Sometimes Long Island's winter golf season gets off to a blazing start — sunny skies, temps in the 60s, a comforting feel of October golf in December. Other times it's … well, it's not so great. And the winter of 2020-21 has started off as one of the latter, only fitting since Mother Nature had […]
December is closing time on the Island, meaning the busiest and most bizarre Long Island golf season in the recent past is coming to an end, at least for those courses that operate on a seasonal basis. This week is the last opportunity to book rounds at a handful of popular public courses in the
We're at the height of fall aeration season on Long Island's public courses. Fall maintenance is underway or recently completed at many local courses, so be aware of potentially sandy greens and fairways when booking tee times this month. The Red Course at Eisenhower Park is currently closed for aeration and will reopen for play
As the unique, contact-free Long Island golf season of 2020 hums along, a familiar figure of pre-pandemic normalcy — Golfing Magazine's "Free Golf" certificate — makes its way to area mailboxes once again. Golfing Mag's 2020 Free Golf program includes nine Long Island golf courses, ranging from nine-hole munis to the region's most scenic waterfront
The last remaining Long Island public golf courses to start their pandemic-era spring seasons have finally opened for play. After an extended offseason, Bay Park Golf Course, a Nassau County muni, and the Town of Hempstead's Merrick Road Park Golf Course are open for pre-booked rounds only — a distinct change for two courses that
With tomorrow's scheduled reopening of Harbor Links' Executive Course, all but two of Long Island's public golf courses are back open for play in a 2020 spring season where tee times are scarce and social-distance regulations are firm. Bay Park and Merrick Road Park, municipal nine-hole courses owned by Nassau County and the Town of
New York State municipal golf courses on Long Island — Bethpage, Montauk Downs and Sunken Meadow — will reopen for play on Monday, April 27, with social-distancing guidelines in place. Bethpage's Black Course will follow with its 2020 reopening on Friday, May 1. Starting that day, four Bethpage courses will be open daily. On the
Long Island and New York State golf is shut down until the end of the month and in some places longer after the state added golf courses to its ever-changing list of non-essential businesses earlier today. The announcement seemingly puts an end to the short, strange and bustling early-spring season that saw thousands of golfers
As the early spring moves closer and closer to ideal golf weather amid the coronavirus pandemic, the vast majority of Long Island public golf courses are open for play. One more reopened for the 2020 season this morning. The Golf Club at Middle Bay in Oceanside is now open with 16-minute tee-time intervals and a
It's been just about nine years since the first edition of Golf On Long Island's "Nassau 18" was published back in spring 2011, and with little else to talk about in local golf except what's open and what's closed during the battle against coronavirus, now's a great time for version 2.0. Besides, with no sports