This NY Times article reports on the progress of the new Liberty National Golf Club, which is located just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. With its breathtaking views of the Manhattan skyline and the Statute of Liberty, the golf course is generating quite a buzz in golfing circles, although not among the crowd that I normally play with:

[T]he lush and very private Liberty National Golf Club has sprouted across from the Manhattan skyline. This $150 million project by Paul B. Fireman, the property’s owner and the chief executive of Reebok; his son Dan; and the golf-design tandem of Kite and Bob Cupp is creating a buzz less than a year before the first players tee off.
Built on 160 acres and covering 4,000 feet of waterfront, the course stretches 7,400 yards from the back tees, with small rivers running through it and a $1 million cart path built with Belgian stones. . . The course will offer a 15-minute luxury yacht service from Manhattan and, for those with quicker needs, a helipad.
Each member will have a custom-made set of clubs that will always be available at the course, a kind of thank-you gift for joining a club with an initiation fee of around $500,000.

Sure am glad they put in that helipad. ;^)