The nets are up at Topgolf Long Island, and the company's familiar graphics adorn the building's facade. New York's first location of the nationwide golf and entertainment chain is starting to resemble the new-age driving range local golfers have been waiting for, looking down over the Long Island Expressway in Holtsville. After years of speculation […]
A years-long battle over a proposed senior housing complex in Centereach that would cut the Heatherwood Golf Club from 18 holes to nine has instead reduced the entire course to overgrowth as the future of the development dims. Heatherwood has been closed since early 2020, and it appears likely the course will stay closed for
On this first morning of spring, the season of new beginnings, opening day at Bethpage Green was slowed by a frost delay. It was a fitting way to follow a winter season that was largely snowed out. The cold thaw will do little to dampen local golf enthusiasm though, or the prospects for 2021. The
Peninsula Golf Club shareholders will meet next week to discuss the potential sale of the Massapequa nine-hole golf course to a Florida firm, Newsday reported on Thursday. On the table is a $4.4 million offer from the Florida company for the 50-acre property, which must remain a public golf course, according to Nassau County covenants.
There is activity at the future Holtsville home of New York's first Topgolf venue, which is on schedule to make its long-awaited debut this summer, Brookhaven Councilman Kevin LaValle told Golf On Long Island on Thursday. LaValle confirmed that Topgolf Long Island remains on track to open "in the third quarter" of 2021, likely around
A replica of Long Island's very own Lido Golf Club is currently under construction with renowned designer Tom Doak at the helm, and will open to members and public guests sometime in 2023 near the Sand Valley Golf Resort in Wisconsin. Why does the bustling Town of Hempstead municipal layout need a tribute course built
The Crab Meadow Golf Course in Northport will be renamed for Robert J. Flynn, the former Huntington supervisor whose work in acquiring parkland paved the way for the town's two municipal golf courses, according to a press release. The Huntington Town Board unanimously approved the rededication of the 18-hole course, which will now be formally
If you drove near exit 62 of the Long Island Expressway in June, you might have caught a quick glimpse of the shell of a new driving range — New York's first Topgolf location — along the north service road. And if you made the same drive in September, you might have noticed — well,
No further confirmation was really needed — the abrupt closing last fall, the disconnected phone line, frozen-in-time social media and lack of a 2020 playing season were all dead giveaways regarding the fate of the Great Rock Golf Club. And without an official notice or a brief snippet in the newspaper, it seems a three-word
More than a week since Tropical Storm Isaias powered through the northeast, Bethpage State Park remains in recovery mode, with the Yellow Course and part of the Blue still shut due to extensive tree damage. In the hours following last Tuesday's storm, fallen trees were a common sight across Long Island communities, a good indication