The Holbrook Country Club is tentatively scheduled to reopen for the 2009 season on March 13, one week from today. That date hinges on how quickly the remaining coat of snow melts. Other Long Island courses are preparing to reopen in the coming weeks. For more information, see Long Island course reopenings.
For sports lovers, March is the month when the world seems right again. Spring Training brings baseball season into view and March Madness puts college basketball on center stage. Pro golf heads east to Florida, CBS Masters commercials become more frequent, and golfers everywhere get the itch to start swinging again. On Long Island, March
Nassau County parks have recently found themselves caught in the crossfire of media statements and a part of ongoing negotiations between County Executive Tom Suozzi and local unions, as the two sides look for ways to navigate the local budget crisis without resorting to salary cuts or layoffs. Suozzi stated frequently over the past few
The Long Island Press wrapped up its fourth annual "Best Of Long Island" poll last month. Each year the newspaper invites readers to vote on its website for their favorite Long Island restaurants, pizzerias, museums, shops, parks — pretty much their favorite Long Island anything. The 2009 poll included more than 175 "Best Of" categories.
Last spring I tried to find a convenient course for an after-work twilight round. Stonebridge in Hauppauge fit my location and rate preferences, but I had a very limited knowledge of the course itself. The only reason I even knew of Stonebridge at all was because of its listing as a "can't miss" course on
Golfing Magazine put together a Long Island Dream Golf Club in its Fall 2008 issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes from as far west as Garden City and Great Neck, and as far east as Montauk and Greenport,
NOTE: An updated course flyover was posted in April 2010. Check it out by clicking here. Normally I wouldn't write about a course that I have yet to play in full at least once. After passing by the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury numerous times over the years while working in Syosset
Last week I noted that the Pine Hills Country Club website was out of service. It still is. A phone call to Pine Hills over the weekend revealed that the par-73 in Manorville is unaffected, thankfully. "We're open every day but Christmas," said a Pine Hills employee. No word on when the Pine Hills website
SEE ALSO:Flyover: Bethpage – Green Course (6/3/2011) The Green Course at Bethpage State Park has a tendency to get lost in the shuffle, understandable for a course that tees off only a few paces from the opening and closing holes of the crown jewel of Long Island public golf. It doesn’92t have a warning sign
[This flyover was updated on June 1, 2021.] The Gull Haven Golf Club bills itself as Islip’92s family golf course, a claim based in its wide, flat fairways and friendly atmosphere. Experienced fathers or mothers (and grandfathers or grandmothers) might hesitate to teach the game to their kids at the other Town-operated courses ’96 the