Knights of Columbus Council #5817 will support Boots on the Ground NY, the Lieutenant Michael O'Shea Memorial Service Award Fund and the Sergeant Jonathan Keller Memorial Scholarship Fund at this year's seventh annual charity golf outing, which will take place on Friday, May 1 at Rock Hill Golf & Country Club in Manorville. Registration fee […]
The former Calverton Links golf course will likely become a solar farm, according to an article published last month in the Riverhead News-Review. The course, which has sat untouched since it abruptly closed for business in the fall of 2013, was sold last May for $3.5 million to developer Parviz Farahzad and a group called
Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River is reopening for the 2015 season on Friday, April 10, and since the course was recently aerated, special rates are in effect through the end of the month. Players can get out at Great Rock for aeration rates as low as $29 with cart on weekday afternoons. Weekday
[Looking for this year's camp info? See the Guide to 2024 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island.] The 2015 Long Island golf season has gone through a couple of weather-related false starts, keeping golfers of all ages confined away from local courses. Unaffected, thankfully, by the endless transition from winter to spring is the summer
Nothing beats a discount on top of other discounts, especially when it comes to green fees, and Golfing Magazine once again is looking to help local golfers play more this season for less money. Early Bird registration is open for Golfing Magazine's annual Free Golf Program, a subscription-based special that offers heavily reduced rates at
There is a new face in the 2015 edition of Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play list, but as far as Long Island golf courses go, all the regulars are back for another year. For the sixth straight season, Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red, Tallgrass and Montauk Downs are the Island's representatives in the annual ranking
It doesn't matter if it's cold, snowy, icy, rainy or simply white-out blizzardy — when the calendar flips to March, golf season is imminent. That's good news for Long Islanders, since 2015 so far has been all of the above. The golf scene is relatively quiet compared to last offseason, a stretch marked by surprise
It might not feel this way, but there are signs of spring on the golf front. Just beyond the rock-hard snow piles and frozen (and re-frozen) doorsteps are scheduled golf outings, the first of the 2015 season. Though cold-weather golf is not for everyone, it's a signal that we're almost out of another golf-free offseason
The Florida-based company that is now operating both the Crab Meadow and Dix Hills Park golf courses will improve the practice facilities, modernize dining options and make changes to course maintenance procedures, according to company e-mails sent to local golfers this month. Integrity Golf Company, which won a bid in November to operate the two
In an effort to protect the Peconic River from nitrogen pollution and conserve water, Suffolk County will begin a new program in 2016 that will divert 350,000 gallons of treated wastewater per day into the irrigation system of the Indian Island Country Club golf course, Newsday reported last week. The program at the Riverhead course