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Ridgewood Native Scottie Scheffler Wins the Masters

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Ridgewood NJ, Scottie Scheffler, the reigning World No. 1 golfer, clinched victory over Collin Morikawa in the  2024 Masters Tournament at Augusta National, securing his second Masters title and a hefty $3.6M prize.

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Fore! Miler Community Run & Walk presented by Stryker gives fans sneak preview of The Ridgewood Country Club

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June 30,2018

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Paramus NJ,  Just days before the world’s best golfers tee off at the first event of the PGA TOUR’s season-ending FedExCup Playoffs, runners and walkers of all abilities are invited to the grounds of The Ridgewood Country Club for THE NORTHERN TRUST Fore! Miler Community Run & Walk presented by Stryker. The four-mile race takes participants inside the ropes at Ridgewood, with all proceeds benefitting Center for Food Action, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Official Charities of THE NORTHERN TRUST.

All participants will receive a Good-Any-One-Day grounds ticket to THE NORTHERN TRUST (a $75 value) with their $50 entry fee, along with an official event shirt provided by tasc Performance Apparel, a lifestyle brand that will be selling its trendy, athletic apparel at the tournament. THE NORTHERN TRUST features the top 125 players in the FedExCup standings and will be played at The Ridgewood Country Club on August 21-26.
“There’s no better way to kick off tournament week—and the FedExCup Playoffs—than with a four-mile race that gives fans a first-look at the golf course and raises money for charity,” said Julie Tyson, PGA TOUR Senior Vice President, Championship Management – New York and Executive Director of THE NORTHERN TRUST. “We’re all about a little friendly competition to promote healthy lifestyles, giving back to the community and showcasing Ridgewood’s amazing layout.”

Stryker, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, is serving as presenting sponsor of the Fore! Miler. Now in its fifth consecutive year as the “Official Joint Replacement Products of the PGA TOUR® and PGA TOUR Champions,” Stryker is committed to advancing the health and well-being of golf fans by educating them about joint health so they can enjoy their everyday activities. This year at THE NORTHERN TRUST, fans can also stop by Stryker’s Mobility Zone, the premier on-site “joint health” destination, to learn how Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Technology is transforming hip and knee replacement.

Event beneficiary MD Anderson Cancer Center, located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, is one of the world’s most respected centers focused on cancer patient care, research, education and prevention. As the Official Cancer Center of the PGA TOUR, MD Anderson is dedicated to educating the healthy public about cancer risk and prevention, raising funds for critical cancer research and using its national platform to advance its mission to end cancer. At THE NORTHERN TRUST, MD Anderson Cancer Center will focus on sun safety providing complimentary sunscreen, skin cancer screenings and shaded seating on the 15th Green.

THE NORTHERN TRUST Fore! Miler Community Run & Walk presented by Stryker
When: Sunday, August 19
Where: The Ridgewood Country Club, 96 W Midland Ave., Paramus, NJ US 07652
Start time: 8:30 a.m.
Register: www.thenortherntrust.com/foremiler; online registration ends Friday, August 16 at 11:59 p.m.
Entry fee: $50; this includes a Good-Any-One-Day grounds ticket and an official event shirt provided by tasc Performance Apparel; If you sign up on race day, the cost is $60
What’s included: Entry to the race, an official event shirt provided by tasc Performance Apparel and a Good-Any-One-Day grounds ticket to THE NORTHERN TRUST (a $75 value), valid any one day, August 21-26
Charity Beneficiaries: Center for Food Action, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Official Charities of THE NORTHERN TRUST

For more information about THE NORTHERN TRUST 2018, including ticket purchases, please visit thenortherntrust.com.

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The Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus to host the The Northern Trust

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May 29,2018

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Paramus NJ, The Northern Trust (which was previously known as The Barclays), the first event of the Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs, will be played August 21-26 at The Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey, will not only have incredible views of the best players in the world in a truly thrilling competition, but will have the very best that New Jersey can offer in Fashion, Food and Do-or-Die Drama.

