Despite the poor winter weather, the Black and Red courses at Bethpage State Park are slated to reopen on their typical April schedule. Bethpage Black will open for the 2014 season on April 12, according to a park announcement. The Red Course will open April 1. Bethpage's other three courses — two of which, the […]
The Links Course at Cherry Creek is open for play and currently preparing for a St. Patrick's Day shotgun outing that includes Irish eats and on-course contests. Tee time for the event is 9:00 a.m. on Monday, March 17. Entry fee is $69, which includes food, drinks and motor cart. Check-in and breakfast begin at
Timber Point Golf Course will open for play on Friday, March 14, but it will kick off the new season in festive style a few days later with a St. Patrick's Weekend scramble and dinner gathering on Sunday, March 16. As usual, Timber Point's annual holiday outing — a nine-hole, four-person scramble — will include
There is light at the end of this long, cold tunnel — the spring golf season is about to start on Long Island. Opening Day for some of Long Island's seasonal golf courses is only a week away. Spring will be greeted with a hero's welcome following an offseason that began with an ominous forecast
The Town of Islip courses at Brentwood Country Club and Holbrook Country Club are tentatively slated to open for the 2014 season on Friday, March 14. Lingering winter weather could delay the start of the season, however, the way early-arriving winter weather ended the 2013 season a few days ahead of schedule. For more on
[UPDATE: The date of this event has been changed to Friday, March 28.] The winter golf season is winding down on Long Island, not because the weather is any warmer, but because the annual St. Patrick's Day golf outings are looming. Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford will get a headstart on both St. Patrick's
If you want to play golf in the 2013-14 winter season, it seems you either need a plane ticket or a very vivid imagination for daydreaming. This offseason has been more about polar vortexes than putting practice. In the event there is ever an available day to play golf before the 2014 regular season arrives,
Snowstorms and temperatures flirting with negative numbers froze out the first few weeks of the 2013-14 winter golf season, but it seems there are playable days ahead. Now that the holiday decorations are back in storage, use the free time to get a few swings in. Golf On Long Island loves winter golf and wants
The winter golf season has officially arrived. Fittingly, in a year characterized by bizarre weather and a week that began with cars frozen under blocks of ice, the opening weekend of Long Island winter golf will see temperatures pushing 70 degrees. This is welcome news for Long Island's all-season golfers, who typically keep their putters
With snow on the ground and more in the forecast, Brentwood Country Club and Holbrook Country Club have shut down for the season a few days ahead of schedule. The two Town of Islip golf courses planned to remain open this week until December 15, but instead closed early due to sub-freezing temps and snowy