The YES Community Counseling Center of Massapequa will hold its 13th annual Golf Classic on Monday, May 16 at the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury. The scramble tournament will begin with a 1:30 p.m. shotgun start and continue afterward with a buffet dinner, prizes and trophies. In addition, the $175 entry fee […]
Sports fans love a good list, ranking, survey, poll — you name it. The more room for debate, the better. And we here at Golf On Long Island are no different. So what better time of year than Masters Week — the unofficial universal start of the new golf season — to come up with
Back in September 2009, we noted the "dreadful" condition of the bunkers (click photo to enlarge) at the Blue Course at Eisenhower Park: "Sand gets top billing on the Blue Course. Unfortunately it does not get the treatment a star deserves. The bunkers on the Blue are in dreadful shape. They are filled with rocks,
An ongoing saga in the Hamptons is finally drawing to a close. The Fairway Restaurant will return to the Poxabogue Golf Center in Sagaponack this summer, according to Michael Wright of The Southampton Press. The popular cafe closed last year as a result of a lease dispute. In August, plans for a new cafe were
Most golfers enjoy facing a challenging water hazard. The more demanding the shot, the better. NBC and The Players Championship at Sawgrass bank on the dramatic nature of a potential late-round splash landing every May. "Water-hazard hole" is kind of ambiguous, but you get the idea. Tell us your favorite public hole in Nassau with
A handful of Long Island golf courses close every winter and typically reopen for the new season anywhere from mid-March to the end of April. With almost all of January and February 2011 buried by snow, those courses that remain open year-round are finally beginning to announce "reopenings" of their own. One such facility is
Give Long Islanders clear grass, a sunny sky and 50-degree temps in late February and all of a sudden you're battling for tee times as if it's an August morning at Bethpage. After being snowed out for two months, Golf On Long Island was gearing up to make its 2011 debut this afternoon, but another
It's been a long winter for golfers in the Northeast. Golf has been an afterthought since Christmas, when a blizzard dumped two feet of snow and, with help from follow-up storms, effectively buried the winter playing season on Long Island. However, there is at least one positive to emerge from the never-disappearing layer of winter
In a statement released last week, the Town of Oyster Bay announced that membership fees for the town golf course in Woodbury will not rise for the 2011 season. The Oyster Bay Town Board voted to keep membership rates the same for the third consecutive year. Members of the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course
Cristy Grzymala, director of golf at the Spring Lake Golf Club in Middle Island, will run an indoor "SNAG" clinic for juniors on Saturday, February 19 at 11:00 a.m. in the facility's catering hall. SNAG (Starting New At Golf) is a comprehensive system that simplifies golf instruction for kids and provides them the opportunity to