Ten years after the first U.S. Open on the Black Course and one mere turn of the century since major renovations initially began at the park, the golf courses at Bethpage State Park finally have a website that at least makes an attempt to flaunt their goods. Better late than never. The Bethpage Pro Shop […]
No surprise in Golfweek's annual list of America's Best Municipal Courses. The Black Course at Bethpage State Park is #1 for the fourth year in a row, joined in the top 50 with its two state-park sidekicks — Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs. Bethpage Black is followed in the top muni list by Chambers Bay,
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park is closed on Mondays for maintenance, but it will be open for play on Monday, May 28 — Memorial Day. Instead the Black will go dark for maintenance on Tuesday, May 29. Call the park for the latest course information.
Four of the five golf courses at Bethpage State Park are up and running for the 2012 season, and each of them is scheduled for some April turf maintenance. The Blue Course will be aerated today and tomorrow, April 3 and 4. Next up for aeration is the Yellow Course on April 10 and 11,
Bethpage State Park's Yellow, Blue and Green golf courses are open for play and will soon be joined by their nationally renowned neighbors. Bethpage Red will reopen for the 2012 season on Friday, March 30, followed two weeks later by the Black Course on Saturday, April 14. Thanks to this winter's refreshingly mild and golf-friendly
Back in 2010, Tallgrass Golf Course joined Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs among Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play, the magazine's annual ranking of each state's top public-access courses. The foursome hasn't broken apart since. Golfweek released its 2012 list of the Best Courses You Can Play last week, and for the third
The 2011-12 offseason will go down in local golf circles as the winter that wasn't. Sure, a couple of courses hung a "closed" sign in their window through January and February, but elsewhere, the golf season didn't skip a beat. Now it's March, and those courses that shut the engine over the winter are about
Your dream round is over — it's time to grab a bite. Oh, and there's a hole-in-one on your card, so first you'll have to buy drinks for everyone at the bar. (It is a dream round, after all.) Then you can sit down to eat. Taste 99 at Bethpage State Park is the final
The "Best of LI" hot streak continues at Bethpage, where each of the five courses have a victory medal all their own thanks to readers of the Long Island Press. For the fifth year in a row, Bethpage bagged top honors in the "Best Golf Course" category of the local newspaper's annual "Best of Long
A crushed drive soars through the air on Bethpage Black's par-4 fifth — the straightest drive you've struck in weeks — and settles into the first cut off the left side of the diagonal fairway. You get to your ball and find you have no shot at the elevated green. Unless there's an incredible power