Have you ever thought that a clean iron shot on a local par-3 course could put a $20,000 check in your pocket? If so, well…you have quite an imagination. But on Monday, October 25, Long Islanders will have an opportunity to win a $20,000 grand prize at the Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition's 2010 Golf Skill […]
The Brentwood and Holbrook Country Clubs are once again arming local golfers with money-saving coupons good for the entire Fall season. The Town of Islip courses are offering two specials — one each for riders and walkers. For $42, play either course after 11:00 a.m. with cart and reservation fees included. If you'd rather walk
The greens on the Red and Blue nines at the Timber Point Golf Course in Great River will be aerated this week. The Blue Course will be closed on Tuesday, August 31; the Red will be closed on Wednesday, September 1. Call the pro shop at (631) 581-2401 for course information.
The Massapequa Mustangs Football Foundation, one of Long Island's largest and most recognizable youth football organizations, will hold its sixth annual golf outing on Monday, September 20 at the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury. Town Supervisor John Venditto and longtime coach and contributor Joseph Trainor will be honored at the event. The
You can still play golf at the Poxabogue Golf Center — for now. Just don't arrive at the Hamptons-area course on an empty stomach. The latest twist in the municipal dramatics that have put the "saga" in this Sagaponack nine-holer was announced last week in the East Hampton Press. Citing town restrictions and a recent
The Tallgrass Country Club is holding an open golf outing on Wednesday, August 25, with shotgun start scheduled for 9:00 a.m. All golfers are invited to participate. The event includes motor cart on the course, continental breakfast and range balls before the round, barbecue lunch at the turn, and prizes throughout the day. Entry fee
Registration is open for Dix Hills Park's "Back To School" Junior Golf Program, a five-session instructional series designed to keep young golfers swinging through the fall while introducing them to and teaching the basic aspects of the game. The program is open to junior golfers from age 5 through 14 and is limited to the
"Firm and fast" is a pair of adjectives not typically used to describe Long Island fairways, but with the scorching hot summer of 2010 depriving golf courses of the rainwater they desperately need, one course is playing even closer to its links-style design. Tee shots were bouncing, bouncing, rolling and rolling (and rolling) during our
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will be closed for the New York State Open beginning tomorrow, July 19 through Friday, July 23. It will reopen to the public on Saturday, July 24.
The recent (and ongoing) heat wave has done little to keep us off the fairways — or more accurately, in the rough — of Long Island's golf courses. Earlier this week, Golf On Long Island visited Wading River's Great Rock Golf Club for another showdown with a course that demands pinpoint accuracy and a deft