Come January, one local golf course, as well as an area driving range and golf store, will earn the distinction of "Best of Long Island." Which ones earn that title is up to you. Voting is open at the Long Island Press website for the 2013 "Best of LI" poll. Each year the newspaper puts […]
[This flyover was updated on July 20, 2017.] SEE ALSO:Closer Look: Bethpage Red #13 A visitor taking a stroll around the Bethpage State Park clubhouse and taking in the scenery for the first time might wonder why the Black Course is the only one of the quintet with a warning sign beside its opening tee.
Rates will increase at Nassau's seven municipal golf courses under the $2.79 billion budget for 2013 proposed last week by County Executive Ed Mangano, according to Newsday. Golfers at Eisenhower Park and the nine-hole courses at North Woodmere, Bay Park, Christopher Morley and Cantiague will shell out a few more dollars to tee off under
The Massapequa Mustangs Football Foundation will hold its eighth annual golf outing on Monday, September 24 at the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury. Former coaches and organization board members Steve Krolikowski, Kurt Roocke and Tom Melia will be honored at the event. Proceeds from the outing will support the Massapequa Mustangs football
Two of the golf courses at Bethpage State Park will be aerated in September. The Green Course will be aerated on Monday, September 10 and Tuesday, September 11, followed by the Yellow Course on September 18-19. Blue already underwent its aeration this past week. The Black Course, which reopens to the public tomorrow after hosting
The Red, Blue, Green and Yellow courses at Bethpage State Park will reopen to the public tomorrow, August 30. Blue is currently being aerated. After hosting The Barclays last week, the Black Course will remain closed for a few extra days. The course opens for play on Saturday, September 1.
Town of Hempstead residents are invited once again to enjoy 18 late-summer holes on the water as part of the Supervisor's Cup Golf Classic, an annual tournament hosted by Kate Murray and the Department of Parks and Recreation. Now in its fifth year, the Supervisor's Cup is scheduled to tee off on Wednesday, September 19
All 90 holes at Bethpage State Park are now closed until The Barclays finishes up and the pros head out of town. The Red, Blue, Green and Yellow courses will resume play on Thursday, August 30. (Blue will be aerated during the break on August 28 and 29.) The Black Course will reopen on September
This edition of "Closer Looks" examines another of Long Island's split-fairway holes. Not quite as dramatic, scenic or penal as our previous double-fairway installment — #16 at the Lido Golf Club — the 400-/385-yard 13th hole at Bethpage's Red Course is an interesting change of pace from the series of long par-4s that precedes it.
Storms have done a number on the Merrick Road Park Golf Course in recent years, destroying several veteran trees around the bayside nine, including notables on #2 and #5. One of them, however, is making a comeback after its brush with Mother Nature. The fairway tree in the middle of the par-4 fourth is climbing