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Not rich? Hudson County building affordable public golf course in Jersey City

By Michaelangelo Conte | The Jersey Journal
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on October 06, 2014 at 7:45 AM

Aerial view of the Lincoln Park West Public Golf Course under construction at Routes 1&9 and Duncan Avenue. Photo courtesy of Norman Guerra | Hudson County Improvement Authority.
The Jersey Journal

It's no Liberty National, but the nine-hole Hudson County Golf Course in Lincoln Park, Hudson County's first public golf course, is shaping up.

The $20 million course at Routes 1&9 and Duncan Avenue is scheduled to open around the middle of next year and promises a setting with amazing views and natural wetlands, all for $20 a round.

"This is really golf. This is not pitch and putt," Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise said Friday at the 3,100, to 3,200-yard course, which has three par-three holes, three par-four holes and three par-five holes, including drives over waterways. Its working name is the Lincoln Park West Public Golf Course.

County residents will be allowed to buy a card that gives them a discount at the course and priority when it comes to tee times, officials said.

"This is the first public, affordable golf course in Hudson County and we are the only county in New Jersey that did not have a public course," DeGise said. "The only golf courses in the county now are in Bayonne and Jersey City and both cost about half a million dollars to join."

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