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Showcasing Golf and More at the Jersey Shore

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McCullough’s Emerald Golf Links A Taste of Old-World Championship Golf at the Jersey Shore

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cCullough’s Emerald Golf Links offers you a passport to play some of the Old World’s most famous holes right here at the Jersey Shore.

The course is a one-of-a-kind and true Irish-Scottish links gem featuring eighteen of the most fun to play holes inspired by many of the most famous British Open and European courses in the world.

Looking and feeling like some of the many hundred-year-old holes they pay homage to, this Stephen Kay design utilizes unique elevations in conjunction

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with creative Scottish style bunkering, along with fescue grass mounding, multi-leveled and sloping greens. The open, rolling, and wind driven fairways to recreate the authentic Irish and Scottish golf experience with holes modeled after St. Andrews, Prestwick, Carnoustie, Turnberry, Royal Dornoch, Royal County Down, Royal Portrush, and many others.

Just minutes away from Ocean City and Atlantic City, McCullough’s Emerald Golf Links is located at 3016 Ocean Heights Avenue in Egg Harbor Township. Call 609-926-3900 or go to www. mcculloughsgolf.com

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Seaview Golf Club

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he Jersey Shore Classic opened more than 100 years ago and has long been the home of the best golf in the region. Situated in Galloway Township, Seaview offers two courses, the historic Bay course designed

by Hall of Fame architects Hugh Wilson (Merion) and Donald Ross (Pinehurst) and the Pines Course, managed by TROON, a world-wide leader in the golf resort industry. Local and visiting golfers enjoy

first class amenities and memorable vistas all year long.

The Seaview Golf Club is host course of the ShopRite LPGA Classic. It’s also where the World Golf Hall of Famer, Sam Snead, won the 1942 PGA Championship.

The course was a favorite of U.S. presidents Warren G. Harding and Dwight D. Eisenhower. A strong tradition of excellence lives on at Seaview Golf Club for new generations to enjoy.

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This summer, travelers to the Jersey Shore have a new reason to visit. The award-winning Seaview, Dolce Hotel, situated on 670 scenic acres along Reed’s Bay in picturesque Galloway, NJ, is open to guests following a multi-million dollar renovation. Visit a transformed Seaview - now boasting full renovations of all 296 guest rooms and public spaces as well as updates to the dining and meeting areas throughout the hotel. Guests are invited to experience the modern redesign, inspired by the hotel’s celebrated Jersey Shore history.

Two World Class Golf Courses The Bay Course is not a test of length, rather a test of imagination, accuracy and short game. The Bay Course presents a Scottish links feel, dramatic seaside views, deep pot bunkers, plus small undulating greens. The course is the current host of the ShopRite LPGA Classic as well as 9 holes in the 1942 PGA Championship.

The Pines Course winds its way through New Jersey Woodlands presenting elevation change and doglegs abound. The course measures 6,800 yards, features many large bunkers, and gently sloping large greens. The 16th hole was the site of Sam Snead's miraculous 60 ft chip-in to win the 1942 PGA Championship; His first major.

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The Atlantic City region boasts some of the best golf courses in the U.S. In fact, the greater Atlantic City region offers nearly 20 championship-caliber courses within a short 30 minute drive.

Golfweek Magazine puts many of Atlantic City’s courses in the Top 10 New Jersey golf experiences. Our courses represent a wide range of style, design and history.

The tranquil beauty of wetlands, stunning bay views, challenging topography with deep ravines, rolling fairways, stretches of sand bunkers and tall pine trees give players so many fun options.

How good is Atlantic City golf? Good enough to earn a "Top 10 Golf Cities in America" designation from ForbesTraveler.com. Most of the area’s courses also made it on to the “best places to play” list in Golf Digest. And, according to GolfDigest.com, “Atlantic City is a terrific low-cost, high-quality golf destination.”

The NJ Shore is the perfect place to wake up, play some challenging holes, eat dinner in a beachside restaurant, then catch a show, then retire for the night.

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is here to help you discover some of the best golf and other activities the area has to offer. We hope you enjoy this new magazine…and a great round of golf.

