project The first independent design of the Group, the course incorporates the owner's mantra of "wide fairways". In a setting where only the surrounding views of the Jersey "hill country" intrude on the course, the abandoned sand and gravel quarry was transformed into an open "links-style" layout. Native grass covered dunes and ridges separate and define most of the holes.
 
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image I first met Roger back in the late 80’s when we hired Robert Trent Jones to build a nine hole short course. He and his shapers gave us a great little course on a tough site now known as the Minerals Golf Club. The Roger Rulewich story had been going ...
Gene Mulvihill, Owner Crystal Springs Resort.
  

article Ever wonder why the northwestern corner of New Jersey has so few golf courses? I did, until I visited the area. It's mountainous, better for rock climbing or snow-skiing than golf. It's hard to grow grass in solid granite.