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Fall aeration underway around Long Island

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We're at the height of fall aeration season on Long Island's public courses.  Fall maintenance is underway or recently completed at many local courses, so be aware of potentially sandy greens and fairways when booking tee times this month. The Red Course at Eisenhower Park is currently closed for aeration and will reopen for play […]

Nine courses participating in Golfing Mag’s 2020 “Free Golf” Program

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As the unique, contact-free Long Island golf season of 2020 hums along, a familiar figure of pre-pandemic normalcy — Golfing Magazine's "Free Golf" certificate — makes its way to area mailboxes once again. Golfing Mag's 2020 Free Golf program includes nine Long Island golf courses, ranging from nine-hole munis to the region's most scenic waterfront

Coronavirus Uppost_date: State, county munis begin to reopen

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New York State municipal golf courses on Long Island — Bethpage, Montauk Downs and Sunken Meadow — will reopen for play on Monday, April 27, with social-distancing guidelines in place. Bethpage's Black Course will follow with its 2020 reopening on Friday, May 1.  Starting that day, four Bethpage courses will be open daily. On the

Coronavirus Uppost_date: All golf courses now closed through April

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Long Island and New York State golf is shut down until the end of the month and in some places longer after the state added golf courses to its ever-changing list of non-essential businesses earlier today. The announcement seemingly puts an end to the short, strange and bustling early-spring season that saw thousands of golfers

Coronavirus Uppost_date: Bethpage Red, Timber Point open

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The local public golf scene continues to represent some semblance of normalcy on Long Island, even with its slew of social-distancing measures that have been implemented at all open courses over the past two weeks.  Bethpage State Park's Red Course reopened on schedule yesterday.  Word from several GOLI readers is that the spaced-out tee sheet

Coronavirus Uppost_date: Most courses open for play

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A lengthy list of public and municipal golf courses around Long Island announced Tuesday that they will reopen for play — some today, some tomorrow — with social-distancing precautions in place to ensure the safety of players. What looked like a statewide shutdown of public golf on Monday morning quickly reversed within hours once the

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