[Jeff Segol]

A number of years ago, at a Golf Collectors Society convention at the USGA headquarters in Far Hills, I played a tree-lined county-owned course in the area, I think near Princeton. Any of you know what the name might have been? I can't remember. This was the course where I told the three locals I played with that the course would have gotten $80/round in the Bay Area, since it was neither 1) next to an airport; 2) crossed by high-power electric lines, or; 3) a former trash dump.


Thanks,
Jeff

[John Emerson]

Skyway?

[Joe Bausch]

Perhaps you played one of the four Mercer County golf courses:


https://golfmercercounty.com

[Bob Simons]

Perhaps you played one of the four Mercer County golf courses:


https://golfmercercounty.com

My first thought was Mountain View but wasn’t sure if that was considered close to Princeton.

[Joe Bausch]

Photo album of Mountain View:


http://www80.homepage.villanova.edu/joseph.bausch/images/albums/MountainView/index.html

[Jimmy Chandler]

Skyway?

Not tree-lined, not near Princeton, and only 9 holes.

[Kyle Harris]

Heron Glen? Copper Hill? Mercer Oaks?

[Joe Bausch]

Heron Glen? Copper Hill? Mercer Oaks?

Isn't Copper Hill private?

Good call on Heron Glen.  I bet that is it! 

Photo albums of HG and both MO courses:

http://www80.homepage.villanova.edu/joseph.bausch/images/albums/HeronGlen/index.html

http://www80.homepage.villanova.edu/joseph.bausch/images/albums/MercerOaksEast/index.html

http://www80.homepage.villanova.edu/joseph.bausch/images/albums/MercerOaksWest/index.html

[astavrides]

Bunker Hill?

[MCirba]

Bunker Hill?

I almost died at Bunker Hill.  Spent over an hour and a half laying on my stomach in the wooded area left off the 12th green in a fearsome electrical storm within 50 yards of a pond, electrical wires, before scampering muddy and bleeding through picket bushes to a neighboring house whose owner knew limited English.

[Brad Tufts]

I have one of these mysteries too...I swear I went to a driving range in the Philly area in about 1995 with my Dad that had a handful of holes surrounding the range that we played...might have been nine, might have been 4-6 holes.  All I remember is that it was right off a main road (not a highway), a road like route 1 in Mass.


I also could have just seen the holes from the range while hitting balls, and not played them...

[Joe Bausch]

I have one of these mysteries too...I swear I went to a driving range in the Philly area in about 1995 with my Dad that had a handful of holes surrounding the range that we played...might have been nine, might have been 4-6 holes.  All I remember is that it was right off a main road (not a highway), a road like route 1 in Mass.


I also could have just seen the holes from the range while hitting balls, and not played them...

I'm thinking you were at Olde Masters, now known as Valley View:

http://www80.homepage.villanova.edu/joseph.bausch/images/albums/ValleyView/index.html

[MCirba]

Ahhh...Olde Masters.   A Bob Thatcher masterpiece!   The 5th hole is particularly special.

[Brad Tufts]

Well sleuthed!  Totally plausible it was OM/VV...just not sure if we played it or just saw others doing so.


It was a classic April trip as a 15-yr old with Dad on a business trip...Valley Forge (RIP), Five Ponds in like 45 degrees and rain, Wyncote x2, Paxon Hollow.  We played Wyncote a second time instead of a kamikaze trip to see Sox-Orioles...but we remembered we were on a Philly trip, and did not need to drive to Baltimore!   Still haven't been to Camden Yards 25 years later...

[Kyle Harris]

Well sleuthed!  Totally plausible it was OM/VV...just not sure if we played it or just saw others doing so.


It was a classic April trip as a 15-yr old with Dad on a business trip...Valley Forge (RIP), Five Ponds in like 45 degrees and rain, Wyncote x2, Paxon Hollow.  We played Wyncote a second time instead of a kamikaze trip to see Sox-Orioles...but we remembered we were on a Philly trip, and did not need to drive to Baltimore!   Still haven't been to Camden Yards 25 years later...

I grew up in Warminster, parents still live there.


Learned golf at Five Ponds. I miss it.

[Ian Mackenzie]

I grew up in Princeton.
Sounds to me like either Bunker Hill or Princeton Country Club, but likely the latter.

