Two of Long Island's seasonal golf courses have closed for the winter. The Woods Course at Cherry Creek in Riverhead, typically among the earliest to end its season, will reopen in March 2017. Its sister course across the street — the Links — will remain open as weather permits. Harbor Links in Port Washington planned […]
Time is winding down in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll — voters have until December 15 to click in favor of their preferred course or club. This is the 12th edition of the survey, which runs each fall, giving Long Islanders the opportunity to nominate and vote for their favorite goods
This weekend is the last chance to play the Red Course at Bethpage State Park in 2016. The course will close for the season on Sunday, November 27. Reopen date is typically in early April. Bethpage Black has already closed for the year. The course usually reopens around the second weekend in April. For winter
Golf is as much a Thanksgiving tradition for some cold-hardened Long Island golfers as turkey and stuffing. So they don't mind missing the Thanksgiving Day parade as long as they can be out on a local fairway buzzing 3-irons through chilly wind gusts. And waiting out a brief frost delay is no big deal —
Leisure Pass Discount Holders in Nassau County (veterans, seniors, differently abled and civic volunteers) can save close to 50 percent on nine-hole rounds at local municipal courses this fall and winter thanks to a county discount announced earlier this week. From October through March, golf at Nassau's four county-operated nine-hole courses at Bay Park, Cantiague
October is aeration month at Bethpage, with the Black Course first to close up shop for a few days. Bethpage Black will be closed from Monday, October 3 through Wednesday, October 5. The rest of the park's aeration schedule is as follows: Green Course: closed October 12-13Red Course: closed October 17-19Yellow Course: closed October 19-20Blue
Around the same time The Barclays was drawing thousands of local golf fans to Bethpage Black to see the world's best players take on the vaunted course, Golf Magazine released its list of America's best public golf courses, the type of ranking that the Black typically dominates. This list is no different. Bethpage Black is
Harbor Links golfers can beat the heat with a nice meal and a cold drink to top off a round this month on the sun-splashed Port Washington course. Harbor Links is offering a Golf & Grub special through August that includes a full round with cart included, followed by an entree and drink at the
Anthony Scorcia, whose "On Par with Anthony Scorcia" radio show airs Saturday mornings on WGBB 1240-AM, spoke with golf and Bethpage historian Phil Young this morning to discuss the Black Course in advance of The Barclays later this month. Young, an A.W. Tillinghast expert with several books on Bethpage and its legendary architect, spoke about
The New York Islanders are swapping out their ice skates for Footjoys next month, and you can play right alongside them as part of the Islanders Children's Foundation Golf Outing at Bethpage State Park. Islander players, coaches and alumni will take on the Red Course to benefit an organization that has raised more than $10