The Brentwood Country Club, originally slated to reopen for the season on March 16, has pushed its start date back due to residual effects from last week's snowstorm and melt-off. Its Town of Islip sister course at the Holbrook Country Club has done the same. Both courses will start the 2009 season simultaneously on Wednesday, March 18.
Farther east, the Tallgrass Country Club will reopen on April 1, and will soon announce reduced 2009 rates. Tallgrass was ranked by Golfweek as one of its "Best Courses You Can Play" in 2006 and 2007, and Newsday readers voted its 11th hole to the Long Island "Dream 18" — a collection of the 18 best public holes on the Island, created by the golfers themselves.
Golf On Long Island flew over the Shoreham layout last summer.