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Liberty National Golf Club: Course Intelligence
Tom Kite and Bob Cupp designed Liberty National Golf Club in 2006 on a piece of Jersey City, New Jersey reclaimed industrial-waterfront land directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan. The site occupies a peninsula stretch of New York Harbor with the Statue of Liberty visible directly from several holes — the property is among the most-photographed in modern American golf because of the Manhattan and Lower New York Harbor backdrop. Liberty National hosted the 2017 Presidents Cup (U.S. won), the 2013 Barclays (Adam Scott), the 2019 Northern Trust (Patrick Reed), and continuing FedEx Cup playoff events through the 2020s.
The course plays around 7,400 yards par 71 from the championship markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 140s. Kite and Cupp routed the eighteen holes through the elevated dredge-and-fill terrain with significant water features and views of the Statue of Liberty, the Manhattan skyline, and the Hudson River from many holes. The fourteenth hole is a 421-yard par-4 with the Statue of Liberty visible directly behind the green; the eighteenth, a 532-yard par-4 with the Manhattan skyline as the closing-hole backdrop, has been the deciding hole in multiple FedEx Cup playoff editions.
Liberty National is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is national in composition — New York metro corporate and finance families plus national members who travel to the property — and the hospitality model is built around the Manhattan-view destination experience. The FedEx Cup playoff rotation keeps the course in continuous tournament-readiness.
New York Harbor climate gives Liberty National a playing season of April through November, with the firmest conditions in September and October — the FedEx Cup playoff window. The Atlantic-influenced marine breeze gives the property reliable daily wind. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps. The dredge-and-fill landscape produces playing conditions that the more naturally-routed New York metro clubs do not offer.
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