Jeff Lewis: I am in the middle of a complete bunker restoration and green expansion on this very fine private golf course.
The club originally hired Raynor and Banks to do a 36-hole complex. Raynor died the winter not long after they broke ground. Banks completed the East course according to their dual plans and went on to design and built the West course which the private club sold off a number of years ago and is now a muni (now also a shadow of it's self).
I played over the that West course for over 17-years before "moving" to The Knoll (also soon undergoing bunker restoration).
The 11th on the East at ECCC, although a bit off the normal Macdonald/Raynor/Banks Eden style is, and has always been, one of the great par-3s in NJ - better now since we have cleared about 30-feet of trees off the right side of the hole.
Incidently, the 11th is not a Ross hole - it is a joint design of Raynor/Banks - a great ravine feature between tee and green - much pulicized and photographed over the years, especially early on.
Banks had to "live with" seven existing (early) Tillinghast greens on the East course (#2 thru #6, plus #9) and there a few on the West course that were "left-over" Tillie greens.
The course is very good and should be much higher in the rankings of classic courses.