Friends of Golf On Long Island made their traditional Thanksgiving pilgrimage to Medford this past holiday, braving the chill to take part in Mill Pond Golf Course's highly competitive annual Turkey Shootout scramble. On their way to a 7-under team 63, they snapped a few pics of the new tee box at Mill Pond's short […]
Fans of Bethpage State Park and its collection of hilly, strenuous par-4s might recognize the fourth hole at the nearby Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course. It's a Bethpage hole in every way but address, a brutal two-shotter that missed the exit for the Red Course and settled just a few miles north in Woodbury
[UPDATE: Mill Pond made a number of cosmetic and safety modifications around the course in 2014. This hole now features hedges near the tee to discourage attempts at driving the green.] On the heels of our overview of a long par-3 fashioned out of a once-short par-4, we take a detailed look now at a
It's not out of the ordinary to catch yourself longing for the beach while stuck in the late stages of winter, amid the last stubborn, filth-flecked mounds of snow struggling to melt. So it makes sense then as the calendar slow-crawls toward spring to bring up #8 at Tallgrass Golf Course, a par-3 with a
This edition of "Closer Looks" examines another of Long Island's split-fairway holes. Not quite as dramatic, scenic or penal as our previous double-fairway installment — #16 at the Lido Golf Club — the 400-/385-yard 13th hole at Bethpage's Red Course is an interesting change of pace from the series of long par-4s that precedes it.
On a course renowned for its speedy greens, the fastest of the fast surfaces should linger in a golfer's memory, likely associated with a birdie chip gone bad or a par opportunity turned sour. But at the Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River, the most severe green is easy to overlook. It arrives at
"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