Long Island golf courses are buried under two feet of snow this holiday week, but Golfing Magazine already has its attention focused on the 2010 golf season. The magazine is preparing for its annual Free Golf Program by offering an Early Bird Special on subscriptions. So reward yourself this holiday season for a year of […]
[This flyover was updated on January 4, 2017.] SEE ALSO:Observations: Middle Island Country Club, 11/26/2011 The road to the clubhouse at the Middle Island Country Club takes visitors past the Spruce Course's sixth hole, a narrow par-4 with a line of trees standing tall down the entire length of its right rough. It stands out
Golfers have pulled the flags for the last time in 2009 at Eisenhower Park's Red Course, which closed for the season yesterday and will reopen in March. The park's Blue and White courses will remain open for play throughout the winter as weather allows. The historic, Devereux Emmet-designed Red Course received a four-star rating from
The Bethpage State Park golf season continues through the month of December and into 2010 on the Blue and Yellow courses, the only two layouts at the 90-hole complex that will be open to golfers through the winter months. Bethpage Black closed the curtain last month on a memorable 2009 season that included the emergence
The Crab Meadow Golf Course will host its annual Turkey Shoot Scramble on Thanksgiving morning, November 26. The scenic course on the rolling, waterside hills of Northport will load you up with golf and pre-turkey appetizers before sending you home to your Thanksgiving feast. Shotgun start is scheduled for 8:30. Arrive early for continental breakfast
Offseason rates are now in effect at the Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford. Residents (with town discount card) can play the wind-swept par-70 with a cart for $40 on weekdays and $42 on weekends during peak morning hours. Non-residents can play and ride for $50 on weekdays and $52 on weekends. Twilight rates kick
The Lido Golf Club in Lido Beach will host its annual Ryder Cup tournament next Saturday and Sunday, October 24 and 25. Lido's Ryder Cup combines alternate-shot, best-ball, scramble and match-play formats into a two-day team and individual competition. Registration is open until Tuesday, October 20. Any player with a valid USGA Handicap Index at
The Red Course at Bethpage State Park will be aerated on October 14 and 15, followed by the Blue Course on October 19 and 20, and the Yellow Course on October 27 and 28. The third hole on the Green Course remains closed due to weather-related stress, so the par-5 ninth will continue to be
Autumn golf is upon us, and the Brentwood and Holbrook Country Clubs are celebrating the cooling weather and falling leaves with their final green fee specials of the 2009 season. The two Town of Islip courses are offering Long Island golfers a fall discount that will run up until the final putt of the year
[This flyover was updated on July 20, 2017.] I was first introduced to the Blue Course at Bethpage State Park as a high-schooler with 18-hole golf experience that could only be described as scant. At the time of my Blue debut, golf to me was a game played over nine flat holes where balls could