Six months ago, on a blustery Sunday morning, Timber Point opened its 2013 season with a St. Patrick's Day outing on its Red Course — the only one of the three nines fully operational long after Hurricane Sandy. About 60 golfers made their way around the inland Red while a handful of early-season players teed […]
Course aeration is scheduled for a number of Long Island golf facilities in September and October. Call ahead for course conditions if bumpy greens are a concern. Brentwood Country Club will be closed for aeration today, September 16, and will be open on a regular schedule again tomorrow. Also this week, Crab Meadow Golf Course
Dix Hills Golf Club, a longtime destination for nine holes behind a quaint, old-fashioned clubhouse, is closed. It's old news for golfers in the Dix Hills area, who still have the nearby par-31 at Dix Hills Park as a nine-hole outlet. The course has been closed for at least a year. Today, the course's gravel
Willow Creek Golf & Country Club will host an outing next month to support several charities, including Stony Brook Children's Hospital. Registration is open for the ClubCorp Charity Classic, which will take place on Monday, September 30 at the Mount Sinai course. Proceeds will benefit the Stony Brook hospital as well as Augie's Quest to
Timber Point Golf Course will be aerating its greens next week from Monday, August 19 to Wednesday, August 21. One course will be closed each day for aeration, while the two others remain open for play. The Red Course is first up in the aeration rotation and will be closed on August 19. The Blue
Sunken Meadow State Park is receiving $1.25 million from New York State this year to improve the irrigation system on its three nine-hole golf courses, according to an announcement earlier this week by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The work is part of a statewide "NY Works" improvement plan that is devoting approximately $2.6 million to minor
The Father John Papallo Lodge of the Order Sons of Italy in America will hold its 12th annual Memorial Golf Outing on Monday, August 19 at Smithtown Landing Golf & Country Club. Tee time is 8 a.m. Entry fee is $185 per player and includes an early-morning breakfast, lunch at the turn, cocktail hour at
The seventh annual Chrissy's Wish Memorial Golf Outing, which raises money each year for the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, will take place on Saturday, September 7 at Rock Hill Golf Club in Manorville. The event has raised more than $370,000 over the past six years for research and treatment of various mental illnesses, including
Public players will still be able to play Long Island National Golf Club this season before it transitions to a private club in 2014, but it appears the new ownership would rather have you get a headstart on the changeover and just take your clubs elsewhere. In an e-mail distributed this past weekend to all
Changes are in store at Riverhead's Long Island National Golf Club, one of which is to clear the place of Long Island's public golfers. Long Island National, the Robert Trent Jones Jr. design that opened on the East End in 1999 and filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, will turn private at the conclusion of