The Ridgewood Country Club is a twenty-seven-hole private golf course and clubhouse constructed in Paramus, New Jersey and opened on May 30th, 1929. The Norman Revival clubhouse, located at the north end of the property, is the core from which three nine-hole loops extend toward the southwest, south, and southeast. The golf course was designed by A.W. Tillinghast, and the clubhouse by Clifford Wendehack. Tillinghast and Wendehack, respectively, were among the foremost golf and clubhouse architects of the early twentieth century.

THE NORTHERN TRUST is the first of four events in the FedExCup Playoffs, the culmination of the season-long competition that is the centerpiece of the PGA TOUR Season. Played in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area, THE NORTHERN TRUST features do-or-die drama as the top 125 players compete to advance, and for one in five, their season will end. With strong ties to the essential elements of New York culture, the event is a celebration of fashion, food and the best golfers on the planet. Many of the world’s top players have won THE NORTHERN TRUST including Adam Scott, Jason Day, Matt Kuchar and 2017 champion Dustin Johnson, who won the event for the second time in thrilling playoff over Jordan Spieth. Since the tournament’s inception in 1967, it has generated more than $46.2 million for New York/New Jersey Metropolitan-area charities, including $1.4 million in 2016.

Volunteer Registration Now Open . Experience a professional golf tournament from “inside the ropes” and enjoy unique behind-the-scenes experiences, plus daily access to the tournament grounds when not volunteering, volunteer uniform package that includes an official cap, shirt and volunteer pin, lunch on the days you work, invitation to the volunteer appreciation party and an additional weekly grounds ticket book for a guest.

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N.J. courses on the list as The Barclays announces future sites

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AUGUST 25, 2015, 12:31 PM    LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2015, 12:41 PM
BY ANDY VASQUEZ
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

EDISON — The Barclays will be spending a lot of time in New Jersey over the coming years.

The PGA Tour tournament, which changes sites each year, is being played at Plainfield Country Club in Edison this week. Tuesday morning, tournament officials unveiled the future rotation through 2022.

In the next seven years, the Barclays will be played in Jersey four times.

After two years on Long Island, the tournament will next be played in New Jersey in 2018, at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus. That begins a  a stretch of three consecutive years in New Jersey.

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Hunter Mahan wins The Barclays, gets surprise visit from wife & daughter

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PARAMUS, NJ – AUGUST 24: Hunter Mahan celebrates with his wife Kandi, daughter Zoe and the tournament trophy after winning of The Barclays at The Ridgewood Country Club on August 24, 2014 in Paramus, New Jersey. (Photo by Darren Carroll/Getty Images)

Hunter Mahan wins The Barclays, gets surprise visit from wife & daughter

PARAMUS, N.J. — Hunter Mahan pulled away with three straight birdies late in the final round Sunday to win The Barclays, ending more than two years without a title on the PGA Tour.

The victory was the sixth of his career, and one of the most important.

Mahan had gone 48 tournaments worldwide without winning and began the FedEx Cup Playoffs at No. 62, guaranteed to play only two events. By closing with a 6-under 65 for a two-shot victory, he is assured of making the Tour Championship every year since the FedEx Cup began in 2007.

And by beating one of the strongest fields of the year, Mahan was sure to make a lasting impression on Tom Watson for when he makes his three captain’s picks for the Ryder Cup on Sept. 2.

“To get a win in an event like this and the timing, it feels unbelievable,” Mahan said. “So I’m extremely proud of myself. I felt great the last few weeks. My game was starting to come around. I knew this was around the corner, but to do it — and to do it today with a 65 — feels great.”

On a day when six players had at least a share of the lead, Mahan found a way to make it look like a comfortable win.

He rolled in a 10-foot birdie putt to take the outright lead on the par-3 15th, hit wedge to 3 feet for a birdie on the 16th and then rolled in a 20-foot birdie on the par-5 17th. That stretched his lead to three shots going to the final hole when Cameron Tringale bogeyed the 18th, and Mahan tried to inject a little drama.

Mahan drove into the trees, pitched out and then missed the green. But he holed an 8-foot putt for bogey.

