Sister courses Wind Watch in Hauppauge and Willow Creek Mount Sinai will host Thanksgiving shotgun outings this Thursday morning, November 26. First to tee off is Willow Creek, where the shotgun start is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. The Wind Watch outing will tee off an hour later at 9 a.m. Both events are $69 per […]
Riverhead-area golfers can roll out of bed and onto the tee at Cherry Creek this Thanksgiving morning, with a shotgun start planned bright and early next week. Cherry Creek's annual Turkey Shootout will begin at 8:00 a.m. next Thursday, November 26 on the Links Course, home of Long Island's only par-6. The outing includes hot
Not long after one "Tradition Unlike Any Other" at Augusta comes another one on Long Island — Thanksgiving Day golf outings. Timber Point will host its annual holiday scramble at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning, November 26. Format is four-person scramble played over nine holes, with pro shop gift cards given to the top team
Golf On Long Island's "Origins" series explores the history and development of those local golf courses whose backstory is a bit more unique than most. Stay tuned for more as the season progresses. ****** At first glance there's not a whole lot that's noteworthy about the 1972 opening of Bergen Point Golf Course in West
No further confirmation was really needed — the abrupt closing last fall, the disconnected phone line, frozen-in-time social media and lack of a 2020 playing season were all dead giveaways regarding the fate of the Great Rock Golf Club. And without an official notice or a brief snippet in the newspaper, it seems a three-word
We're at the height of fall aeration season on Long Island's public courses. Fall maintenance is underway or recently completed at many local courses, so be aware of potentially sandy greens and fairways when booking tee times this month. The Red Course at Eisenhower Park is currently closed for aeration and will reopen for play
Spring Lake Golf Club is reaching out with a deal that offers two benefits in the pandemic summer of 2020 — it gets the kids out of the house and you onto the golf course. On Wednesdays and Thursdays in July and August, kids under the age of 14 play for free with one paying
As the unique, contact-free Long Island golf season of 2020 hums along, a familiar figure of pre-pandemic normalcy — Golfing Magazine's "Free Golf" certificate — makes its way to area mailboxes once again. Golfing Mag's 2020 Free Golf program includes nine Long Island golf courses, ranging from nine-hole munis to the region's most scenic waterfront
Motor carts for single riders only will be available as soon as Saturday at some Long Island county and town golf courses, according to Newsday's Jeff Williams. The Suffolk County municipal courses at Bergen Point, Indian Island, Timber Point and West Sayville will allow the use of motor carts for golfers age 65 and over,
After abruptly ending its 2019 playing season last October, Great Rock Golf Club spent the rest of the fall e-mailing and posting "See You Next Year!" messages to Long Island golfers, a cheery and optimistic retreat from a season littered with tales of weedy bunkers, scorched greens and barren facilities. Now, next year is here,