Behind the Design: Ballamor by Bill Kamenjar   Set within quaint Egg Harbor Township neighborhoods spotted with local ice cream dairy bars and manicured front lawns just outside of Atlantic City in Southern New Jersey are two outstanding golf course layouts named Ballamor Golf Club and Twisted Dune. As the latter continually prospers off its…

The Cool Clubhouses of Atlantic City Golf It didn’t take long for this ‘understated’ first impression of Atlantic City to eventually show itself as a bold visual representation of seashore golfing along the coast of New Jersey. The drive through Egg Harbor Township then onto the Twisted Dune golf course property and finally up to…

Big City Greens For Shore A Philadelphia golf writer once made a light-hearted observation about the Atlantic shore: “It’s a place where families go to have fun in the sun, gorge on Boardwalk fries and return with boxes of saltwater taffy to every dentist’s delight.” All this is basically true, in a broad sense, up…

Rolling the Dice at Brigantine by Bill Kamenjar (This is a true story. The names of the players – though not the place – have been changed to protect the guilty) The perfect golf shot can take many forms. Dropping a wedge from within three feet to save par and a 79 instead of an…

Hello Sunshine by Bill Kamenjar   In this otherwise world of social networking, instant analysis and constant informational retrieval, I somehow found this unidentified quote scribbled down on a scrap of paper attached to one of Atlantic City’s many golf course scorecards. So here goes: “For some gamblers, it (golf) is the only way to…

A Golf Trip with Proper AC by Bill Kamenjar I still laugh every time I think of my old Subaru with its broken down air conditioner when I went to trade it in. That’s because the car dealer told me, “you still have 260 AC at least.” I asked, “what’s that?” He replied, “that’s two…

‘Passing Go’ in Atlantic City By Bill Kamenjar   On a Monday, March 23 in the year 1903 Lizzie Magie entered the U.S. Patent Office to secure her claim for what she dubbed the “Landlord’s Game.” Years later, after becoming a hit with the ‘intellectual’ crowd on several college campuses, the board game now known…

Part 2:  10 Things you may not know about golf in and around Atlantic City, A Forbes Traveler Top 10 Golf City in America. When the “modern” era of golf course architecture inevitably arrived in Atlantic City in the early 1990s, the area became fully well stocked with a splendid mixture of the historic and…

Part 1: 10 Things you may not know about golf in and around Atlantic City, A Forbes Traveler 
Top 10 Golf City in America Many history buffs will probably admit to already knowing that in its initial heyday of the 1920s and 30s Atlantic City was called “the lungs of Philadelphia.” That’s because the Atlantic…