Steve,
I'm not a GD panelist, but I have had a chance to play the Ridge with one of your members about 4 years ago. After my first time around the course, I remarked to that member that I thought it was the equal of any course in the state, having played all the top ones besides Pine Valley. In my opinion, it's definitely the best of the new, high-end private courses in the state, e.g. Liberty National, Bayonne, etc.
It's a little difficult to compare to some of the older courses because the styles are quite different, but I think it's a much more interesting and fun track than the Lower or the Upper at Baltusrol.
It's interesting you posted today because I'll be working with your boss, Joel, to put together a series of lectures this fall for the New Jersey Golf Course Owners' Association on legal topics relating to the NJ golf industry. I'd love to play the course again. It's a real treat. I wish you the best of luck in achieving a ranking because I certainly think you deserve to crack the Top 100.
DBC
PS - I should mention that your clubhouse is amongst my favorite anywhere. For those who haven't seen it, it's a Montana hunting lodge and it is beautiful. I write for a half dozen or so ski publications and if it were an Aspen ski chalet, it'd be a 10.