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Bethpage, Montauk Downs listed among Golfweek’s 2024 Best Courses You Can Play

18-hole, 18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Suffolk Courses

There are certainties in Long Island golf life ’97 group photos at the Black Course warning sign, wind at Montauk Downs, and Bethpage and Montauk ranked highly in Golfweek's list of the region's top public golf courses. Golfweek's 2024 Best Courses You Can Play rankings were published earlier this month and Bethpage Black finds itself […]

Citing “unprecedented demand,” Bethpage announces changes to reservation system and tee-time policies

18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central

Bethpage State Park has heard the ongoing complaints about the fairness and circumvention of its tee-time reservation policies and is now taking steps to address them. In an email distributed earlier today, Bethpage announced several changes to its reservation system and policies, all scheduled to go into effect next Monday, June 24.  The main change,

Flyover: Spy Ring Golf Club

9-hole, For Beginners, Suffolk Courses

SEE ALSO:Spy Ring Golf Club in Setauket working its way toward a soft opening this fall (2023)Coming Soon: Heritage Spy Ring GC, Long Island's first shot at the Sweetens Cove model (2022) When a public golf course longer than a pitch-and-putt was last built on Long Island, the world was a very unfamiliar place.  Taylor Swift was

2024 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Pitch and Putt, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

[Looking for this year's camp info?  See the Guide to 2025 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island.] As golf participation continues to rise, more and more young golfers are filling up driving-range stalls and looking to take live swings on local courses.  With valuable instruction and guidance from Long Island's wealth of teaching professionals, they

Bethpage Black opens 2024 season with bunker tweaks, irrigation upgrades

18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Voices of Long Island Golf

Players who went looking for a one-on-one fight with Bethpage Black on the golf course's opening day were instead met with an ambush by briskly cold temperatures and a brutal, relentless wind.  But the surprises weren't all bad ’97 waiting on the first tee for some of the park's morning players was the Ryder Cup,

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