On April 17 representatives from the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association and the Hopewell Valley Golf Club will gather at the first tee of the club’s course at 114 Pennington-Hopewell Road in Pennington for a ceremony celebrating the club’s recent River-Friendly certification. On hand will be Hopewell Valley Golf Club superintendent Matt Stout, whom Watershed stewardship program coordinator Amy Weaver will present with a hand-carved cedar plaque signifying his and his staff’s strides to run a more environmentally sound golf course.
According to Weaver, the Hopewell Valley Golf Club is only the second golf course in central New Jersey to achieve River-Friendly certification, following TPC Jasna Polana in Princeton, which became certified in 2005. Launched by the Watershed in 2002, the River-Friendly program is designed to inspire residents, businesses, schools and golf courses to adopt greener practices, meeting designated standards in the areas of water quality, water conservation, wildlife habitat enhancement and education outreach.
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