The ninth edition of Mill Pond Golf Course's annual Thanksgiving Day Turkey Shootout is open for registration, and interested players should not delay in signing up for one of Long Island golf's most popular holiday events. As usual, Mill Pond's 2015 Turkey Shootout will be a four-person team scramble with a scheduled 8:00 a.m. start. […]
Stonebridge Golf Links & Country Club in Hauppauge will be closed for fairway aeration on Thursday, October 29. So on the following day, October 30, Stonebridge is offering a $33 aeration special — with cart included — to all players. Discounted tee times can be made online at the course website. For more on the
There's a restaurant once again at Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River. Pure North Fork, a modern bistro with a focus on local food and drinks, opened at the course earlier this month. The new spot officially replaces Blackwells, the Zagat-rated steakhouse that closed early in 2014 when the club and restaurant came under
With the fall season upon us, it's time for Long Island golfers to warm up their click fingers and vote online in the 11th annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll. Every October the newspaper opens voting on dozens of goods and services around the Island, including local golf courses, stores and driving ranges.
Rock Hill in Manorville isn't the only local golf course celebrating the 2015 season with 50 candles in its 18th green. Northport's Crab Meadow Golf Course turns 50 this season as well, and part of its celebration includes a dress-like-the-'60s scramble later this month. The Town of Huntington course remains a popular destination on Suffolk's
[NOTE: The Vineyards Golf Club is a private facility, but it will be featured in this Observations post since it has been allowing public play for much of the 2015 season. Additional course content will be available if the club permanently opens to the public.] Sandwiched between the public Cherry Creek Links and Woods courses
A simple card game between friends a half-century ago spawned a nine-hole golf course with a trailer for a clubhouse at the end of a dirt road in Manorville — a dusty trail that only a handful of golfers bothered to traverse at first. That's the story of Rock Hill Golf & Country Club, which
Cherry Creek's two courses in Riverhead and Pine Ridge Golf Club in Coram are partnering once again this fall season to pitch a "Golf Trifecta" special that offers 54 holes at a steep discount. The Trifecta special includes one round at each course — Cherry Creek's lengthy, driver-friendly Links Course, the tree-lined Woods Course and
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WFAN radio personality Ann Liguori hosts a weekly "Sports Innerview" radio show on Saturday mornings on WPPB 88.3 Southampton, and her guest this past weekend, August 29, was Golf On Long Island's Phil Carlucci. The two discussed "Images of America: Long Island Golf," which has been in local bookstores and available here at Golf On