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The golf course at Woodbury Country Club has been described as a challenging, yet fair test of golf where length off the tee is not necessary on all of the holes. It also has been described as “6000 yards of hell”. With  undulating and several elevated greens, Woodbury Country Club has a tendency to have you marvel about the beauty of the course and have you score over your established handicap.
Woodbury Country Club is always in excellent shape. When other courses suffer through droughts, hot temperatures and disease, Woodbury is green. The fairways are cut tight adjoining a slightly higher first cut, second cut and a lush, often difficult rough. The greens usually run at 11-12 on the stimp meter to provide fast, true rolling putts.
 Although Woodbury is described as a nine-hole course, it in fact has 13 different greens to shoot to. The four par three holes vary in length from 144 yards to more than 200 yards.

A Walk Around The Course:
Hole 1 & 10 | Hole 2 & 11 | Hole 3 & 12 | Hole 4 & 13 | Hole 5 & 14 | Hole 6 & 15 | Hole 7 & 16 | Hole 8 & 17 | Hole 9 & 18

Holes # 1 and # 10…..Onlookers from the VIP Dining Room watch as you tee off on a Par 4 of 377 yards. To the right are a cluster of evergreen trees that seem to catch many drives. The name for the largest is “The Glove”. Bogey is about the best you can do if your ball gets caught. To the left is “O.B.” and the chance to enjoy the new pool recently installed by a neighbor of the course. Down the middle and you’ll have a short iron to a raised green heavily guarded by bunkers and O.B. long. Putts are usually down hill-side hill on # 1. Playing # 10 requires something off the tee as # 1. You’ll hit your next shot to # 10 which adjoins the green # 1. The green slopes left to right and down hill.

Holes # 2 and # 11…..Long hitters debate “risk-reward” here depending on the strength of the wind coming at them. With only 315 yards to travel, one can lay-up in front of the fairway crossing sand trap that sits about 230 yards from the tee, or they can carry the tee ball 250 yards and get roll to the green or have just a short pitch to a green that slopes left and right from center. Deep sand traps border the sides of the green with a narrow throat up the center. Playing hole # 11 for the medium range driver is about the same as playing # 2 in that setting yourself up to hit a high iron club into the green is your objective. A long ball hitter will wait for the group ahead to clear the green and “go for it”. The green itself is very well protected. Sand bunkers border three sides. Hit your ball long and you’ll have deep rough, mounds and tree limbs to battle. The green slopes hard right from the middle.

Holes # 3 and # 12….. From an elevated tee, this hole offers about as much of a challenge as any Par 3 in South Jersey. The green is guarded by two very difficult sand traps. This hole measures 201 yards in length. It requires a long ball with stopping capacity to keep it from going long into the bushes. The green slants from back to front with a collection area right for those who fade the ball. The flag can be placed in many tough places on this hole for championship play.
# 12 will offer a distance of about 175 yards to 153 yards. The hole seems to play longer than the listed yardage. 

Holes # 4 and # 13…..Swing away on this Par 5 to give yourself a chance to “think about” going for the green in two. A drive of 250 yards if it avoids the sand trap left or mounds on the right will leave 230 yards to the green. With trees to the left and right of the fairway, you can lay-up to 100-120 yards. You can go for it while being mindful of the 30 yard wide bunker that travels 100 yards up the middle to the green. The green is elevated and slants from back to front with mounds on the back. Eagle is possible. Birdie is in your range. Par is expected. Bogey angers the single digit handicapper here. When playing # 13, trouble loom left in the name of more trees and scrub pines. The course rating on this hole is 2 yet many golfers try to get there in two strokes with a shot at eagle. 

Holes # 5 and # 14…..What a pretty view this Par 3 offers. Down hill, usually into the wind, the length varies from 144-165 yards. To the right, at best is the sand trap and at worst is behind the trees. To the left, at worst is in the pond with the fountain and at best is in the pond with the fountain.

Hole # 14 is so different than # 5 because golfers are now required to “fly” their ball to the green from a range in distance of 200 yards – 177 yards. Water borders this large green in the front and right side. A large bunker protects the left side. That is the good news left. Bad news left is down hill chip over the sand to a green that slopes away from you towards the water.

Holes # 6 and # 15…..This long dog-leg left is an uphill 380 yard Par 4. Long off the tee in the middle is the way to play it. Off line right and your next play is usually a punch shot towards the green trying to avoid the trees. Off line left (you don’t want to be left), and you’ll need to punch out or pull off a great shot over the tall trees that may have been here since the founding of the club in 1897. The two-tiered green slopes from back to front and falls off dramatically on all four sides. A large collection area on the right gathers any and all balls missing their target. A sand trap sits on the left. Miss your target long and you may be unplayable or “o.b.” A large sand trap looms about 180 to 160 yards from the pin on the right. Any tee ball in the fairway to the right of center is thought to be in good shape.

Holes # 7 and # 16…..A very narrow fairway makes this hole appear harder than it should be. Out of bounds right can be a problem for some. Trees on the left, a creek running diagonally across the fairway (160-190 yards out) are also problems. Down the middle is good and usually leaves a second shot of 150-120 yards to the flag. A most treacherous, sloping, lightening quick green awaits your approach shot. Three putts are not out of the question for any down hill putt of 15 feet or more.

Holes # 8 and # 17…..Measuring 445 yards, this Par 4 is a challenge off the tee. With large trees on the left and Out of Bounds on the right, a drive, long down the middle, is required to get on in regulation. The fairway won’t give you much roll as it slopes up hill. The green in tiered about halfway in the middle from right and left. A large bunker awaits the ball that misses left.

Hole # 17 will usually play 30 yards shorter and sometimes from a tee box to the left of the fairway that pays a premium for a draw. Avoiding the trap on the tee ball give the golfer a better chance for reaching the green in regulation. 

Hole # 9 and # 18…..these holes play completely differently and give the golfer two distinct looks off the tee. On # 9 it looks tame enough. It is 380 yards long, straight to and elevated yet very tough green. Trees line the fairway as well as well placed bunkers that provide more than enough difficulty. Hit is in the fairway and all you have left is a shot varying in length from 170-130 yards, for the average hitter, to a green well guarded by deep bunkers in the front, left and right of the green. Go long and you can be back in the trees. The green slopes dramatically from back to front and left to right. Many putts from top left to top right have been known to go off the green. Three putts are not uncommon here.

 When you look down the fairway of # 18, you see a hole requiring a good tee ball that avoids trouble right, left and the canopy of trees above. # 9 and # 18 offer the spectators of our large tournaments good views of the golfers as they tee off and approach the green. Watching the putting on this green has always been very entertaining.

 Woodbury Country Club will give the golfer a challenge while offering up beauty, pristine conditions and an opportunity to use all the clubs in the bag.