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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

Street Names: The Ghosts of Long Island Golf’s Past, Part 4 — Sayville Golf 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

Bethpage’s Andrew Wilson chats about the 2019 PGA on “Around the Met” podcast

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

Bethpage State Park's director of agronomy Andrew Wilson joined A.J. Voelpel on the Metropolitan Golf Association's "Around the Met" podcast earlier this month to discuss the park and its preparation for next May's PGA Championship. Wilson and Voelpel chatted about ideal winter conditions leading up to the event, which will tee off in May for

Golf and the “Long Island Express,” 80 years ago this weekend

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore, Suffolk Courses, Voices of Long Island Golf

Fall arrived on Long Island this weekend carrying with it bright sunshine and comfortable temperatures — ideal conditions for the start of autumn golf season.  Eighty years ago this weekend, however, in the first days of the new fall season, Long Islanders on the East End ventured outside not to play golf, but to survey

Bethpage bolsters digital marketing and social-media voice under pro Kelley Brooke

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

Bethpage State Park is officially a member of the modern era, and it's not only because booking tee times has migrated away from *66 ("the busy-signal fix"). Nearly two decades after hosting its first U.S. Open and entering the international golf discussion, management at Bethpage is now marketing the Black Course and its four sibling

Street Names: The Ghosts of Long Island Golf’s Past, Part 3 – Valley Stream Country Club

Nassau Courses, South Shore, Street Names Series, 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

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