Hard to believe, but we're only a few hours away from March. Typically, the end of February brings five days of the Accenture Match Play Championship on television and leaves you primed for any sort of golf competition. Luckily, it also means the annual Leprechaun Golf Classic at the Crab Meadow Golf Course is only […]
Give Long Islanders clear grass, a sunny sky and 50-degree temps in late February and all of a sudden you're battling for tee times as if it's an August morning at Bethpage. After being snowed out for two months, Golf On Long Island was gearing up to make its 2011 debut this afternoon, but another
It's been a long winter for golfers in the Northeast. Golf has been an afterthought since Christmas, when a blizzard dumped two feet of snow and, with help from follow-up storms, effectively buried the winter playing season on Long Island. However, there is at least one positive to emerge from the never-disappearing layer of winter
In a statement released last week, the Town of Oyster Bay announced that membership fees for the town golf course in Woodbury will not rise for the 2011 season. The Oyster Bay Town Board voted to keep membership rates the same for the third consecutive year. Members of the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course
Cristy Grzymala, director of golf at the Spring Lake Golf Club in Middle Island, will run an indoor "SNAG" clinic for juniors on Saturday, February 19 at 11:00 a.m. in the facility's catering hall. SNAG (Starting New At Golf) is a comprehensive system that simplifies golf instruction for kids and provides them the opportunity to
The annual Long Island Golf Show will take place March 25-27 at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood, with two-time major champion John Daly serving as the event's marquee guest. Daly, winner of the 1991 PGA Championship and 1995 British Open, will appear at the show on Saturday, March 26. Also making a guest appearance
The first thing visitors typically notice when they pull into the parking lot at the Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford is the sprawling driving range on the west side of the clubhouse. It's here where players prepare their swings for the wide-open fairways and breezy, mostly treeless layout that stretches out over both sides
Thanks to Old Man Winter, the only golfing to be done on Long Island since Christmas has been in a simulator or on a Nintendo Wii. Still, keep an eye on these offseason rates just in case the grass emerges sometime in the near future. Mill Pond: $30 to walk, $40 to ride weekdays (residents),
Golfing Magazine recently announced its 2010 Long Island Dream Golf Club, this season's collection of the Island's finest 18 holes and top off-course facilities. The club's six public golf holes can all be found on the front nine of this 6,636-yard par-71. Every Monday through the winter, Golf On Long Island will feature one public
Most public golf courses on Long Island remain open through the cold, sometimes harsh winters. Conditions are typically decent until snow blankets the ground for the first time. Then, the still-green turf turns dull and sloppy, putting surfaces shut down and players are redirected toward crudely chalked circles near the end of the fairway. This