The Long Island Press wrapped up its fourth annual "Best Of Long Island" poll last month. Each year the newspaper invites readers to vote on its website for their favorite Long Island restaurants, pizzerias, museums, shops, parks — pretty much their favorite Long Island anything. The 2009 poll included more than 175 "Best Of" categories. […]
Last spring I tried to find a convenient course for an after-work twilight round. Stonebridge in Hauppauge fit my location and rate preferences, but I had a very limited knowledge of the course itself. The only reason I even knew of Stonebridge at all was because of its listing as a "can't miss" course on
Most visitors to Baseball Plus on February weekends are there to hone their swings for upcoming baseball and softball seasons. For the past year, however, golfers have had a practice area for their own swing work, where the crack of a 5-iron and the thud of a simulator screen join the chorus of aluminum bat
Golfing Magazine put together a Long Island Dream Golf Club in its Fall 2008 issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes from as far west as Garden City and Great Neck, and as far east as Montauk and Greenport,
The folks at Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River are using the down time this offseason to update the course's website. The new site will be up and running sometime in February. Great Rock is a par-71 noted for its elevation changes and impeccable conditions. The tenth hole is a long, uphill par-4 that
Thanks to Golf Digest, the USGA and NBC Sports, all Long Island golfers (plus thousands more nationwide) are only six words away from being chosen to play Bethpage Black under U.S. Open conditions, with Michael Jordan as a playing partner. If that seems a tad intimidating, take solace in the fact that only a few
Golfing Magazine put together a Long Island Dream Golf Club in its Fall 2008 issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes from as far west as Garden City and Great Neck, and as far east as Montauk and Greenport,
NOTE: An updated course flyover was posted in April 2010. Check it out by clicking here. Normally I wouldn't write about a course that I have yet to play in full at least once. After passing by the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury numerous times over the years while working in Syosset
The long-abandoned, graffiti-faced skeleton of a Burger King in Rocky Point was finally reduced to rubble this Monday, after serving as a local eyesore since 2004. What does this have to do with Long Island public golf? Well, the former Home of the Whopper stood adjacent to the Rolling Oaks Golf Course, and the property
SEE ALSO:Flyover: Bethpage – Green Course (6/3/2011) The Green Course at Bethpage State Park has a tendency to get lost in the shuffle, understandable for a course that tees off only a few paces from the opening and closing holes of the crown jewel of Long Island public golf. It doesn’92t have a warning sign