The Blue, Green, Red and Yellow courses at Bethpage, originally slated to reopen for play on June 24, will now tee off post-Open play on Saturday, June 27. Reservations are currently being accepted. After absorbing days of soaking rain and the footsteps of tens of thousands of U.S. Open fans, Bethpage Black will reopen to […]
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Loyal Golf On Long Island reader Corey W. from Manhattan dropped by the golf course at Merrick Road Park for a quick nine last weekend while in town for a wedding, and was nice enough to provide his take on the course and its conditions. Corey, who says he normally plays in the Bronx at
[NOTE: Dix Hills Golf Club has closed.] The shaded cabin at the Dix Hills Golf Club, with its weathered, throwback signage and gravel driveway, is a pleasant place to start a round of golf. What hides behind it — literally — is far from pleasant, unless you consider hacking up and out of a 40-foot
[This flyover was updated on December 14, 2021.] SEE ALSO: Observations: Dix Hills Park Golf Course, 10/14/2010 The hamlet of Dix Hills in western Suffolk County once featured a pair of nine-hole options for casual, no-frills golf, but after the Dix Hills Golf Club closed in 2012 to make way for upscale residences, the Dix
[This flyover was updated on March 25, 2018.] The Cantiague Park Golf Course is a 1,878-yard par-30 in Hicksville, located minutes away from the Wantagh Parkway, Northern State Parkway and Long Island Expressway. Of the four Nassau County-operated nine-hole courses, only Christopher Morley Park is shorter. Cantiague features three short par-4s ranging from 257 to
Golf fans will have a second chance to land tickets to the previously sold-out U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, now that the USGA has decided to make unsold corporate tickets available to the public in June. From Thursday, June 11 through Sunday, June 14, tickets to the practice and championship rounds will be sold on
Back in January, I noted here that the website for the Pine Hills Country Club in Manorville was out of service. That's nothing uncommon during the offseason, and a staff member at the course assured me that Pine Hills is open every day of the year except Christmas. Well, the offseason came and went, and
Bethpage will be the center of the golf universe in a little more than two months, and until then, local and visiting amateurs can get a taste of the Black course before it shuts down for U.S. Open preparations. The Black reopened yesterday for its abbreviated spring season, which will come to a close on
[This flyover was updated on March 1, 2021.] SEE ALSO:Observations: Brentwood Country Club, 9/24/2010 The Brentwood Country Club is one of the oldest public courses on Long Island, its original design crafted by famed course architect Devereux Emmet in the 1920s. Emmet, of course, is best known for the Garden City Golf Club, built near