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 […]
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
In places like South Carolina and Florida, backyards and barbecue grills are almost as much a part of some golf courses as Bridgestones and bogeys. Houses in golf-course communities — seemingly more common than not in areas like Myrtle Beach — are nothing more than a slight hook or slice away from the fairways, placing
With The Barclays teeing off at Bethpage Black next month, plenty of guests — many with golf bags in hand — will soon be arriving on Long Island on top of the area's typical crop of summer travelers and tourists. Earlier this season, Golf On Long Island published its "Visitor's Guide" with these guests in mind.
Nassau County's nine-hole municipal golf courses at Bay Park in East Rockaway and Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn are now open for the 2012 season. The two courses closed for the winter while their sister courses at North Woodmere Park and Cantiague Park played through the offseason. Bay Park is a flat, wide-open nine that's
The 2011-12 offseason will go down in local golf circles as the winter that wasn't. Sure, a couple of courses hung a "closed" sign in their window through January and February, but elsewhere, the golf season didn't skip a beat. Now it's March, and those courses that shut the engine over the winter are about
The Nassau County municipal courses at Bay Park in East Rockaway and Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn have closed for the season. Sister nine-hole courses at North Woodmere and Cantiague parks will remain open through the winter. Bay Park and Morley will likely reopen in late March. Check back as the spring season approaches for
Registration is open for the Lido Golf Club's annual Thanksgiving Turkey Trot, which tees off shotgun style this Thursday, November 24 at 8:00 a.m. The $75 entry fee includes cart, range balls, breakfast and a Lido GC winter hat by Under Armour. There will also be competitions on the course for longest drive, most accurate
The Blue Course at Bethpage State Park is scheduled for aeration on September 6 and 7, followed by the Green Course on September 15 and 16, and the Black Course from Monday, September 26 through Thursday, September 29. Bethpage Black will be closed every Monday — plus Tuesday, September 20 — for maintenance.
The Black, Red and Yellow courses at Bethpage State Park reopened for play today, September 2 — five days after Hurricane Irene blew through Long Island. Bethpage's Blue and Green courses remain closed as of Friday and may reopen over the weekend.