Who needs all the Tiger Woods talk? The real discussion should be about the combination of 60- to 70-degree afternoons and special March rates at some of Long Island's top public courses. At the Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River, players can challenge the Island's slickest greens for no more than $49 between now […]
The month of February has been a miserable one for Long Island golfers. Snow storms completely washed out the mid-winter golf season, and more threaten to be a major disruption in the weeks ahead. The only consolation is that March and April signal rebirth on the Long Island golf scene. Golf On Long Island readers
Golfing Magazine put together its 2009 Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes, the Dream Golf Club is a 7,219-yard par-73. With holes like the blind-carry 16th at Lido and
The Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford will look exactly the same to Long Island golfers when the winter breaks this season, but for those who settle comfortably into routine, it will have a significantly different feel. Management used the down time earlier this offseason to break in the course's new 18-hole configuration. Golfers will
Golfing Magazine put together its 2009 Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes, the Dream Golf Club is a 7,219-yard par-73. With holes like the blind-carry 16th at Lido and
On a recent trip to a new restaurant in Sayville, I decided to take the scenic route through the downtown centers of Babylon, Bay Shore and Islip on Montauk Highway. Along the way, the fairways and greens of the West Sayville Golf Course waved hello from the south side of the road. Eighteen hours later
The golf course at Montauk Downs State Park received some well-deserved face time in the February 2010 issue of Golf Digest. The East End's heralded and hard-to-reach public course stepped into the national spotlight in the magazine's "Long Drives" travel feature, a column that takes a new car on a regional golf excursion. In this
The winter of 2009-10 has started off as a poor one for golfers. Temperatures are stuck far below freezing, chilling any desire to bundle up beneath layers of cold-weather golf gear and venture into the Long Island tundra. Thin patches of snow linger on the ground and render courses unplayable. December's blizzard delivered the knockout
Tomorrow is the last day to play at the Timber Point Golf Course in Great River, though it doesn't appear that the weather is willing to cooperate. Recent snow and forceful winds have sabotaged plans for winter golf during the holiday week and are not expected to let up over the next few days. With
The golf seasons at Bay Park and Christopher Morley Park slowly fade to black this week, as the two Nassau County municipal courses prepare to shut down until March 2010. The last day to play is Sunday, December 20. Both nine-hole par-30s are very short and ideal destinations for the beginner. Sitting on a peninsula