LOCATION:

The club is in central New Jersey's Middlesex County, just five minutes from exit 131 of the Garden State Parkway.

OWNERSHIP:

Colonia is a member-sponsored equity club with room for 250 full golf members.

GOLF COURSE
ARCHITECTS:

Scotsman Thomas Bendelow laid out the original nine
holes in 1898, and Robert White added the second nine in 1937. Renovations were made by Hal Purdy in 1969, and Frank Duane, an associate of Robert Trent Jones Sr., in 1970.

OPENING:

Colonia opened in 1898, making it the 13th oldest golf club in the state of New Jersey.

MEMBERSHIP:

Colonia offers nine categories of membership, with only
Active members having full golf privileges, and Associates having limited golf privileges. Colonia is currently enlisting new golf members endorsed by a member who has been at the club for at least one year. Additional categories are: Junior Executive-Active; House; Pool; Junior; Intermediate; Senior Intermediate; and Social.

Golf:

Colonia plays 6,380, is sloped 126 from the Blue Tees, and has three other sets of tees: White Tees, 6,118 yards, slope 124; Gold 5,294 yards, slope 114; Red 5,198 yards, slope 127. The club has a reputation for its fast and undulating greens. Forecaddies are required weekends and Wednesdays in season before 10 a.m.

AMENITIES:

Men's and women's locker rooms, a fitness center, snack bar, an
Olympic size pool, a card room, a sauna, an Executive
Board Room, and a barber shop. There is a driving range, a chipping green with sand bunkers, and a separate putting green.

DINING:

The formal dining room seats up to 275 for functions, there is a casual grill, an outdoor patio, and a Halfway House.

CLUBHOUSE:

Colonia's 20,000-square-foot clubhouse opened in 1967, and underwent a $3.5 million renovation in 2000-01, completed by the architectural firm of Dahn & Krieger out of Hackensack, N.J.