Another list of top public golf courses, another chance for Bethpage State Park's marquee layout to shine. Bethpage Black is featured near the top of the latest course ranking, this time GOLF.com/GOLF Magazine's 2024-2025 list of Top 100 Courses You Can Play, though for once the Black Course is forced to step back and cede […]
The handful of public golf courses that close for the Long Island winter typically go dark between the end of Thanksgiving weekend and the middle of December. Some might hang on until Christmas week if warm weather lingers, but usually the only courses still open by then are the ones that welcome players year-round. So,
Harbor Links Golf Course, a municipal golf facility owned by the Town of North Hempstead, will be operated by Brooke Holdings LLC starting in 2025, according to a Newsday report. Brooke Holdings LLC is owned by golf professional Kelley Brooke, who also operates the pro shops and instructional programs at several New York State and
For the many Long Island golfers who do not play golf year-round, there is usually a distinct point where the golf season comes to an end. Some might call it a year at Halloween, others Thanksgiving. Some might end it the first time they put the heat on at home, others might end it at
Two weeks to go this season at Bethpage Black before the vaunted course closes down for winter and begins the stretch run toward the Ryder Cup spotlight. When it opens again next spring, it will be rocking shorter rough, possibly some wider fairways and maybe a few other new tweaks. The last day to play
Prepare to see massive drives and aggressive lines at next fall's Bethpage Black Ryder Cup. The Black Course's notoriously lush rough, what the pros typically encounter during championship play at Bethpage, will be rocking quite the buzzcut when the Ryder Cup tees off nearly a year from now in late September 2025. More notably, it
Stars aligned in recent years to free Long Island's original Lido Club from grainy black-and-white photos and resurrect it halfway across the country at Wisconsin's Sand Valley. Now it seems they might be positioning themselves again to inspire another Golden Age rebirth, one that stays right here on the Island's south shore. The restoration of
Two of Long Island's top public golf courses known for being hard on scorecards recently earned some praise from Golf Magazine for going easy on golfers' wallets. Bethpage State Park's Red Course and Montauk Downs both made the cut in Golf Mag's 2024 list of America's best golf courses for $100 or less, "where memorability
Two years into its rebrand in Riverhead, Sandy Pond Links continues to spruce up its nine holes on Roanoke Avenue all while it cuts the ribbon on a newer and much shorter 18 right next door. The first of two planned attractions at Sandy Pond made its debut last week, a state-of-the-art miniature golf course
Thinking about fall course aeration is depressing when it's still the heart of summer, but you can't ignore the fact that seasonal maintenance is just around the corner. And since most of the aeration at Bethpage will be done during what's technically summer, we can call the brief two-day closures "summer breaks" if it makes