Hollywood Golf Club

Hollywood Golf Club sits less than a mile from the Atlantic Ocean in Deal, Monmouth County, one of the most exclusive small oceanfront boroughs on the Jersey Shore. The club's golf course was laid out by Walter J. Travis in 1917 -- Travis was among the most influential American golf architects of the early 20th century -- and the course underwent a widely covered, sympathetic restoration by Tom Doak and Renaissance Golf Design in 2014 that returned much of the course to Travis's original intent. Golf industry press regularly cites Hollywood as one of New Jersey's finest and most under-the-radar classic-era courses.

Access is by invitation and member sponsorship only, with no publicly disclosed initiation fee -- a hallmark of the state's most exclusive old-guard clubs. The club is privately, member-owned and describes itself as family-friendly, hosting golf at the state, regional, and national level over its history. Hollywood is not attached to a residential development or HOA of its own; its residential relevance comes from its setting inside Deal itself, a small, extremely affluent shore borough where oceanfront and near-oceanfront homes carry some of Monmouth County's highest values, making club proximity (though never membership) a meaningful factor for golf-oriented buyers targeting this stretch of the coast.