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 […]
When Bethpage Black opens up next Tuesday, April 13, New York State's premier public golf facility will be fully operational for the 2010 season. As a welcome-back gesture that many area golfers wish was just a poor April Fools Day joke, the state will ask all players — especially senior and juniors — to dig
The Crab Meadow Golf Course continues to coax area players out the front door and onto the first tee on holiday mornings. This Easter Sunday, April 4, Crab Meadow is offering a $60 golf special that includes continental breakfast, motor cart, range balls, a complimentary sleeve of balls and 18 holes on one of Suffolk
The historic Red Course at Eisenhower Park will reopen for the 2010 season this Tuesday, March 30. Nassau County residents with a Leisure Pass can begin making tee-time reservations online for any of the three Eisenhower courses. Home of the 1926 PGA Championship, Eisenhower Red — designed by famed architect Devereux Emmet — is one
Until April 1, Long Island golfers can take advantage of Golfing Magazine's Early Bird Special on its annual Free Golf Program. For $39, participants in the program receive a certificate good for single rounds at several area courses as well as a one-year subscription (five issues) to the magazine. The 2010 program will likely include
Who needs all the Tiger Woods talk? The real discussion should be about the combination of 60- to 70-degree afternoons and special March rates at some of Long Island's top public courses. At the Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River, players can challenge the Island's slickest greens for no more than $49 between now
The month of February has been a miserable one for Long Island golfers. Snow storms completely washed out the mid-winter golf season, and more threaten to be a major disruption in the weeks ahead. The only consolation is that March and April signal rebirth on the Long Island golf scene. Golf On Long Island readers
Golfing Magazine put together its 2009 Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes, the Dream Golf Club is a 7,219-yard par-73. With holes like the blind-carry 16th at Lido and
Golfing Magazine put together its 2009 Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes, the Dream Golf Club is a 7,219-yard par-73. With holes like the blind-carry 16th at Lido and
On a recent trip to a new restaurant in Sayville, I decided to take the scenic route through the downtown centers of Babylon, Bay Shore and Islip on Montauk Highway. Along the way, the fairways and greens of the West Sayville Golf Course waved hello from the south side of the road. Eighteen hours later