[This flyover was updated on July 5, 2022.] Dual personalities are not uncommon on Long Island golf courses. Venture deep into eastern Suffolk County and you'll find a handful of courses that change demeanor as suddenly as the Incredible Hulk. In Manorville, the Rock Hill Golf Club opens with a straight, tree-squeezed front nine before […]
The Crab Meadow Golf Course is once again calling all golfers to hunt for golf balls instead of Easter eggs on Easter Sunday. Crab Meadow will host its annual Easter Sunday shotgun outing on April 8, with opening tee time scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Entry fee is $65 and includes continental breakfast, motor cart, range
Reader Andrew Song, a Golf On Long Island fan since 2009, values his time on the driving range. And if it's a grass range, all the better. A Bayside, Queens resident, Song doesn't mind heading east to Suffolk County if it means a break from New York City and Bethpage crowds, and the chance to
[Looking for information on this year's Tour? See the post on the 2013 USSSA Junior Golf Tour.} Junior golfers from ages 9 to 18 can take their game to Long Island tournaments and possibly the national stage in Orlando as part of the 2012 USSSA Junior Golf Championship Tour, operated locally by the Global Recreation
The 2012 golf season has begun at Tallgrass Golf Course. The Shoreham course opened for play today, one week after Golfweek ranked it ninth in its annual list of Best Courses You Can Play in New York. The Gil Hanse design is a wind-swept, links-style layout that requires some creativity with the entire bag. Once
Today is opening day at the Brentwood Country Club and Holbrook Country Club. As usual, the Town of Islip sister courses are welcoming golfers back with a seasonal special. See their coupon page for details. For more on the two clubs, check out the Brentwood CC and Holbrook CC flyovers.
Back in 2010, Tallgrass Golf Course joined Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs among Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play, the magazine's annual ranking of each state's top public-access courses. The foursome hasn't broken apart since. Golfweek released its 2012 list of the Best Courses You Can Play last week, and for the third
The 2012 season is about to begin at the Timber Point Golf Course in Great River. Suffolk County's historic muni will raise the curtain on 18 of its 27 bayside holes tomorrow, March 9, with the opening of its Red and White courses. The scenic Blue Course will open next month. Timber Point director of
The Links at Cherry Creek, home of Long Island's only par-6, will host a St. Patrick's Day Shotgun next weekend on the holiday morning. Opening drives will go up bright and early and fresh pints will go down later in the afternoon. Registration is $69 per player, which covers a pre-round continental breakfast plus a
The 2011-12 offseason will go down in local golf circles as the winter that wasn't. Sure, a couple of courses hung a "closed" sign in their window through January and February, but elsewhere, the golf season didn't skip a beat. Now it's March, and those courses that shut the engine over the winter are about