Finally, The Rock has come back to Wading River. Excuse the early-2000s wrestling reference, but it works. The Rock Golf Club, the rebranded and rejuvenated course formerly known as Great Rock, will reopen for play this Friday, July 1, after nearly three years out of Long Island's golf rotation. The course will be open to […]
Like a rush on tee times at Bethpage and Montauk Downs, you can always count on the two state-park facilities finding their way onto Golfweek's annual list of top public golf courses. Golfweek released its 2022 Best Courses You Can Play list earlier this month, a collection of rankings highlighting the elite publicly accessible courses
The long-rumored reopening of Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River is delayed until later this summer, possibly around the July 4 holiday. Great Rock has been closed since late 2019 and was sold to a new local ownership group in spring 2021. This latest projection follows earlier indications that the course was on track
Last fall Geoffrey Schwartz led a tour through an empty, white-walled shell deep inside a Commack strip mall, pointing to where he planned to set up golf simulators, a full bar and a mezzanine for events. Six months and a full transformation later, the space — previously part of a closed Toys 'R' Us —
[NOTE: Spy Ring GC is now open. Read more about the course in the Spy Ring flyover.] Looking out from a flat, elevated square marked with dusty footprints, Jimmi Conway points toward a slender oasis in an expanse of tire-tracked sand, the pings of a bustling construction site echoing in the background. Four bunkers stand
Great Rock Golf Club, the Wading River course that closed in 2019 and was sold to new owners last year, could reopen for play this spring, possibly by Memorial Day, according to staff. The course, now dormant for nearly two and a half years, has undergone renovation and modification projects since its sale last May.
Spring can't come soon enough for the Long Island golfing community now that we've reached the tail end of a second straight winter season that has been, for the most part, a bust. A blizzard knocked out a couple of playing weeks on its own, and poor ground conditions led many golf courses to remain
The Town of Babylon has commissioned a feasibility study to explore the possibility of eliminating nine holes of its Cedar Beach Golf Course due to low use, and replacing them with cabanas, lockers and other revenue-generating amenities, according to Newsday. In 2021 the Cedar Beach course, currently an 18-hole pitch-and-putt, drew its highest turnout in
A round on the Blue and Red courses at Timber Point in Great River is a bit of a walk (or ride) through history. Since the 1920s, when the course emerged on the edge of Great South Bay as a highly touted and equally exclusive private club, players of all social strata have aimed the
Lido Beach golf both past and present, as well as local, national and even international, is the subject of the most recent podcast just published this month by The Golfer's Journal and narrated by New York sports and golf writer Brett Cyrgalis. If none of that seems to make much sense and the connection between