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Junior golfers play free this Saturday at New York State Parks courses

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Take your junior golfers to the nearest state park for nine or 18 holes this Saturday — New York State is picking up the green fee. This Saturday, July 20, is Free Youth Golf Day, a statewide event that Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this spring as New York welcomed the PGA Championship to the crown […]

Bethpage and Montauk named to Golfweek’s 2019 “Best Courses You Can Play” list

18-hole, 18-hole, Bethpage, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Suffolk Courses

Golfweek released its 2019 Best Courses You Can Play ranking last month, a familiar list of various New York golf courses all filling in spots in the state's top 15 behind the long-untouched leader, Bethpage Black. Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs once again represent Long Island in Golfweek's annual ranking of the top

A half-century in East Rock: Nassau muni Bay Park in the midst of its 50th-anniversary season

9-hole, For Beginners, In the News, Nassau Courses, Origins, South Shore, Voices of Long Island Golf

It's a special season at Bay Park Golf Course, though you won't find any milestones announced on a banner billowing over the park entrance or stretched across the facade of the course's faceless, utilitarian brick clubhouse.  There are no anniversary logos printed on hats and polos, no leather-bound books to chronicle the course's half-century beside

Original Lido Club featured on Golf Channel, golf history podcast

18-hole, In the News, Nassau Courses, South Shore, Voices of Long Island Golf

Amid its wall-to-wall PGA Championship coverage at Bethpage Black earlier this week, the Golf Channel aired a short but fascinating six-minute feature on a lesser-known Long Island golf powerhouse, one that's long gone but certainly not forgotten by followers of golf history. The segment covered the original Lido Club (1914-1942) with insight provided by Connor

Golfing Magazine’s 2019 Free Golf Program covers rounds at ten courses

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

We're inching closer toward peak golf season on Long Island, and while peak rates are starting to kick in, you can still pay like it's December thanks to another season of "free golf" courtesy of Golfing Magazine. Golfing Mag announced this past week that ten Long Island golf courses are taking part in the 2019

2019 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Off-Course Destinations, Suffolk Courses

[Looking for this year's camp info?  See the Guide to 2025 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island.] Young and old will join together this week to watch the game's greats compete at The Masters, and for many prospective junior golfers, the action at Augusta might serve as inspiration to pick up a golf club for

Bethpage Black in “fine shape” as PGA Championship approaches, plus aeration and non-Black updates

18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Voices of Long Island Golf

Golfers returning to Bethpage State Park for early-spring golf have been treated to some uncommon scenery as the PGA Championship, formerly of August, looms just weeks away in May.  For one, a look deep into the distance at the first green on the Red Course includes a view past roughly 300 yards of tents sitting

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

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