Essex County Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in West Orange, New Jersey.

It plays 7,101 yards from the Championship tees, rated 75/142 (checked 2026-08-15).

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holes

par

7,101

yards (tips)

142

slope (championship)

The shape of the round · Member teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

access: private
address: 350 Mount Pleasant Avenue, West Orange, NJ, 07052
phone: 973-731-1400
website: course site →
elevation: 573 ft derived
opened: 1887
on site: driving range

40.78669, -74.26335 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. Hole 2: line and green predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. Other holes: traced by OpenStreetMap contributors. 4 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

215 features across 7 layers for Essex County Country Club, 213 traced and 2 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Hole 2 predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,652yds

Member tees

560yds

Longest hole

150yds

Shortest hole

213 imported from OpenStreetMap and the lines and greens of hole 2 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-09-01

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 5 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Championship	M	71	7101	75.0	142
Member	M	71	6617	72.1	132	3304	3348
Forward	M	71	6296	71.0	129	3168	3110
Gold	M	71	5999	69.1	126
Women	M	72	5656	74.2	138

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	4	4	4	3	5	5	3	4	3	4	5	4	3	4	4	4	71
Member	390	293	375	421	451	170	560	494	150	436	185	421	535	312	216	422	376	445	6,617
Forward	373	280	366	407	420	162	560	463	137	428	185	380	481	281	201	422	306	426	6,296
Handicap	4	18	10	8	2	14	6	16	12	7	13	1	15	17	5	9	11	3

No per-hole yardages are published for Championship, Gold and Women, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Essex County Country Club hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In New Jersey	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,101 yds	26th of 302	=1,127th of 12,025	29th of 404 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =414th of 2,954 private courses · =1,125th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 142	=19th of 210	=617th of 8,710	=28th of 300 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =282nd of 2,300 private courses · =606th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 75.0	=17th of 194	=521st of 7,615	=22nd of 275 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =221st of 2,143 private courses · =518th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,445 yds between tees	123rd of 290	=5,802nd of 11,523	139th of 386 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =1,670th of 2,885 private courses · =5,711th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1887	2nd of 232	=12th of 9,368	1st of 316 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =8th of 2,418 private courses · =7th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	573 ft derived	=23rd of 307	=6,846th of 12,437	33rd of 409 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =1,383rd of 3,026 private courses · =4,862nd of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 2 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 5 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery. Hole 2 is predicted from aerial imagery; OpenStreetMap traced the rest.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole has a line of play, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along it. Hole 2 is predicted from aerial imagery; OpenStreetMap traced the rest.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect and the grass on the greens.

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Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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