The Timber Point Golf Course in Great River will host a Thanksgiving Day Turkey Shoot of its own this holiday. Unlike most other Thanksgiving outings, however, this one will be nine holes in "blind bogey" format. What is blind bogey? As Timber Point's Andy Carracino puts it, blind bogey "is a great way to handicap […]
Written by Rob Dimino Eighteen holes for $20 or less is always a bargain. Eighteen holes on the Championship Course at Harbor Links in Port Washington for $20 — made possible by Golfing Magazine's "Free Golf" certificate — is an outright steal. Even when the back nine is closed and the course is in the
Originally slated to close for the 2010 season on Sunday, November 14, the Black Course at Bethpage State Park will instead remain open into the second half of November and possibly beyond. Considering last weekend's warm weather and the favorable conditions still present at area courses, the Black still has plenty of fair and challenging
Following the exhausting uphill 10th and a wicked 11th green, the par-3 12th hole at the Great Rock Golf Club, from the tee, looks like a pleasant spot for a deep breath of fresh Wading River air. From any spot on the green that's above the hole, it looks like a nightmare in living color.
Thanksgiving and sports go together like turkey and stuffing, but on Long Island, it's not necessarily football that precedes a holiday feast. Golf, at some area courses, is as much a part of Thanksgiving as pumpkin pie and a Lions home game. One hour before its central Suffolk neighbor, Spring Lake, kicks off its own
Military veterans and active-duty personnel can play a round of golf on the house next week on Veterans Day, at the park named after one of the nation's most respected generals and commanders-in-chief. Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano announced recently that our military personnel will be honored with nine or 18 holes on the Blue
The Swan Lake Golf Club in Manorville will host a Saturday Scramble on November 13, an event open to all players willing and able to putt the course's enormous greens while braving a mid-autumn chill. Shotgun start is scheduled for 11 a.m. Bring long sleeves and lag putts. A buffet dinner and two-hour open bar
Dix Hills Park is currently in the second year of a scheduled three-year renovation that will improve the conditions of tee boxes, greens and bunkers on the golf course's nine holes. As of October 2010, a round at Dix Hills Park begins with an approach to a temporary pin at the end of the fairway.
Voting is open for the 2011 "Best of LI" poll, brought to you annually by the Long Island Press. By now you've probably noticed signs at your favorite deli, gym, restaurant or chamber of commerce (yes, chamber of commerce) boasting about its nomination in this year's contest. Well, once again the crown for "Best Golf
It seems the Long Island National Golf Club is starting to loosen up a bit. Don't believe it? Sling your clubs over the shoulder of your Lady Gaga getup on Halloween and see for yourself. The Riverhead course — home to one of the priciest public rounds of golf on the Island — is making