Free on Mondays and looking to raise money for local organizations by playing a top Long Island public course? Hamlet Willow Creek Golf & Country Club in Mount Sinai will host the 26th annual Mather Golf Classic on Monday, June 6, and the fifth annual Dix Hills Basketball Association (DHBA) Golf Classic on June 13. […]
The annual Long Island Golf Show will take place March 25-27 at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood, with two-time major champion John Daly serving as the event's marquee guest. Daly, winner of the 1991 PGA Championship and 1995 British Open, will appear at the show on Saturday, March 26. Also making a guest appearance
The first thing visitors typically notice when they pull into the parking lot at the Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford is the sprawling driving range on the west side of the clubhouse. It's here where players prepare their swings for the wide-open fairways and breezy, mostly treeless layout that stretches out over both sides
In addition to its 90 golf holes, Bethpage State Park also boasts one of Long Island's best pro shops. It is here where local players grab a last-minute sleeve of Callaways before running out to the starter, or an umbrella and towel after they've booked 18 in the rain. It is also from here where
Thanks to Old Man Winter, the only golfing to be done on Long Island since Christmas has been in a simulator or on a Nintendo Wii. Still, keep an eye on these offseason rates just in case the grass emerges sometime in the near future. Mill Pond: $30 to walk, $40 to ride weekdays (residents),
Long Island hasn't seen a four-peat like this since 1983. And unlike the Islanders, Bethpage State Park won't stop contending for more titles anytime soon (or move to Queens). Bethpage once again finished on top of the "Best Golf Course" category in the Best of Long Island survey run annually by the Long Island Press.
The hot, steamy, rain-free days of the Summer of 2010 delivered a beating to lawns and gardens across Long Island and the small, mostly flat greens of the Brentwood Country Club. Bare brown patches dotted a handful of putting surfaces around the short par-72 on our last visit. Luckily, if you're teeing it up at
The Brentwood and Holbrook Country Clubs continue to demonstrate that they are two of the more wallet-friendly courses on Long Island. Last month the clubs announced that their respective outing days — Mondays at Brentwood, Tuesdays at Holbrook — would be open for public play in August at a discounted rate. Now another August special
A local golf tournament is an odd thing to discuss just a few hours after digging out from underneath a foot of snow deposited by an early-March nor'easter. But in two weeks, with a little cooperation from the weather, area golfers might finally be able to put the snow shovels away for the season and
So you showed up at the Long Island Dream Club with a dozen Titleists, and you left the 18th green at Cherry Creek Links with only three. A full sleeve disappeared into the drink when you tried to pull a Roy McAvoy through the wind at Montauk Downs. You tensed up in the face of