The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will open for the 2026 season on April 15. Online reservations for the course will be available starting tonight on the New York State Parks website. Black’s reopening next week means four of the park’s five courses will be operating as usual by mid-April, though some remain limited […]
When the driving range at Bethpage State Park reopens to golfers later this spring, it will look nothing like it did before. Most importantly to many Bethpage golfers, it will sound nothing like before either. Bethpage’s practice facility is currently undergoing a major reconstruction project focusing on the installation of modern Inrange hitting bays and
Two of the most famous shots in the history of United States championship golf took flight, 72 years apart, on opposite ends of Long Island’s south shore with strikingly similar results. Beside Inwood Country Club’s 18th fairway, a small plaque sits in a stretch of rough near the New York City border. It marks the
There are signs of spring after all — golf course reopening dates. St. Patrick’s Day is typically the unofficial reopening day for Long Island’s seasonal golf courses, but a true winter complete with blizzards and subzero temps has changed the outlook in 2026. Nevertheless, Long Island’s golf courses are preparing to launch for spring, even
Back in 2022, a simple question to members of the Long Beach Historical Society led unexpectedly to the digital resurrection of the Lido Springs Par-3, a short-lived golf course that sits abandoned beside the municipal Lido Golf Course. Local golfers might know it as the wooded area with old light stanchions next to #12 on
If you need a little sunshine during this snowy, icy golf offseason, the newly released top-100 lists put out by GOLF Magazine/GOLF.com and Links Magazine have all the bright, lush golf course imagery you’re looking for. There, Bethpage Black’s fourth-hole glacier bunker lives frozen in time, not snow, at the height of summer, amid green
Registration is open for the Drive, Chip & Putt Championship, an annual event that gives junior golfers the opportunity to put their golf skills to the test and compete for a prized spot at Augusta National next spring on the eve of the 2027 Masters. For Long Island juniors, the road to Georgia begins this
The one shining light from this winter’s severely abbreviated golf season — besides the blinding ricochet of sunshine off barely melted ice sheets — is Long Island’s robust indoor-golf scene. The region has never had a deeper roster of indoor venues for playing, practicing, learning and competing, all combined at many places with eating, drinking
It wasn’t too long ago that on a 40-degree day in January, only a few stragglers would be seen trudging around pale-green fairways, swinging irons from beneath four layers of winter gear and a wool hat. That’s no longer the case in 2026. In fact, 40 degrees is “high” enough to draw full groups out
The long-closed Tam O’Shanter Club could have golf again in its future after the Village of Brookville changed a local code to allow for-profit clubs to operate at the site, Newsday reported last week. Tam O’Shanter, a former private club that was sold to a developer in 2019, was originally slated to be replaced by