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, […]
By the end of this week all but a tiny handful of Long Island's public golf courses will be open for play with a variety of social-distancing measures in place. This Friday, May 1, Island's End Golf Course in Greenport and the Town of Huntington municipal courses at Crab Meadow and Dix Hills Park will
A recent Newsday article indicated that Suffolk County would follow the lead of New York State when it came to making golf courses open again for play, and that's exactly how the county's golf relaunch is taking place. Following the state's decision late last week to reopen its golf courses, Suffolk County announced that West
New York State municipal golf courses on Long Island — Bethpage, Montauk Downs and Sunken Meadow — will reopen for play on Monday, April 27, with social-distancing guidelines in place. Bethpage's Black Course will follow with its 2020 reopening on Friday, May 1. Starting that day, four Bethpage courses will be open daily. On the
Following the recent update to our "Nassau 18" for 2020, the latest collection of best or most notable holes in Suffolk County — Golf On Long Island's "Suffolk 18" — is now available as well. Even though the original Suffolk 18 was posted a relatively short time ago in 2017, there's since been significant turnover
Long Island and New York State golf is shut down until the end of the month and in some places longer after the state added golf courses to its ever-changing list of non-essential businesses earlier today. The announcement seemingly puts an end to the short, strange and bustling early-spring season that saw thousands of golfers
As the early spring moves closer and closer to ideal golf weather amid the coronavirus pandemic, the vast majority of Long Island public golf courses are open for play. One more reopened for the 2020 season this morning. The Golf Club at Middle Bay in Oceanside is now open with 16-minute tee-time intervals and a
The local public golf scene continues to represent some semblance of normalcy on Long Island, even with its slew of social-distancing measures that have been implemented at all open courses over the past two weeks. Bethpage State Park's Red Course reopened on schedule yesterday. Word from several GOLI readers is that the spaced-out tee sheet
A lengthy list of public and municipal golf courses around Long Island announced Tuesday that they will reopen for play — some today, some tomorrow — with social-distancing precautions in place to ensure the safety of players. What looked like a statewide shutdown of public golf on Monday morning quickly reversed within hours once the
When the sun rose this morning it seemed Long Island golfers would have nowhere to play for the foreseeable future. And now as the first day of New York State's non-essential business shutdown draws to a close, local golfers will have an unexpectedly broad selection of places to play starting again tomorrow. New York State