Registration is open for Dix Hills Park's "Back To School" Junior Golf Program, a five-session instructional series designed to keep young golfers swinging through the fall while introducing them to and teaching the basic aspects of the game. The program is open to junior golfers from age 5 through 14 and is limited to the […]
Bethpage State Park's Black Course will go dark on as many as 12 days during the month of August for scheduled maintenance and events. The Black is closed for play every Monday for maintenance, as well as Tuesday, August 3; Wednesday, August 4; and Tuesday, August 10. From August 23 to August 27, the Black
Why do dinner and a movie when you can schedule date night on the golf course? The Pine Ridge Golf Club in Coram will open up its finely manicured 18 for a special Couples Scramble on Friday, August 6. Shotgun start is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. The $39 entry fee (per person) includes golf, cart,
Feel like spending a day in the ocean breeze next weekend but prefer not to track sand and seaweed into the car? Try scheduling some seaside golf nearby and help raise money for an excellent cause in the process (and track clumps of grass instead). Painting For Cures will hold its first annual charity golf
"Firm and fast" is a pair of adjectives not typically used to describe Long Island fairways, but with the scorching hot summer of 2010 depriving golf courses of the rainwater they desperately need, one course is playing even closer to its links-style design. Tee shots were bouncing, bouncing, rolling and rolling (and rolling) during our
Long Island golfers can play the Brentwood and Holbrook Country Clubs for less this summer thanks to a pair of specials that are valid through the month of August. Just print the downloadable coupons from the course websites and tee off for as little as $24. An Early Twilight special includes greens fee, reservation and
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will be closed for the New York State Open beginning tomorrow, July 19 through Friday, July 23. It will reopen to the public on Saturday, July 24.
It hasn't exactly been a smooth stroll around the fairways for the Poxabogue Golf Center over the last couple of playing seasons. The Sagaponack nine-holer has been the eye of a legal and municipal storm on the East End for at least the past two years, a well-documented whirlwind strengthened by bickering between municipalities, contract
The Championship Course at Harbor Links — Long Island's own grand canyon along Hempstead Harbor — already has the look of Arizona down pat with its rock piles, southwestern-style vistas and sand-oriented history. During a July heat wave, the Port Washington par-72 felt a little like the desert too. Most significant update from the latest
The recent (and ongoing) heat wave has done little to keep us off the fairways — or more accurately, in the rough — of Long Island's golf courses. Earlier this week, Golf On Long Island visited Wading River's Great Rock Golf Club for another showdown with a course that demands pinpoint accuracy and a deft