Bethpage

Long Island public golf course reopenings for 2012

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March 1, 2012

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 […]

Long Island Dream Club: Taste 99 Restaurant at Bethpage State Park

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February 27, 2012

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

Bethpage retains title, edges Rock Hill and Eisenhower in annual “Best of LI” poll

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January 20, 2012

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

Bethpage Black cracks top five in Golf Digest’s Toughest list

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January 13, 2012

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

Closer Look: Bethpage Yellow #12

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January 5, 2012

"Not many people realize that Tillie did design a driveable par-4 for Bethpage, but not for the Black Course. He put it on the original Blue Course." — Phil Young, golf historian and author When Bethpage Black hosted the U.S. Open in 2002 and 2009, many golfers who hadn't already known of famed course architect

Bethpage Red to close for the season this Sunday, December 4

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December 1, 2011

The Red Course at Bethpage State Park will close for the 2011 season this Sunday, December 4. Forecasts call for sunny and cool conditions for the Red's final three days, so take advantage while you can. The course won't be open again until April. Bethpage golfers can still challenge the Yellow and Blue courses during

Long Island Press wants your vote for “Best Golf Course” in annual poll

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November 30, 2011

Thirteen public golf courses in Nassau and Suffolk are in the running for the title of "Best Golf Course" of 2012 in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll, and 12 of them are looking to wrestle that title away from Bethpage State Park. The 90-hole centerpiece of Long Island golf will win

Bethpage Black to close for 2011 on November 15