Liberty National Golf Course
With the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline as backdrops, the oh-so-private Liberty National Golf Course in Jersey City, NJ, affords spectacular views. As Tiger Woods and the other 124 PGA Tour golfers chasing golf balls around the 7,419-yard layout this week, Golf Channel and CBS will have no end of artsy camera angles of Lady Liberty and NYC at sunrise, sunset, and each hour in between.
That will probably make for great television on your high-def Sony. For a construction cost of $129 million and membership fees in the half-a-million-dollar range, the Bob Kite-/Tom Kite-designed Liberty National better have that something special. Apparently, however, it’s not necessarily the golf course.
Florida in New York. GolfWeek’s architecture critic, Bradley Klein tells the New York Daily News, “It’s a golf course that looks like it came from Florida.” Say no more.
The layout offers a “very dramatic setting,” Klein notes, “but it’s not local, it’s not native. You don’t feel like you’re a part of the immediate environment.”
Sounds like if you’re looking for Miami Beach in New York City, this course is for you. Not so much, necessarily, for The Barclays participants, including Tiger Woods.
