Bowling Green Golf Club
About
Bowling Green Golf Club is in the heart of northern New Jersey, surrounded by miles of idyllic countryside. An abundance of mature oaks and towering red pines characterizes the scenic course. This quick, shady layout is a great round for walkers. The golf course has a classic links design that is easily played in less than four hours. Like most traditional links courses, the gently undulating terrain has the perfect pitch and roll. It also provides each hole with unique challenges that require accuracy and strategy. Trees heavily line the fairways, presenting some of the course's most formidable challenges. Bowling Green Golf Club's front nine is slightly more forgiving than the back nine, which incorporates the natural ponds and wetlands on a few holes. There are also some tricky doglegs to contend with.
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Golfer Photos
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Photo submitted by Jamoke1 on 05/14/2026
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Photo submitted by zhugolf on 05/30/2025
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Photo submitted by Franco6968 on 11/29/2020
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Photo submitted by IanSalmon on 10/29/2020
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Photo submitted by IanSalmon on 10/29/2020
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Photo submitted by IanSalmon on 10/29/2020
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Photo submitted by IanSalmon on 10/29/2020
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Photo submitted by IanSalmon on 10/29/2020
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6th Tee Photo submitted by agurango on 05/24/2013
Golfer Reviews
Great Course!
I give this course 4 stars only because there is no ranger and we got stuck behind a 4-some of hackers which took almost 5 hours to play. The other reason is because the pro shop snacks and drinks are ridiculous, $9.50 for an ice tea and two snickers.... so I strongly recommend bringing your own. Only course conditions I'd change would be the fairways cut shorter, more sand in the bunkers and faster greens. Overall great course and will be back again!
Great parkland style course that seems humble but really tests your skills.
Conditions: Overall - 8.5
Fairways - 9
Greens - 7 - Looked great but rolled slow. slow. slow.
Bunkers - 8.5 - Great condition. A bit rocky but nice and light.
Rough - 9 - Nice and lush but could have been cut a bit shorter.
An awesomely challenging course. The pine tree lined fairways on 4-6 are awesome and also make straight tee shots an absolute must. My only complaint of the course would be the conditions of the greens. They are painfully slower than the practice green and were a bit misleading but did roll true (not too beat up) so couldn't complain much. Overall really fun, challenging but fair, great track. 18th hole is a killer! LONG!
Great Day
Fast Play - great conditions - awesome rangers...beautiful day
This is a very challenging course
The course was in good condition for this time of year and well maintained. I lost one golf ball because of leaves on the course but all and all this was not an issue and the staff was working on the cleanup. Some of the greens were showing signs of ware and tare maybe a little disease on some but mostly putt-able and rolled fairly well.
Traditional layout, good pace of play, good challenge from the blue tees.
Lots of leaves at this time of year. Greens were sanded a while ago so they are running pretty nice. Fairways still very green. Beautiful place. Just need to remove leaves a little better.
Greens are sand right now
Have been playing here 35 years. A very fine parkland track. However they lost the greens this summer and heavily aerated and sanded them. They will not recover probably til May. They are mostly sand now altho the aeration holes have filled in.
Have no idea what prior bloggers were looking at in rating the greens as excellent.
Highly recommend this course once greens recover
Great Deal on Hot Deal
Do not play until the leaves are gone. Your ball can be in the middle of the fairway and you have no chance of finding it. Otherwise the course is worth playing.
Fine Little Course
Second time this year I've played Bowling Green. Like the course a lot. Got this round for a REALLY discounted rate on GolfNow, which was outstanding. Fairways are still in fantastic shape for this time of year. Only complaint was that they had just aerated the greens, and it was not mentioned when I booked the tee time. Clearly, that's why the price was lower, but it should still be mentioned when you're looking to book. Having said that though, course still looked good. Very well taken care of. Recommend to anyone.
Pace of play too slow
This is a nice course, but the pace of play was too slow. They really need to have a ranger on the course moving the large number of slow golfers along.
Nice course and friendly staff
Incurred a 1 hour frost delay (8am). Pro shop supplied free coffee to golfers waiting. All in all a great place to golf.
Excellent conditions. fast greens. plush fairways
Very well maintained course...the greens were fast and the fairways were plush and full. loved the narrow fairway design and the doglegs. made for a enjoyable round that challenged you at every turn. only negative was there were leaves on the course but they were out blowing them away all day.
Course was in great shape -
A fun round. Greens were true and fairways were in great shape. The only problem was losing a few balls in the leaves, which has to be expected this time of year
WOW
The greens at this course have never been better. I could not find an unrepaired bal mark nor an imperfection on the putting surface. The leaves are starting to falls, but the grounds crew was out there working hard. Great layout and the owners are making great strides to making a good course great.
excellent course
picturesque tree lined fairways, well kept, with super friendly staff
Tight fairways
Decent course. Hole #4 is very gimmicky. A par 5 with a very sharp dogleg and a layup off the tee. Other than that I liked it. The greens are in fair shape. The tee boxes were shaggy or bare at spots but level. It was my first time here and I'd come back.
Worth the 4 hours.
Always a good experience at Bowling Green. Staff monitors pace of play.
Fun course. Good value. Nice course for walking.
Fun course. Good value. Nice course for walking. Very nice staff. Has a full driving range including practice bunkers which is rare for a public course - a nice feature. Tee boxes a little chewed up and a little uneven. Greens were aerated and had sand when I played so were molasses slow but that is in the name of maintenance so what can you do about that? Would play again and would recommend.
Aerated Warning!!
The entire putting greens and tee boxs were aerated. The proshop emplyee told us that the cousre will not aerated till mid Setember over the phone five days before we played. Very disappointed!!