Bethpage Black lifts the curtain tomorrow on the 2018 playing season and will feature several renovations made by park staff with the 2019 season — specifically, next May's PGA Championship — in mind. With the pros headed back this way come next May, some of the Black's more familiar holes have undergone or will soon […]
Fee increases proposed by new Nassau County Executive Laura Curran would impact golfers renting golf carts and buying range tokens at the county's municipal courses, according to Newsday's analysis of the administration's latest budget proposal. Curran, citing the need to address Nassau's dire fiscal situation, plans to increase both cart rentals and buckets of range
Golf On Long Island's Visitors' Guide to Long Island Golf is now updated for 2018, including information on which area courses are catering to out-of-town golfers who are looking to play while here for the U.S. Open in June. Also featured is the latest information on the new NYS Parks online tee-time system. That's in
Bethpage State Park will soon be running at full capacity, with the Red Course scheduled to open on March 30 and the Black Course on April 14. Of course, April is also spring aeration month at Bethpage, so expect some brief course closures. The Red Course will be first up for aeration on Monday, April
The antiquated tee-time reservation system that required Bethpage and Montauk Downs golfers to suffer through busy signals and faxed driver's licenses is now firmly where it belongs — in the past. New York State's Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation department has announced a new online reservation system for tee times at select state-park golf courses,
March Madness is underway in the world of college hoops, which means it's bracket-filling season for everyone from casual observer to Cameron Crazie. Brackets shouldn't be confined to basketball though, and as it turns out, once you set aside the pitch-and-putts down along the beach, Long Island has exactly 64 distinct public golf courses. Sounds
February almost always teases golfers with a tiny taste of spring, and when it does, it has a tendency to sock them with a blizzard just as they were getting their clubs regripped for the new season. But when the snow holds off, course openings are just around the corner. Long Island's seasonal golf courses
Just because Long Island is under attack from a winter "bomb cyclone" doesn't mean a housebound golfer can't envision his or her opening drive of the 2018 season. And while they're shaping shots in their mind this offseason, local players might need to rethink their strategy if they plan to tee of on Bethpage Black.
If you have no problem spending an hour-plus in the clubhouse waiting out a frost delay, if you get excited for a sunny 45-degree weather forecast, and if your golf wardrobe includes multiple pairs of cold-weather golf gloves, chances are you're a seasoned Long Island winter golfer. The majority of local golfers put the finishing
Long after the majority of Long Island's golfers have packed their clubs away for hibernation, a dedicated group of players keep the active deep into the fall and winter. For them, Halloween, Thanksgiving and even New Year's are just great golfing days with wide-open tee sheets, merely chillier equivalents to warm spring rounds on Memorial