Ken Weinstein and Chris Wahlers ended their first season as owners of Sandy Pond Golf Course the same way they began — by making improvements from top to bottom at their nine-hole course in Riverhead. More accurately, the improvements went from bottom to top. One of their first projects, according to this Riverhead News-Review profile […]
The spring golf season can't come soon enough. Every first tee shot that rises into the air at reopened public golf courses across Long Island is an indication that the offseason brought on prematurely and in swift, sudden fashion by Hurricane Sandy is finally in the past. And the coming spring signals rebirth for a
Golfing Magazine's Free Golf Program is no longer confined to the great outdoors. The local mag has partnered with Eagle Golf of Bay Shore to include in this year's program an hour of indoor simulator time, a fun practice session that should come in handy between discounted rounds. Early Bird registration is currently $39 —
Timber Point Golf Course is celebrating St. Patrick's Day and the start of another new golf season with a scramble and dinner outing on Sunday, March 17. The full-day affair will be hosted at the Great River course before moving on to the nearby Snapper Inn for food and drinks. The nine-hole, four-person scramble will
For such a little layout, Poxabogue Golf Course often finds itself in a large municipal mess. It turns out, according to Newsday, that the sale of East Hampton Town's stake in the course to the Town of Southampton — approved last March by the Southampton Town Board — has been held up by a "technical
Paychecks are a little lighter so far in 2013. All the more reason to check out Golfing Magazine's Free Golf Program, even if it is still only January. The mag's annual Early Bird Special is available now through April, and enrolls subscribers in the program for $39 — a $10 discount off the regular rate.
Just over 24 hours before the New Years Eve ball drop in Times Square, the final putts of the 2012 season dropped into the cup at Suffolk County's Timber Point and West Sayville golf courses. Both municipal courses closed for the season on Sunday. Timber Point is scheduled to reopen on March 15, 2013, with
The 2012-13 winter golf season on Long Island already has a slightly different feel than usual, even though the winter has yet to arrive. In Nassau County, dependable offseason outposts at the Lido Golf Club and, on a smaller scale, North Woodmere Park, are out of the winter rotation, both recovering from severe blows delivered
Voting closes next Saturday, December 15, for the annual "Best of LI" poll conducted by the weekly (soon to be monthly) Long Island Press. Most relevant to Golf On Long Island readers is the poll's "Best Golf Course" category, which has been dominated by Bethpage State Park for the last half-decade. You can also cast
Timber Point Golf Course in Great River is open again for 18 holes, and has incorporated part of the hurricane-damaged Blue Course into its modified post-storm layout. The Red Course — the most inland of the three nines — is available in full. For now, the other half of an 18-hole round consists of