Bethpage State Park's reign continues in the annual "Best of LI" poll conducted by the Long Island Press.
Long Island Press readers who voted during the months-long survey selected Bethpage as the "Best Golf Course" on Long Island for 2016. The 90-hole mega-complex is the only golf facility to earn top course honors since the newspaper contest was launched more than a decade ago. Led by its two headliners, the famed Black Course and the mighty Red Course, Bethpage outpaced a massive 17-course field comprised mainly of fellow public facilities.
Meanwhile, the much more volatile "Best Driving Range" category went to Heartland Golf Park in Edgewood. The bi-level range near the Deer Park train station includes automatic tees and other modern amenities, as well as a nine-hole golf course (and mini golf) on site. Heartland took the crown from 2015 winner Skydrive Golf Center in Farmingdale.
The "Best Golf Store" on Long Island, according to Press voters, is Unique Golf Shop in Babylon. Like Bethpage, Unique Golf has dominated its survey category in the recent past.
For more on these "Best of LI" winners, as well as medalists in all surveys across more than a dozen categories, visit the Long Island Press website.