For RU golf fans
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Since the ecological preserve was once farmland and a military base and the little development in there was once a golf course, I think Rutgers should take half of it closest to Livingston and make it a new golf course better suited to today's game. After which, they turn the old golf course into an ecological preserve and study its transition from golf course to the wildlands.
You mean, turn the old golf course into the new yellow lot?
No.. that won't happen. Mostly likely outcome would be to keep both courses going. But making it a preserve would be more justifiable if you are taking away more space in the current reserve. And being able to use modern eco science to monitor it's return to nature could be a fine educational effort.
The history of the current reserve shows it was used for WWII Army camp, etc.. so why not a new golf course? Maybe even an on-campus hotel and conference center? Build a new president's house there and use the current space for another function... maybe put the hotel there...
Brief History – Ecological Preserve
ecopreserve.rutgers.edu
How ‘ bout we just realize Rutgers doesn’t need a new golf course. Preserve the surrounding land and let nature decide the future of those precious acres. Going back to when my area of Essex , Union County’s had three dairy farms which supplied milk to thousands. Fields of flowers, trees , grassland and believe it or not actual wildlife. We all want progress but a new golf course ? Now that is just idiocy and less than 70 years past.
If you mean "todays game".. it means everyone knows the course, while good, is short. 6300+ yards par 71.. Trump National in Bedminster is 7580 yards par 72. U Michigan 6730yds par 71. U of Illinois has 2 courses, blue is older and shorter at 6479yds but the newer orange course is 6866yds.
A bunch of Big Ten courses made this list of top 40 on-campus courses.. we may not have enough room to make the list.. but the Rutgers course is a gem... just a small gem.
And what if someone said those dairy farms should be an ecological reserve and let it grow wild? You know.. how it was BEFORE they cleared the land and built dairy farms?
The dairy farms were there from at least the late 1800’s to early 1900’s . I recall at an early age from at least 1953-1954 (post WWII ) what happened not because of modernization but farmers/milk producers forced out and taken over by new apartments, a major thoroughfare, Rutgers golf course is iconic though short by today’s standard. Most aren’t very good on that course now though I personally found it relatively easy and enjoyable as a 7 handicap for 20+ years. It’s up to RU. If they feel it’s doable then they will but the reality is we need other venues and buildings before some 7 k plus golf course.
Isn't an easier solution juat to add 500 yards to the existing course by moving some tee boxes or greens? It's not a lot.
Rutgers continues doing a nice job completing real estate transactions and building academic and residential buildings in New Brunswick.
The university needs to think more creatively about its real estate in Piscataway. Plenty of land exists to optimize the golf course and provide football game parking without throwing open the ecologic preserve. Decisions such as building the visitor center in the middle of sports fields on Busch and turning over control of the best real estate on Livingston to Jersey Mike's should not be repeated and, ideally, reversed.
The existing yellow lot is not going anywhere. The real estate will remain available for football parking for five more years, at least.
Last year Hobbs, and this month Schiano, talked down the possibility of a new indoor practice facility, the building that was announced five years ago and for which fundraising has gone nowhere.
For those of you who missed out on the other outing.
web.cvent.com
Summary - 11th Annual Unger-DeBlasio Cup
Save the 11th hole please.Got my only hole in one there .
My Dad used to really enjoy cutting some difficult hole locations - one way to make what's considered a short course by today's standards a bit more challenging.
It was in the cup when I got to the green.There were no wildlife around to have put it in there
Seven always seems to have the hole cut right into the slope of the two-tiered green. It's like mini golf.
It's even worse when the cup is on the top shelf on 7, IMO. Hard to hold a shot up there and being over that green is no picnic, so one usually ends up with a putt up that huge hill, where 3-putting is a real risk. Best hole on the course, along with 10, IMO.
If RU were willing to spend some $$ on the course, it could fairly easily be lengthened from 6340 to maybe 6600 yards from the tips, by extending tees back on holes like 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 17. And if they rerouted Frelinghuysen closer to Waksman, they could move #1 green 100 yards further and make #2's tee 100 yards further back (pretty sure that's a pipe dream, lol).
I hate 7 almostas much as 17. Haha! But 10 is probably my favorite.
Golf is weird. I always hated 8, but loved 17, as I usually played 8 badly and 17 well for some reason (and I probably have played at least 500 rounds there, mostly in the 80s/90s). But 10 is definitely the signature hole on the course and that could be a killer par 4 if it was lengthened to ~450 yards.
I feel like 8 always plays longer than the number. I'm always pitching from off the green there. I don't know if I'm tired by 17, but I definitely lose a ball there more than I should.
When I could not find it on the green,I looked in the cup. BINGO. The next time that _I played the eleventh there were at least five people there. Greenskeepers an assistant pro etc. I asked them "where thehell were you guys last week. When I needed you ? I got a reply that I had to be in a foursome to get a trophy.Ok I said let's try it now. Went into my Puckett. Pulled out a ball. Dropped it on the grass tee a bit it a foot and a half from the cup.Someone said "Very commercial" went to the green and made the birdie.was shooting 1.5 for the 11th for the last two rounds. Cocky as hell I hlt my drive into the woods on the next hole!
