Make your driving-range practice sessions a bit more productive this season by stopping over at the Tallgrass Golf Course in Shoreham for an hour or two on summer Sunday afternoons.
Tallgrass pro Phil Tita and his staff will hold free player-development clinics every Sunday through August. Each one-hour clinic begins at 12 noon and includes a demonstration and mini-lesson. Sessions rotate each week and cover iron play, chipping, putting, woods and sand play.
The next clinic — this Sunday, June 26 — will cover iron play. Call the course at (631) 209-9359 for more details or a clinic schedule.
Tallgrass received its second consecutive top-10 ranking by Golfweek — ahead of Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs — in the magazine's 2011 Best Courses You Can Play listing released earlier this year. The Shoreham layout is also one of Long Island's top public courses according to Newsday and its par-4 11th hole is a member of the newspaper's "Dream 18."
For more information on Tallgrass, check out the course flyover.