Seven years and more than $100 million after construction began, bulldozers are flattening mounds of dirt and workers are laying down grass seed, but the Bayonne Golf Course in suburban New Jersey is on track to open next spring as one of the most luxurious clubs the New York area has seen.

The club has a perfect view of the Lower Manhattan skyline. A small marina will allow members to park their private yachts, and club officials said they are applying for a permit to land helicopters on the premises. The 33,000-square-foot clubhouse, to be finished by spring 2007, will boast wine rooms, private dining rooms, and state-of-the-art audiovisual rooms – not to mention an 80-foot-tall lighthouse.

The club, one of nine owned by Empire Golf Management, will also organize social jaunts into the city using a high-speed boat that can reach Manhattan from Bayonne in five minutes, Empire promises.

“We want people to come in here and feel like it’s your home,” the president of Empire, Eric Bergstol, said. “We’ll have people here to greet you. They’ll know what you eat, they’ll know what you drink, they’ll know what you want.” Mr. Bergstol is the course’s architect and developer.

The extravagance extends to the course itself. With 13 holes directly on the water, it’s designed to emulate the seaside links of Scotland and Ireland. Unlike the usual American parkland courses, Bayonne will contain high dunes covered in fescue grasses, steep changes in elevation, and no trees.

“It’s this course that’s exposed to the elements on the water,” a consultant for Empire Golf, Colin Sheehan, said. “It’s gritty, urban golf.”

“Golf around New York is generally a sacrifice,” Mr. Sheehan, who said he has played extensively in the United Kingdom, said. “You expect to drive an hour to get to reasonably good golf.”

All of this will not come cheap, however. Membership costs $150,000, in addition to club dues that total $12,000 a year. Even the caddy fee will be $75 a round. Charges like those are said to be the going rate at top private clubs in the region.

“For a club of this caliber, it’s actually a pretty good deal,” the club secretary, Jim Coady, said.

So far, the club claims about 100 members, some from as far away as Australia, France, and South Korea. Mr. Coady said he expected an additional 100 members to sign up, by invitation only, before the course opens next year. He said the number of members from the area would eventually equal those coming from afar.

Until a few years ago, the site of the luxurious course was a landfill, owned by a utility company and no longer in use. The project was originally financed by Cherokee Investment Partners, a company that specializes in the restoration of old dumps. Empire Golf, whose seven courses in New York and New Jersey include Minisceongo in Pomona, N.Y., and New Jersey National in Basking Ridge, N.J., took over the operation.

In the past seven years, Mr. Bergstol has used more than 6 million cubic yards of dredge from New York Harbor and clean fill to shape the 145-acre course, bringing it from sea level to 100 feet at its highest point. The dredge material was mixed with cement to cap the landfill and keep the trash from leaking to the surface. Two feet of sand and organic material was then added to the top of the cap to allow for plantings.

“We have a very unique golf course, and we’re 15 minutes from New York,” Mr. Coady said. “That alone makes us a success.”