Practice At Its Best

If you are looking for a world class Golf Pracitce facility, then Seaview Marriot's pratice facility is hands down the finest that the Atlantic City area has to offer. Located about 20 minutes from Atlantic City, Seaview boasts the Nick Faldo Golf Insitutue and training center. Even if you aren't using their pro staff for instruction, you can use thier driving range, short game bunker area and multiple putting greens to no end. There is no place I would rather practice at as there is rarely a crowd given the quality and I can practice chipping, bunkers and putting all day for the price of a single bucket of balls ($5 for a small bucket and $10 for a large bucket).

Why do they have such a nice facility you ask? It is because they have two of the areas best golf courses. (the Bay Course and the Pines Course). Every year the LPGA holds the Shoprite LPGA Classic on Bay Course. It would be inconceivable to hold a professional golf tournament without a great training facility. Aside from that two weeks a year, the training facility is relatively uncluttered by people, by the course sees plenty of rounds, so book your tee-times early.

There's No Golf Here

Atlantic City is the northernmost part of a small island and at it's widest point is maybe a mile or two. Aside from a few parks scattered sporadically throughout the city, not an inch has been left undeveloped, certainly not enough for a golf course much less a driving range (in Atlantic City).

If you have the navigation ability of a homing pigeon, down beach in Margate City, there is an old, dilapidated Driving range nestled back among the reeds of the marshes. 75 stoplights later and a myriad of right, left and u-turns through one-way streets, and you have found this disaster of a driving range to hit off of turn of the century astroturf mats. But in reality, the Margate driving range really is only a few miles from Atlantic City proper, but it does take you a half an hour on average to get there, if you are lucky.

If this is an experience you wish to avoid (and most do or should), take an equally timed drive to Olde Masters Golf Center. Though it is considerably further from Atlantic City, you will get there faster, and with far less confusion and be offered an excellent experience of everything golf. A pro-shop, heated, covered and un-covered, new astroturf mats or real grass, and a world-class little teaching center with video and the works. If that wasn't enough, they even threw in a fantastic nine-hole (that plays 18-holes) miniature golf course.