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

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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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[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

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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

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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

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[UPpost_date: Island Green Golf Center has closed.] Part of the attraction of the Island Green Golf Center in Selden is its Long Island-themed miniature-golf course, with holes designed around local icons like the Montauk Lighthouse, Vietnam Memorial and the Big Duck.  Oddly, none of the holes require putts through the front door of a condominium.

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