Colts Neck Golf Club

Overview: Colts Neck Golf Club is a semi-private 18-hole links-style course in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Its official course page lists par 72 and 6,455 yards from the blue tees. Geoffrey Cornish, Brian Silva and Mark Mungeam shaped the routing with broad bentgrass putting surfaces, rolling contours, Scottish-inspired bunkers, lakes and golden fescue rough. The front nine moves through open, gently rolling ground, while the back nine enters a wooded glen, giving the same course two distinct visual and strategic chapters.

History: Colts Neck was built in 2000 on former farmland as a modern New England-influenced design. The Cornish, Silva and Mungeam team used the site’s natural changes in elevation and farm fields to create a links-style course without pretending that New Jersey is Scotland. The club’s current course information emphasizes the contrast between the open front side and the more enclosed back nine. Public play is part of the club’s present model, with weekday and weekend rates published alongside several membership categories.

Did You Know? The course changes character at the turn: the open, rolling front nine gives way to a wooded glen on the back nine. That contrast is a deliberate part of the Cornish, Silva and Mungeam design, allowing a single 18-hole round to move from broad links-style views into tighter, tree-framed lines.