Jason Day, who shared the 54-hole lead with Jim Furyk, would have needed to hole out from the rough on the 18th to force a playoff and he missed the green. Day closed with a 68 and shared second place with Stuart Appleby (65) and Tringale, who celebrated his 27th birthday with a 66.

Furyk now has failed to win the last eight times he has held at least a share of the lead going into the final round. He was in the mix until missing the fairway on the 14th and taking bogey, and he wound up with a 70 to finish in eighth place, four shots behind.

Tringale began the week with questions about disqualifying himself from the PGA Championship several days after the final major ended. He said he had doubts about whether he whiffed a tap-in for bogey and thus signed for a wrong score. He said he wanted a clear conscience.

“Didn’t expect it to be this clear,” Tringale said with a smile.

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Wyckoff’s Hoffmann finishes 9th at The Barclays, but feels like a winner

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Wyckoff’s Hoffmann finishes 9th at The Barclays, but feels like a winner

AUGUST 24, 2014, 10:32 PM    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014, 11:38 PM
BY TARA SULLIVAN
RECORD COLUMNIST
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Hour after hour, day after day, little Morgan Hoffmann would make the round trip from the back yard of his family’s Wyckoff home to the front, chipping golf balls over the roof, retrieving them and hitting them again. The long, flat front lawn stretched out in front of him, a playground for his dreams.

“I used to wonder why he’d hit it over the house, but now I understand: He has to hit it over the trees,” Hoffmann’s mom, Lorraine, said Sunday, not far from the foliage surrounding Ridgewood Country Club’s 18th fairway in Paramus.

Across a fourth day of The Barclays golf tournament and throughout another 18 holes, Morgan Hoffmann had the galleries nearly climbing the trees to get a look at him, using exposed roots as footstools to get a glimpse of their local hero. From the very first tee, when the crowd wouldn’t allow the announcer to get past the words, “Next on the tee, from Wyckoff, New Jersey …” before breaking into thunderous applause, Hoffmann was carried across the course by a wave of support like nothing he’d ever felt before.

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Barclays: Bergen County’s Hoffmann catapults up leaderboard with 66

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Barclays: Bergen County’s Hoffmann catapults up leaderboard with 66

AUGUST 23, 2014, 3:22 PM    LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2014, 11:48 PM
BY ANDY VASQUEZ
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

PARAMUS — They followed Morgan Hoffmann around by the hundreds Saturday at The Barclays.

There were fans, friends, former classmates and family — all of them here to watch the young pro from Bergen County. The crowd, and the support grew with every hole and every birdie, reaching its crescendo at the par-4 18th, where Hoffmann tipped his cap and waved.

“Guess I feel like Tiger around here,” Hoffmann said. “Which is a pretty cool experience.”

If he keeps playing this way, the experience could become downright magical.

Several familiar faces jockeyed for position atop the leaderboard at Ridgewood Country Club in the third round, but nobody made a bigger move than the 25-year-old from Wyckoff.

Hoffmann shot a 5-under-par 66, the low round of the day, to catapult himself up the leaderboard. He’s in a tie for fourth place at 7-under par, trailing leaders Jim Furyk and Jason Day by two shots.

Hoffmann earned himself a spot in today’s penultimate group with Hunter Mahan (8-under), and in the process set up a 

dream scenario: When he steps onto the first tee at 1:55 p.m. today, Hoffmann will be gunning for his first PGA Tour win in his own back yard, in front of the people who have watched him grow up as a person and a golfer.

“It’s actually been really hard to not look into the crowd, because I want to and go say hi to everybody,” said Hoffmann, who won two golf state titles at Ramapo High School, “but I need to stay focused, and hopefully catch up [with friends] after.”

He’ll need to be fully focused today, considering how tight the leaderboard is, what’s at stake and who he’s chasing. Eight players are within two shots of the leaders, and 15 are three shots back or less.

Furyk, the No. 6 golfer in the world, shot a 2-under 69, grabbing a share of the lead with two birdies on his final nine holes Saturday.

“It’s a stacked leaderboard,” Furyk said. “There are a ton of players within three shots of the lead, so my goal really is to go out there and kind of not look at the leaderboard, just play my own game.”

