Thanks to fundraising and grant money though a California-based nonprofit organization, the Crab Meadow Golf Course is the first public course in New York State equipped with a Paramobile for use by mobility-impaired golfers, according to Newsday. The local chapter of the nonprofit Stand Up and Play Foundation raised enough money, in addition to a […]
The Town of Oyster Bay has raised rates on green fees and memberships for non-residents in an effort to increase revenue at its municipal golf course in Woodbury, Newsday reported last month. Membership rates for non-residents increased by close to 40 percent when the town adopted a new 2017 fee schedule in early April, while
Junior golfers who watched the Drive, Chip and Putt Championship played last week at famed Augusta National have a shot to be among next year's finalists performing in the lead-up to The Masters, and it comes this July when qualifying rounds tee off here on Long Island. Qualifying rounds for the 2018 Drive, Chip and
The Shelter Island Country Club will lease its bar and restaurant, tighten oversight of its finances and reach out to attract new members in 2017, all in an effort to reverse a significant decrease in revenue, according to Newsday and the Shelter Island Reporter. The public nine-hole course affectionately referred to as "Goat Hill," which
Shoreham's Tallgrass Golf Course is closed for good, ending a nearly two-decade run as not only one of New York State's most highly regarded public courses, but also as one consistently stalked by outside plans for development. The course will be converted into a 127-acre solar farm called Shoreham Solar Commons in the near future.
Nothing to see here. The results are in for the 2017 "Best of LI" poll by the Long Island Press, and Bethpage State Park is still on top. In fact, all of the golf-category winners from 2016 are back in the top spot — Bethpage for "Best Golf Course," Heartland Golf Park for "Best Driving
The Town of Huntington has approved license agreements with two Long Island-based companies to replace Integrity Golf as operators at Crab Meadow Golf Course and Dix Hills Park Golf Course, according to reports in Newsday and The Huntingtonian. Dietz Golf Corp. of Calverton will take over golf operations at the two town courses, and Gelucci
In the midst of a nationwide downturn in the golf industry, the Town of Brookhaven is working toward preserving its golf courses, and it hopes to do so through zoning. Newsday reported Monday that Brookhaven plans to rezone its town-owned courses as "golf course districts," a newly created zoning category that would prevent them from
Golf Digest published the 2017-2018 edition of its America's Greatest Golf Courses last week, a list that typically includes a variety of high-profile Long Island clubs and one particularly noteworthy public course, and this year's ranking is no exception. Bethpage Black, among the minority of public courses on the list, turned up in the top
The first snowfall of the year was a costly one for the Links Course at Cherry Creek, according to reports by Newsday and the Riverhead News-Review. Cherry Creek staff discovered snowmobile tracks across two greens and several tees and bunkers at the course over the weekend, Riverhead police announced Sunday. Police officials said estimated damage