LPGA professional and Long Island golf course operator Kelley Brooke recently sat down with Emmy Award–winning journalist Jimmy Roberts to talk golf — her career as a professional, her rise within the metropolitan New York golf industry, and the recent expansion of her course management portfolio. The interview will be featured tomorrow on the latest […]
Shinnecock Hills and its equally photogenic neighbors at National Golf Links of America, Sebonack and Southampton received plenty of love and adoration during this month’s U.S. Open, though all of Long Island golf shared a bit of the spotlight amid the tournament coverage. In the lead-up to the Open, Golf Digest ranked the best courses
The Kelley Brooke local golf empire is expanding once again, this time into the golf-rich center of Suffolk County. Pine Ridge Golf Club in Coram is now a Brooke Management Group facility, the sixth in a growing golf-operations portfolio that includes Bethpage State Park, Montauk Downs and Harbor Links. Brooke, a 2026-27 LPGA Top 50
**UPDATED FOR 2026** Long Island can be confusing and intimidating for out-of-towners. Of course, the best place to relax and let troubles melt away is on the golf course. The following guide is intended to help visitors on Long Island find their bearings and get to the first tee. Especially with the U.S. Open returning to Shinnecock Hills
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will open for the 2026 season on April 15. Online reservations for the course will be available starting tonight on the New York State Parks website. Black’s reopening next week means four of the park’s five courses will be operating as usual by mid-April, though some remain limited
When the driving range at Bethpage State Park reopens to golfers later this spring, it will look nothing like it did before. Most importantly to many Bethpage golfers, it will sound nothing like before either. Bethpage’s practice facility is currently undergoing a major reconstruction project focusing on the installation of modern Inrange hitting bays and
There are signs of spring after all — golf course reopening dates. St. Patrick’s Day is typically the unofficial reopening day for Long Island’s seasonal golf courses, but a true winter complete with blizzards and subzero temps has changed the outlook in 2026. Nevertheless, Long Island’s golf courses are preparing to launch for spring, even
If you need a little sunshine during this snowy, icy golf offseason, the newly released top-100 lists put out by GOLF Magazine/GOLF.com and Links Magazine have all the bright, lush golf course imagery you’re looking for. There, Bethpage Black’s fourth-hole glacier bunker lives frozen in time, not snow, at the height of summer, amid green
Registration is open for the Drive, Chip & Putt Championship, an annual event that gives junior golfers the opportunity to put their golf skills to the test and compete for a prized spot at Augusta National next spring on the eve of the 2027 Masters. For Long Island juniors, the road to Georgia begins this
Bethpage Green’s month-long respite following the Ryder Cup is over. The Green reopened for play this morning and will remain open until the end of the season on Sunday, November 16. For the season’s final three weeks, rounds on the Green Course will be shortened to 16 holes, and players will only pay the nine-hole