Long Island golf courses strive more and more to keep your group on the grounds for as long as possible. One way to accomplish that is to make sure the day ends with a burger in the clubhouse rather than a bogey on 18. Blackwells Restaurant is an upscale, Zagat-rated steakhouse at the Great Rock […]
It may be hard to believe at the moment, but some of Long Island's seasonal golf courses are only three weeks away from their target date for a 2010 grand reopening. Of course, that date has a nasty habit of getting pushed back when residual snow and ice and overall nasty weather fail to cooperate,
Golfing Magazine put together its 2009 Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes, the Dream Golf Club is a 7,219-yard par-73. With holes like the blind-carry 16th at Lido and
Long Islanders pining for the warmth of spring and summer as they dig out from the blizzard of 2010 received some bad news Thursday when a Newsday report (subscription required) by Bill Bleyer revealed that New York State is threatening to close up to ten state parks on Long Island and either raise fees or
Golfing Magazine put together its 2009 Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes, the Dream Golf Club is a 7,219-yard par-73. With holes like the blind-carry 16th at Lido and
The Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford will look exactly the same to Long Island golfers when the winter breaks this season, but for those who settle comfortably into routine, it will have a significantly different feel. Management used the down time earlier this offseason to break in the course's new 18-hole configuration. Golfers will
Golfing Magazine put together its 2009 Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes, the Dream Golf Club is a 7,219-yard par-73. With holes like the blind-carry 16th at Lido and
On a recent trip to a new restaurant in Sayville, I decided to take the scenic route through the downtown centers of Babylon, Bay Shore and Islip on Montauk Highway. Along the way, the fairways and greens of the West Sayville Golf Course waved hello from the south side of the road. Eighteen hours later
Golfing Magazine put together its 2009 Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes, the Dream Golf Club is a 7,219-yard par-73. With holes like the blind-carry 16th at Lido and
There are brave, determined souls across Long Island that will lace up their golf shoes and pad themselves in layer after layer of cold-weather golf apparel long after most other area golfers have buried their clubs in the basement. Island courses, with only a handful of exceptions, feed this year-round hunger for golf by keeping