Hard to believe, but we're only a few hours away from March. Typically, the end of February brings five days of the Accenture Match Play Championship on television and leaves you primed for any sort of golf competition. Luckily, it also means the annual Leprechaun Golf Classic at the Crab Meadow Golf Course is only […]
In a statement released last week, the Town of Oyster Bay announced that membership fees for the town golf course in Woodbury will not rise for the 2011 season. The Oyster Bay Town Board voted to keep membership rates the same for the third consecutive year. Members of the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course
It seems the farther east you play golf on Long Island, the less chance you'll have to leave the course hungry. Last year's Long Island Dream Club restaurant was Blackwells at the Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River, one of the best and most relaxing settings for a post-round beer and burger (and steak,
[This post was updated on November 28, 2011.] On one side of Route 110 in Farmingdale, small planes soar into the sky from the runways of Republic Airport. Directly across the road, hundreds of golf balls do the same from the stalls of the Skydrive Golf Center. With 72 heated stalls for casual tune-ups, intense
In addition to its 90 golf holes, Bethpage State Park also boasts one of Long Island's best pro shops. It is here where local players grab a last-minute sleeve of Callaways before running out to the starter, or an umbrella and towel after they've booked 18 in the rain. It is also from here where
The Nassau County municipal golf courses at Bay Park in East Rockaway and Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn are closed for the season. Both nine-hole par-30s will reopen sometime in March. Bay Park is a flat, wide-open course exposed to strong winds off Hewlett Bay and surrounding inlets. Christopher Morley is shorter and tighter. Nassau's
There's a Black Friday bargain waiting for area golfers at the end of the Long Island Expressway in Riverhead, and it's not at the Tanger Outlets. While the rest of the Island either shops or sleeps in, golfers with a tolerance for whipping, late-autumn winds on the North Fork can find a decent deal at
Thanksgiving and sports go together like turkey and stuffing, but on Long Island, it's not necessarily football that precedes a holiday feast. Golf, at some area courses, is as much a part of Thanksgiving as pumpkin pie and a Lions home game. One hour before its central Suffolk neighbor, Spring Lake, kicks off its own
Have you ever thought that a clean iron shot on a local par-3 course could put a $20,000 check in your pocket? If so, well…you have quite an imagination. But on Monday, October 25, Long Islanders will have an opportunity to win a $20,000 grand prize at the Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition's 2010 Golf Skill
Bethpage State Park's Black Course will go dark on as many as 12 days during the month of August for scheduled maintenance and events. The Black is closed for play every Monday for maintenance, as well as Tuesday, August 3; Wednesday, August 4; and Tuesday, August 10. From August 23 to August 27, the Black