**UPDATED FOR 2026** Long Island can be confusing and intimidating for out-of-towners. Of course, the best place to relax and let troubles melt away is on the golf course. The following guide is intended to help visitors on Long Island find their bearings and get to the first tee. Especially with the U.S. Open returning to Shinnecock Hills […]
A round of golf in the Five Towns area usually means a tee time at a private club like Seawane, Inwood or Rockaway Hunt, but this season it could also mean 18 on the opposite coast — say, Pebble Beach. The Back Nine, one of Long Island’s newest indoor golf venues, set up shop in
Aside from the leaky cup of lukewarm snack-bar joe, golf and coffee rarely cross paths. But down in Long Beach, behind big storefront windows and a dark awning, there is a lounge-chair-lined intersection where Mizunos meet macchiatos, where the pings of a driver meld with the familiar hiss of a steam wand. Long Beach Coffee
It's been nothing but good news of late for Long Island's winter golfers ’97 going back to the fall, forecasts for the 2023-24 offseason predicted milder temperatures and precipitation in the form of rain, not snow, thanks to an El Nino weather pattern. And that's following a 2022-23 winter that was entirely snow-free. But that
The new operators of Eisenhower Park's restaurant and catering facility are focused on bringing professional golf back to the Red Course and are spending millions of dollars on upgrades to make that a reality, according to Newsday's James Madore. The group, EGB Hospitality LLC, plans to reopen the facility on May 1 following $5.5 million
[UPpost_date: X-Golf Westbury is scheduled to open March 10.] Nassau County is about to get its first taste of the modern golf and entertainment experience that recently has popped up farther east in places like Holtsville, Patchogue and Commack. And it will arrive in a spot that's no stranger to the metallic echoes of drivers
Some people wake up a little groggy on New Year's Day and spend the morning in pajamas, clutching a cup of coffee. Others wake up a little groggy, see the sun shining on a 45-degree day, and spend the rest of the morning on the golf course, clutching irons and hand warmers. Golf on a
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 —
Topgolf is not the only national golf and entertainment chain planting its first flag on Long Island this season. California-based X-Golf, an industry leader in golf simulator technology with more than 20 indoor golf centers nationwide, will open a Westbury location this November at Samanea New York, formerly known as the Mall at The Source,
The parking lot is paved with lines painted. A new sign stands at the entrance, and a "Now Hiring" banner waves at the top of the three-story building's nearly finished exterior. Topgolf Long Island — New York's first in the international golf/entertainment chain — is nearing its debut. There is no official opening date just