ELMSFORD, N.Y. (February 26th, 2008) - The Metedeconk National Golf Club will host the 2008 Father & Son Gross Championship on June 17. The spectacular club in Jackson, N.J., is the culmination of the dreams of Richard S. Sambol and his oldest son, Herbert H. Sambol. The elder Sambol had acquired properties for nearly twenty years, accumulating some 1,200 acres destined to become Metedeconk National. After Robert Trent Jones examined the property, he informed the Sambols that he could build a “world-class” golf course on the site. When Metedeconk opened in 1986, it ushered in a golden of new golf courses in the Metropolitan Area.

   The golf course was built on a 400-acre tract, with the front nine to the west and the back nine to the east. Construction on the first 18 holes began in December of 1984 and a third nine was added in 1998. The club's name is taken from the nearby Metedeconk River, the south branch of which flows through club property. The river was named for a Native American tribe of the Lenni Lenape, who inhabited much of New Jersey. The course was unveiled in the Fall of 1986, and Golf Digest honored Metedeconk as the "third best new private course of 1988." Construction began in 1991 on Metedeconk National's large contemporary-style clubhouse, a three-story shingle-style building on a promontory behind the first and tenth tees and 18th green, the highest point on the property, some sixty feet above the river.

   Metedeconk National gained international acclaim in 1990 with the first edition of the Metedeconk Challenge Cup, the brainchild of T. Finbarr Kiely, a native of Cork, Ireland, and Metedeconk's first club champion. In the inaugural Walker Cup-style competition, a team of eight representing the Golfing Union of Ireland faced off against a similar team carrying the MGA banner. The event, now called the Governor Hugh L. Carey Challenge Cup Matches, has since become a biannual part of the MGA’s tournament schedule.

   Metedeconk has hosted a number of MGA championships. Jeff Thomas captured the 1996 Ike - MGA stroke Play Championship at Metedeconk. In 2003, amateur Andrew Svoboda beat the area’s best professionals to win the Met Open by five strokes. Metedeconk National has proven to be a great golf course in its short history and is a wonderful venue for the 2008 MGA Father & Son Gross Championship.