Good news for Long Island's golf-playing Costco members: the bulk-shopping giant's store-brand golf ball is on par with, and might even outperform, the renowned Titleist Pro-V1, and for a third of the price. The bad news…they're getting harder and harder to find. Forbes reported earlier this week that Costco's Kirkland Signature golf balls, which sell […]
Golf Channel's travel and buddy-trip guru Matt Ginella announced his list of the top 50 public courses for 2016 last week, and Long Island's lone representative, Bethpage Black, finds itself on familiar ground — near the top. Bethpage Black is ranked behind only Pebble Beach, Pacific Dunes and Pinehurst No. 2, settling in at #4
Time is winding down in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll — voters have until December 15 to click in favor of their preferred course or club. This is the 12th edition of the survey, which runs each fall, giving Long Islanders the opportunity to nominate and vote for their favorite goods
Town of Huntington board members voted unanimously last month to end its license agreement with Integrity Golf, the Florida-based management company hired in 2014 to run the Crab Meadow and Dix Hills Park municipal courses, according to Newsday. Newsday's Deborah S. Morris reported Thursday that the board voted 5 to 0 to revoke the agreement
Few golfers expected to tee it up at Tallgrass Golf Course this season, but the Shoreham course has a long history of perseverance. It skirted the looming threat of solar-farm development early in the spring, then survived through the summer, as well. In a mid-September column, Newsday's Mark Herrmann reported that the course would be around
Golf On Long Island's Phil Carlucci will talk about his book Images of America: Long Island Golf on September 28 as part of the Huntington Historical Society's "Lunch & Learn" series. Society members and non-members are invited to attend the event, which will take place at Black & Blue Seafood Chophouse in Huntington. The book
Around the same time The Barclays was drawing thousands of local golf fans to Bethpage Black to see the world's best players take on the vaunted course, Golf Magazine released its list of America's best public golf courses, the type of ranking that the Black typically dominates. This list is no different. Bethpage Black is
Bethpage Black will host The Barclays tournament from Thursday, August 25 to Sunday, August 28, but local golfers will be affected as early as August 8. That's the day Bethpage Black will close to the public in preparation for the event, which will bring some of the world's most famous golfers to Long Island for
Golf On Long Island's Phil Carlucci was the featured guest on the June 25 radio broadcast of "On Par with Anthony Scorcia" to discuss the local golf scene as well as Images of America: Long Island Golf. Listen to the full interview in the player below. 6-25-16-Phil_Carlucci Anthony Scorcia's weekly golf radio show can be
Decades after he first put his hands in the turf of soon-to-be Long Island golf courses, Charles K. Martin's fingerprints remain on most of those fairways and greens built during the 1960s golf boom, and they're still there on a handful of courses that arrived long before. Yet, according to a 2010 Newsday article, Martin