In honor of the nation's veterans, Mill Pond Golf Course is offering all golfers the opportunity to play the course for free. Play (and pay) on Veterans Day — this Monday, November 11 — and receive a voucher for a free weekday greens fee valid until the end of April 2014. Call the Mill Pond pro shop at (631) 732-8249 for more details or to register, or book a tee time online.
If golf on Veterans Day isn't in the cards, there's always Thanksgiving. Mill Pond's seventh annual "Turkey Shootout" scramble outing tees off bright and early at 8:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning, November 28, and the event has a habit of selling out fast. Call the course at the above phone number to sign up (payment is required upon registration).
Entry fee for the Thanksgiving event is $59. The fee covers cart, range balls and a light breakfast. Format is two-person scramble. Since the early start is designed to get players home in time for the first course (and opening kickoff in Detroit), there are no post-round festivities.
For more information on either of the holiday offerings, contact the pro shop at the above phone number. And for more on Mill Pond from a golf perspective, see the course flyover.