If you have a weekday afternoon free this winter and the weather cooperates, you can play and ride at a top Long Island course for less than two bucks a hole. The Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River is once again featuring a $29 weekday afternoon rate this offseason ($39 in the morning). Winter […]
Thirteen public golf courses in Nassau and Suffolk are in the running for the title of "Best Golf Course" of 2012 in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll, and 12 of them are looking to wrestle that title away from Bethpage State Park. The 90-hole centerpiece of Long Island golf will win
Until the first substantial snowfall of the offseason, fairways and greens around Long Island typically remain in very good condition even as the players driving over and stomping on top of them add layers of apparel to block the chill. Plenty of layers were shed on Friday at the Middle Island Country Club during a
The Timber Point Golf Course in Great River will host an abbreviated holiday scramble on Thanksgiving morning, November 24, complete with food, drinks, prizes and bonuses for all turkeys (no, not the ones you douse with gravy). Timber Point's Thanksgiving outing — a nine-hole, four-person scramble — will begin with a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
Seems like only yesterday we were at the Crab Meadow Golf Course for its Trick or Treat Scramble on a pleasant Halloween Monday. Of course, at Crab Meadow, almost every major holiday doubles as a great day for a scramble (see Easter, St. Patrick's Day and others). The course's annual Thanksgiving Turkey Shoot is only
During our first visit to the Holbrook Country Club a few years ago, a crow — either hungry or simply mischievous — took advantage of our concentration on the putting green and helped itself without any hesitation to some of Rob's unguarded breakfast. It then joined its friends up in the trees for a hearty
Start Thanksgiving at the crack of dawn in Middle Island at Spring Lake Golf Club's holiday shotgun outing, set to begin promptly at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 24. Arrive early for continental breakfast, then compete against fellow holiday golfers for first-, second- and even last-place prizes. The outing will follow best-ball format. Entry fee
Long Island golfers have a lot to be thankful for, including a 65-degree Election Day and seasonal green fee specials. Plenty of players across the Island are also thankful for the local courses that put on early-morning Turkey Day golf outings. Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford is one of them. On Thanksgiving, Mill Pond
It's Halloween and we've already been through one snow–, err, slushstorm. Perhaps last winter is eager to pick up where it left off. No matter the meteorological outlook, one thing that can't be denied is the availability of favorable Fall season golf specials around Long Island. Here is a sampling: Great Rock: $49 weekdays, $39
The gated entrance to the former Links at Shirley sits largely ignored along William Floyd Parkway, some of its letters missing as it protects overgrown corridors of once-pristine golf holes. Soon, the site will be split up between single-family homes, 55-and-over townhouses and open space. According to Newsday, as part of a deal between the