Harbor Pines Golf Club Course Review

The Jersey shore is a great place for summer memories.  I remember the boardwalk games and rides, playing in the open for hours, fish and chips from Campbells Seafood and feeding the seagulls with the left over fries.  The Jersey shore hosts it fair share of golf courses as well.  Harbor Pines Golf Club is located in Egg Harbor, NJ just off the Garden State Parkway.  I made the drive to try it out and I was glad I did and the shore traffic was not in effect yet in May.

Harbor Pines Golf Club Overview

Harbor Pines offers a solid round of golf.  The pro shop is in the center of all you need to start your day with the driving range, putting green, and chipping range within walking distance.  The course produced an app for download which is a great innovation except for the yardage book tab would not load on the course.  The greens offered some real challenging putts with their breaks.  On the 15th hole, I aimed my putt 90 degrees from the hole to let it ride the hill down to the hole.

There is plenty of water hazards on the course.  It may sound dumb but that don’t come into effect unless you lets them.  Which I did a few times.

The ranger did a great job keeping the pace comfortable with everyone.  There was concern in the beginning of the day with a pair of foursome launching a bit of disorganized fashion.  It never effected our day and we ended 20 minutes ahead of pace time.

Hole signage is attached to all ball washers.

Clubhouse contains pro shop, restaurants, snack shack, and bathrooms.

Gazebo offers view of players on the 9th green.

Practice putting green next to 1st tee.

Harbor Pines Golf Club makes sure it respects its neighbors.

All par 3s are measured by course each morning for accurate distancing.

Harbor Pines Golf Club driving range.

Chipping range a short walk from 1st tee with practice sand bunker to the left.

Another nice touch by Harbor Pines is that each par 3 hole has a white erase board on the tee box with the yardage for that day’s pin placement.

Harbor Pines Golf Club Condition

At 6 AM the morning I played, the heavens opened up with a heavy rain.  It was nice to have the pollen flushed from the air and my car but it made the course cart path only and the sand traps thick.   It took me three chips to get out of a green side trap on the 14th hole because the sand was one step above mud.  The fairways must have been thirsty because I did not see any standing water.  I saw some people walking the course on our way in on the 18th hole.  The ground crew takes good care of the course and it shows.

Triple sand traps guarding right side of 16th green.

Tough ship shout out of 14th trap which took 3 attempts due to wet sand.

12th hole is a short 291 yard hole so the pretty water doesn’t really come into play.

Approach shot to par 5 10th hole.

First tee box to start your day with a par 5.

Par 3 8th hole tee box. You can see how deep the sand trap on the right is.

Sand trap along front of 7th green grabs any short approach shots.

Second shot on long par 5 7th hole.

View from green of 5th hole. Water will grab anyone who tries to cut corner over tree from tee box.

If I ran Harbor Pines Golf Club

I think adding hole layout picture somewhere for the players is a nice touch.   As a first time player, I ended up in a some bad patches because I did not not know how big a sand trap or water hazard were.

Favorite Hole at Harbor Pines Golf Club

I liked the par 4 4th hole.  The drive must be contained due to a tight right dog leg.  Sometimes it is more fun to not just blast off the tee with a driver but pick a shot from the beginning of the hole.  A close second are holes with the extreme breaking greens.

4th tee box with aiming point just left of trap on the right.

Tee shot ended just short of the right sand trap offering good shot to the green.

4th green and you can see the curves of the breaks.

Looking back down the dog leg of the 4th hole.

My Final Say

I will return to Harbor Pines to it again.  My score showed a snowman and two triple bogeys so those holes need some redemption.  I may wait until the shore season is over to avoid weekend traffic.

Harbor Pines Golf Club Scorecard

Harbor Pines Golf Club Contact Information

• Website: harborpines.com
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