Bethpage State Park's three seasonal golf courses — the Green, Red and vaunted Black — are preparing to join the Yellow and Blue courses and reopen for 2022. The Green Course will open tomorrow, March 19. Opening day on Bethpage Red is April 1, followed two weeks later by the Black Course on April 15. […]
Spring can't come soon enough for the Long Island golfing community now that we've reached the tail end of a second straight winter season that has been, for the most part, a bust. A blizzard knocked out a couple of playing weeks on its own, and poor ground conditions led many golf courses to remain
The middle of December is when the curtains come down and the house lights come up for Long Island's seasonal public golf courses. There are only a few days left to squeeze in nine- or 18-hole rounds on these courses, most of which are municipal facilities. You can expect nearly all of them to reopen
Just ahead of Thanksgiving, Golf Magazine has reminded Long Island golfers that there are plenty of reasons to be grateful this holiday season. Seven reasons, to be exact — that's the number of Long Island golf destinations included on Golf's list of Top 100 Courses in the World for 2021-22. Most notable for public players,
Daylight is becoming scarce as the calendar turns to November, and so are tee times at Bethpage Black. The course is set to close for the 2021 season at the end of play on Monday, November 15. That gives local and visiting players just over two weeks to find an available spot on the famed
With the 2021 Ryder Cup at the forefront of the golf world this week, the host of the 2025 Ryder Cup made a tiny bit of news ahead of this year's competition, with Golf Digest releasing its list of America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses. The Black Course at Bethpage State Park, New York's only
Phil Young traces his love for the golf courses at Bethpage State Park to his early rounds as a teenager in the late 1960s, first on the Blue Course, then the famed Black. Like plenty that came before him and many more after, he was first staggered by the Black while looking through the trees
[This schedule was updated on September 19, 2021] September is aeration month at Long Island golf courses, and maintenance dates are good to know for local players planning their late-summer and fall rounds. The following public golf courses will be closed for play (unless otherwise noted) while undergoing fairway and/or greens aeration: Eisenhower White —
Aeration season is set to get underway at Bethpage State Park, and first up for the hole-punch treatment is the Blue Course, which will close for fall maintenance on August 31 and September 1. Its neighbor, the Yellow Course (pictured), will close for aeration September 2 and 3. Bethpage's other three courses will close according
Bethpage State Park is updating its tee-time policy starting next week in order to address the "supply and demand" issue that has escalated since the start of the pandemic last spring. Golfers in the online reservation queue typically outnumber available tee times by hundreds on a daily basis, according to the park. According to a