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Liberty
National
is a
country
club
in
Jersey
City,
New
Jersey
with
the
club
house,
guest
villas,
teaching
super
center
and
halfway
house
referred
to
as
"Cafe
12"
designed
by
Lindsay
Newman
Architecture
and
Design
and
with
a
7,353-yard
(6,724 m)
course
designed
by
Robert
E.
Cupp
and
Tom
Kite.
The
club
cost
over
$250
million
to
build,
making
it
one
of
the
most
expensive
golf
courses
in
history.[5]
Club
designers
added
amenities
such
as
an
on-site
helistop,
yacht
services,
a
spa
and
a
restaurant.
Nine
hundred
adjacent
homes,
slated
to
be
built
in
the
coming
years,
are
said
to
cost
from
$1.5
million
to
$5
million.
Liberty
National
is
noted
as a
unique
course
because
of
its
proximity
to
both
the
Statue
of
Liberty
and
Manhattan,
as
well
as
the
fact
it
was
built
on a
former
landfill.
Liberty
National
hosted
The
Barclays,
formerly
the
Westchester
Classic,
in
2009
after
Westchester
Country
Club
decided
it
would
no
longer
host
the
event
after
40
years
of
doing
so.
Heath
Slocum
won
the
event
with
a
score
of
275
(–9).
Liberty
National
hosted
The
Barclays
again
in
August
2013,
prior
to
which
the
course
underwent
many
changes.
source:
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