Who is the founder of Bayonne Golf Club?
Bayonne Golf Club is the brainchild of Eric Bergstol, Founder of Empire Golf Management, who shaped Bayonne, using waste soil and rubble, from a flat industrial brown-field site to an undulating, rollercoaster, links-like course. The result is dramatic and rather surreal as the course is located directly across the Hudson River from Wall Street ...
Why is Bayonne not in the top 100?
The only reason why the Bayonne golf club is not in the top 100 golf courses in the US is because it is highly private and hard to get on if you do not know a member. Bayonne is one of the most visually dramatic golf courses in the country. True links golf in the shadows of New York and the Hudson river.
How high is the Bayonne flagpole?
The flagpole extends 150 feet above the ground with dimensions of 40 by 70 feet. If you're in lower Manhattan you can see the flag blowing in the nearby distance. The main issue is can Bayonne play consistently firm and fast -- befitting a links -- even a faux links.
Where is Eric Bergstol's golf club?
Where others would never have dared -- Bergstol decided to move ahead with an ambitious plan to create a golf club in the community of Bayonne, New Jersey -- located immediately on the banks of the Hudson River with a birds-eye view of the Manhattan skyline of New York City.
Is Bayonne a good golf course?
Bayonne is a course for good players. You also have to be in reasonably good shape to walk it given the many rises and falls of the lands as well as a couple of long walks to the next tee. If you like a course that requires decision-making, focus and execution, this is a great course.
