What a difference a year makes. At this time in 2011, Long Islanders were reaching for the snow shovel, not the sand wedge. Fast forward to the present and you've got 60-degree weekend afternoons and tee times flying off the board. Take away the bare branches and the early-morning freeze and it's like swinging a […]
The famous ball will drop in Times Square this weekend on New Years Eve, and a few hours later, the final balls of the season will drop onto the greens at Timber Point on New Years Day. Timber Point's Red and White courses are closing for the season at the end of the day on
The Nassau County municipal courses at Bay Park in East Rockaway and Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn have closed for the season. Sister nine-hole courses at North Woodmere and Cantiague parks will remain open through the winter. Bay Park and Morley will likely reopen in late March. Check back as the spring season approaches for
The 2010-11 winter golf season was over almost as soon as it began. By the time Golf On Long Island posted its first edition of Winter Rates Roundup in early January, Long Island golf courses were nestled under a blanket of post-Christmas snow. So this year, fittingly on a day that nearly touched 60 degrees,
Golf is not a 365-days-a-year sport on Long Island like it is in Florida, Arizona and other warm climates. But if Old Man Winter keeps Frosty the Snowman in the clouds for a few extra weeks, and if you can tolerate frigid, biting winds and a swing reined in by four layers of clothing, it
Bethpage Black slipped into its annual winter hibernation earlier this month, but inside a small St. James strip mall, the fairway leading up to the Black's famous fourth-hole glacier bunker is still a deep, healthy green and the air is a May-like 72 degrees. Conditions are the same at Pebble Beach, Pinehurst and more than
It's Halloween and we've already been through one snow–, err, slushstorm. Perhaps last winter is eager to pick up where it left off. No matter the meteorological outlook, one thing that can't be denied is the availability of favorable Fall season golf specials around Long Island. Here is a sampling: Great Rock: $49 weekdays, $39
The way Golfing Magazine sees it, it's never too early to start planning next season's tee times. If you're a golfer who shares that opinion, then get on board Golfing Magazine's 2012 Free Golf Program by signing up for the mag's Early Bird Special. For $39 you get a certificate good for "free" rounds at
The Hamptons-area Poxabogue Golf Course will soon be owned entirely by the Town of Southampton, according to reports in Newsday and The East Hampton Press earlier this week. East Hampton's Town Board voted last week to sell off its portion of the jointly owned golf facility in order to pay off debt from its original
[This flyover was updated on November 8, 2020.] SEE ALSO:Origins: Bergen Point Golf Course Bergen Point Golf Course in West Babylon is one of four 18-hole courses — all on or near the major water bodies of eastern Long Island — operated by Suffolk County. It does not share the same majestic water views as its