Nassau Courses

Coronavirus Uppost_date: State park courses closed

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March 22, 2020

Golf courses at New York State parks will be closed starting tomorrow, despite the announcement earlier this weekend that park courses would remain open with social-distancing measures in place. Locally, that means Bethpage, Montauk Downs and Sunken Meadow will join other non-municipal courses around Long Island and close to golfers for an unspecified length of […]

Coronavirus Uppost_date: Closures, delays as business shutdown approaches

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March 22, 2020

The latest from Long Island's public golf courses as the statewide shutdown of non-essential businesses ordered by Governor Andrew Cuomo begins tonight: Spring Lake Golf Club in Coram will close at the end of play this evening. Crab Meadow Golf Course in Northport — a Town of Huntington municipal course — will be closed this

Coronavirus uppost_date: Courses at NYS parks to remain open during shutdown, others to close

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March 20, 2020

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Friday that all non-essential businesses will be forced to close this coming Sunday in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus. Municipal golf courses at New York State parks, however, will remain open with social-distancing restrictions in place. Beginning Sunday, the Blue, Green and Yellow courses

Coronavirus Uppost_date: Courses implementing social-distancing changes while staying open for play

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March 18, 2020

There's good news for Long Island golfers amid the current health crisis — local golf courses are among the last holdouts in a region where staying safely at home is the new norm. Both Nassau and Suffolk have kept their county parks and golf courses open — for now — for relatively safe outdoor recreation.

Coronavirus Uppost_date: Nassau County munis open, Harbor Links reopening delayed

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March 16, 2020

It's business as usual at many golf courses on Long Island despite the widespread closings, cancellations and postponements at area businesses, school districts and events related to this month's coronavirus outbreak. As "social distancing" works its way into the American lexicon, golf courses — outdoors and inherently "distancing" — might be among the safest spots

Bethpage spring opening and aeration dates

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March 9, 2020

After a fluky 2019 when the Bethpage State Park golf courses were partially and temporarily reopened in advance of the PGA Championship, it's back to regular business for the park in 2020. Over the next few weeks, reopenings of the Green, Red and Black courses will bring the facility back up to full capacity. First,

2020 public golf course reopen dates on Long Island

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March 5, 2020

It's natural for golfers emerging from the winter to look ahead to The Masters in April as the unofficial start of the new golf season. But there are dates to mark on the calendar far ahead of the pros' tee times at Augusta — the mid- to late March reopening dates at Long Island's handful

Making vivid golf memories on February’s drab golf courses

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February 1, 2020

Golf courses are at their least photogenic in late winter, their bare trees and dulled, dormant fairways still a few weeks from the earliest infusions of spring color. But even if the landscapes are not the prettiest, the memories that take shape on the golf course in February can be just as vivid as the

A New Decade of Long Island Golf, Part 3 — Finding a new voice for courses as marketing evolves in the age of social media

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January 30, 2020

[Follow the links to Part 1 of "A New Decade of Long Island Golf," which covered the main themes of the 2010s and what to expect in the 2020s, and Part 2 on developing local players as time runs low and millennials plan to leave Long Island.] When followers of local golf scroll over Long

Harbor Links, Sunken Meadow to host Drive, Chip & Putt qualifiers in July

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January 29, 2020

Registration is open for the annual Drive, Chip & Putt Championship, an event for junior golfers that culminates every April at the famed Augusta National Golf Club. For Long Island juniors, the road to Augusta begins this summer with local qualifiers at three area golf courses. Qualifying rounds for the 2020-21 Drive, Chip & Putt

Golf on Long Island

A Golfer's Internet Guide to the Public Courses of Nassau & Suffolk