Beacon Hill Country Club

Founded in 1899 at 8 Beacon Hill Road in Atlantic Highlands, Beacon Hill Country Club offers spectacular views of the New York City skyline and Sandy Hook Bay across a 6,225-yard par-71 layout. The 40,000-square-foot clubhouse, erected in 2007, anchors a family-oriented private club with over a century of history.

Beacon Hill Country Club in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey commands a standout distinctive setting of any golf club in the Garden State. Perched on the Navesink Highlands above Sandy Hook Bay, the course offers panoramic views of the New York City skyline, New York Harbor, and the Atlantic Ocean — a vista that gives the club an identity unlike any other in New Jersey. The club's origins date to 1899, when it was known as The Highland Club. The original organization was informal by the standards of later decades, but it established a golfing presence on the Atlantic Highlands bluffs that would continue without interruption for more than 125 years.

The course was incorporated under its current name, Beacon Hill Golf Club, on October 23, 1919, marking the transition to a formal private club structure. The original clubhouse was a long, low-strung building with brown shingles and white trim, graced by a long porch overlooking the ninth green — a design that made the most of the views across the bay. It is believed, though not confirmed by documentation, that Alexander Findlay contributed to the original course design. Findlay, whose career placed him at hundreds of clubs across the eastern United States, was active in New Jersey at the right time to have been involved.

The club survived a devastating fire in the 1940s that destroyed the clubhouse and required significant reconstruction. The loss of the original building was a setback from which the club recovered through the determination of its membership. In 1999, the club undertook a five-million-dollar renovation of the golf course, comprehensively updating playing surfaces, drainage, and bunkers across the full eighteen holes. The renovation coincided with the club's centennial and represented the most substantial investment in the course since its founding.

A new state-of-the-art clubhouse of 40,000 square feet opened in November 2007, replacing previous structures with a facility designed to serve the membership for generations to come. The finished course plays to 6,133 yards at par 71.