There is no shortage of interesting par-4s at Tallgrass Golf Course in Shoreham, but the gradual conversion of the sixth hole from a strategic par-4 to a long, uphill par-3 — as documented here in 2012 and again last spring — still feels like a significant loss. What had previously been a 295-yard par-4 with […]
Six months ago, on a blustery Sunday morning, Timber Point opened its 2013 season with a St. Patrick's Day outing on its Red Course — the only one of the three nines fully operational long after Hurricane Sandy. About 60 golfers made their way around the inland Red while a handful of early-season players teed
Two months into its grand reopening season on the water in Oceanside, South Bay Country Club is quickly working its way up to full speed. The Sandy-damaged facility had the course up and running in time for Memorial Day weekend this spring, but the driving range and halfway house remained in the very early stages
Our preferred route to the North Fork farms and wineries is a scenic one that begins at exit 71 off the Long Island Expressway. The first bit of "scenery" en route to Sound Avenue — for the golfer in the car — is the front nine at Calverton Links. After dozens of day trips taking
If you've ever helplessly watched as your approach or pitch onto the 11th green at Great Rock Golf Club sprinted straight off the back and into the heavy rough, here's some welcome news: The newly renovated surface, designed to hold more shots, is in play this season. Bad news: Your thin 6-iron is still bound
There's no shortage of trees at Holbrook Country Club, a course where all 18 holes are ringed by a dense collection of limbs and leafy branches. Aside from an occasional generous kick toward the fairway, these trees offer little that's of any aid to golfers. One tree, however, does serve a beneficial purpose to Holbrook
The staff at Tallgrass Golf Course went back to the drawing board last season after a few too many errant drives irked neighbors alongside the course's short par-4 sixth. Though the plan was to keep the hole a par-4, there apparently wasn't enough room on that drawing board to allow it. The hole is now
Spring has been slow to take hold on Long Island, but it seems to have arrived for good at Spring Lake Golf Club, and it doesn't have anything to do with the name. All that was missing at the Middle Island course this past weekend were the leaves on the trees, which works in golfers'
Except for a dark, frigid front desk (kudos to the bundled-up employees manning the windows) and the occasional sighting of grounds crew gathering fallen limbs and branches, all seemed normal from tee to green at Eisenhower Park's Blue Course on Sunday, where golfers could step out onto the fairway under blue skies and imagine a
The sixth hole at Shoreham's Tallgrass Golf Course, easily the shortest par-4 in the layout, presents a unique, strategic challenge. How heavy that challenge remains in the future is uncertain. A driveable, risk/reward par-4 by design, Tallgrass #6 has played as a modified par-3 throughout the 2012 season due to concerns by neighbors over errant