Gambler Ridge Golf Club

Course is in great condition from tee box to greens! Staff there are awesome. And you can’t beat the price!

Gamblers Ridge is a terrific property on the rolling farm and marshland of Monmouth County. The layout is fantastic. It features tight fairways lined with trees, elevation changes and several doglegs. Greens are small, well guarded, sloping from back to front and slow. It’s an interesting layout over a beautiful piece of land, which was emphasized with a lingering fog and trees ablaze as peak foliage painted the central Jersey landscape on this early November morning.

And there was plenty of time to enjoy the vistas because the pace of play was excruciatingly slow. And the course wasn’t terribly crowded. 4 hours 45 minutes for a 9:20 am start time on a weekday is ridiculous.

The course is not in great shape. Many of teeboxes were moved up, and not in the best nick. Fairways were patchy. Greens, far too slow, and a clientele that doesn’t believe in repairing ball marks.

This is a terrific venue that is batting well below it’s average. Something must be done about pace of play, and course conditions aren’t up to par, although in defense of the staff, this course gets a ton of traffic because of its location, and it’s manageable length and layout. They dumb it down to keep up the pace of play but apparently it’s not working, I say put the tees back, rollout those greens, put the teeth back into this beautiful spot, and send the slow hackers packing.