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Forest Hill Field Club is an 18-hole course in Bloomfield, New Jersey featuring 6,503 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 71. The championship course was designed by legendary architect A.W. Tillinghast. The course originally opened in 1896, though the Tillinghast design at its current location opened in 1926 after the club moved to a new property. The club is located in Bloomfield, NJ, only minutes from Manhattan, Hoboken, and Jersey City.

The course features a well-maintained rolling venue with fast, well-bunkered and contoured greens that provide a wide variety of putting challenges. A program to return to the original Tillinghast design was initiated, with greens enlarged to reflect the original design. The routing rolls up and down the property's beautiful, rolling topography, starting with the first hole that tees off downhill similar to Bethpage Black's opener. The course has a rating of 71.4 and a slope rating of 127.

In 1937, the Metropolitan Golf Association held its Open Tournament at the club, with Sam Snead setting a record-breaking score of 65 in the second round before a severe rainstorm made the course unplayable. The Silver Putter event, a legendary two-day medal competition, was first held in 1941 and remains a year-end tradition conducted with leaderboards and a large gallery of members.