Keep an eye out later this spring — Golf On Long Island is hitting the bookshelves. Images of America: Long Island Golf by Golf On Long Island's Phil Carlucci will be available at area bookstores on June 1, right in the heart of peak golf season. The book contains more than 200 photos of public […]
The Florida-based company that is now operating both the Crab Meadow and Dix Hills Park golf courses will improve the practice facilities, modernize dining options and make changes to course maintenance procedures, according to company e-mails sent to local golfers this month. Integrity Golf Company, which won a bid in November to operate the two
Someone's been telling tales of a stormy outlook for Cherry Creek in Riverhead, but the facility made it clear Thursday that its two courses and on-site restaurant are here to stay. In an e-mail distributed to subscribers on Thursday, Cherry Creek general manager Eileen McCaffrey addressed rumors of course closure by stating that the Links
Earlier this summer, on the heels of its "While We're Young" and "Tee It Forward" campaigns, the United States Golf Association introduced "Play 9 Day" to promote all the ways new and experienced players can enjoy the sport in a shorter, more relaxed timeframe. Meanwhile, before the July sun rose over Riverhead on the USGA's
Cedars Golf Club, a serene, old-fashioned fixture on the North Fork, was in good shape but in need of some essential maintenance when Tim McManus and Paul Pawlowski took over earlier this year. So they dug in and focused on irrigation, bunker renovation and condition of the greens. And they didn't stop there. Long story
The arrival of summer signals the departure of local Long Islanders and visiting tourists headed eastbound for weekends of relaxation across the South Fork. Montauk, the last stop on the Route 27 line, has grown from a quiet fishing village to a quaint, family-friendly vacation spot to, more recently, an increasingly hip alternative to the
Rumors of a reopening of the former Great Rock Golf Club under new ownership have proven true. The "new" Wading River golf course — which does not yet have a name — will open again for play on Monday, June 2, according to the Riverhead News-Review. [UPpost_date: The course will retain the Great Rock Golf
With its rolling terrain and massive size, the Black Course at Bethpage State Park lends itself to a gorgeous photo, and since the 2002 U.S. Open, dramatic pictures of the glacier bunker, opening tee and sand-heavy finale have been easy to find. Less prevalent are artistic interpretations of the course's beauty, but a local artist
Changes are in store at Riverhead's Long Island National Golf Club, one of which is to clear the place of Long Island's public golfers. Long Island National, the Robert Trent Jones Jr. design that opened on the East End in 1999 and filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, will turn private at the conclusion of
At a time when more and more born-and-raised twenty-somethings are flying free from Long Island in no hurry to return, Marc Reda went out and came back. And when he returned, he brought with him a golf business founded on the same principle — go out and come back. All that differs between Reda and