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Golf and the “Long Island Express,” 80 years ago this weekend

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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 […]

Nine courses participating in Golfing Magazine’s 2018 Free Golf Program

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

Another May, another batch of Free Golf Program certificates set to hit mailboxes all across Nassau and Suffolk, courtesy of Golfing Magazine.  The Hicksville-based publication announced the list of participating courses in its annual Free Golf Program on Tuesday, and the 2018 roster covers almost every corner of Long Island.  Nine golf courses are offering

Peninsula Golf Club rolls out new website, tee times and revamped cafe for 2018

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Nestled inside a quiet residential Massapequa community, the nine-hole Peninsula Golf Club is as close to a neighborhood golf course as you'll find on Long Island.  For every handful of shots that land safely on a green in regulation, one misguided attempt might settle inside someone's front lawn.  And while the course remains the same

Proposed Nassau County fee hikes would affect golf-cart rentals, range balls

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Fee increases proposed by new Nassau County Executive Laura Curran would impact golfers renting golf carts and buying range tokens at the county's municipal courses, according to Newsday's analysis of the administration's latest budget proposal. Curran, citing the need to address Nassau's dire fiscal situation, plans to increase both cart rentals and buckets of range

GOLI Visitors’ Guide to Long Island Golf updated for 2018 and US Open attendees

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Off-Course Destinations, Pitch and Putt, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

Golf On Long Island's Visitors' Guide to Long Island Golf is now updated for 2018, including information on which area courses are catering to out-of-town golfers who are looking to play while here for the U.S. Open in June.  Also featured is the latest information on the new NYS Parks online tee-time system. That's in

Vote for your favorite Long Island courses this month in a March Madness-inspired bracket challenge

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March Madness is underway in the world of college hoops, which means it's bracket-filling season for everyone from casual observer to Cameron Crazie.  Brackets shouldn't be confined to basketball though, and as it turns out, once you set aside the pitch-and-putts down along the beach, Long Island has exactly 64 distinct public golf courses.  Sounds

2018 public golf course reopenings on Long Island

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February almost always teases golfers with a tiny taste of spring, and when it does, it has a tendency to sock them with a blizzard just as they were getting their clubs regripped for the new season.  But when the snow holds off, course openings are just around the corner. Long Island's seasonal golf courses

Winter Golf on Long Island: 2017-18 Edition

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If you have no problem spending an hour-plus in the clubhouse waiting out a frost delay, if you get excited for a sunny 45-degree weather forecast, and if your golf wardrobe includes multiple pairs of cold-weather golf gloves, chances are you're a seasoned Long Island winter golfer. The majority of local golfers put the finishing

Golf on Long Island

A Golfer's Internet Guide to the Public Courses of Nassau & Suffolk

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