Jaworski and associates buy Mt. Laurel country club
A consortium that includes former Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski and Joe Flacco, quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens, said Wednesday that it had purchased the Ramblewood Country Club in Mount Laurel.
A consortium that includes former Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski and Joe Flacco, quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens, said Wednesday that it had purchased the Ramblewood Country Club in Mount Laurel.
Jaworski, principal of Ron Jaworski Golf Management Inc. of Blackwood, did not say what the group paid for the 27-hole course, but said it would invest $2 million in renovating the clubhouse and its banquet rooms, which it has shut down. He said it expects those to reopen in April.
Also planned are improvements to drainage, irrigation, trees, and bunkers.
The group, whose partners include Ken Kochenour and Ira Lubert, cofounders of GF Hotels Management Inc., is buying the club from the Goodwin family, which has owned Ramblewood for more than five decades. John Goodwin, son of former owner Hal Goodwin, will continue as general manager. His son, Hal, remains director of golf outing sales.
Ramblewood becomes the seventh course owned or co-owned by Ron Jaworski Golf Management, four of which are in New Jersey. All allow daily fee play, but also offer memberships that let members play at other Jaworski courses.
"It's a model that works," Jaworski said. While a surge of golf course construction in the 1990s created a glut that led to numerous club failures, he said, the glut has flattened out, making it more affordable for firms like his to acquire courses.
"I've had my eye on Ramblewood for six years," he said.
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