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Flyover: Dix Hills Golf Club

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[NOTE:  Dix Hills Golf Club has closed.] The shaded cabin at the Dix Hills Golf Club, with its weathered, throwback signage and gravel driveway, is a pleasant place to start a round of golf.  What hides behind it — literally — is far from pleasant, unless you consider hacking up and out of a 40-foot […]

Ten-round special available at Stonebridge

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The Stonebridge Golf Links & Country Club is offering a package deal to the public this season, ten rounds at the semi-private course in Smithtown for a discounted rate of $450, cart included.  That works out to the equivalent of ten rounds at Stonebridge's twilight rate, or about 35% off the standard weekday greens fee.

Bay Park, North Woodmere now open all week

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The Bay Park and North Woodmere Park golf courses are now open seven days a week, as of early May.  Both Nassau County-operated nine-hole courses have typically been closed one day each week for maintenance.  Under the new schedule, the courses will open at 9:00 a.m. on their former off days — Bay Park on

Flyover: Dix Hills Park Golf Course

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[This flyover was updated on December 14, 2021.] SEE ALSO:  Observations: Dix Hills Park Golf Course, 10/14/2010 The hamlet of Dix Hills in western Suffolk County once featured a pair of nine-hole options for casual, no-frills golf, but after the Dix Hills Golf Club closed in 2012 to make way for upscale residences, the Dix

Holbrook CC now open on Tuesdays

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Beginning next week, the Holbrook Country Club will be open for regular play on Tuesdays, a day typically reserved only for golf outings.  All golfers will be free to play at Holbrook unless an outing is scheduled.  As of today, the next two Tuesdays — May 19 and 26 — are outing-free.  A schedule will

Flyover: Cantiague Park Golf Course

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[This flyover was updated on March 25, 2018.] The Cantiague Park Golf Course is a 1,878-yard par-30 in Hicksville, located minutes away from the Wantagh Parkway, Northern State Parkway and Long Island Expressway.  Of the four Nassau County-operated nine-hole courses, only Christopher Morley Park is shorter.  Cantiague features three short par-4s ranging from 257 to

Additional tickets available for the U.S. Open at Bethpage

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Golf fans will have a second chance to land tickets to the previously sold-out U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, now that the USGA has decided to make unsold corporate tickets available to the public in June.  From Thursday, June 11 through Sunday, June 14, tickets to the practice and championship rounds will be sold on

Tallgrass CC moves to new web home

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(UPDATE:  As of March 2010, Tallgrass can be found at its newest website, www.TallgrassGC.com.  See this post for more details.) Due to some technical issues, the Tallgrass Country Club in Shoreham can now be found at its new web address — www.tallgrasscountryclub.com.  For more information, check out Golf On Long Island's course flyover of the

New website for Pine Hills CC, Heatherwood

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Back in January, I noted here that the website for the Pine Hills Country Club in Manorville was out of service.  That's nothing uncommon during the offseason, and a staff member at the course assured me that Pine Hills is open every day of the year except Christmas. Well, the offseason came and went, and

Flyover: Christopher Morley Park

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[This flyover was updated on July 28, 2023.] A west-to-east golf tour along the Long Island Expressway would culminate somewhere out in Manorville or Riverhead, at a lengthy course like Rock Hill or on the Island's only par-6, the 18th hole at Cherry Creek Links.  The first, western-most stop on such an Expressway golf tour

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