Liberty National Golf Club

Liberty National Golf Club

100 Caven Point Rd

Jersey City, NJ 07305-4606

United States

Overview

Like Bayonne Golf Club to the south, Liberty National Golf Club was a reclamation project, a super-expensive Superfund clean-up of New York harbor, replacing a putrid assortment of oil refineries and storage tanks with an intriguing combination of green grass and golden rough. By spreading 2 million cubic yards of fresh soil over the capped toxic wastes, architect Bob Cupp and pro-consultant Tom Kite started building something meant to be a major tournament venue. It has narrow bent-grass fairways, just 25 to 27 yards wide, and tiny, flawless bent-grass greens, averaging just 3,400 square feet. With several hundred mature hardwoods transplanted along the fairways, a couple of rock-lined streams edging greens and winding cart paths fashioned from brick, Liberty National looks like what Central Park might be if it were a golf course Liberty National sits just three miles southwest of the tip of Manhattan, so the views of the NYC skyline, and the Statue of Liberty, are tremendous.

About

Holes 18
Length 7387
Slope 155
Facility Type Private
Year Opened 2006
Designer Robert E. Cupp, ASGCA/Tom Kite

Awards

100 Greatest the Second 100
Best Courses in Every State

Ranking history:

Second 100 Greatest: Ranked since 2019.
2023-'24 Ranking: 194th.
Previous Ranking: 197th.
Highest Ranking: 192nd, 2019-2020.

Best in State: Ranked in Top 10 in New Jersey from 2011-2018; Top 15 from 2009 & since 2019.
2023-'24 Ranking: 10th.
Previous Ranking: 12th.

Golf Digest Logo Panelists

Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

4.5

100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

Shot Options
7.1802
Character
7.2581
Challenge
7.2537
Layout Variety
7.2099
Fun
7.1687
Aesthetics
7.5459
Conditioning
7.4461

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