[Bob Simons]

I have one of these mysteries too...I swear I went to a driving range in the Philly area in about 1995 with my Dad that had a handful of holes surrounding the range that we played...might have been nine, might have been 4-6 holes.  All I remember is that it was right off a main road (not a highway), a road like route 1 in Mass.


I also could have just seen the holes from the range while hitting balls, and not played them...

My first thought was Somerton Springs, it had a driving range as well as an executive course.

[Garland Bayley]

I grew up in Princeton.
Sounds to me like either Bunker Hill or Princeton Country Club, but likely the latter.

I was wondering when someone was going to suggest Princeton CC.

[Kyle Harris]

I have one of these mysteries too...I swear I went to a driving range in the Philly area in about 1995 with my Dad that had a handful of holes surrounding the range that we played...might have been nine, might have been 4-6 holes.  All I remember is that it was right off a main road (not a highway), a road like route 1 in Mass.


I also could have just seen the holes from the range while hitting balls, and not played them...

My first thought was Somerton Springs, it had a driving range as well as an executive course.

Oh wow. That one takes me back. But it definitely matches the description.

[Jon Sweet]

Pine Valley.

[Bill Crane]

A number of years ago, at a Golf Collectors Society convention at the USGA headquarters in Far Hills, I played a tree-lined county-owned course in the area, I think near Princeton. Any of you know what the name might have been? I can't remember. This was the course where I told the three locals I played with that the course would have gotten $80/round in the Bay Area, since it was neither 1) next to an airport; 2) crossed by high-power electric lines, or; 3) a former trash dump.

Thanks,
Jeff

Wow - that could actually be a number of courses in the general area between Princeton and Far Hills / Basking Ridge area.

The logical candidate would be Mountain View as Joe B notes.  It is a little over 15 mins from Princeton and is near Mercer County airport which now has large jets taking off for Fla. and elsewhere.   Fairly tree lined, a decent Municipal course - there are some good holes and some not so great.

Another choice might be a course that n/l/e called Miry Run - originally Skyview G C in Robbinsville - that was located next to the little Trenton-Robbinsville airport.   Has been defunct for some time now.

Possibly an even better option is Royce Brook in Hillsborough, tree lined, also next to a small airport just south of Manville.  This is located about 15 minutes from Princeton but basically toward Far Hills off River Road.   The little airport there is called the Central Jersey Airport and I played there one summer and planes would take off, make a big loop and pick up these huge streamers with advertising on them, probably to fly by the lakes and down to shore.   Royce Brook has been  36 holes - 18 private and 18 public but I hear they sold one course for development.

May think of another option at some point.

[Garland Bayley]

A number of years ago, at a Golf Collectors Society convention at the USGA headquarters in Far Hills, I played a tree-lined county-owned course in the area, I think near Princeton. Any of you know what the name might have been? I can't remember. This was the course where I told the three locals I played with that the course would have gotten $80/round in the Bay Area, since it was neither 1) next to an airport; 2) crossed by high-power electric lines, or; 3) a former trash dump.

Thanks,
Jeff

Wow - that could actually be a number of courses in the general area between Princeton and Far Hills / Basking Ridge area.

The logical candidate would be Mountain View as Joe B notes.  It is a little over 15 mins from Princeton and is near Mercer County airport which now has large jets taking off for Fla. and elsewhere.   Fairly tree lined, a decent Municipal course - there are some good holes and some not so great.

Another choice might be a course that n/l/e called Miry Run - originally Skyview G C in Robbinsville - that was located next to the little Trenton-Robbinsville airport.   Has been defunct for some time now.

Possibly an even better option is Royce Brook in Hillsborough, tree lined, also next to a small airport just south of Manville.  This is located about 15 minutes from Princeton but basically toward Far Hills off River Road.   The little airport there is called the Central Jersey Airport and I played there one summer and planes would take off, make a big loop and pick up these huge streamers with advertising on them, probably to fly by the lakes and down to shore.   Royce Brook has been  36 holes - 18 private and 18 public but I hear they sold one course for development.

May think of another option at some point.

Bill,

The positive aspect he noted was that it was not near an airport.

[Ben Voelker]

I used to live near New Brunswick and Quail Brook was my first thought that matched the area and description!

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