Despite the poor winter weather, the Black and Red courses at Bethpage State Park are slated to reopen on their typical April schedule. Bethpage Black will open for the 2014 season on April 12, according to a park announcement. The Red Course will open April 1. Bethpage's other three courses — two of which, the […]
There is light at the end of this long, cold tunnel — the spring golf season is about to start on Long Island. Opening Day for some of Long Island's seasonal golf courses is only a week away. Spring will be greeted with a hero's welcome following an offseason that began with an ominous forecast
If the weather cooperates, the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury will open for the 2014 season on Tuesday, March 18. Oyster Bay councilman Anthony Macagnone announced in a town press release that there will be no fee increases at the course for the 2014 season. This includes annual membership fees, daily green
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park doesn't get any action during the winter season, but it does get plenty of accolades. Around the same time that the Long Island Press announced Bethpage as the "Best Golf Course" survey winner for the seventh straight year, Golf Digest put out another of its offseason course rankings,
In the spirit of the Winter Olympics currently underway in Sochi, Bethpage State Park and its famed Black Course have taken home the gold yet again in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll, with Rock Hill Golf & Country Club and Eisenhower Park occupying familiar spots on the medal stand. Long Island
The winter golf season has officially arrived. Fittingly, in a year characterized by bizarre weather and a week that began with cars frozen under blocks of ice, the opening weekend of Long Island winter golf will see temperatures pushing 70 degrees. This is welcome news for Long Island's all-season golfers, who typically keep their putters
With its rolling terrain and massive size, the Black Course at Bethpage State Park lends itself to a gorgeous photo, and since the 2002 U.S. Open, dramatic pictures of the glacier bunker, opening tee and sand-heavy finale have been easy to find. Less prevalent are artistic interpretations of the course's beauty, but a local artist
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park, typically the first of Long Island's seasonal public golf courses to hang a "See You In Spring" sign on its clubhouse door, is down to its final weeks of the 2013 playing season. The course will close on Sunday, November 17. If you can't get out on
The golf season is winding down, which means voting in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll is just heating up. Golfers and golf fans have a few months to cast their votes online for Long Island's "Best Golf Course" as well as the area's top driving range and golf store. Voting is
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park is currently closed for fall aeration. It will reopen on Friday, September 27. Next up for fall maintenance at Bethpage is the Yellow Course, which will be closed on October 1-2. For Bethpage's full aeration schedule, check here.