9-hole

One week left to vote for “Best Golf Course” in 12th annual LI Press poll

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December 7, 2016

Time is winding down in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll — voters have until December 15 to click in favor of their preferred course or club. This is the 12th edition of the survey, which runs each fall, giving Long Islanders the opportunity to nominate and vote for their favorite goods […]

Town of Huntington ends agreement with Crab Meadow, Dix Hills Park course operator

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December 1, 2016

Town of Huntington board members voted unanimously last month to end its license agreement with Integrity Golf, the Florida-based management company hired in 2014 to run the Crab Meadow and Dix Hills Park municipal courses, according to Newsday. Newsday's Deborah S. Morris reported Thursday that the board voted 5 to 0 to revoke the agreement

Golf outings and specials galore on the slate for Thanksgiving Day

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November 14, 2016

Golf is as much a Thanksgiving tradition for some cold-hardened Long Island golfers as turkey and stuffing. So they don't mind missing the Thanksgiving Day parade as long as they can be out on a local fairway buzzing 3-irons through chilly wind gusts. And waiting out a brief frost delay is no big deal —

Aeration underway at Timber Point

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September 12, 2016

Each of Timber Point Golf Course's three nine-hole layouts will close for a day this week for scheduled aeration, beginning today with the Red Course. The Blue and White courses are open for play today while maintenance takes place on the Red. The White Course will be closed tomorrow, September 13; the Blue will be

Two days left for free junior golf at Spring Lake’s Sandpiper Course

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August 24, 2016

Junior golfers age 14 and under have two opportunities left to play free golf this month at Spring Lake Golf Club in Middle Island. On Wednesdays and Thursdays in August, juniors play for free with a paying adult on the Sandpiper Course, Spring Lake's nine-hole layout and the home of its namesake water hazard. The

Junior SNAG clinic this weekend at Spring Lake

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June 23, 2016

If you can't land a tee time anywhere on this first official weekend of the summer, you can at least let your little one take the clubs out for a spin. Spring Lake Golf Club in Middle Island is hosting its first junior SNAG (Starting New At Golf) clinic of the season on Saturday, June

Free greens fees at Brentwood and Holbrook on Father’s Day

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June 16, 2016

Treat Dad to a free greens fee this Father's Day, then let him sit back and watch the final round of the U.S. Open in peace. The Town of Islip is giving away free greens fees for every purchased round this Father's Day, June 19, at Brentwood Country Club, Holbrook Country Club and the nine-hole

Babylon’s Sumpwams Creek Golf Course battling a goose problem

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May 22, 2016

Anybody who's grown up on the schoolyards, soccer fields and golf courses around Long Island is overly acquainted with the, uhh, material left behind by flocks of Canadian geese. That doesn't make the situation at Sumpwams Creek Golf Course any easier to handle, as the nine-hole layout in Babylon, according to Newsday, is doing all

Golfing Magazine’s 2016 Free Golf Program includes eight courses and simulator time

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May 3, 2016

Eight Long Island golf courses are participating in this year's Free Golf Program, an annual subscription special offered by Hicksville-based Golfing Magazine. The 2016 slate of offerings also includes an hour of free simulator time at Simplay in Hauppauge. Golfing Mag certificates, now available for $49, will soon arrive in subscriber mailboxes and allow "free"

Improvements continue at Sandy Pond’s nine-hole course in Riverhead

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April 3, 2016

Just because their little nine-hole golf hideaway in Riverhead has caught the attention of more and more East End golfers during their four-plus seasons at the helm of Sandy Pond Golf Course doesn't mean Chris Wahlers and Ken Weinstein are about to take a breather on one of their newly renovated tee boxes. The arrival

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