The annual Association for Facilities Engineering Chapter 4 Golf Outing will tee off on Thursday, June 21 at the Timber Point Golf Course in Great River. Current director and former chapter president Joseph LaRocco is the honoree for the 2012 event for his work as founder of The AFE Relief Fund and other charities and […]
The summer begins a few weeks early at the Town of Islip's Brentwood and Holbrook Country Clubs, where area golfers can save a few bucks with a summer special valid through June and July. Like last year, players can tee off for as little as $24 at either course, all fees included. Just print a
Wind Watch Golf & Country Club in Hauppauge will host Winthrop University Hospital's eighth annual Cancer Center for Kids Golf Outing on Monday, June 18. Past outings have raised nearly $50,000 for vital pediatric cancer services at the Mineola hospital. Foursomes and individual players can register online at the Winthrop University Hospital website. Entry fee
News out of Shoreham: There's a new course superintendent at Tallgrass. Management at the links-style Gil Hanse design announced recently that Jonathan Semmig is the course's new super after four years as the assistant superintendent at the Atlantic Golf Club in Bridgehampton. Semmig also worked previously at the Garden City Golf Club and Colonial Springs
The Lee & Aidan McMahon Foundation will hold its 13th annual McMahon Family Golf Outing and Auction on Saturday, June 16 at the Middle Island Country Club. Proceeds from the outing will benefit the Hospice Care Network, Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation and American Liver Foundation. Shotgun start is scheduled for 12:30 p.m., but the festivities
The Spring Lake Golf Club in Middle Island is giving fathers and juniors the unique opportunity to practice and play golf together on Father's Day, June 17. Dad and one of the junior golfers in the family are invited to fine-tune their swings at a 45-minute clinic with Spring Lake staff before putting the swing
No surprise in Golfweek's annual list of America's Best Municipal Courses. The Black Course at Bethpage State Park is #1 for the fourth year in a row, joined in the top 50 with its two state-park sidekicks — Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs. Bethpage Black is followed in the top muni list by Chambers Bay,
We've been to the tips of the Island for rounds at Island's End and Montauk Downs, but not yet to the island in between, where the nine-hole Shelter Island Country Club serves as a recreational and social center for locals and tourists. Newsday's Mitchell Freedman penned a feature on the course that locals affectionately refer
On a course renowned for its speedy greens, the fastest of the fast surfaces should linger in a golfer's memory, likely associated with a birdie chip gone bad or a par opportunity turned sour. But at the Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River, the most severe green is easy to overlook. It arrives at
There's an easy way to treat Dad to a free round of golf — all you have to do is eat. Reserve a foursome, er, table of four or more for a Father's Day brunch buffet on Sunday, June 17 at the Great Rock Golf Club's Blackwells Restaurant and receive one future round on the