Liberty National

The iconic Statue of Liberty stands just over a mile from the par three 14th hole at Liberty National Golf Club where the course was laid out in 2006 across a former landfill site on the New Jersey side of New York Harbor. Built at a reputed cost of $300 million, the course hosted The Barclays tournament on the PGA Tour in 2009, an event won by Heath Slocum with an aggregate score of nine under par.

Before The Barclays returned in 2013, a number of interested parties – including founder Paul Fireman, construction company Heritage Links and architects Bob Cupp and Tom Kite – agreed on a programme of alterations to make the visually striking waterfront layout more “competition friendly” for the professionals.

This involved expanding and re-contouring twelve of the greens – allowing a greater number of pin placements – as well as repositioning a number of fairway bunkers, widening several playing corridors and adding an intermediate cut of rough to separate the bent grass fairways from the fescue primary rough.

Starting the final day six shots adrift of the tournament leaders, Adam Scott claimed the 2013 Barclays title when he carded a bogey-free final round score of 66 on the way to posting an eleven under par total of 273, edging out four other golfers – Tiger Woods, Justin Rose, Graham Delaet and Gary Woodland – by one shot.

In 2017, Liberty National hosted the 12th Presidents Cup matches, contested between teams from the USA and the International squad (rest of the world minus Europe). A crushing seventh straight Presidents Cup defeat for the Internationals was virtually sealed before the singles matches even started, but hats off to the International team for winning 7½ singles points on Sunday to avoid total embarrassment.

Punchless Presidents Cup needs pizzazz

Four holes to watch at Liberty National - 2017 Presidents Cup

Northern Trust stepped in as title sponsor of the opening FedExCup Playoffs event in 2017 (formerly The Barclays) and in 2019 the tournament returned to Liberty National for the third time. The event will subsequently rotate between TPC Boston and Liberty National.