The 2012 golf season has begun at Tallgrass Golf Course. The Shoreham course opened for play today, one week after Golfweek ranked it ninth in its annual list of Best Courses You Can Play in New York. The Gil Hanse design is a wind-swept, links-style layout that requires some creativity with the entire bag. Once […]
Nassau County's nine-hole municipal golf courses at Bay Park in East Rockaway and Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn are now open for the 2012 season. The two courses closed for the winter while their sister courses at North Woodmere Park and Cantiague Park played through the offseason. Bay Park is a flat, wide-open nine that's
Today is opening day at the Brentwood Country Club and Holbrook Country Club. As usual, the Town of Islip sister courses are welcoming golfers back with a seasonal special. See their coupon page for details. For more on the two clubs, check out the Brentwood CC and Holbrook CC flyovers.
The Red Course at Eisenhower Park will open for the 2012 season this Friday, March 16. If the 70-degree weather lures you to the park before then, you can play the Blue and White courses. Both have been open all winter. The historic Devereux Emmet design in East Meadow is the star attraction at Eisenhower
The 2012 season is about to begin at the Timber Point Golf Course in Great River. Suffolk County's historic muni will raise the curtain on 18 of its 27 bayside holes tomorrow, March 9, with the opening of its Red and White courses. The scenic Blue Course will open next month. Timber Point director of
The Links at Cherry Creek, home of Long Island's only par-6, will host a St. Patrick's Day Shotgun next weekend on the holiday morning. Opening drives will go up bright and early and fresh pints will go down later in the afternoon. Registration is $69 per player, which covers a pre-round continental breakfast plus a
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
The calendar is one Leap Day from a full flip to March and the first domino in a chain of hibernating golf courses is set to fall. Island's End G&CC will signal the offseason's end when it reopens for business tomorrow, March 1, and welcomes players back with a March special. Greenport's waterside 18 will
Hard to believe, but the first holiday golf outing of the new season is within sight. Even better, it includes corned beef and an open bar. Mill Pond's St. Patrick's Day Golf Classic will actually tee off the morning before on Friday, March 16, but golfers can still celebrate like it's the real holiday. After
Low winter rates are only here for a few more weeks, and once they're gone, it's not long before peak-season prices kick in again. One way to stretch out the season of saving is by signing up as a member of Golfing Magazine's Free Golf Program. The mag is currently offering its annual Early Bird