Organized in 1894, Morris County Golf Club was special at its inception: founded and operated by women. The Club was an early member of the USGA, joining in 1895, and was the first club in New Jersey to host national championships, the US Women’s Amateur in 1896, followed two years later by the US Men’s Amateur in 1898. Two of the Club’s Presidents have also served as President of the USGA.

The present 18-hole course was laid out by the highly respected golf course architect, Seth Raynor, in 1916. Raynor was a protégé of Charles Blair Macdonald, generally regarded as America’s first great golf course architect. According to a recent Golfweek survey, Raynor designed 13 of the top 100 classical courses. The clubhouse was designed by the firm of George B. Post, among whose other works is the world renowned New York Stock Exchange building in New York City.

Over the 80 plus years of the course’s existence, the course underwent a series of small changes, the cumulative effect of which was to lose a bit of the course’s original character. In 2001, the Club retained the services of noted golf course architect, Ron Prichard, to restore the course as nearly as possible to its original features. Though the course is “short” by today’s standards and rather than rely on power, its play puts a premium on accuracy and shot making.

Founded in 1894, the Club was unique from the beginning as it was planned, organized and operated by women. An early member of the USGA (1895) and the first venue in New Jersey to host a national championship, Morris County Golf Club has over the years added tennis, paddle tennis, swimming, and Junior activities as well.

A century. There's a certain urgency about the word, an occasion demanding recognition. So it is with Morris County Golf Club, marking in 1994 one hundred consecutive years of members' "accommodation, comfort, and convenience," to quote from the Club's statement of incorporation.

The Club was unique from its very beginning. Planned, organized, and operated by women. This was remarkable considering the era, a period when women were presumed decorous rather than determined. The Club's founding "mothers," a term used here in respect and appreciation, proved more than able for the task they had set.