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Article: Morris County, N.J., Public Golf Course Opens at Long Last.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- April 30, 2004
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By Richard Cowen, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 30--To hear those involved in the planning, the Berkshire Valley Golf Course's construction was only slightly easier than moving a mountain.
Morris County's newest course opened on Thursday -- 10 years after it was first conceived and $10 million over budget -- but with fast greens and sand traps deep enough to make the troublesome details disappear like so many golf balls.
With one mighty swing of the golf club, Morris County Park Commissioner Jack Kelly christened the golf course built in the trough of an old sand quarry on Green Pond Mountain in ...