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
The annual New York State Open will be held at Bethpage State Park's Black Course next month after receiving the green light from state government to play the tournament amid the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, the Black Course will be closed to the public from Monday, August 24 through Thursday, August 27. The course
Just weeks before the world was turned upside down by Covid-19, Topgolf quietly publicized specific details about its planned Long Island location. Included in that announcement was a broad target opening date of early 2021. Whether or not that exact timeline still stands (the company did not respond to requests for a schedule update), here
Motor carts for single riders only will be available as soon as Saturday at some Long Island county and town golf courses, according to Newsday's Jeff Williams. The Suffolk County municipal courses at Bergen Point, Indian Island, Timber Point and West Sayville will allow the use of motor carts for golfers age 65 and over,
By the end of this week all but a tiny handful of Long Island's public golf courses will be open for play with a variety of social-distancing measures in place. This Friday, May 1, Island's End Golf Course in Greenport and the Town of Huntington municipal courses at Crab Meadow and Dix Hills Park will
A recent Newsday article indicated that Suffolk County would follow the lead of New York State when it came to making golf courses open again for play, and that's exactly how the county's golf relaunch is taking place. Following the state's decision late last week to reopen its golf courses, Suffolk County announced that West
New York State municipal golf courses on Long Island — Bethpage, Montauk Downs and Sunken Meadow — will reopen for play on Monday, April 27, with social-distancing guidelines in place. Bethpage's Black Course will follow with its 2020 reopening on Friday, May 1. Starting that day, four Bethpage courses will be open daily. On the
The second leg of Long Island's spring golf season will soon be underway as public golf courses plan for reopenings following New York State's business revision that permits play during the "NYS on Pause" shutdown. By early Sunday afternoon, a handful of local courses began to announce reopen dates, including Cherry Creek and Swan Lake,
In the latest nonsensical twist to New York State golf in the age of the coronavirus, it seems that private clubs are now permitted to allow member play on the sly, while public golf courses are to remain shuttered. Empire State Development, which kept golf courses open for weeks before categorizing golf courses as non-essential