The Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury will host the 20th annual Massapequa High Schools Hall of Fame/Herbert J. Pluschau Memorial Golf Outing on Monday, August 3. The outing also includes an induction dinner and ceremony celebrating alumni from Massapequa and Berner High Schools. Proceeds from the event help support the Hall of Fame […]
The United States Golf Association wants all experienced, new and prospective golfers to understand the ease and benefits of nine-hole rounds, so follow along on Wednesday, July 29 and tee it up on a short course nearby. That day marks the USGA's second annual "Play 9 Day," a celebration of nine-hole rounds and all the
by Rob Dimino Earlier this summer, all that stood between me and a sub-80 round was the 18th hole at Stonebridge, a long dogleg right that plays about 430 from the tips. It's not the most challenging hole on the course, but it's a straightforward test after a fun-house round filled with double-tiered and humpback
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will be closed sporadically through the month of July for scheduled maintenance and the annual New York State Open. Dark dates for the New York State Open will be Monday, July 13 through Friday, July 17. The Black Course will also be closed every Monday for maintenance (except
Golf On Long Island's Rob Dimino has been all over the Island this spring, teeing it up on both sides of the bay on Nassau's south shore, navigating slick greens at Great Rock in Wading River, and finding plenty of fairways in between. Out at Great Rock, the devilish 11th green may have been renovated
Feedback from readers has been largely positive regarding the greens at Bethpage State Park, which absorbed a heavy beating from the winter of 2015 and needed until the very end of May to get back to full capacity. For much of the spring, a half-dozen temporary greens were in play on the Black Course, and
Bethpage State Park suffered a significant amount of turf damage from the winter of 2015, with temporary greens still in use on all five golf courses heading into Memorial Day weekend. Fortunately all lingering effects are expected to be gone by the end of the month. The Blue, Green and Yellow courses are scheduled to
The turn of the calendar from April to May means "Free Golf" certificates courtesy of Hicksville-based Golfing Magazine are on their way to players around Long Island. This year's program includes nine Long Island golf courses, seven of which are in Suffolk County, plus free golf around the Northeast and other area perks. All of
Time is up in Uniondale, where the New York Islanders have played their final games as Nassau residents and will now head west to build on their history in Brooklyn. When the clock hit zero earlier this week, a longtime fixture in the county’92s ’93Hub’94 became a thing of the past. It is not the
The 2015 season is underway in Oceanside at The Golf Club at Middle Bay, though players eager to get to the course's signature waterfront holes will have to take a few extra swings before reaching them. Middle Bay's new hole configuration made its debut earlier this month, amid other upgrades around the facility. The course