Brian Kocourek stood on a fairway in St. Maarten with a problem on his hands. It wasn’t a matter of getting up and down from a trap or reaching the green through fierce Caribbean crosswinds. The problem was, quite literally, on his hands. “It was so hot and humid. I couldn’t grip the club,” Kocourek […]
LPGA professional and Long Island golf course operator Kelley Brooke recently sat down with Emmy Award–winning journalist Jimmy Roberts to talk golf — her career as a professional, her rise within the metropolitan New York golf industry, and the recent expansion of her course management portfolio. The interview will be featured tomorrow on the latest
If you’ve ever played the third hole at Montauk Downs and felt it would make a great closing hole, you’re not alone. Robert Trent Jones, builder of the modern Montauk Downs, felt the same way. The start of a round at Montauk features an immediate U-turn — up the hill at #1, across to a
The Kelley Brooke local golf empire is expanding once again, this time into the golf-rich center of Suffolk County. Pine Ridge Golf Club in Coram is now a Brooke Management Group facility, the sixth in a growing golf-operations portfolio that includes Bethpage State Park, Montauk Downs and Harbor Links. Brooke, a 2026-27 LPGA Top 50
Behind the 11th green at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club last September, Scott Langley put on a short-game clinic. The four-time U.S. Open competitor and the low amateur at Pebble Beach in 2010 threw high lobs over the hillsides, hoping to spin and stick them near the flag. Then he skipped low pitches up the rising
The REV Tour, an amateur golf league and tournament format originally launched in Utah, is now open for play on Long Island. It provides local players with an outlet for competition that’s more casual and convenient than a typical amateur tour, with top performers able to advance to regional and national tournaments at premier courses
When the driving range at Bethpage State Park reopens to golfers later this spring, it will look nothing like it did before. Most importantly to many Bethpage golfers, it will sound nothing like before either. Bethpage’s practice facility is currently undergoing a major reconstruction project focusing on the installation of modern Inrange hitting bays and
Two of the most famous shots in the history of United States championship golf took flight, 72 years apart, on opposite ends of Long Island’s south shore with strikingly similar results. Beside Inwood Country Club’s 18th fairway, a small plaque sits in a stretch of rough near the New York City border. It marks the
Back in 2022, a simple question to members of the Long Beach Historical Society led unexpectedly to the digital resurrection of the Lido Springs Par-3, a short-lived golf course that sits abandoned beside the municipal Lido Golf Course. Local golfers might know it as the wooded area with old light stanchions next to #12 on
Back in the old pre-pandemic era, getting on the green was the most daunting part of an 18-hole day. Now, simply getting on the first tee is the hard part, like finding the fairway with a rickety swing. Noteefy, a rapidly rising company with an innovative, tech-based booking solution, is bringing the focus back to