Voices of Long Island Golf

Local artist puts Long Island golf courses on canvas

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

November 22, 2013

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 […]

Long Island National Golf Club going private after 2013 season

18-hole, In the News, Suffolk Courses, Voices of Long Island Golf

July 18, 2013

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

Local entrepreneur eager to make Rope It Golf a hit on Long Island

For Beginners, In the News, Voices of Long Island Golf

May 2, 2013

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

Newsday runs correction for use of false data in golf business feature

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April 18, 2013

Newsday has published a correction of the false data that ran in a graphic in the Sunday LI Business cover story on April 7 regarding Long Island golf courses. The correction appears in the Wednesday, April 17 print edition. The business feature, which analyzed the "shrinking" of the local golf course industry, claimed that the

Newsday report features false data to support negative view of Long Island golf industry

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April 9, 2013

[Newsday published a correction in its April 17 print edition for the use of misinformation in its April 7 feature. Read the correction here.] While there's no way to dispute that rounds are down from previous highs and that Long Island golf courses are competing for customer dollars against additional and often cheaper leisure alternatives,

New owners continue upgrades in second season at Sandy Pond

9-hole, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Suffolk Courses, Voices of Long Island Golf

March 16, 2013

Ken Weinstein and Chris Wahlers ended their first season as owners of Sandy Pond Golf Course the same way they began — by making improvements from top to bottom at their nine-hole course in Riverhead. More accurately, the improvements went from bottom to top. One of their first projects, according to this Riverhead News-Review profile

Riverhead’s nine-hole Sandy Pond Golf Course thriving under new owners

9-hole, For Beginners, In the News, Suffolk Courses, Voices of Long Island Golf

August 7, 2012

In June, the Riverhead Times-Review profiled Ken Weinstein and Chris Wahlers, brothers-in-law and new owners of the nine-hole Sandy Pond Golf Course in Riverhead. The duo took the reins of the 1,070-yard course this past January. With the help of the mild winter, the new owners immediately began making improvements at the course. ’93We turned

Golf On Long Island featured in Networking magazine

In the News, Voices of Long Island Golf

May 23, 2012

Special thanks to Sally Gilhooley, Miranda Gatewood and the rest of the staff at Networking’ae magazine, which profiled Golf On Long Island in the golf section of its May 2012 issue. The feature includes a description of our site plus some course photography and a general overview of Long Island's public golf scene. To view

Closer Look: Bethpage Yellow #12

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January 5, 2012

"Not many people realize that Tillie did design a driveable par-4 for Bethpage, but not for the Black Course. He put it on the original Blue Course." — Phil Young, golf historian and author When Bethpage Black hosted the U.S. Open in 2002 and 2009, many golfers who hadn't already known of famed course architect

Off-Course Destinations: 1st Tee Fitness & Performance, St. James

For Beginners, Indoor Golf, Off-Course Destinations, Voices of Long Island Golf

December 15, 2011

Bethpage Black slipped into its annual winter hibernation earlier this month, but inside a small St. James strip mall, the fairway leading up to the Black's famous fourth-hole glacier bunker is still a deep, healthy green and the air is a May-like 72 degrees. Conditions are the same at Pebble Beach, Pinehurst and more than

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