Capping a suspense-free voting period, Bethpage State Park was crowned "Best Golf Course" last month when the Long Island Press announced the results of its annual "Best of LI" poll. The real surprise was over in the less heralded, more practice-oriented "Best Driving Range" category, where the Oakdale Golf Center flew under the radar and […]
The "Best of LI" hot streak continues at Bethpage, where each of the five courses have a victory medal all their own thanks to readers of the Long Island Press. For the fifth year in a row, Bethpage bagged top honors in the "Best Golf Course" category of the local newspaper's annual "Best of Long
A crushed drive soars through the air on Bethpage Black's par-4 fifth — the straightest drive you've struck in weeks — and settles into the first cut off the left side of the diagonal fairway. You get to your ball and find you have no shot at the elevated green. Unless there's an incredible power
Membership permit rates at the Glen Cove Golf Club will change in 2012 and include a slight increase to city residents, a Newsday report said last week. Non-resident permit rates will decrease by close to half as the City of Glen Cove tries to lure more golfers to its municipal par-67 and away from other
Thirteen public golf courses in Nassau and Suffolk are in the running for the title of "Best Golf Course" of 2012 in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll, and 12 of them are looking to wrestle that title away from Bethpage State Park. The 90-hole centerpiece of Long Island golf will win
During our first visit to the Holbrook Country Club a few years ago, a crow — either hungry or simply mischievous — took advantage of our concentration on the putting green and helped itself without any hesitation to some of Rob's unguarded breakfast. It then joined its friends up in the trees for a hearty
The gated entrance to the former Links at Shirley sits largely ignored along William Floyd Parkway, some of its letters missing as it protects overgrown corridors of once-pristine golf holes. Soon, the site will be split up between single-family homes, 55-and-over townhouses and open space. According to Newsday, as part of a deal between the
The Hamptons-area Poxabogue Golf Course will soon be owned entirely by the Town of Southampton, according to reports in Newsday and The East Hampton Press earlier this week. East Hampton's Town Board voted last week to sell off its portion of the jointly owned golf facility in order to pay off debt from its original
Well, maybe not for a while, if at all. But it’s an idea that Mark Herrmann floats today in his weekly Newsday Golf Beat. Herrmann thinks the golf fans of Long Island, who distinguished themselves at the 2002 U.S. Open, deserve more PGA Tour golf on their home courses than they’re getting right now —