Stone Harbor Golf Club
Cape May Court House, Cape May County, New Jersey · South Jersey / Pine Barrens golf market
- Access
- non equity
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Desmond Muirhead
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Stone Harbor Golf Club sits on more than 350 acres in Cape May Court House, Cape May County -- the Cape May tip of South Jersey's golf-residential landscape, geographically distinct from the Atlantic City/Galloway corridor. The course, a Desmond Muirhead design that opened in 1987/88 (58 bunkers, water hazards on 11 of 18 holes, an island green), was acquired by Heritage Golf Group in an off-market transaction in June 2023 from the Fishman family, joining Heritage's small but growing New Jersey cluster alongside Stanton Ridge, Basking Ridge, and Shackamaxon Country Club. A Tyler Rae-led renovation has proceeded in phases -- the front nine in 2023, the back nine completed in early 2025.
What sets Stone Harbor apart from Galloway National's golf-only model is a genuine on-course residential development: Stone Harbor Lakes, built by NVHomes, is marketed explicitly as situated within the golf club's own grounds, offering single-family homes, twins, and townhomes roughly five miles from Stone Harbor's beaches. That physical integration -- a real, current, developer-built community inside the club's footprint -- is the strongest on-course residential signal found among this market's private clubs, though the precise mechanics connecting homeownership there to club membership were not confirmed this session.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
The club publishes tiered membership categories -- Full (unlimited access, pay only cart fees, preferred tee times, ability to bring up to seven guests daily), Associate, Social, and Corporate -- that read as generally available to the public rather than reserved for Stone Harbor Lakes residents specifically. No waitlist or initiation-fee figure was confirmed this session.
Living in Stone Harbor Golf Club
Stone Harbor Lakes (NVHomes) is marketed as situated within the golf club's grounds, with a pool and pickleball courts of its own. This is a real, current, on-course residential development -- unusual among this market's private clubs -- but the specific golf-access terms for its homeowners were not confirmed.
Location & Surrounding Area
Cape May Court House sits at the southern shore tip of New Jersey, roughly 45 or more minutes from the Atlantic City/Galloway golf corridor -- a geographically and characterally distinct pocket of this market.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm directly with the club or Stone Harbor Lakes' HOA whether homeownership includes, requires, or merely allows applying for club membership -- not confirmed either way this session.
- Confirm current initiation fee and dues directly with the club; the $300 figure found in sourcing was ambiguous (possibly a due, not an initiation fee) and was not recorded as a confirmed value.
- A separate nearby development, The Preserve at Stone Harbor (40 townhomes near GSP Exit 10), was found in sourcing but its physical relationship to the golf club grounds was not confirmed this session -- not included as a formal community record for that reason.
Notable
- Acquired by Heritage Golf Group in June 2023 from the Fishman family; part of Heritage's four-club New Jersey cluster.
- A Tyler Rae-led renovation completed the front nine in 2023 and the back nine in early 2025.
- Stone Harbor Lakes, an NVHomes community, is marketed as built within the golf club's own grounds.
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