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One week left to vote for “Best Golf Course” in 12th annual LI Press poll

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December 7, 2016

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 ends agreement with Crab Meadow, Dix Hills Park course operator

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December 1, 2016

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

Uncertainty clouds another year’s end at Tallgrass Golf Course in Shoreham

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November 21, 2016

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

Check out “Long Island Golf” book talk and lunch in Huntington on September 28

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September 14, 2016

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

Golf Magazine ranks Bethpage Black in top 5 on public courses list

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September 6, 2016

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 course closures for The Barclays in August

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July 4, 2016

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

Listen to GOLI’s chat about Long Island Golf on the “On Par with Anthony Scorcia” radio show

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June 26, 2016

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

Remembering Charles K. Martin, prominent Long Island golf-course builder and designer

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June 8, 2016

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

Happy 80th Birthday, Bethpage Black

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May 31, 2016

The Black Course at Bethpage turned the big 8-0 today, joining its sibling courses and fellow octogenarians Green, Red and Blue. The youngster of the group — the Yellow Course — still has two-plus decades to go. Bethpage Black opened for play on May 31, 1936, marking the completion of an ambitious golf-course construction project

Babylon’s Sumpwams Creek Golf Course battling a goose problem

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May 22, 2016

Anybody who's grown up on the schoolyards, soccer fields and golf courses around Long Island is overly acquainted with the, uhh, material left behind by flocks of Canadian geese. That doesn't make the situation at Sumpwams Creek Golf Course any easier to handle, as the nine-hole layout in Babylon, according to Newsday, is doing all

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