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

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March 7, 2018

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 […]

Long Island Press announces nominees for 2018 “Best Golf Course”

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October 25, 2017

Bethpage State Park is the favorite to continue its dominance in the "Best of Long Island" survey, conducted each year by the Long Island Press and now open for voting. Every October through December, the Press opens up the online polls in dozens of categories that cover recreation, dining, shopping and more across Nassau and

Reader e-mail: Favorite Long Island courses

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February 12, 2014

Long Island's 2013-14 winter golf season has been a complete bust, so local golfer and Golf On Long Island reader Ryan Stewart has his eye on the spring. Stewart e-mailed us on the heels of last week's snow/slop storm to ask some questions and share some thoughts on the local golf scene. He also credited

Voting is open for “Best Golf Course” in annual Long Island Press poll

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October 12, 2012

Come January, one local golf course, as well as an area driving range and golf store, will earn the distinction of "Best of Long Island." Which ones earn that title is up to you. Voting is open at the Long Island Press website for the 2013 "Best of LI" poll. Each year the newspaper puts

Reader Favorite: Long Island’s golf course practice facilities

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March 26, 2012

Reader Andrew Song, a Golf On Long Island fan since 2009, values his time on the driving range. And if it's a grass range, all the better. A Bayside, Queens resident, Song doesn't mind heading east to Suffolk County if it means a break from New York City and Bethpage crowds, and the chance to

Reader Postcard: Town of Oyster Bay GC

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July 14, 2011

The Boy Scouts of America's Suffolk County Council will host its 2011 F.D.R. Golf Classic on Tuesday, August 9 at Hamlet Wind Watch Golf & Country Club in Hauppauge. Long Island golfers are invited to participate and help raise money for special-needs Scouting. Entry fee for the event is $225 per player and includes breakfast,

What’s the best 18th hole at Bethpage?

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March 18, 2011

Want to give the junior golfer in your family a head start in learning and enjoying the sport? The teaching staff at Harbor Links Golf Course in Port Washington invites young golfers age 6 to 16 to participate in its 2011 spring and summer golf camps. Spring golf programs begin in late April and run

What’s your favorite water-hazard hole in Nassau?

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March 9, 2011

Want to win a dozen Golf On Long Island golf balls? Just answer a quick question on your local public golf courses and help us put together our "Nassau 18." Like most sports fans, we here at Golf On Long Island love a good list. And to help us get through the final weeks of

Want to win a dozen GOLI golf balls? Help us select our “Nassau 18”

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February 28, 2011

Tallgrass Golf Course in Shoreham will welcome back walkers this Wednesday, March 2, the course's grand reopening date after a snowed-out winter. The first group will go out at 9 a.m. Sign in before noon and play all day for $40 ($30 after noon). The wind-swept course on Suffolk County's north shore was ranked #8

Reader postcard from Merrick Road Park

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May 22, 2009

[NOTE: Dix Hills Golf Club has closed.] The shaded cabin at the Dix Hills Golf Club, with its weathered, throwback signage and gravel driveway, is a pleasant place to start a round of golf. What hides behind it — literally — is far from pleasant, unless you consider hacking up and out of a 40-foot

Golf on Long Island

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