The on-ice makeup of the New York Islanders might be changing today on Free Agent Frenzy Day but the team's focus on raising money for Long Island's children remains unchanged and as strong as ever. The 12th annual Islanders Children's Foundation (ICF) Golf Outing will take place on Bethpage State Park's Red and Blue 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
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
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
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
Bethpage Black has already closed in advance of this month's 2019 PGA Championship, and its four sibling courses at Bethpage State Park will soon follow suit. The Blue, Green and Red courses will all close to the public on Monday, May 6 to make way for tournament prep and play. (Yellow will be aerated on
[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
The Red Course at Eisenhower Park will open for the 2019 season on Saturday, April 13. Until then, golfers with the Masters itch can continue to play the Blue and White courses, which have been open all year. Eisenhower Red, the Devereux Emmet course known as Salisbury #4 back when it hosted the 1926 PGA
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
It was still far short of sunrise in the early-morning hours of April 18, 1989, yet a line of cars stretched near the gates of what had long been a leafy, bucolic private estate at Jericho Turnpike and Southwoods Road in Woodbury. Inside those cars, dozens of local golfers sat waiting to secure a spot