More than a week since Tropical Storm Isaias powered through the northeast, Bethpage State Park remains in recovery mode, with the Yellow Course and part of the Blue still shut due to extensive tree damage. In the hours following last Tuesday's storm, fallen trees were a common sight across Long Island communities, a good indication […]
The annual New York State Open will be held at Bethpage State Park's Black Course next month after receiving the green light from state government to play the tournament amid the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, the Black Course will be closed to the public from Monday, August 24 through Thursday, August 27. The course
As the unique, contact-free Long Island golf season of 2020 hums along, a familiar figure of pre-pandemic normalcy — Golfing Magazine's "Free Golf" certificate — makes its way to area mailboxes once again. Golfing Mag's 2020 Free Golf program includes nine Long Island golf courses, ranging from nine-hole munis to the region's most scenic waterfront
New York State municipal golf courses on Long Island — Bethpage, Montauk Downs and Sunken Meadow — will reopen for play on Monday, April 27, with social-distancing guidelines in place. Bethpage's Black Course will follow with its 2020 reopening on Friday, May 1. Starting that day, four Bethpage courses will be open daily. On the
While New York State, Nassau County and Suffolk County municipal golf courses remain closed, along with other city- and town-owned courses around Long Island, the Town of Oyster Bay will reopen its 18-hole muni in Woodbury today, weather permitting. First tee time at Oyster Bay will be 7:00 a.m.; twilight rates will be offered from
Long Island and New York State golf is shut down until the end of the month and in some places longer after the state added golf courses to its ever-changing list of non-essential businesses earlier today. The announcement seemingly puts an end to the short, strange and bustling early-spring season that saw thousands of golfers
The local public golf scene continues to represent some semblance of normalcy on Long Island, even with its slew of social-distancing measures that have been implemented at all open courses over the past two weeks. Bethpage State Park's Red Course reopened on schedule yesterday. Word from several GOLI readers is that the spaced-out tee sheet
It's been just about nine years since the first edition of Golf On Long Island's "Nassau 18" was published back in spring 2011, and with little else to talk about in local golf except what's open and what's closed during the battle against coronavirus, now's a great time for version 2.0. Besides, with no sports
A lengthy list of public and municipal golf courses around Long Island announced Tuesday that they will reopen for play — some today, some tomorrow — with social-distancing precautions in place to ensure the safety of players. What looked like a statewide shutdown of public golf on Monday morning quickly reversed within hours once the
When the sun rose this morning it seemed Long Island golfers would have nowhere to play for the foreseeable future. And now as the first day of New York State's non-essential business shutdown draws to a close, local golfers will have an unexpectedly broad selection of places to play starting again tomorrow. New York State