The road to Florida for the USSSA Junior Golf Championship begins in just a few weeks for Long Island golfers between the ages of 9 and 18. The 2013 USSSA Junior Golf Tour launches this April, and once again, local boys and girls will have the opportunity to compete for a spot on the national […]
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
The annual St. Patrick's Day Golf Classic returns to Mill Pond Golf Course next month, a pre-holiday scramble to cap the week and relax in preparation for Saturday night and Sunday celebrations. The event is scheduled for Friday, March 15, with a 10 a.m. tee time. Foursomes will compete for gold, silver and bronze prizes,
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
Spring Lake Golf Club in Middle Island will host a shotgun outing next month to kick off St. Patrick's Day weekend and help usher in the 2013 season. The first annual St. Patrick's Day Scramble will tee off on Spring Lake's Thunderbird Course at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 15. Registration is now open to
Wading River's Great Rock Golf Club closed late last week for a short mid-winter hibernation. The course will reopen on Friday, March 15, weather permitting. Great Rock's recently remodeled 11th green will make its debut this spring season. Work on the back side of the heavily sloped surface was completed last month by superintendent Dan
Long Island Press readers liked the results of last year's "Best Golf Course" poll so much that they kept the winner and runners-up exactly the same in 2013. This week the local newspaper announced the results of the sports and activities categories in its annual "Best of Long Island" survey, and Bethpage State Park finished
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.
Newsday's "Community Watchdog" Judy Cartwright tied up a couple of loose ends as 2012 drew to a close, filling in readers on the resolutions, or lack thereof, to stories covered during the year. Among them was an update on errant-ball issues at the West Sayville and Bergen Point golf courses: Residents near Suffolk County's West