Aeration season is set to get underway at Bethpage State Park, and first up for the hole-punch treatment is the Blue Course, which will close for fall maintenance on August 31 and September 1. Its neighbor, the Yellow Course (pictured), will close for aeration September 2 and 3. Bethpage's other three courses will close according […]
The clock is ticking on the Tam O'Shanter Club in Brookville, and public golfers have access to tee times this summer and fall at the formerly private golf course, which is shutting down for residential development later this year. Reservations are available only on GolfNow. Standard-rate tee times range from $75 to $105 with cart.
Long Island junior golfers with an eye on competing at Augusta National can start the journey to Georgia today by registering for local qualifying rounds of the annual Drive, Chip & Putt Championship, to be held this summer at three area golf courses. Qualifying rounds for the 2021-22 Drive, Chip & Putt Championship will be
Bethpage State Park is updating its tee-time policy starting next week in order to address the "supply and demand" issue that has escalated since the start of the pandemic last spring. Golfers in the online reservation queue typically outnumber available tee times by hundreds on a daily basis, according to the park. According to a
Friend of Golf On Long Island Rob Toffolo walked away from a recent round at Eisenhower Park's Red Course with interesting information about scheduled alterations to the century-old layout, some of which are currently in the early construction stages. Two holes on the Red's front nine are in line for future modifications, and it won't
[Looking for this year's camp info? See the Guide to 2025 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island.] Golf participation at the junior level is up during the coronavirus era. The sport's socially distanced nature led many new, young players onto the course in 2020, and according to many local course pros, the demand for structured
Mother Nature washed out Opening Day at Bethpage Red with a soggy April Fools' joke that saturated the course, much like the cold and snow that Old Man Winter whipped up to lop off six weeks of offseason golf and maintenance work. Bethpage Red instead reopened for the 2021 season yesterday under a stiff breeze,
On this first morning of spring, the season of new beginnings, opening day at Bethpage Green was slowed by a frost delay. It was a fitting way to follow a winter season that was largely snowed out. The cold thaw will do little to dampen local golf enthusiasm though, or the prospects for 2021. The
Bethpage State Park has announced spring aeration dates for its four non-Black golf courses in late April and early May. The aeration schedule is as follows: Blue Course: April 26-27Red Course: April 28-29Yellow Course: May 3-4Green Course: May 5-6 Also announced, the Green Course will reopen for play on Saturday, March 20. Blue and Yellow,
Every couple of seasons, Old Man Winter takes his frustration out on Long Island golfers, blanketing area golf courses with snow and ice, then blowing in a chill that freezes all that sloppy gray in place. The 2020-21 winter golf season has been a bust, and it doesn't appear it will turn around anytime soon.