December arrives this weekend and with it comes the first wave of Long Island course closings for the 2019-20 offseason. Bethpage Red will close for the season at the close of play on Sunday, December 1, as will the Green Course, which typically remains open as needed during the winter. Bethpage Blue and Yellow will […]
Bethpage State Park rarely loses any kind of Long Island golf popularity contest — in fact, it's won nothing but gold in the "Best of Long Island" reader survey conducted each year by the Long Island Press. Still, this fall, more than a dozen public courses and private clubs have an opportunity to knock Bethpage
It's a special season at Bay Park Golf Course, though you won't find any milestones announced on a banner billowing over the park entrance or stretched across the facade of the course's faceless, utilitarian brick clubhouse. There are no anniversary logos printed on hats and polos, no leather-bound books to chronicle the course's half-century beside
Amid its wall-to-wall PGA Championship coverage at Bethpage Black earlier this week, the Golf Channel aired a short but fascinating six-minute feature on a lesser-known Long Island golf powerhouse, one that's long gone but certainly not forgotten by followers of golf history. The segment covered the original Lido Club (1914-1942) with insight provided by Connor
We're inching closer toward peak golf season on Long Island, and while peak rates are starting to kick in, you can still pay like it's December thanks to another season of "free golf" courtesy of Golfing Magazine. Golfing Mag announced this past week that ten Long Island golf courses are taking part in the 2019
We're almost out of the winter free of blizzards, clear of long blocks of time with closed courses. Offseason golfers have had plenty of days to tee it up while the rest stay put until spring. Well, spring now appears on the horizon, and with March about to arrive, it's reopening season on Long Island.
Golf On Long Island's "Origins" series explores the history and development of those local golf courses whose backstory is a bit more unique than most. Stay tuned for more as the season progresses. ****** Ralph Trost, chronicler of local golf history for the early-20th-century Brooklyn Daily Eagle, summed up the "epidemic of golf-course building" in
The winter of 2018-19 has arrived with buckets of rain that will keep Long Island's offseason golfers away from the course for a saturated day or two, though it could always be worse. Drop the temperature by 20 degrees or so and turn that rain into snow and you have a dreaded December blizzard potent
Only a handful of golfers, outside the most frost-hardy Long Island players, associate Thanksgiving — the holiday of turkey and football — with November golf — the sport of turtlenecks and foot-warmers. However, golf comes with all the trimmings on Thanksgiving — tournaments, prizes, open bars and sometimes an actual turkey. It's the last call
Fall arrived on Long Island this weekend carrying with it bright sunshine and comfortable temperatures — ideal conditions for the start of autumn golf season. Eighty years ago this weekend, however, in the first days of the new fall season, Long Islanders on the East End ventured outside not to play golf, but to survey