Hackensack Golf Club, Oradell, NJ

The Value would be much better if the staff would follow their own rules. I.e. Norm, the manager and his just got out of the shower, short minion, carries around their cell phones every time I go there he has cell phones and are checking them on the putting greens during event and at random times. Problem is it really put me off and if any member gets yelled at for having a phone out why should a ranking employee get away with? I was asked if I wanted to join and I declined because of this and other pet peeves like the course can get boring and stupid pot bunker they put in the middle of the fairway on a random hole. I don't want to join a club where they would do some unpredictable stupid thing like that ever again.

I played this course a number of years ago, it was a classic old course by Charles Banks. Similar in design to Knolls West but in exquisite condition. Recently I played this course again, it is not the same. Changes have been made which in my opinion are truly out of character with its original design, they make it look "tricked up". On several holes bunkers have been added making the appearance one of those holes found in Florida or Myrtle Beach. One hole has a bunker in the middle of the fairway where you have a blind tee shot. The saddest abomination is hole 16 where a cone shaped mound approximately 12 feet high surrounds the green except for an opening in the front, I call it the volcano hole.
The rough was particularly thick after our very wet spring and the sand was a little shallow in the bunkers. The course is always meticulously groomed otherwise.