Most visitors to Baseball Plus on February weekends are there to hone their swings for upcoming baseball and softball seasons. For the past year, however, golfers have had a practice area for their own swing work, where the crack of a 5-iron and the thud of a simulator screen join the chorus of aluminum bat […]
So you showed up at the Long Island Dream Club with a dozen Titleists, and you left the 18th green at Cherry Creek Links with only three. A full sleeve disappeared into the drink when you tried to pull a Roy McAvoy through the wind at Montauk Downs. You tensed up in the face of
[A full Eisenhower White Course flyover was published on February 10, 2012. Click here for the updated post.] Eisenhower Park's Red Course gets most of the attention thanks to its past presence on the Champions Tour and its high marks from Golf Digest and Newsday, but the park's White and Blue courses each have good
We're nearly a month deep into 2009, but so far the new year has not been kind to those looking to play some cold-weather golf. A frozen sheet of snow has kept the fairways and greens under wraps and it doesn't appear to be letting go anytime soon. In the event a good golf day
Last week I noted that the Pine Hills Country Club website was out of service. It still is. A phone call to Pine Hills over the weekend revealed that the par-73 in Manorville is unaffected, thankfully. "We're open every day but Christmas," said a Pine Hills employee. No word on when the Pine Hills website
Golfing Magazine put together a Long Island Dream Golf Club in its Fall 2008 issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes from as far west as Garden City and Great Neck, and as far east as Montauk and Greenport,
[This flyover was updated on June 26, 2023.] Golf courses are certainly not difficult to find across Long Island. No matter where you're sitting, it's likely that a flagstick is dug into a golf hole somewhere within a 15-minute drive. Par-3 courses, however, are a different story. Sometimes during the ongoing love-hate relationship between golfer
The last tee of the season will dig into the turf at the Holbrook Country Club this Sunday, December 14, when the tree-lined par-71 shuts down until March. The pro shop will remain open until Christmas. Holbrook is a heavily wooded course and nightmarish for players who struggle to keep the ball straight. Those who
[This flyover was updated on January 4, 2017.] SEE ALSO:Observations: Middle Island Country Club, 11/26/2011 The Spruce Course at the Middle Island Country Club is one of three nine-hole layouts — all tree-titled — that make up the 27-hole facility, which has undergone a gradual renovation that began in the late 2000s under new club
[This flyover was updated on March 30, 2018.] SEE ALSO:After 50 years, Rock Hill remains a fixture on the Long Island golf landscape (9/18/2015) Once you make your way out into the high-60s of the Long Island Expressway — too far east even for the HOV lane — you can take your pick of courses