Author name: Phil

Beginning next week, the Holbrook Country Club will be open for regular play on Tuesdays, a day typically reserved only for golf outings.  All golfers will be free to play at Holbrook unless an outing is scheduled.  As of today, the next two Tuesdays — May 19 and 26 — are outing-free.  A schedule will […]

Golf fans will have a second chance to land tickets to the previously sold-out U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, now that the USGA has decided to make unsold corporate tickets available to the public in June.  From Thursday, June 11 through Sunday, June 14, tickets to the practice and championship rounds will be sold on

(UPDATE:  As of March 2010, Tallgrass can be found at its newest website, www.TallgrassGC.com.  See this post for more details.) Due to some technical issues, the Tallgrass Country Club in Shoreham can now be found at its new web address — www.tallgrasscountryclub.com.  For more information, check out Golf On Long Island's course flyover of the

Back in January, I noted here that the website for the Pine Hills Country Club in Manorville was out of service.  That's nothing uncommon during the offseason, and a staff member at the course assured me that Pine Hills is open every day of the year except Christmas. Well, the offseason came and went, and

[This flyover was updated on July 28, 2023.] A west-to-east golf tour along the Long Island Expressway would culminate somewhere out in Manorville or Riverhead, at a lengthy course like Rock Hill or on the Island's only par-6, the 18th hole at Cherry Creek Links.  The first, western-most stop on such an Expressway golf tour

The Crab Meadow Golf Club will host the 17th annual Northport American Legion Golf Outing next Monday, April 27.  The event begins at 9:00 with breakfast and a warm-up on the range before a shotgun start at 11:00.  Entry fee for the outing is $150 per person and includes cart, range balls, all beverages and

Much will be made in the weeks leading up to the U.S. Open in June about Bethpage Black and its standing among the country's greatest courses, just as it was discussed in 2002, and again two years later when the Open was held at Shinnecock Hills.  But Bethpage and Shinnecock are just two pictures —

Bethpage will be the center of the golf universe in a little more than two months, and until then, local and visiting amateurs can get a taste of the Black course before it shuts down for U.S. Open preparations.  The Black reopened yesterday for its abbreviated spring season, which will come to a close on