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Coronavirus uppost_date: With NYS reopening park courses, non-munis plan to reopen too

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March 23, 2020

When the sun rose this morning it seemed Long Island golfers would have nowhere to play for the foreseeable future. And now as the first day of New York State's non-essential business shutdown draws to a close, local golfers will have an unexpectedly broad selection of places to play starting again tomorrow. New York State […]

Coronavirus Uppost_date: Bethpage, Montauk, Sunken Meadow to remain open after all

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March 23, 2020

New York State municipal golf courses — Bethpage, Montauk Downs and Sunken Meadow — will in fact remain open for play, starting again tomorrow, with heightened social-distancing restrictions in place. To increase safety, the parks will stretch the interval between tee times, eliminate bunker rakes and ball washers, and limit use of golf carts. Each

Coronavirus Uppost_date: State park courses closed

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March 22, 2020

Golf courses at New York State parks will be closed starting tomorrow, despite the announcement earlier this weekend that park courses would remain open with social-distancing measures in place. Locally, that means Bethpage, Montauk Downs and Sunken Meadow will join other non-municipal courses around Long Island and close to golfers for an unspecified length of

Coronavirus uppost_date: Courses at NYS parks to remain open during shutdown, others to close

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March 20, 2020

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Friday that all non-essential businesses will be forced to close this coming Sunday in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus. Municipal golf courses at New York State parks, however, will remain open with social-distancing restrictions in place. Beginning Sunday, the Blue, Green and Yellow courses

Bethpage spring opening and aeration dates

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March 9, 2020

After a fluky 2019 when the Bethpage State Park golf courses were partially and temporarily reopened in advance of the PGA Championship, it's back to regular business for the park in 2020. Over the next few weeks, reopenings of the Green, Red and Black courses will bring the facility back up to full capacity. First,

2020 public golf course reopen dates on Long Island

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March 5, 2020

It's natural for golfers emerging from the winter to look ahead to The Masters in April as the unofficial start of the new golf season. But there are dates to mark on the calendar far ahead of the pros' tee times at Augusta — the mid- to late March reopening dates at Long Island's handful

A New Decade of Long Island Golf, Part 3 — Finding a new voice for courses as marketing evolves in the age of social media

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January 30, 2020

[Follow the links to Part 1 of "A New Decade of Long Island Golf," which covered the main themes of the 2010s and what to expect in the 2020s, and Part 2 on developing local players as time runs low and millennials plan to leave Long Island.] When followers of local golf scroll over Long

Harbor Links, Sunken Meadow to host Drive, Chip & Putt qualifiers in July

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January 29, 2020

Registration is open for the annual Drive, Chip & Putt Championship, an event for junior golfers that culminates every April at the famed Augusta National Golf Club. For Long Island juniors, the road to Augusta begins this summer with local qualifiers at three area golf courses. Qualifying rounds for the 2020-21 Drive, Chip & Putt

A New Decade of Long Island Golf, Part 2 — Developing lifelong players as time runs low and Long Islanders leave

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January 25, 2020

[For Part 1 of "A New Decade of Long Island Golf," covering some of the main themes of local golf in the 2010s and looking ahead to the 2020s, click here.] John Borkes opens his back door to a sweeping waterfront view near Freeport's Nautical Mile, and when he plays golf, he's typically right nearby,

Winter Golf on Long Island: 2019-2020 Edition