Thirteen public golf courses in Nassau and Suffolk are in the running for the title of "Best Golf Course" of 2012 in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll, and 12 of them are looking to wrestle that title away from Bethpage State Park. The 90-hole centerpiece of Long Island golf will win […]
Until the first substantial snowfall of the offseason, fairways and greens around Long Island typically remain in very good condition even as the players driving over and stomping on top of them add layers of apparel to block the chill. Plenty of layers were shed on Friday at the Middle Island Country Club during a
The Timber Point Golf Course in Great River will host an abbreviated holiday scramble on Thanksgiving morning, November 24, complete with food, drinks, prizes and bonuses for all turkeys (no, not the ones you douse with gravy). Timber Point's Thanksgiving outing — a nine-hole, four-person scramble — will begin with a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
Start Thanksgiving at the crack of dawn in Middle Island at Spring Lake Golf Club's holiday shotgun outing, set to begin promptly at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 24. Arrive early for continental breakfast, then compete against fellow holiday golfers for first-, second- and even last-place prizes. The outing will follow best-ball format. Entry fee
The way Golfing Magazine sees it, it's never too early to start planning next season's tee times. If you're a golfer who shares that opinion, then get on board Golfing Magazine's 2012 Free Golf Program by signing up for the mag's Early Bird Special. For $39 you get a certificate good for "free" rounds at
The Hamptons-area Poxabogue Golf Course will soon be owned entirely by the Town of Southampton, according to reports in Newsday and The East Hampton Press earlier this week. East Hampton's Town Board voted last week to sell off its portion of the jointly owned golf facility in order to pay off debt from its original