The Black Course at Bethpage State Park doesn't get any action during the winter season, but it does get plenty of accolades. Around the same time that the Long Island Press announced Bethpage as the "Best Golf Course" survey winner for the seventh straight year, Golf Digest put out another of its offseason course rankings, […]
In the spirit of the Winter Olympics currently underway in Sochi, Bethpage State Park and its famed Black Course have taken home the gold yet again in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll, with Rock Hill Golf & Country Club and Eisenhower Park occupying familiar spots on the medal stand. Long Island
The winter golf season has officially arrived. Fittingly, in a year characterized by bizarre weather and a week that began with cars frozen under blocks of ice, the opening weekend of Long Island winter golf will see temperatures pushing 70 degrees. This is welcome news for Long Island's all-season golfers, who typically keep their putters
Thanksgiving 2012 was an uncertain time for the Lido Golf Club and Timber Point Golf Course in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Thanks to hard work that culminated in remarkable recoveries this season, on Thanksgiving 2013, the focus will simply be on fun holiday golf. Registration is open for the Lido Golf Club's annual Thanksgiving
With its rolling terrain and massive size, the Black Course at Bethpage State Park lends itself to a gorgeous photo, and since the 2002 U.S. Open, dramatic pictures of the glacier bunker, opening tee and sand-heavy finale have been easy to find. Less prevalent are artistic interpretations of the course's beauty, but a local artist
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park, typically the first of Long Island's seasonal public golf courses to hang a "See You In Spring" sign on its clubhouse door, is down to its final weeks of the 2013 playing season. The course will close on Sunday, November 17. If you can't get out on
The New York Apple Core junior hockey program and Lido Golf Club both absorbed heavy damage from Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, and on the eve of the storm's first anniversary, the repaired and restored Lido Beach golf course will help raise money for its Long Beach neighbor to enjoy a similar rejuvenation. Registration is
The golf season is winding down, which means voting in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll is just heating up. Golfers and golf fans have a few months to cast their votes online for Long Island's "Best Golf Course" as well as the area's top driving range and golf store. Voting is
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park is currently closed for fall aeration. It will reopen on Friday, September 27. Next up for fall maintenance at Bethpage is the Yellow Course, which will be closed on October 1-2. For Bethpage's full aeration schedule, check here.
Four of the five golf courses at Bethpage State Park will be aerated in September and October. (Aeration on the Blue Course is already finished.) First up on the schedule is the Black Course later this month. Bethpage courses will be closed for fall aeration on the following dates: Black Course: September 23-26Yellow Course: October