Golfing Magazine recently announced its 2010 Long Island Dream Golf Club, this season's collection of the Island's finest 18 holes and top off-course facilities. The club's six public golf holes can all be found on the front nine of this 6,636-yard par-71. Every Monday through the winter, Golf On Long Island will feature one public […]
[This flyover was updated on December 9, 2021.] The Timber Point Golf Course in Great River juts out into the waters of Great South Bay and provides some of the most gorgeous and inspiring scenery to be found on any Long Island course. While the vistas on the Red Course pale in comparison to those
Golfing Magazine recently announced its 2010 Long Island Dream Golf Club, this season's collection of the Island's finest 18 holes and top off-course facilities. The club's six public golf holes can all be found on the front nine of this 6,636-yard par-71. Every Monday through the winter, Golf On Long Island will feature one public
To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Golf Digest published a list of America's "Most Important Courses" by decade in its November 2010 issue. These are the courses, according to the mag, that have had the biggest impact on the game since the late 19th century. Rich in golf history, Long Island and the New York metropolitan
Originally slated to close for the 2010 season on Sunday, November 14, the Black Course at Bethpage State Park will instead remain open into the second half of November and possibly beyond. Considering last weekend's warm weather and the favorable conditions still present at area courses, the Black still has plenty of fair and challenging
Following the exhausting uphill 10th and a wicked 11th green, the par-3 12th hole at the Great Rock Golf Club, from the tee, looks like a pleasant spot for a deep breath of fresh Wading River air. From any spot on the green that's above the hole, it looks like a nightmare in living color.
The Spring Lake Golf Club in Middle Island will host a Turkey Day outing on Thursday, November 25 for those golfers who want to loosen up their arms and legs before they loosen up their belt buckles for a holiday feast. Shotgun start for the outing is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. The $65 entry fee
[This flyover was updated on September 12, 2021.] Purists might object to a number of things about the Heartland Golf Park in Edgewood. After all, nobody plays nine holes at a "golf park." Floodlights on a golf course? Leave that to sports like football and baseball. Yet there they are, light stanchions for — gasp!
The hot, steamy, rain-free days of the Summer of 2010 delivered a beating to lawns and gardens across Long Island and the small, mostly flat greens of the Brentwood Country Club. Bare brown patches dotted a handful of putting surfaces around the short par-72 on our last visit. Luckily, if you're teeing it up at
Putts at Hamlet Willow Creek Golf & Country Club will roll smoothly and speedily over the first few weeks of the Fall golf season. Greens will not be aerated until Wednesday, October 13 — which means now is a great time to challenge the immaculate Mount Sinai course, especially with $39-49 weekday afternoon rates on