New Jersey Golf Net

In The Long and Long of It at No. 17, Dave Anderson writes: The longest hole in major championship golf not only resembles the shape of New Jersey on a map, it also plays almost as if it really were the length of the state. As if its tee were down there in Cape May […]

The Asbury Park Press says that When the first ball is struck on Baltusrol's Lower Course at 7 a.m. Thursday morning, signaling the official start of the 87th PGA Championship, it will be one of the most significant moments in the storied history of New Jersey golf. Technorati Tags: Baltusrol, golf, New Jersey, PGA Championship

The Star-Ledger put out an interesting article today: 87 things about New Jersey golf. Here are numbers 8, 9, and 10 to wet your whistle: 8. The PGA Championship is returning to New Jersey for the first time since 1942, when it was held at Seaview Country Club in Atlantic City. 9. Baltusrol was named […]

As Baltusrol Golf Club prepares to host its first major championship since the 1993 US Open, it would be a great time to examine the legend that is Baltusrol. Peter Williams of the New Zealand Herald does just that: Until 1831, the land on which the golf club is now situated was a farm owned […]

Newsday writes that Companies pay a lot of green for tents on fairways at the upcoming PGA Championship at Baltusrol: The air-conditioned, carpeted structures -which the PGA calls “chalets”- can fit 120 people and cost the companies from $105,000 to $190,000, with priciest locations along the 17th and 18th fairways. But that's just what they […]

Barbara writes us with this news: The Eric Johnson House in Morristown, New Jersey would like to take this opportunity to invite you and your company to participate in our Fall Golf Classic fundraising event on Thursday, September 22, 2005 at the Wild Turkey Golf Course-Hamburg, NJ.The individual golfer fee is $200 and includes lunch […]

The Star-Ledger has a list of upcoming Charity Golf Outings, including: Aug. 8: Morganville United Methodist Church Parsonage Fund, Rossmoor Golf Course Aug. 12: Ruth Estrin Goldberg Memorial Outing for Cancer Research, Great Gorge Country Club Sept. 12: Little-Life and Dorough Lupus foundations Celebrity Golf Invitational, New Jersey National Golf Club Sept. 12: Metropolitan YMCA […]

The Star-Ledger has a list of upcoming Charity Golf Outings, including: Aug. 8: Morganville United Methodist Church Parsonage Fund, Rossmoor Golf Course Aug. 12: Ruth Estrin Goldberg Memorial Outing for Cancer Research, Great Gorge Country Club Sept. 12: Little-Life and Dorough Lupus foundations Celebrity Golf Invitational, New Jersey National Golf Club Sept. 12: Metropolitan YMCA […]

The Star-Ledger has this story about rumors and gossip on where Tiger is going to be staying during the PGA Championship. An interesting tidbit: At the 2002 British Open at Muirfield, Woods stayed in a newly built five-bedroom house in East Lothian, about 10 miles away. The house was sold the next year for 750,000 […]

For Baltusrol members, hassle is well worth it, according to the Star-Ledger. The paper notes: Since the beginning of the 20th century, Baltusrol has been the site of 15 major national tournaments — everything from the 1903 U.S. Women's Amateur to the 1993 U.S. Open, the last major professional championship played at the club founded […]