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.
Four of the five golf courses at Bethpage State Park will be aerated in September and October. (Aeration on the Blue Course is already finished.) First up on the schedule is the Black Course later this month. Bethpage courses will be closed for fall aeration on the following dates: Black Course: September 23-26Yellow Course: October
Bethpage Black, which hosted the U.S. Open Championships in 2002 and 2009, will be the home of the 2019 PGA Championship and 2024 Ryder Cup, according to a Golfweek report. An official announcement is expected this week, possibly as soon as today, said the report. The Black Course has been associated with New York's golf-crazed,
The Town of Oyster Bay will rename its golf course at a ceremony this weekend to honor Joseph Colby, the town supervisor who was influential in the preservation of the 120-acre Woodbury estate and its transformation into the present-day municipal course. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 18 at 11:30 a.m. at the
There is rarely any suspense when it comes to the Long Island imprint on Golfweek's annual ranking of America's Best Municipal Courses. Bethpage Black is usually at the top, followed a few tiers below by neighbor Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs. Change is found only in the number next to the latter two. Golfweek
Starting this week, Long Island golfers will receive a Golfing Magazine certificate that allows them to play for "free" at nearly a dozen golf courses Islandwide. The magazine's 2013 Free Golf Program includes 11 local courses — seven full-length and four nine-hole layouts — plus dozens more upstate and across the Northeast. Also, this year's
Newsday has published a correction of the false data that ran in a graphic in the Sunday LI Business cover story on April 7 regarding Long Island golf courses. The correction appears in the Wednesday, April 17 print edition. The business feature, which analyzed the "shrinking" of the local golf course industry, claimed that the
Believe it or not, there's a way for the junior golfer in your life to play Augusta National that doesn't require trespassing or becoming the world's youngest corporate bigwig. As told to the national viewing audience this week by Jim Nantz and Nick Faldo, junior golfers across the country can compete for the chance to
[Newsday published a correction in its April 17 print edition for the use of misinformation in its April 7 feature. Read the correction here.] While there's no way to dispute that rounds are down from previous highs and that Long Island golf courses are competing for customer dollars against additional and often cheaper leisure alternatives,
[Read Golf On Long Island's take on the Newsday article: Newsday report features false data to support negative view of Long Island golf industry] The business of golf on Long Island is "in the rough" according to a report published Thursday on Newsday.com. Newsday's Ted Phillips said the Long Island golf industry is "shrinking" thanks