Pine Valley Golf Club is a golf course in Pine Valley, Camden County, in southern New Jersey. It is currently ranked the number one course in Golf Magazine's 100 Top Courses in the U.S. and the World.
Pine Valley was founded in 1913 by a group of amateur golfers from Philadelphia. They purchased 184 acres (0.7 km²) of rolling, sandy ground deep in the pinelands of southern New Jersey, and gave George Arthur Crump, who knew the area from hunting e...
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Pine Valley Golf Club is a golf course in Pine Valley, Camden County, in southern New Jersey. It is currently ranked the number one course in Golf Magazine's 100 Top Courses in the U.S. and the World.
Pine Valley was founded in 1913 by a group of amateur golfers from Philadelphia. They purchased 184 acres (0.7 km²) of rolling, sandy ground deep in the pinelands of southern New Jersey, and gave George Arthur Crump, who knew the area from hunting expeditions, the opportunity to design the course. This was Crump's first and only golf course design, and he set himself some idiosyncratic principles: no hole should be laid out parallel to the next; no more than two consecutive holes should play in the same direction; and players shouldn't be able to see any hole other than the one they were playing. He also felt that a round of golf on his course should require a player to use every club in the bag.
The site was challenging and the project became something of an obsession for Crump, who...
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