The staff at Wind Watch Golf & Country Club spent years tinkering with and lengthening its opening hole, eventually maxing it out to a 491-yard par-5 before the 2010 season. With nowhere else to stretch it in the physical sense, new management at Wind Watch moved the hole on the scorecard instead — across the […]
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
A pre-Barclays round at Bethpage State Park's Red Course is a few strokes softer thanks to the behind-the-scenes work to prepare its next-door neighbor for the international spotlight. While the Black Course fills with tents and pavilions and all the trimmings associated with a professional golf event, the Red Course will go about its business
There are a couple of new additions at Manorville's Swan Lake Golf Club in 2012. Though a driving range is not one of them, the course has upgraded its practice nets, which remain in their usual spot next to the parking lot. Only now they are a bit bigger, a bit sturdier, and with room
Until the first substantial snowfall of the offseason, fairways and greens around Long Island typically remain in very good condition even as the players driving over and stomping on top of them add layers of apparel to block the chill. Plenty of layers were shed on Friday at the Middle Island Country Club during a
The fourth annual Town of Hempstead Supervisor's Cup Golf Classic will tee off on Wednesday, October 5 at the Lido Golf Club, but there's limited time to enter your name into the drawing for tournament spots. Hempstead Town residents are eligible to participate and must submit an application before September 9. A lottery for the
[For information on the current 2014 Suffolk County Junior Golf Tour, please click here.] The professionals aren't the only ones who should be focusing on tournament play during U.S. Open week. Suffolk County's junior golfers can start preparing right now for this year's Junior Golf Tour, which begins at the West Sayville Golf Course on
Golf as a Father's Day gift is always welcome (unless it's a bag of tees), especially when you and Dad can take a day off from work to enjoy it. The Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford is putting on a Friday Before Father's Day Shotgun outing on June 17 that includes two of Dad's
There are five closing holes at Bethpage State Park, all with varying styles and topography. Which one is your favorite? Leave an answer here at Golf On Long Island and be eligible to win a dozen Callaway golf balls when our "Nassau 18" is announced in April. The Black Course's 18th is the most photographed
The Timber Point Golf Course in Great River will host a Thanksgiving Day Turkey Shoot of its own this holiday. Unlike most other Thanksgiving outings, however, this one will be nine holes in "blind bogey" format. What is blind bogey? As Timber Point's Andy Carracino puts it, blind bogey "is a great way to handicap