Does the guy in your life want to play the best golf courses in the world without leaving New Jersey?

This Father’s Day, you can transport him to Pebble Beach, Spyglass, or St. Andrews in a training session that is realistic, challenging and fun. And thanks to NJ My Way, you can get a special incentive to help him putter around.

Golf is the latest sport to go virtual; at the Metro Golf and Fitness Center in Tenafly they’ve got three state-of-the-art simulators with cool 3-D graphics to help you drive the ball down the fairway on the course of your choice. At least thirty top golf courses have been rendered with accuracy, so your very own Tiger’s got his pick of world class greens.

The machine also monitors the speed and angle of the ball, and helps him correct his shots to a tee. Click the video player at www.njmyway.com to watch Chris Rogovich, co-owner of the center, demonstrate a virtual lesson.

If the player wants an instant replay, there’s a video program that records his every move and gives a detailed analysis on stance, swing, and stroke. And there’s a tidy indoor putting green where he can practice the art of a hole in one.

Gals are welcome too. Mention that you are a subscriber, or bring in a print-out of this column, and they’ll give you 10 percent off. There’s a first class gym adjacent, for your pre-or-post golf workout.

This is a great way to sharpen your skills, no matter the weather. Pack your clubs and head over for a game of golf…the setting may be virtual, but the challenge is real.

There is an old British saying that football (by which they mean soccer) is a gentlemen’s game played by ruffians, while rugby is a ruffian’s game played by gentlemen.

Nowadays, though, rugby is also played by women. And members of New Jersey’s two women’s rugby clubs, Morris and Monmouth, will tell you they uphold the sport’s traditions of rugged play on the pitch followed by the camaraderie of a “drink-up” after the game.

Click the video player on NJ My Way to watch a clip of the Morris-Monmouth match on Saturday. Morris wears red shirts, Monmouth blue.

Playing rugby, says Morris president and player Mandy Crothers, “is one of the only ways women can act in an aggressive manner and not have a stigma attached.” In the game on Saturday, both teams hit hard. The women pushed in the scrum and tackled in the open field. No helmets or shoulder pads.

After games, rugby tradition expects the host club to throw a party for the visiting team. The Morris women hold theirs at the Rattlesnake Café in Denville. “We sing rugby songs and choose the two players who did an outstanding job,” Crothers says. The winners get to wear red and black boas at the bar.

The 35 members of the Morris club range in age from 18 to 45. “We have scientists, engineers, teachers,” Crothers says. Some played rugby in college — the club includes six Rutgers alumnae.

Morris-Monmouth is a big rivalry. Morris has had the upper hand the past few years, but this season they stand at 1-1. Both also play clubs from New York City, Albany, Connecticut. “We have people who have been playing for ten years, and the other teams as well. So you form a good relationship with women on other teams,” Crothers says.

The Morris women’s club was founded in 1992 under the auspices of the Morris Rugby Union Club. The Monmouth women’s club was founded in 1978, and became affiliated with the Monmouth Rugby Football Club in the early 1980s.

The Saturday game was part of a tournament to help new teams that do not have enough players to field a full-strength side. Morris is also helping to sponsor the girl’s rugby team at Elizabeth High School, which, also last weekend, played in the national finals tournament in Pittsburgh. They did not win. But at a practice last week the Morris women unveiled a banner in support of their little sisters, part of the future of the sport.