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Harbor Pines Golf Club Celebrates 25th Anniversary

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estled among 650 acres of tranquility, surrounded by forests and wetlands, sits Harbor Pines Golf Club, South Jersey’s premier destination for golf, dining, and special events. Celebrating its silver anniversary this year, the club, which rivals private country clubs with its pristine conditions and outstanding service, has an exciting lineup of events and giveaways to commemorate.

Harbor Pines is making this season extra special for members with a “25 Weeks of Giveaways” promotion. Each week one lucky golfer will be chosen as the recipient of a golf-themed prize.

Prizes will vary from week to week and include clubs, merchandise, gift cards, free golf and more.

The more rounds of golf played, the more chances players have to win. At the end of the season, a grand prize winner will be gifted a free set of golf clubs and a full membership for the 2022 season.

This year, the club’s impeccably conditioned Parkland-style course is offering some of the best spring conditions ever had in the past 25 years of business, thanks to a mild winter and early aeration.

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house, on-course beverage service and a dedicated grill room.

The grill room overlooks the course and boasts stunning views of the surrounding vistas. Golfers can play a round or two and then stop by the grill room for daily happy hour from 3pm-5pm, with specials like half-priced appetizers, $5 cocktails, $4 wine and $2 drafts.

In honor of the 25th anniversary, the grill room is getting a revamp with a new chef who has designed a completely new menu, as well as an expanded and freshly rebooted outdoor dining space with an outside deck for live entertainment. Every Friday night beginning May 28th, and lasting through the summer, guests can enjoy Harbor Pines’ Lobster Fest with an evening of live music and delicious seafood dinners.

The club also features banquet facilities and a top-quality catering staff that makes it a popular venue for special events like weddings and birthday parties.

Harbor Pines is celebrating 25 years as South Jersey’s favorite place to play and is looking forward to many more years to come.

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“Cape May Arnie”

By Sean Fawcett

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very golfer knows The King, Arnold Palmer.

And nearly every golfer knows that Arnold Palmer was from Latrobe Pennsylvania, out

by Pittsburgh. Few people know about his time in Cape May and at Wildwood Country Club.

For most of three years, from 1951 to 1953 in between his college playing days at Wake Forrest University and his prolific professional playing career which began in 1954, Arnold Palmer worked in the United States Coast Guard at Cape May. It was here, while serving his nation where he grew to become the great golfer by playing the beautiful tree-lined bayside links at Wildwood Country Club. The historic club was a pivotal training ground for Palmer in his formative early 20’s years before he turned pro and became America’s most famous golfing hero.

Longtime Wildwood C.C. member, Jim Byrne, 84, knew, and got to play with Palmer in those Wildwood and Cape May days when he was a teenager.

“I was a senior in high school in 1951,” remembered Byrne. “We got out of school about the same time the Coast Guard guys did, and we would go to Wild-

wood to play and there was Arnie. He would always be like ‘hey, do you want to play a few holes’, and then he and my brother and I would go play. “He was so down to Earth. He was just Arnie from the Coast Guard to us. He would hit the ball way right, and long, and then hit the most amazing hook shots you’d ever see right back and onto the green. He was incredible.”

Long time Wildwood P.G.A. professional, and now GM Fred Riedel remembered how just months before his death, Palmer, who so much loved his playing days at the Jersey Shore course, signed several pin flags for him and wrote him a letter addressed to the club and its members to help commemorate Wildwood’s 100th birthday last year.

“It probably just took five minutes for him, but for us and our members it was huge,” said Riedel.

“Arnie would come back sometimes when he was in the area, and he kept in contact with several of our members he knew over the years when he was down the shore. “It goes without saying that it’s a huge honor to be at Wildwood Country Club where Arnold Palmer played. He was The King.”

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Swing Easy when it’s Breezy

By Sean Fawcett

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laying golf in high winds is tough enough, but we only make it harder on ourselves when we do.

That’s often the case when hitting into the wind. The natural tendency is to swing harder to get the distance we’re losing by hitting into the wind. The problem is that the wind will balloon the ball upwards into the sky making the shot come up short (and the harder we swing, the higher the ball will go). It’s why airplanes take off into the wind.

The air resistance helps to elevate the aircraft.

