Due Process Stable?

[Dan Herrmann]

I was looking up handicaps on ghin.com, and noticed that one of the folks I looke up (not a Treehouse guy) was a member at Due Process Stable in Colts Neck, NJ.

From a quick Google, it looks like an a very interesting club with a darn good golf course.  But I've never heard of it.  Laura, who grew up in North Jersey, never heard of it either.

Does anybody know about Due Pocess?

Thaanks!

[Robert Mercer Deruntz]

It is a Johnny Miller course that was built by the 1st NJ Security scammer guy who might still be a guest of the Feds.  It has an owner with a small membership. The people whom I know who have played there said it was in Deepdale condition, but that it does not achieve toplevel status as a layout.

[SB]

I think it was designed by Gene Bates.  The layout is decent, but has zero natural features to work with.  Links style with modest mounding, not overly done.  Neat clubhouse, very understated.

The conditions are so immaculate that the back tees for the first and 10th tee boxes are actually part of the practice green.  I was so nervous that I would take a divot, that I moved up to the whites.

[Jeff Spittel]

A few guys that I knew when I was a member at Suburban played there fairly regularly. They said it was always immaculate and got almost no traffic. Very exclusive and small membership from what I understood. I'm pretty sure the initiation fee is off the charts.

[Bruce Katona]

I have a friend who is a member who had me over to play last year as his guest....The clubhouse is very understated , but very well done....service is fantastic.

The golf course was very enjoyable and fair to play...they had been removing much of the fescue which had lined the out of play areas to allow for recovery shots, which I am told was what the membership had wanted....the conditioning was very good.  They really encourage walking and have a caddy system in place.....the caddies were very helpful in managing the way around the course for a first time player.

[Gene Greco]

"It's da best!"

Brian and Gene and Ed and Mike a few others know what I'm talking about.

Indeed, I do.

To this day I still pick up cigar butts throughout the course which MUST have belonged to those guys.

[Randy Van Sickle]

I played there in the summer of '04 and the two things that stick out in my mind were the fine general conditioning, and the fact that the fescue (or whatever type of grass it was) was nearly 4 feet high and was everywhere, particularly on the back.  I'm not surprised the members wanted to knock much of it down, as it was more than penal - automatic lost ball.

Clubhouse was awesome.