This weekend is the last chance to play the Red Course at Bethpage State Park in 2016. The course will close for the season on Sunday, November 27. Reopen date is typically in early April. Bethpage Black has already closed for the year. The course usually reopens around the second weekend in April. For winter […]
October is aeration month at Bethpage, with the Black Course first to close up shop for a few days. Bethpage Black will be closed from Monday, October 3 through Wednesday, October 5. The rest of the park's aeration schedule is as follows: Green Course: closed October 12-13Red Course: closed October 17-19Yellow Course: closed October 19-20Blue
Around the same time The Barclays was drawing thousands of local golf fans to Bethpage Black to see the world's best players take on the vaunted course, Golf Magazine released its list of America's best public golf courses, the type of ranking that the Black typically dominates. This list is no different. Bethpage Black is
Anthony Scorcia, whose "On Par with Anthony Scorcia" radio show airs Saturday mornings on WGBB 1240-AM, spoke with golf and Bethpage historian Phil Young this morning to discuss the Black Course in advance of The Barclays later this month. Young, an A.W. Tillinghast expert with several books on Bethpage and its legendary architect, spoke about
The New York Islanders are swapping out their ice skates for Footjoys next month, and you can play right alongside them as part of the Islanders Children's Foundation Golf Outing at Bethpage State Park. Islander players, coaches and alumni will take on the Red Course to benefit an organization that has raised more than $10
Bethpage Black will host The Barclays tournament from Thursday, August 25 to Sunday, August 28, but local golfers will be affected as early as August 8. That's the day Bethpage Black will close to the public in preparation for the event, which will bring some of the world's most famous golfers to Long Island for
The Black Course at Bethpage turned the big 8-0 today, joining its sibling courses and fellow octogenarians Green, Red and Blue. The youngster of the group — the Yellow Course — still has two-plus decades to go. Bethpage Black opened for play on May 31, 1936, marking the completion of an ambitious golf-course construction project
Aeration is already finished at four of the five golf courses at Bethpage State Park. Only the Blue Course remains on the schedule, with aeration slated for April 18 and 19. For those interested in current green conditions, the other courses were aerated on the following dates: Green Course: April 4-5Red Course: April 11-12Yellow Course:
The spring of 1936 arrived like the many seasons of rebirth that preceded it, though in the minds of Long Island's golfers, it undoubtedly felt like the dawn of a new era. Less than a year earlier, the A.W. Tillinghast-designed Red and Blue courses opened at the sprawling new Bethpage State Park complex, whetting the
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will open for the 2016 season on Saturday, April 16. The season will be an eventful one at Long Island's premier public facility, with The Barclays drawing the world's best golfers back to Bethpage in August. Next door, the Red Course will make its 2016 debut on Friday,