If you've ever helplessly watched as your approach or pitch onto the 11th green at Great Rock Golf Club sprinted straight off the back and into the heavy rough, here's some welcome news: The newly renovated surface, designed to hold more shots, is in play this season. Bad news: Your thin 6-iron is still bound […]
Make Wading River a destination this Father's Day, June 16. Not only is the on-site Blackwells Pub at Great Rock Golf Club serving up Dad's favorite meal — cold beer and thick steak — but the course itself will host a two-person holiday scramble starting at 1 p.m. The event includes refreshments on the course
Perhaps the best way to pamper Dad on Father's Day is by sinking that 20-footer for birdie yourself and letting him keep his putter in the bag. You'll have your chance at Mill Pond Golf Course's third annual "Friday Before Father's Day" outing on Friday, June 14. The "Friday Before Father's Day" event is a
The Lee & Aidan McMahon Foundation will hold its 14th annual McMahon Family Golf Outing and Auction on Saturday, June 15 at the Middle Island Country Club. Event proceeds will benefit the Hospice Care Network, Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation and American Liver Foundation. The McMahon Foundation has raised nearly $1 million through its charity events
Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island reopened this morning for the first time since the grounds and its main traffic circle were heavily damaged last October by Hurricane Sandy. Included in the grand reopening is the pitch-and-putt golf course at the west end of the barrier-beach park. The golf course, accessible at Field 2,
Willow Creek Golf & Country Club in Mount Sinai will host the ninth annual St. Louis de Montfort Golf Outing on Friday, June 7 and the third annual Pete DeVito Memorial Foundation outing on the following Friday, June 14. The St. Louis de Montfort outing will honor parishioner Carol Landy and the Sound Beach Fire
The annual golf outing held in memory of Rev. Msgr. Thaddeus Rooney of Ss. Cyril & Methodius Church in Deer Park will take place on Thursday, June 6 at Timber Point Golf Course in Great River. The event is sponsored by Mangano Funeral Home, Inc. of Deer Park. Shotgun tee time is 2:00 p.m. Entry
There's no shortage of trees at Holbrook Country Club, a course where all 18 holes are ringed by a dense collection of limbs and leafy branches. Aside from an occasional generous kick toward the fairway, these trees offer little that's of any aid to golfers. One tree, however, does serve a beneficial purpose to Holbrook
There is rarely any suspense when it comes to the Long Island imprint on Golfweek's annual ranking of America's Best Municipal Courses. Bethpage Black is usually at the top, followed a few tiers below by neighbor Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs. Change is found only in the number next to the latter two. Golfweek
Starting this week, Long Island golfers will receive a Golfing Magazine certificate that allows them to play for "free" at nearly a dozen golf courses Islandwide. The magazine's 2013 Free Golf Program includes 11 local courses — seven full-length and four nine-hole layouts — plus dozens more upstate and across the Northeast. Also, this year's