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2024 closing dates at Long Island’s public golf courses

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

The handful of public golf courses that close for the Long Island winter typically go dark between the end of Thanksgiving weekend and the middle of December.  Some might hang on until Christmas week if warm weather lingers, but usually the only courses still open by then are the ones that welcome players year-round. So, […]

Momentum building toward Golden Age-inspired restoration of Timber Point

18-hole, 9-hole, Origins, Suffolk Courses, Voices of Long Island Golf

Stars aligned in recent years to free Long Island's original Lido Club from grainy black-and-white photos and resurrect it halfway across the country at Wisconsin's Sand Valley.  Now it seems they might be positioning themselves again to inspire another Golden Age rebirth, one that stays right here on the Island's south shore. The restoration of

Bethpage Red, Montauk Downs highlighted on Golf Magazine’s affordability list

18-hole, 18-hole, Bethpage, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Suffolk Courses

Two of Long Island's top public golf courses known for being hard on scorecards recently earned some praise from Golf Magazine for going easy on golfers' wallets. Bethpage State Park's Red Course and Montauk Downs both made the cut in Golf Mag's 2024 list of America's best golf courses for $100 or less, "where memorability

Bethpage, Montauk Downs listed among Golfweek’s 2024 Best Courses You Can Play

18-hole, 18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Suffolk Courses

There are certainties in Long Island golf life ’97 group photos at the Black Course warning sign, wind at Montauk Downs, and Bethpage and Montauk ranked highly in Golfweek's list of the region's top public golf courses. Golfweek's 2024 Best Courses You Can Play rankings were published earlier this month and Bethpage Black finds itself

Flyover: Spy Ring Golf Club

9-hole, For Beginners, Suffolk Courses

SEE ALSO:Spy Ring Golf Club in Setauket working its way toward a soft opening this fall (2023)Coming Soon: Heritage Spy Ring GC, Long Island's first shot at the Sweetens Cove model (2022) When a public golf course longer than a pitch-and-putt was last built on Long Island, the world was a very unfamiliar place.  Taylor Swift was

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