The Tallgrass Country Club is holding an open golf outing on Wednesday, August 25, with shotgun start scheduled for 9:00 a.m. All golfers are invited to participate. The event includes motor cart on the course, continental breakfast and range balls before the round, barbecue lunch at the turn, and prizes throughout the day. Entry fee […]
Registration is open for Dix Hills Park's "Back To School" Junior Golf Program, a five-session instructional series designed to keep young golfers swinging through the fall while introducing them to and teaching the basic aspects of the game. The program is open to junior golfers from age 5 through 14 and is limited to the
"Firm and fast" is a pair of adjectives not typically used to describe Long Island fairways, but with the scorching hot summer of 2010 depriving golf courses of the rainwater they desperately need, one course is playing even closer to its links-style design. Tee shots were bouncing, bouncing, rolling and rolling (and rolling) during our
The recent (and ongoing) heat wave has done little to keep us off the fairways — or more accurately, in the rough — of Long Island's golf courses. Earlier this week, Golf On Long Island visited Wading River's Great Rock Golf Club for another showdown with a course that demands pinpoint accuracy and a deft
Grab three of your golfing buddies, add the American trio of red, white and blue, and keep a few extra Founding Fathers in your wallet this July 4th at one of Long Island's top public courses. The Tallgrass Country Club is offering a pay-for-three holiday special for all foursomes this Independence Day, provided someone in
Polish your game at the Tallgrass Country Club this summer, where pro Phil Tita and his staff will hold free player-development clinics every Sunday through Labor Day. Each one-hour clinic begins at 2 p.m. and includes a demonstration and mini-lesson. Sessions rotate each week and cover iron play, chipping, putting, woods and sand play. The
Long Island was blessed with perfect weather on Memorial Day Weekend, and while thousands headed east to ring in the summer on Hamptons and Montauk beaches, plenty of folks gathered their playing partners and instead made their way to an Island golf course. On Sunday afternoon, I took a ride to Medford for the first
National Saferides, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing transportation for impaired drivers, will hold its first annual golf outing on Monday, July 12 at Long Island National Golf Club in Riverhead. The charity event is open to all golfers. Registration for the National Saferides Golf Classic is $700 per foursome, though smaller groups and individuals
School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. will hold its first annual golf outing fundraiser on Thursday, May 27 at the Stonebridge Golf Links and Country Club in Hauppauge. All proceeds will be used to cover costs of SBPLI's annual Long Island FIRST Robotics Competition. Entry is $250 per golfer or $900 for foursomes and includes
For Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs, earning a spot on Golfweek's annual Best Courses You Can Play listing has basically become a formality. All three state-park courses are mainstays on the magazine's list of the nation's top public-access courses alongside famed New York layouts like Leatherstocking in Cooperstown and Saratoga National. Joining them