Parks 1-10 - Monmouth County
Parks 1-10 - Monmouth County Parks 1-10 - Monmouth County
4. Howell Park Golf Course | 1967–302 acres; 2009–311 acresWITH its rustic wooded setting and challenging fairways, Howell ParkGolf Course often seems to the golfers who play there that it musthave started as a private club, but the Park System built the course onthe site of a former farm 40 years ago to meet the growing demand forgolf. Eatontown realtor and golf enthusiast Harold Lindemann thoughtthat the gently rolling fields, good soils, and ponds of the 302-acreWindsor Stock Farm, an old dairy farm in Howell Township, wouldmake a fine golf course, and he recommended to the Freeholders thatthey purchase the property from the Estate of Carl F. Gamer.The Park System commissioned the noted golf course architectFrancis Duane to design the course to be aesthetically pleasing aswell as challenging. Duane earned a degree in landscape architecturefrom Syracuse University and had worked with the famed golf coursearchitect Robert Trent Jones for several years before starting his ownfirm. He designed several public and private courses in Bergen County,on Long Island and in upstate New York, and he later collaborated withArnold Palmer on golf courses in South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.For Howell Park, Duane designed an 18-hole, par 72 golf course with6,964 yards of play.According to Dave Pease, the Park System’s General Manager of GolfCourses who began working at the Park System in 1977, the FrancisDuane design at Howell “is second to none with regard to the challengeof the game in a parkland design. The routing of the course, andthe shot making battles that were placed in the design, are extremelychallenging and right on the top of the game. The strength of thecourse and the concepts that were put into it are very unique, andthat’s probably why it has been ranked so high in the public golfcourses in the country, because of its playability as well as the strengthof its design.” Howell Park Golf Course consistently ranks among thetop 50 public golf courses in the country.
In developing the golf course, the Park System preserved about40% of the park land as forest to help protect the Manasquan Riverwatershed. The river runs along the northeast border of the Park, andbeautiful wildflowers bloom along its banks in the spring. The TimberSwamp Brook bisects the course with a pond close to the center ofthe Park and drains to the Manasquan. The forest contains a variety oftrees: sweet and black gum, black walnut, red maple, black cherry, tulippoplar, pitch pine, and red and chestnut oaks. Native shrubs in the Parkinclude sweet pepperbush, mapleleaf and arrowwood viburnum, bluehuckleberry, and serviceberry. Interesting perennials include smoothSolomon’s seal and strawberry bush.The popular Manasquan River Canoe Race, which the Park Systemfirst sponsored in 1970, annually draws many participants to the canoelaunching area in the park.93—————— — — —————howell park golfcourse
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4. Howell Park Golf Course | 1967–302 acres; 2009–311 acresWITH its rustic wooded setting and challenging fairways, Howell ParkGolf Course often seems to the golfers who play there that it musthave started as a private club, but the Park System built the course onthe site of a former farm 40 years ago to meet the growing demand forgolf. Eatontown realtor and golf enthusiast Harold Lindemann thoughtthat the gently rolling fields, good soils, and ponds of the 302-acreWindsor Stock Farm, an old dairy farm in Howell Township, wouldmake a fine golf course, and he recommended to the Freeholders thatthey purchase the property from the Estate of Carl F. Gamer.The Park System commissioned the noted golf course architectFrancis Duane to design the course to be aesthetically pleasing aswell as challenging. Duane earned a degree in landscape architecturefrom Syracuse University and had worked with the famed golf coursearchitect Robert Trent Jones for several years before starting his ownfirm. He designed several public and private courses in Bergen <strong>County</strong>,on Long Island and in upstate New York, and he later collaborated withArnold Palmer on golf courses in South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.For Howell Park, Duane designed an 18-hole, par 72 golf course with6,964 yards of play.According to Dave Pease, the Park System’s General Manager of GolfCourses who began working at the Park System in 1977, the FrancisDuane design at Howell “is second to none with regard to the challengeof the game in a parkland design. The routing of the course, andthe shot making battles that were placed in the design, are extremelychallenging and right on the top of the game. The strength of thecourse and the concepts that were put into it are very unique, andthat’s probably why it has been ranked so high in the public golfcourses in the country, because of its playability as well as the strengthof its design.” Howell Park Golf Course consistently ranks among thetop 50 public golf courses in the country.
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