A Look At Trump National Golf Club

Yardage (New Course, girls): 6,289/6,186 yards

Par (New Course): 36-36—72 (boys and girls)

Yardage (Old Course, girls): 6,203 yards

Par (Old Course): 36-36—72 (girls)

Defending champion (girls): Alexis Thompson

Opened: 2004 (Old Course); 2008 (New Course)

Designer: Tom Fazio (Old Course); Tommy Fazio II (New Course)

USGA championships: This is the first USGA championship(s) for the club.

Designer notes: Renowned architect Tom Fazio designed the Old Course (first 18 holes) of the facility, which sits on the former 506-acre estate of John DeLorean. Tommy Fazio II, the nephew of Tom Fazio, designed the New Course, which opened in 2008. The Old Course features plenty of undulated greens and large bunkering. It’s routing takes the golfer across the open fields of the old farm, over and around several lakes and through groves of trees. The New Course frames the Old Course and is more of a heathland-style layout. It offers a mixture of wooded and open spaces and more elevation changes than the Old Course.

Joint venture: For just the third time in history, the U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Girls’ Junior will be held at the same venue. The first joint playing was in 1978 at Wilmington (Del.) Country Club and eight years ago the two courses at Pumpkin Ridge in North Plains, Ore., hosted the championships.

Welcome back: This will only be the second U.S. Junior Amateur held in New Jersey, the last coming in 1994 when Terry Noe won at Echo Lake Country Club in Westfield.

Future success?: Of the four previous U.S. Girls’ Junior championships held in New Jersey, three of the champions have gone on to enjoy successful LPGA Tour careers, including 2002 winner In-Bee Park, the reigning U.S. Women’s Open champion. Park won at Echo Lake C.C. in Westfield. Hall of Famer Amy Alcott (1973) and Kim Saiki (1983) each won at Somerset Hills in Bernardsville, while France’s Sandrine Mendiburu defeated future LPGA Tour player and two-time U.S. Women’s Amateur champion Vicki Goetze in the 1990 final at Manasquan River G.C. in Brielle to become the first foreign-born Girls’ Junior champion. Mendiburu played professionally in Europe.

Flip flop: Contestants in the U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Girls’ Junior will play each of the championship courses during stroke-play qualifying and then alternate courses for the first two days of match play. The quarterfinals, semifinals and 36-hole championship matches will all take place on the New Course with The Golf Channel broadcasting the event live.

Alternative activities: Besides golf, a 25-meter swimming pool, tennis courts and horse trails dot the complex, along with cottages for non-resident members and guests.

Compiled by USGA Digital Media staff writer David Shefter. E-mail him with questions or comments at dshefter@usga.org.