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Bethpage Red open for 2021, Black to follow as crews finish projects around the course

18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Voices of Long Island Golf

Mother Nature washed out Opening Day at Bethpage Red with a soggy April Fools' joke that saturated the course, much like the cold and snow that Old Man Winter whipped up to lop off six weeks of offseason golf and maintenance work.  Bethpage Red instead reopened for the 2021 season yesterday under a stiff breeze, […]

Lido Golf Club, famed Macdonald masterpiece, to be recreated in Wisconsin

18-hole, In the News, Nassau Courses, Off-Course Destinations, Origins, South Shore, Voices of Long Island Golf

A replica of Long Island's very own Lido Golf Club is currently under construction with renowned designer Tom Doak at the helm, and will open to members and public guests sometime in 2023 near the Sand Valley Golf Resort in Wisconsin. Why does the bustling Town of Hempstead municipal layout need a tribute course built

Street Names: The Ghosts of Long Island Golf’s Past, Part 5 — Riverhead Country Club

Street Names Series, Suffolk Courses, Voices of Long Island Golf

Street names can give clues about a community's past.  That's especially true with golf courses.  When Long Island streets are tagged with golf-related terms, it often means that buried beneath sidewalks and front lawns are the remains of a long-forgotten (or fondly remembered) course. This series of posts will look back at courses that have

A New Decade of Long Island Golf, Part 3 — Finding a new voice for courses as marketing evolves in the age of social media

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[Follow the links to Part 1 of "A New Decade of Long Island Golf," which covered the main themes of the 2010s and what to expect in the 2020s, and Part 2 on developing local players as time runs low and millennials plan to leave Long Island.] When followers of local golf scroll over Long

A New Decade of Long Island Golf, Part 2 — Developing lifelong players as time runs low and Long Islanders leave

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, For Beginners, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Off-Course Destinations, Pitch and Putt, South Shore, Suffolk Courses, Voices of Long Island Golf

[For Part 1 of "A New Decade of Long Island Golf," covering some of the main themes of local golf in the 2010s and looking ahead to the 2020s, click here.] John Borkes opens his back door to a sweeping waterfront view near Freeport's Nautical Mile, and when he plays golf, he's typically right nearby,

A half-century in East Rock: Nassau muni Bay Park in the midst of its 50th-anniversary season

9-hole, For Beginners, In the News, Nassau Courses, Origins, South Shore, Voices of Long Island Golf

It's a special season at Bay Park Golf Course, though you won't find any milestones announced on a banner billowing over the park entrance or stretched across the facade of the course's faceless, utilitarian brick clubhouse.  There are no anniversary logos printed on hats and polos, no leather-bound books to chronicle the course's half-century beside

Original Lido Club featured on Golf Channel, golf history podcast

18-hole, In the News, Nassau Courses, South Shore, Voices of Long Island Golf

Amid its wall-to-wall PGA Championship coverage at Bethpage Black earlier this week, the Golf Channel aired a short but fascinating six-minute feature on a lesser-known Long Island golf powerhouse, one that's long gone but certainly not forgotten by followers of golf history. The segment covered the original Lido Club (1914-1942) with insight provided by Connor

Bethpage Black in “fine shape” as PGA Championship approaches, plus aeration and non-Black updates

18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Voices of Long Island Golf

Golfers returning to Bethpage State Park for early-spring golf have been treated to some uncommon scenery as the PGA Championship, formerly of August, looms just weeks away in May.  For one, a look deep into the distance at the first green on the Red Course includes a view past roughly 300 yards of tents sitting

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