After listening to arguments last month in support of and opposed to a proposed Topgolf facility beside the Long Island Expressway in Holtsville, the Town of Brookhaven planning board followed up this week by voting 6-0 in favor of granting site-plan approval for the company's first New York location. The approval requires that Topgolf plant […]
Ground has yet to be broken in Holtsville for what would be Long Island's first Topgolf facility, but representatives from the Dallas-based company have already received a traditional Long Island welcome from area residents who spoke out against the development at a Brookhaven Town public hearing on Monday. Citing loud music, lights and the potential
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
Golfweek released its 2019 Best Courses You Can Play ranking last month, a familiar list of various New York golf courses all filling in spots in the state's top 15 behind the long-untouched leader, Bethpage Black. Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs once again represent Long Island in Golfweek's annual ranking of the top
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
Amid its wall-to-wall PGA Championship coverage at Bethpage Black earlier this week, the Golf Channel aired a short but fascinating six-minute feature on a lesser-known Long Island golf powerhouse, one that's long gone but certainly not forgotten by followers of golf history. The segment covered the original Lido Club (1914-1942) with insight provided by Connor
Bethpage Black has already closed in advance of this month's 2019 PGA Championship, and its four sibling courses at Bethpage State Park will soon follow suit. The Blue, Green and Red courses will all close to the public on Monday, May 6 to make way for tournament prep and play. (Yellow will be aerated on
Heading to next month's PGA Championship at Bethpage Black? There are a number of ways to get to Bethpage for the tournament, none of which include driving straight to the park (or '30s-era horse-and-buggy service from Farmingdale, as pictured below). With crowds swelling in anticipation of another Tiger Woods major, be sure to prepare yourself
Golfers returning to Bethpage State Park for early-spring golf have been treated to some uncommon scenery as the PGA Championship, formerly of August, looms just weeks away in May. For one, a look deep into the distance at the first green on the Red Course includes a view past roughly 300 yards of tents sitting
It was still far short of sunrise in the early-morning hours of April 18, 1989, yet a line of cars stretched near the gates of what had long been a leafy, bucolic private estate at Jericho Turnpike and Southwoods Road in Woodbury. Inside those cars, dozens of local golfers sat waiting to secure a spot