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2025 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

Golf courses are full, empty stalls at the driving range are often hard to find, and open slots at junior golf camps tend to disappear fast.  Participation in golf remains incredibly high, and more players see the lifelong value of making professional instruction available to new and experienced junior golfers. On Long Island, summer camp […]

2025 golf course reopening dates on Long Island

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

As most local golfers know, March is reopening month on Long Island.  Sure, it’s still barely above freezing outside and the ground is mush, but as far as cold-weather players are concerned, that’s what hand warmers and golf spikes are for. Long Island’s seasonal golf courses are getting set to stick the pins back in

Upgrades at Harbor Links include robots, range renovations and a rebranded Executive Course

18-hole, 9-hole, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Voices of Long Island Golf

Harbor Links has a new course operator and will soon have a variety of spiffy new amenities to enhance the playing experience. And among those incoming amenities are robots — yes, robots — that will deliver food and drinks to players as they swing their way around the Port Washington golf course.  Kelley Brooke, whose

2024 closing dates at Long Island’s public golf courses

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The handful of public golf courses that close for the Long Island winter typically go dark between the end of Thanksgiving weekend and the middle of December.  Some might hang on until Christmas week if warm weather lingers, but usually the only courses still open by then are the ones that welcome players year-round. So,

Flyover: Spy Ring Golf Club

9-hole, For Beginners, Suffolk Courses

SEE ALSO:Spy Ring Golf Club in Setauket working its way toward a soft opening this fall (2023)Coming Soon: Heritage Spy Ring GC, Long Island's first shot at the Sweetens Cove model (2022) When a public golf course longer than a pitch-and-putt was last built on Long Island, the world was a very unfamiliar place.  Taylor Swift was

2024 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Pitch and Putt, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

[Looking for this year's camp info?  See the Guide to 2025 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island.] As golf participation continues to rise, more and more young golfers are filling up driving-range stalls and looking to take live swings on local courses.  With valuable instruction and guidance from Long Island's wealth of teaching professionals, they

2024 golf course reopen dates on Long Island

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Pitch and Putt, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

It took an extra day to get here this year, but today is the start of Reopening Month.  March is when Long Island's seasonal golf courses put the pro-shop lights back on, stick the pins into the cups and start taking tee times.  Except for Bethpage Black, just about every golf course on Long Island

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A Golfer's Internet Guide to the Public Courses of Nassau & Suffolk

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