[8] (Newspaper stories sometimes stated that it was the second oldest in the country,[4] but such claims have been common in various parts of the nation, and a number of clubs and courses are known to have been created earlier.

[5] After a failed attempt by the members to run it themselves,[5] the club's property was bought by the Reis family and leased to various operators.

[4] Star athletes from the New York sports world came to the club too, including Willie Mays, Whitey Ford, Billy Martin, and Rocky Graziano.

[7][8] In 1963, the course was severely affected by construction of what was then known as the Bergen-Passaic Expressway, a piece of Interstate 95 in New Jersey that made a direct connection to the George Washington Bridge.

[12] Four holes were reassembled in a different flow;[18] in the new routing, golfers were forced to walk on Broad Avenue, underneath the expressway, to get from the sixth green to the seventh tee.

[20] It was an issue because under the Labor-Management Improper Practices Act, ownership of the golf club would be in a conflict-of-interest situation with respect to his position in the union.

[20] Scotto was a controversial figure, seen by some as a progressive leader of organized labor and a philanthropist but by others as an opportunistic hoodlum involved in racketeering.

[19] The Englewood Golf Club already had several people known to be frequenting it who were reputed to be in the rackets,[19] including Angelo DeCarlo and Thomas Eboli,[7] as well as Anthony Provenzano and the gambler Frank Erickson.

[1] During the mid-1970s, the club was run by a different lessee each year, some of which failed to pay rent or were charged with violations of health regulations.

[16] Then as 1977 progressed, the club's liquor license was suspended by the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control[16] and the lessees were also behind on the rent.

[7] Both Leonia and Englewood were interested in buying the golf course property and preserving it for recreational use, and started a process towards getting a Green Acres designation and funding for that purpose, but in Leonia a referendum to support this idea failed and in Englewood the local officials changed their minds in favor of the income that development would generate.

[24] And construction of a 339-unit group of townhouses on the Englewood side was underway by 1986,[25] in a condominiums complex that would be called Cross Creek Point.