This promises to be a spring unlike any other at Bethpage State Park, where work and preparation for this May's PGA Championship on the Black Course carried on through the winter and will soon continue amid the din of refreshed Long Island golfers. Local players will have to make a few sacrifices, however, before play […]
We're almost out of the winter free of blizzards, clear of long blocks of time with closed courses. Offseason golfers have had plenty of days to tee it up while the rest stay put until spring. Well, spring now appears on the horizon, and with March about to arrive, it's reopening season on Long Island.
Golfing Magazine's annual Free Golf Program is open for registration, and if it's still too cold for most players to hit the fairways, then it means the mag's Early Bird discount is available. From now through April, Long Island golfers who take part in the program can save even more on heavily discounted green fees.
Golf On Long Island's "Origins" series explores the history and development of those local golf courses whose backstory is a bit more unique than most. Stay tuned for more as the season progresses. ****** Ralph Trost, chronicler of local golf history for the early-20th-century Brooklyn Daily Eagle, summed up the "epidemic of golf-course building" in
The winter of 2018-19 has arrived with buckets of rain that will keep Long Island's offseason golfers away from the course for a saturated day or two, though it could always be worse. Drop the temperature by 20 degrees or so and turn that rain into snow and you have a dreaded December blizzard potent
The 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black is five months away but its presence is already impacting the way golfers utilize the park golf courses this winter season. Only the Blue Course will be open for play for at least the early portion of the 2018-19 winter season, according to a statement posted on the
Bethpage State Park's director of agronomy Andrew Wilson joined A.J. Voelpel on the Metropolitan Golf Association's "Around the Met" podcast earlier this month to discuss the park and its preparation for next May's PGA Championship. Wilson and Voelpel chatted about ideal winter conditions leading up to the event, which will tee off in May for
Only a handful of golfers, outside the most frost-hardy Long Island players, associate Thanksgiving — the holiday of turkey and football — with November golf — the sport of turtlenecks and foot-warmers. However, golf comes with all the trimmings on Thanksgiving — tournaments, prizes, open bars and sometimes an actual turkey. It's the last call
Harbor Links will host its 12th annual Turkey Shoot holiday outing on Thanksgiving morning, November 22. Shotgun start is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. after registration and breakfast. Cost for Town of North Hempstead residents is $65 with cart and breakfast included; $75 for non-residents. Call (516) 767-4816 to sign up. Winter rates are now in
The 2018 season is coming to a close on the Black Course at Bethpage State Park. The last day to play the Black is Sunday, November 11. While the Black's season will end in its usual mid-November slot, its reopening next spring is not quite as predictable. Old Man Winter will decide how much golf