Now through the end of August, the Brentwood and Holbrook Country Clubs are offering summer specials for all golfers, whether you're looking to beat the heat in a cart or aiming to work up a sweat with the bag on your shoulder. You can play 18 and ride at either Town of Islip course next […]
Calverton Links has a new owner, but its future as a golf course remains uncertain, according to a report published in the Riverhead News-Review last weekend. The 18-hole course in Calverton, which unexpectedly closed last October, was sold to developer Parviz Farahzad and a group called Bashi Calverton Links LLC in May for $3.5 million,
The latest of the "Girls Golf Days" put on by the LPGA Foundation will take place at Spring Lake Golf Club in Middle Island next Thursday, July 17. Spring Lake and golf director Cristy Jurgens will host "These Girls Rock Day," a fun morning and afternoon designed to draw young female golfers and heighten their
The "World's Largest Golf Outing" will tee off at courses across 28 states on Monday, August 11. Now in its fourth year, the annual event is held at Billy Casper Golf properties around the country and raises money for the Wounded Warrior Project. Long Island players can get in on the action at Pine Ridge
Golfweek announced its annual ranking of America's Best Municipal Courses last month and the Black Course at Bethpage State Park found itself in a very familiar place — at the top. Bethpage Black is the top muni in the country for the sixth year in a row according to Golfweek, and as usual, the Black's
The arrival of summer signals the departure of local Long Islanders and visiting tourists headed eastbound for weekends of relaxation across the South Fork. Montauk, the last stop on the Route 27 line, has grown from a quiet fishing village to a quaint, family-friendly vacation spot to, more recently, an increasingly hip alternative to the
[UPDATE: Mill Pond made a number of cosmetic and safety modifications around the course in 2014. This hole now features hedges near the tee to discourage attempts at driving the green.] On the heels of our overview of a long par-3 fashioned out of a once-short par-4, we take a detailed look now at a
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
Cherry Creek's annual Scleroderma Charity Golf Outing will tee off later this month, as part of a battle against a little-known but debilitating skin disease. Proceeds from the event, which will be held on the Links Course on Wednesday, June 25, benefit the Scleroderma Foundation and Scleroderma Research Foundation to help find a cure. Shotgun
For a while it appeared that the tremendous rock that sat beside the 10th green of the former Great Rock Golf Club would live on as just another boulder on hilly ground on Suffolk County's north shore. But it turns out the rock will continue to be the namesake feature at the Wading River course,