Day, No. 9 in the world, shot a 3-under 68, recovering from a double-bogey seven on the par 5 13th after losing his ball in the mounds and tall grass.

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So thinking about going to the Barclays this weekend

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So thinking about going to the Barclays this weekend

Visitor information for the Barclays being held at the Ridgewood Country Club
from the Ridgewood Police
Tournament Address:
The Ridgewood Country Club
96 West Midland Ave
Paramus, NJ 07652

General Parking:
General parking for The Barclays 2014 will be at Bergen Community College, which is walking distance to the courese. Parking is $10 per car. For GPS purposes, please use: 400 Paramus Rd., Paramus NJ 07652.
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Public Transportation:
The Barclays tournament will provide free shuttle service to and from NJ Transit’s Glen Rock Main Line Train Station.
Plese visit njtransit.com for further information regarding schedules, routes, etc.

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Car and Taxi Service:
The drop off/pick up location for The Barclays 2014 will be located in the entrance to our VIP Lot 6 at The Garden State Plaza Mall. Please use the following address for GPS purposes: 1 Garden State Plaza, Paramus, NJ 07652.

Please follow signs for Lot 6.

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Ridge­wood Country Club in Paramus next for streaking McIlroy

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Ridge­wood Country Club in Paramus next for streaking McIlroy

AUGUST 17, 2014, 11:38 PM    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2014, 11:52 PM
BY TARA SULLIVAN
RECORD COLUMNIST
THE RECORD

The scenes from the final round of golf’s final major won’t soon be forgotten. Against a perilously setting sun, some of the world’s best players ­dueled atop a rapidly changing leader board, waging a battle rife with drama and thick with tension, fueled by fantastic shots and heart-stopping mistakes.

It was a PGA Championship that brought us so much, culminating in a second straight major win for Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland.

And yet, the tournament was as remarkable for what it didn’t have as what it did.

No Tiger Woods in the final round? No problem.

Woods has not been a factor this golf season, his advancing age and balky back keeping him out of action for months and putting him on the wrong side of the cut line when he rushed into action at the PGA. The doubts grow ever stronger that Woods will conquer his stated career goal of surpassing Jack Nicklaus’ 18 major titles (Woods has 14), and the most famous player of his generation won’t even participate this week in The Barclays, the first step in the season-ending FedEx Cup.

But Rory will. The world’s No. 1 player is bringing his surging game and meteoric profile to Ridge­wood Country Club in Paramus. For a sport in need of new faces, McIlroy is making his case as the first Woods replacement in years. He won’t ever match Woods’ mass appeal and cross­over popularity, but for the golf purist and traditional fan, he’s a very welcome sight.

The way McIlroy won at Valhalla in Louisville, Ky., the way he carried his lead into Sunday morning, lost it across a middling front nine and roared back to win, was, well, Tiger-esque.

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Why golfers can’t wait to play at Ridgewood Country Club

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Why golfers can’t wait to play at Ridgewood Country Club

By Brett Cyrgalis

August 16, 2014 | 10:06pm

Even if it weren’t the playoffs, and there wasn’t $10 million on the line, a PGA Tour event at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J., still would be one most pros circle on the calendar.

That is because the 1929 A.W. Tillinghast design is a treat, a throwback to the Golden Age of golf-course architecture.

When The Barclays tournament kicks off the first of the four-tournament FedEx Cup playoffs on Thursday, the pros will get to revisit the big and sprawling bunkers and the greens that carry a subtle amount of undulation.

Large oaks and maples frame the fairways, and it all leads back to the beautiful Tudor-style clubhouse, designed by Clifford Wendehack.

Yet the course they are playing is not the same one laid out for the members, as there are 27 holes on the property, and for the tournament, the toughest 18 are chosen from all three nines.

“Such courses are often overlooked in ranking of the great ones,” wrote famed architect Tom Doak in his infamous course-criticism book, “The Confidential Guide.” “Fortunately, the rankings have finally caught up with this, one of Tillinghast’s finest efforts.”

Ridgewood was ranked the seventh-best course in New Jersey by Golf Digest last year, and got its first taste of the FedEx Cup playoffs in 2010.

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