Liberty National, a links-style golf course offering some pretty sweet views of the Statue of Liberty, the Hudson River and the Manhattan skyline, opened Wednesday. The private club features some big-name founding members -- including former NYC mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft among others -- and a hefty $400,000 initiation fee.

And, oh yeah. It's built on a decontaminated New Jersey landfill.

Personally, I wouldn't think you could decontaminate a New Jersey landfill to the point where I'd feel comfortable rolling down my car's window as I blew by the site doing 80 on the Turnpike. And I certainly wouldn't think you could do it to the point where playing a leisurely five-hour round of golf anywhere in the general vicinity of the former landfill was a pleasurable way to spend your afternoon, let alone a privilege worth paying $400K for.

But then, the closest I've ever come to decontaminating a landfill is cleaning out the refrigerator when the Chinese leftovers from a couple months ago overwhelm the odor-defeating powers of the box of baking soda. So I'm not really qualified to tell.