The Black and Red courses at Bethpage State Park will be closed on select dates in July while hosting local tournaments. Bethpage Black is scheduled to close to the public on Thursday, July 13 for the New York State Open Pro-Am, and again from Monday, July 17 to Friday, July 21 for the New York […]
Golf Digest showed plenty of love to Long Island in its newly announced list of Best Golf Courses in New York for 2017-18, but only one of its many public courses received any adoration. No surprise that the lone Long Island public on the list is Bethpage Black, which is ranked #7 in a star-studded
Public golf will soon return to the national spotlight, with the 2017 U.S. Open making final preparations for its June tee time at the publicly accessible Erin Hills Golf Course in Wisconsin. Golf Digest's June issue includes its 2017-18 list of America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses, where Erin Hills falls in at #9, a
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will open for the season tomorrow, April 14, following a busy offseason of renovations and repairs around the park courses. Greenside bunkers on 12 of Black's 18 holes have been renovated since last fall with the replacement of sand and installation of new sod around the edges. More
The Red Course at Bethpage State Park will open for the season tomorrow, March 31. Bethpage Black is scheduled to open on Friday, April 14. The course has undergone several bunker renovations in the offseason. For information regarding aeration on the Red, Green, Blue and Yellow courses, view the April schedule here.
Bethpage State Park's four non-Black courses will be aerated next month, starting with the Red Course, which is scheduled to open for play on Friday, March 31. Red will be closed for aeration on April 10 and 11. Here's the rest of the aeration schedule: Green Course — April 12-13 Blue Course — April 17-18
Nothing to see here. The results are in for the 2017 "Best of LI" poll by the Long Island Press, and Bethpage State Park is still on top. In fact, all of the golf-category winners from 2016 are back in the top spot — Bethpage for "Best Golf Course," Heartland Golf Park for "Best Driving
Golf Digest published the 2017-2018 edition of its America's Greatest Golf Courses last week, a list that typically includes a variety of high-profile Long Island clubs and one particularly noteworthy public course, and this year's ranking is no exception. Bethpage Black, among the minority of public courses on the list, turned up in the top
Golf Channel's travel and buddy-trip guru Matt Ginella announced his list of the top 50 public courses for 2016 last week, and Long Island's lone representative, Bethpage Black, finds itself on familiar ground — near the top. Bethpage Black is ranked behind only Pebble Beach, Pacific Dunes and Pinehurst No. 2, settling in at #4
Time is winding down in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll — voters have until December 15 to click in favor of their preferred course or club. This is the 12th edition of the survey, which runs each fall, giving Long Islanders the opportunity to nominate and vote for their favorite goods