I noticed earlier this week that the website for the Pine Hills Country Club is out of service. For anyone who has visited that site in the past in search of helpful information about the course, layout or rates, this latest development isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world. Unless I'm missing something — […]
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,
As 2008 draws to a close, golf courses around Long Island are still hanging on to their fittest blades of green grass before the winter's cruel temperatures and blankets of snow and slop turn everything to a muddy shade of sickly brown. Until then, there are some decent bargains and conditions to be found. Winter
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,
[This flyover was updated on June 1, 2021.] The Gull Haven Golf Club bills itself as Islip’92s family golf course, a claim based in its wide, flat fairways and friendly atmosphere. Experienced fathers or mothers (and grandfathers or grandmothers) might hesitate to teach the game to their kids at the other Town-operated courses ’96 the
The sun sets on Bay Park's opening hole (right) back in August, and this Sunday, it will set on the 2008 season at both Bay Park in East Rockaway and Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn. The two Nassau County-operated courses will re-open sometime in March. Both nine-hole par-30s are very short with contrasting styles, and
Golfing Magazine unveiled the ultimate Long Island golf destination in its recent Fall issue, a Dream Golf Club that combines not only the very best holes in Nassau and Suffolk, but the finest clubhouse, restaurant, pro shop and practice facilities as well. It all adds up to what would be a memorable par-73 course that
[This flyover was updated on June 1, 2022.] SEE ALSO:Street Names: The Ghosts of Long Island Golf's Past — Mill Pond East (6/17/2021)Observations: Mill Pond Golf Course (12/3/2016)Closer Look: Mill Pond #5Observations: Mill Pond, 6/2/2010 Mill Pond Golf Course is a breath of fresh air, and not just because of the crisp and constant wind
December is here, but many Long Island courses remain in prime playing condition. At Mill Pond on Thanksgiving, the course looked nearly as it would on a morning in June, the only difference being about three layers of clothing per golfer and some sandy, recently aerated greens. Everything else played close to its peak, and
[This flyover was updated on January 4, 2017.] SEE ALSO:Observations: Middle Island Country Club, 11/26/2011 The Spruce Course at the Middle Island Country Club is one of three nine-hole layouts — all tree-titled — that make up the 27-hole facility, which has undergone a gradual renovation that began in the late 2000s under new club