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Bethpage, Montauk Downs listed among Golfweek’s 2024 Best Courses You Can Play

18-hole, 18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Suffolk Courses

June 20, 2024

There are certainties in Long Island golf life ’97 group photos at the Black Course warning sign, wind at Montauk Downs, and Bethpage and Montauk ranked highly in Golfweek's list of the region's top public golf courses. Golfweek's 2024 Best Courses You Can Play rankings were published earlier this month and Bethpage Black finds itself […]

Newsday: Stonebridge Golf Links ownership withdraws on-course housing proposal

18-hole, In the News, Suffolk Courses

June 10, 2024

A development plan that would have built 28 additional homes at Stonebridge Golf Links and Country Club in Hauppauge and shortened its 18-hole golf course into abbreviated nines has been withdrawn by ownership, according to Newsday. All that remains now are lingering questions and concerns about the future of the current golf course. Newsday's Jean-Paul

Eisenhower Park to close with limited golf access during next month’s Cricket World Cup

18-hole, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central

May 24, 2024

[UPpost_date: Eisenhower Red and Blue will both reopen for play on Thursday, June 13.] Long Island golfers will have limited access to the golf courses at Eisenhower Park next month while local and visiting cricket fans take in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, part of which will be held at the Nassau County park

Bethpage Black opens 2024 season with bunker tweaks, irrigation upgrades

18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Voices of Long Island Golf

April 13, 2024

Players who went looking for a one-on-one fight with Bethpage Black on the golf course's opening day were instead met with an ambush by briskly cold temperatures and a brutal, relentless wind. But the surprises weren't all bad ’97 waiting on the first tee for some of the park's morning players was the Ryder Cup,

Proposed homebuilding plan calls for major modifications or possible closure of Stonebridge Golf Links

18-hole, In the News, Suffolk Courses

April 8, 2024

The future of Stonebridge Golf Links and Country Club suddenly appears to be in doubt. A proposed plan to build additional homes at the Hauppauge course would modify or eliminate several golf holes and remodel Stonebridge into two separate layouts, said attorney David Altman at a March 20 meeting of the Smithtown Planning Board. If

Spy Ring Golf Club to open to the public May 6

9-hole, Course Promos and Updates, In the News, Suffolk Courses, Voices of Long Island Golf

April 3, 2024

[NOTE: Spy Ring GC is now open. Read more about the course in the Spy Ring flyover.] The wait is nearly over. The slow and steady rollout of Spy Ring Golf Club, the first non-executive public golf course built on Long Island in nearly two decades, is moving ahead toward launch. Spy Ring will make

Oyster Bay Golf Course to reopen April 1 with irrigation, tee-box upgrades in progress

18-hole, Course Promos and Updates, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central

March 5, 2024

The Town of Oyster Bay is investing in an upgraded irrigation system and newly built tee boxes at its municipal golf course in Woodbury, though the ongoing work will not delay the course's spring debut. Oyster Bay is scheduled to reopen for the 2024 season on Monday, April 1. While the fairways and greens will

Ryder Cup 2025: NYS Parks expects 225,000 fans, massive infrastructure at Bethpage Black

18-hole, Bethpage, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central

September 29, 2023

When the final putt drops at the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome on Sunday, Bethpage State Park will officially be on the clock. Two years and counting until the next Ryder Cup will be awarded on Long Island at the "People's Country Club." New York State is expecting approximately 225,000 fans from around the globe

Harbor Links approaching 25 years since its grand opening in a Port Washington sand mine

18-hole, 9-hole, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Origins, Voices of Long Island Golf

July 21, 2023

To the untrained eye, or rather, the eye of anyone who is not a golf-course designer, the big, barren sand mines of Port Washington were exactly as they appeared ’96 big, barren sand mines. To Michael Hurdzan and his design team, the excavated pits that drove industry along Long Island Sound for more than a

Bethpage Black ranks #7 on Long Island-dominated Golf Digest course list

18-hole, Bethpage, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Voices of Long Island Golf

July 19, 2023

Golf Digest's measured rollout of its 2023-24 Best In State golf-course rankings made its way to New York last week, and Long Island — "one of the world's most desirable pieces of golf terrain," according to the mag — dominates the list. The top three courses and seven of the top 10 are located right

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