The Holbrook Country Club is tentatively scheduled to reopen for the 2009 season on March 13, one week from today. That date hinges on how quickly the remaining coat of snow melts. Other Long Island courses are preparing to reopen in the coming weeks. For more information, see Long Island course reopenings.
Last spring I tried to find a convenient course for an after-work twilight round. Stonebridge in Hauppauge fit my location and rate preferences, but I had a very limited knowledge of the course itself. The only reason I even knew of Stonebridge at all was because of its listing as a "can't miss" course on
At many Long Island golf courses, the day doesn't end once the 18th flag is back in the cup and the shoes are tossed in the trunk. Some can host a relaxed post-round meal or a stylish night out just as smoothly as they can turn out a foursome every eight minutes. The Carltun at
The Spring Lake Golf Club's Thunderbird Course is the main attraction at the 27-hole facility in Middle Island, offering a combination of challenging, strategic golf and a pleasant, park-like setting that cannot easily be topped on the Island. It is a par-72 that measures 7,048 yards from the championship tees and 6,455 from the middle.
Golfing Magazine put together a Long Island Dream Golf Club in its Fall 2008 issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes from as far west as Garden City and Great Neck, and as far east as Montauk and Greenport,
We're nearly a month deep into 2009, but so far the new year has not been kind to those looking to play some cold-weather golf. A frozen sheet of snow has kept the fairways and greens under wraps and it doesn't appear to be letting go anytime soon. In the event a good golf day
NOTE: An updated course flyover was posted in April 2010. Check it out by clicking here. Normally I wouldn't write about a course that I have yet to play in full at least once. After passing by the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury numerous times over the years while working in Syosset
I noticed earlier this week that the website for the Pine Hills Country Club is out of service. For anyone who has visited that site in the past in search of helpful information about the course, layout or rates, this latest development isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world. Unless I'm missing something —
[This flyover was updated on June 26, 2023.] Golf courses are certainly not difficult to find across Long Island. No matter where you're sitting, it's likely that a flagstick is dug into a golf hole somewhere within a 15-minute drive. Par-3 courses, however, are a different story. Sometimes during the ongoing love-hate relationship between golfer
Golfing Magazine put together a Long Island Dream Golf Club in its Fall 2008 issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes from as far west as Garden City and Great Neck, and as far east as Montauk and Greenport,