Most public golf courses on Long Island remain open through the cold, sometimes harsh winters. Conditions are typically decent until snow blankets the ground for the first time. Then, the still-green turf turns dull and sloppy, putting surfaces shut down and players are redirected toward crudely chalked circles near the end of the fairway. This […]
Golfing Magazine recently announced its 2010 Long Island Dream Golf Club, this season's collection of the Island's finest 18 holes and top off-course facilities. The club's six public golf holes can all be found on the front nine of this 6,636-yard par-71. Every Monday through the winter, Golf On Long Island will feature one public
Golfing Magazine recently announced its 2010 Long Island Dream Golf Club, this season's collection of the Island's finest 18 holes and top off-course facilities. The club's six public golf holes can all be found on the front nine of this 6,636-yard par-71. Every Monday through the winter, Golf On Long Island will feature one public
To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Golf Digest published a list of America's "Most Important Courses" by decade in its November 2010 issue. These are the courses, according to the mag, that have had the biggest impact on the game since the late 19th century. Rich in golf history, Long Island and the New York metropolitan
The Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River is offering hard-to-beat winter rates to match the quickly dropping temperature readings. Play 18 holes with cart during the week for just $29, or walk for $19. On weekends, the rate is $49 to ride, $39 to walk. Highly regarded for its pristine conditions, the course and
The voting period for the 2011 "Best of LI" poll, brought to you annually by the Long Island Press, will come to an end on Wednesday, December 15. That leaves two weeks for Long Island golfers to cast their vote for one of 12 public facilities and three private clubs among this year's "Best Golf
Golf On Long Island took part in last week's Swan Lake Scramble under a gorgeous blue sky and unseasonably warm November breezes. The course, serene and secluded in the Manorville pines, remains in fantastic shape two months into the autumn season. Swan Lake's huge greens played a bit firmer and faster than usual and have
There's a Black Friday bargain waiting for area golfers at the end of the Long Island Expressway in Riverhead, and it's not at the Tanger Outlets. While the rest of the Island either shops or sleeps in, golfers with a tolerance for whipping, late-autumn winds on the North Fork can find a decent deal at
The Timber Point Golf Course in Great River will host a Thanksgiving Day Turkey Shoot of its own this holiday. Unlike most other Thanksgiving outings, however, this one will be nine holes in "blind bogey" format. What is blind bogey? As Timber Point's Andy Carracino puts it, blind bogey "is a great way to handicap
Written by Rob Dimino Eighteen holes for $20 or less is always a bargain. Eighteen holes on the Championship Course at Harbor Links in Port Washington for $20 — made possible by Golfing Magazine's "Free Golf" certificate — is an outright steal. Even when the back nine is closed and the course is in the