New Jersey Golf Net

Fortune has a riveting article on the impending opening of the Liberty National Golf Club: The CEO of Reebok has spent seven years and $130 million turning this unlikely slab of Jersey City industrial blight into a golf course that could rival Augusta or Pebble Beach as one of the nation’s finest. It’s already made the record books as the most expensive course ever built, and Fireman hopes it will eventually be selected to host a U.S. Open or PGA Championship—making it one of an elite handful of New York–area clubs like Baltusrol and Winged Foot to share that honor. “I can just imagine the best players in the world coming here,” he says. “When people see this place on TV they will not believe it is real.”

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