garden State, for all its pavement, has no shortage of top-notch golf courses… So what’s your favorite? Maybe you like one of the famous private courses above (or one of many not mentioned) – or maybe you’ve never been lucky enough to play any of those and your taste is for one of NJ’s great public courses or open-to-the-public courses…

Read what NJ.com golf writer Brendan Prunty thinks are the best courses in NJ…

The Barclays: At PGA Tour events, player courtesy cars one of the most crucial pieces to the week: Arguably the most crucial pieces for the 124 golfers who arrive in New Jersey this week for The Barclays spent the last week sitting in gigantic metal shipping containers at Port Jersey in Elizabeth. Sets of clubs? No. Shipments of new golf shoes? Try again. What was imported to New Jersey for the best players on the PGA Tour was items that will get them from place to place this week: courtesy cars.

Banking on the Barclays: When the Barclays pro golf tournament comes to Plainfield Country Club this week, green won’t just be the predominant color on the course, but off it, as well. Hundreds of local businesses and charities will benefit from the expected $50 million economic impact of the weeklong event, authorities said. More than 100,000 people are expected to visit Edison, which is hosting the event, and the surrounding communities of Plainfield, Scotch Plains, Clark, Woodbridge, Metuchen, South Plainfield and New Brunswick while the tournament takes place from Thursday to Sunday. Public events start at the magnificently refurbished Top 100 course on Tuesday.