USGA

Carved out of 420 acres of rolling farmland in Somerset County, N.J., Neshanic Valley features 27 holes of golf designed by the team of Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry. The three championship nine-hole layouts – The Lake, The Ridge and The Meadow, plus the nine-hole, par-32 Academy Course and Learning Center – encompass 350 acres, with 70 additional acres designated for future park usage. During course construction, the design team preserved existing land features and took advantage of the existing topography.

The Lake and The Ridge nines will be utilized for the Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship. Neshanic Valley is a links-style layout featuring an ample amount of fescue and other native grasses, plus environmentally sensitive wetland areas that come into play throughout the three nines.

PAR AND YARDAGE: Neshanic Valley Golf Course will be set up to play at 6,195 yards and will play to a par of 36-36—72, 6,195 yards. (Note: Yardages subject to change) 

ARCHITECT: Dr. Michael Hurdzan designed the course that opened in 2004. The course features three nine-hole layouts. The WAPL will utilize The Lakes and Meadows Nines for the championship.

WHO CAN ENTER: Open to female amateur golfers who, since Jan. 1, 2012, have been bona fide public course players and have not held privileges of any course that does not extend playing privileges to the general public, or privileges of any private club maintaining its own course and have a USGA Handicap Index not exceeding 18.4. A bona fide public course player may hold incidental privileges of a course not open to the public when such privileges are provided by (1) an educational institution at which she is a student, or (2) a federal armed service of which she is a member or retired member, or (3) an industry by which she is employed or retired.