Airplanes need that air pushing back on them to create lift and lift off. Planes need resistance. The other thing which hurts us is that any spin we have put onto the ball, and most occurr accidentally, like with a slice will curve all the more because of the wind’s resistance. You really cannot muscle

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the ball through the wind by hitting the club you would normally hit from the distance that you are hitting from. You cannot hold back the tide. You have to play with the wind, and especially when it is against you. So, instead of trying to hit a hard pitching wedge from say 110 yards, like you would normally do when the wind isn’t against you, hit a nine iron and swing a little easier. Depending upon the wind speed, you might even have to choke down a little more and take an even longer club, like an eight iron, from that very same distance. Don’t let your ego get into your way. You might even need to use a driver on a 200 yard, or 180 yard, par 3 that’s playing into a three club wind, sometimes. I have had to do that many times, and I wouldn’t have reached the green, or carried the water, if I hadn’t taken the extra club. It’s just the way it goes.

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“The First Birdie”

By Sean Fawcett

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id you know that term “birdie” was first used right here in Southern New Jersey? It’s true, and it happened one day way back in 1903 at maybe the most historic of all the great South Jersey golf courses, Atlantic City Country Club, founded in 1897, in a December foursome which included two of America’s greatest golf course architects and personalities, A.W. Tillinghast and George Crump.

According to history, the two giants of the game, Tillinghast, architect of two of most famous championship sites Baltusrol and Bethpage Black and Crump, designer of the revered Pine Valley Golf Course were golfing with fellow Philadelphians Bill and Abner Smith. Abner was playing the long par 4 twelfth hole and hit his second shot right at the hole making the score of 3 (one-underpar) an all-but assured formality. The story

continues that someone from the group following that historic swing, either Abner himself, or maybe his brother exclaimed something like “that’s a bird of a shot!”.

Thus, the term meaning one shot under par became a local phrase “birdie” and becoming the official vocabulary that all golfers call a score of one shot better than par. The term for two shots under par, “eagle”, was first used at the same club soon after.

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South Jersey’s First Cornhole Facility Opens its Doors

By Steffen Klenk

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ornhole is a widely popular outdoor game played at all ages and skill levels. While the exact origins of the game can be traced back centuries, it has attracted much popularity in recent decades, and has quickly become a growing sport. Various one-on-one matches and tournaments have aired on ESPN. To keep up with its popularity, one group has recently opened up a brand new cornhole facility in Somers Point.

Cornhole Craze is the first and only facility dedicated to the game in the state of New Jersey, and one of the largest in the entire country. The 8,000 square foot facility celebrated its grand opening in mid-February, and is quickly attracting new patrons. The space includes up to 10 lanes

where anyone can try their hand at the game, from the most casual and avid player to professionals.

The concept stemmed from Somers Point Police Officer Rick Dill. He and co-worker, Joe Scioli began brainstorming the idea several years ago. “In my head, I envisioned it as just a pole barn with a few lanes where friends could hang out,” After much discussion, they settled on a facility that would be made open to the public.

The sport has grown in recent years. One of the owners, Jet Pahang, a South jersey resident and fellow officer with Hamilton Township Police Department, expressed his interest in growing the sport in South Jersey. “Before, I used to travel to North Jersey and Pennsylvania for tournaments,” Pehang says. “Now, the game has become readily available for the locals.”

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Pehang is also a member of the 609 Cornhole opponent during each turn will cancel yours out.

League, which hosts weekly tournaments at the Whether you are at the beach, your backyard, or at Somers Point facility. Its members travel through- a campsite, the game can be played on any surface out the state during the summer season playing During a time when many businesses in various tournaments. With outdoor have struggled because of the ongoactivities limited during the winter, ing COVID-19 pandemic, Cornhole the league is staying active, acCraze is defying the odds. To those interested, yearly and cording to Pahang, “We went monthly memberships are from ten teams last year to fourteen this past season. Curavailable, which includes disrently we have eighteen teams. counted entry fees, merchanIt has expanded tremendously.” dise, entry to exclusive leagues For those who have never and tournaments, locker space played cornhole, game play is and access to use the facility simple. First, you will need eight 6x6” anytime, day or night. beanbags made from quality mateCornhole Craze is located Players enjoy a one-onrials and a set of cornhole boards, in the Somers Point Plaza at 214 one cornhole game. with a regulation size of 4 x 2 feet, New Road. The facility is open to and you are ready to play. Keeping score is also a the public on weekends between 6-10pm, and breeze. Each beanbag that rests on the board is visitors are encouraged to book their lanes online worth 1 point. If the beanbag enters the circular in advance. Those who are interested in learning hole, add 3 points. Points that are scored by your more can visit cornholecraze.com.

