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2024 closing dates at Long Island’s public golf courses

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The handful of public golf courses that close for the Long Island winter typically go dark between the end of Thanksgiving weekend and the middle of December.  Some might hang on until Christmas week if warm weather lingers, but usually the only courses still open by then are the ones that welcome players year-round. So, […]

Expect short rough and deep tees at next year’s Ryder Cup, say Bethpage, Cup officials

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Prepare to see massive drives and aggressive lines at next fall's Bethpage Black Ryder Cup. The Black Course's notoriously lush rough, what the pros typically encounter during championship play at Bethpage, will be rocking quite the buzzcut when the Ryder Cup tees off nearly a year from now in late September 2025.  More notably, it

Bethpage Red, Montauk Downs highlighted on Golf Magazine’s affordability list

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Two of Long Island's top public golf courses known for being hard on scorecards recently earned some praise from Golf Magazine for going easy on golfers' wallets. Bethpage State Park's Red Course and Montauk Downs both made the cut in Golf Mag's 2024 list of America's best golf courses for $100 or less, "where memorability

Bethpage summer and fall aeration dates

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Thinking about fall course aeration is depressing when it's still the heart of summer, but you can't ignore the fact that seasonal maintenance is just around the corner.  And since most of the aeration at Bethpage will be done during what's technically summer, we can call the brief two-day closures "summer breaks" if it makes

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

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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

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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,

2024 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island

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[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

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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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