Heading to next month's PGA Championship at Bethpage Black? There are a number of ways to get to Bethpage for the tournament, none of which include driving straight to the park (or '30s-era horse-and-buggy service from Farmingdale, as pictured below). With crowds swelling in anticipation of another Tiger Woods major, be sure to prepare yourself […]
[Looking for this year's camp info? See the Guide to 2025 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island.] Young and old will join together this week to watch the game's greats compete at The Masters, and for many prospective junior golfers, the action at Augusta might serve as inspiration to pick up a golf club for
Golfers returning to Bethpage State Park for early-spring golf have been treated to some uncommon scenery as the PGA Championship, formerly of August, looms just weeks away in May. For one, a look deep into the distance at the first green on the Red Course includes a view past roughly 300 yards of tents sitting
This promises to be a spring unlike any other at Bethpage State Park, where work and preparation for this May's PGA Championship on the Black Course carried on through the winter and will soon continue amid the din of refreshed Long Island golfers. Local players will have to make a few sacrifices, however, before play
We're almost out of the winter free of blizzards, clear of long blocks of time with closed courses. Offseason golfers have had plenty of days to tee it up while the rest stay put until spring. Well, spring now appears on the horizon, and with March about to arrive, it's reopening season on Long Island.
The 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black is five months away but its presence is already impacting the way golfers utilize the park golf courses this winter season. Only the Blue Course will be open for play for at least the early portion of the 2018-19 winter season, according to a statement posted on the
Bethpage State Park's director of agronomy Andrew Wilson joined A.J. Voelpel on the Metropolitan Golf Association's "Around the Met" podcast earlier this month to discuss the park and its preparation for next May's PGA Championship. Wilson and Voelpel chatted about ideal winter conditions leading up to the event, which will tee off in May for
The 2018 season is coming to a close on the Black Course at Bethpage State Park. The last day to play the Black is Sunday, November 11. While the Black's season will end in its usual mid-November slot, its reopening next spring is not quite as predictable. Old Man Winter will decide how much golf
Bethpage State Park's fall schedule of course aeration will begin the week of Labor Day this season, though most of the maintenance work will take place in October. First up is the Yellow Course on September 5 and 6, followed in the first week of October by the Black Course (October 1-2) and Green Course
Bethpage State Park is officially a member of the modern era, and it's not only because booking tee times has migrated away from *66 ("the busy-signal fix"). Nearly two decades after hosting its first U.S. Open and entering the international golf discussion, management at Bethpage is now marketing the Black Course and its four sibling