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Fairway Bunker Shots Made Easier

By Sean Fawcett

airway bunker shots intimidate even experienced golfers, but they are not as tough as you might think. Just remember a couple of key things. First, do not dig your feet into the sand.

Digging your feet in lowers your body, and hands, and, in turn, lowers your club head making you hit the sand first behind the ball. You’ll want to dig in on greenside bunker shots because you’ll want to hit the sand first behind the ball to lift it up, gently out and onto the green, but it’s the exact opposite when playing a fairway bunker shot. Your goal in playing a fairway bunker shot is distance. You want to hit the ball first and

hit it cleanly and hard. Make it go as far as you can hit it.

The other thing to remember is to take two longer clubs and swing 70%.

Swing mostly with your upper body and take a shorter backswing and swing a little easier and let the longer golf club help you get the added distance. For instance, if you are 150 yards out, and you would normally hit a seven iron from there from the fairway, take a five iron and swing about three-quarters as hard as you would from the grass.

Be sure to practice. Like all golf shots, you’ll need to hit a lot of these kinds of shots before you get good at hitting them and develop confidence. The more you do easier they will become.

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The rise and fall of the Atlantic City Racecourse

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By Steffen Klenk

ong before the introduction of casinos in Atlantic City, thoroughbred racing was on the rise. The Atlantic City Race Course was the pinnacle of premiere horse racing in the country.

Atlantic City Race Course was led by the vision of four businessmen, John B. Kelly Sr., Leo Fraser, Fred Scholler and Glendon Robertson. On July 22, 1946, Atlantic City Race Course officially opened to a crowd of over 28,000. Among the attendees included Grace Kelly, daughter of John Kelly, and shareholders Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Sammy Kaye and

Harry James.

September 1953 saw the debut of the yearly thoroughbred race, the United Nations Handicap.

It was Atlantic City’s first showcase for the best turf runners throughout the country and the world. The annual event saw the success of eleven-time Triple Crown jockey Bill Shoemaker, who led three straight wins from 1957 to 1959. Breeder’s Cup winning horse Steinlen rode to victory in the 1990 Caesars International Handicap.

While Atlantic City Race Course was known for its world-class horse racing, the venue has also played host to a variety of entertainment.

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From August 1-3, 1969, ACRC hosted the Atlantic City Pop Festival.

The three-day rock festival was headlined

by Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin and B.B. King, amongst a lineup of dozens. Over 110,000 revelers and approximately 6,000 gate crashers attended the concert, held nearly two weeks before Woodstock.

From its inception, Atlantic City Race Course was at the pinnacle in New Jersey. The track drew record crowds of over 33,000 fans in September 7, 1953. In summer 1967, fans wagered over $3.1 million in a single day, the highest betting handle in ACRC history.

The rise of the casino and gaming industry caused attendance to slowly diminish. In 1983, ACRC became the first track in the United States to receive simulcast racing. New Jersey Supreme Court would suspend simulcast

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operations in 1985, but was later approved in a referendum. There was an effort to bring slot machines to the Atlantic City Race Course in 1998, but the proposal was shot down.

In its later years, Atlantic City Race Course would seldom open for live simulcasts and thoroughbred racing.

Several real estate developers and large businesses made attempts in purchasing the 250-acre property, all of which fell through.

On May 4, 2012, Atlantic City Race Course held its final live day of racing, drawing a crowd of more than 25,000.

On January 9, 2015, it was formally announced that Atlantic City Race Course would wind down its operations and close its doors for good. While the future of ACRC and the 250-acre property remains unknown, its legacy and impact on our region has been etched into the history books.

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