If you need a little sunshine during this snowy, icy golf offseason, the newly released top-100 lists put out by GOLF Magazine/GOLF.com and Links Magazine have all the bright, lush golf course imagery you’re looking for. There, Bethpage Black’s fourth-hole glacier bunker lives frozen in time, not snow, at the height of summer, amid green […]
Registration is open for the Drive, Chip & Putt Championship, an annual event that gives junior golfers the opportunity to put their golf skills to the test and compete for a prized spot at Augusta National next spring on the eve of the 2027 Masters. For Long Island juniors, the road to Georgia begins this
The long-closed Tam O’Shanter Club could have golf again in its future after the Village of Brookville changed a local code to allow for-profit clubs to operate at the site, Newsday reported last week. Tam O’Shanter, a former private club that was sold to a developer in 2019, was originally slated to be replaced by
Bethpage Green’s month-long respite following the Ryder Cup is over. The Green reopened for play this morning and will remain open until the end of the season on Sunday, November 16. For the season’s final three weeks, rounds on the Green Course will be shortened to 16 holes, and players will only pay the nine-hole
The golf courses at Bethpage State Park are done playing host. This weekend they will get back to playing golf — amateur golf. October 4 is reopening day for two of the four non-Black courses that were heavily impacted by the corporate tents, pavilions, temporary roadwork and general foot traffic that came with last week’s
Public golf at Bethpage State Park is officially on hiatus until the Americans and Europeans settle the 45th edition of the Ryder Cup later this month. The abbreviated summer season came to a wet, rainy conclusion this weekend, clearing the park for all the prep work that still remains ahead of tournament week, September 23
The Bethpage-lite version of the 2025 Long Island golf season has arrived. Bethpage Black is officially closed to the public until October so that Ryder Cup preparations can accelerate ahead of next month's tournament. The Green and Yellow courses are now closed as well. All that remain open are the Red and Blue, which will
The years-long battle between Eisenhower Park's Red Course and persistent turf issues rages on. Three greens on Eisenhower Red are currently closed due to the emergence of summer patch, a turfgrass fungus that affects golf courses, lawns and athletic fields. Nassau County posted signs at the course last week announcing that temporary greens are in
Evan Crowder, the 2025 Ryder Cup operations manager for the PGA of America, joined “The Road to the Ryder Cup” podcast with Dr. Jeff Poplarski and Frank Darby this week to discuss some details about the on-course fan experience at the tournament in September. They also outlined some of the behind-the-scenes logistics and course-setup duties
Golf Digest released its 2025-26 list of America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses earlier this month, and Bethpage Black, home of the upcoming Ryder Cup, is comfortably inside the top 50. One of nine Long Island courses and clubs to make the list, the Black Course settled in at #38, a few spots ahead of powerhouses