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A New Decade of Long Island Golf, Part 1 — A changed landscape, on and off the course

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, For Beginners, In the News, Indoor Golf, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Off-Course Destinations, Pitch and Putt, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

ALSO SEE:Part 2 — Developing lifelong players as time runs low and Long Islanders leavePart 3 — Finding a new voice for courses as marketing evolves in the age of social media Another decade of Long Island golf is coming to a close — the thirteenth, to be exact, since the first shots went airborne […]

Holiday menu filled with Long Island golf outings this Thanksgiving season

18-hole, 18-hole, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Suffolk Courses

Thanksgiving is all about spending time with family and friends while picking away at a hearty spread of goodies, but only the winter golfer is aware that Thanksgiving is also known for spending time with family and friends while hacking away at frosty fairways in one of many holiday golf outings.  Turkey Day is essentially

Off-Course Destination: Pickle N Par, Melville

For Beginners, Indoor Golf, Off-Course Destinations

Two years after the long-running Skydrive Golf Center was torn down in Farmingdale, the busy Route 110 corridor near the Nassau-Suffolk line regained another golf facility, all thanks to one Long Islander's passion for … pickleball. Yes, pickleball, the hybrid of badminton, tennis and ping pong introduced to thousands of teenagers each year by way

Junior golfers play free this Saturday at New York State Parks courses

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Pitch and Putt, Suffolk Courses

Take your junior golfers to the nearest state park for nine or 18 holes this Saturday — New York State is picking up the green fee. This Saturday, July 20, is Free Youth Golf Day, a statewide event that Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this spring as New York welcomed the PGA Championship to the crown

A half-century in East Rock: Nassau muni Bay Park in the midst of its 50th-anniversary season

9-hole, For Beginners, In the News, Nassau Courses, Origins, South Shore, Voices of Long Island Golf

It's a special season at Bay Park Golf Course, though you won't find any milestones announced on a banner billowing over the park entrance or stretched across the facade of the course's faceless, utilitarian brick clubhouse.  There are no anniversary logos printed on hats and polos, no leather-bound books to chronicle the course's half-century beside

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