Most golfers enjoy facing a challenging water hazard. The more demanding the shot, the better. NBC and The Players Championship at Sawgrass bank on the dramatic nature of a potential late-round splash landing every May. "Water-hazard hole" is kind of ambiguous, but you get the idea. Tell us your favorite public hole in Nassau with […]
Golfweek saw little reason to tinker with its annual list of New York's top public-access courses, a decision that comes as good news for last year's four Long Island representatives. When the publication announced the 2011 edition of its Best Courses You Can Play listing last week, Bethpage Black and Red, Montauk Downs and Tallgrass
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will reopen for the 2011 season on Friday, April 15, according to park staff. The 90-hole facility will slowly get back into full swing in the coming weeks, with the Green Course scheduled to reopen on Saturday, March 19, and the Red Course on Friday, April 1. All
Want to win a dozen Golf On Long Island golf balls? Just answer a quick question on your local public golf courses and help us put together our "Nassau 18." Like most sports fans, we here at Golf On Long Island love a good list. And to help us get through the final weeks of
Already boasting holes worthy of praise in "Dream 18" collections put together by Newsday and Golfing Magazine, one of Long Island's most challenging and visually stunning public golf courses will be able to put more padding in its resume later this spring. Hamlet Willow Creek Golf and Country Club in Mount Sinai has been selected
A handful of Long Island golf courses close every winter and typically reopen for the new season anywhere from mid-March to the end of April. With almost all of January and February 2011 buried by snow, those courses that remain open year-round are finally beginning to announce "reopenings" of their own. One such facility is
Tallgrass Golf Course in Shoreham will welcome back walkers this Wednesday, March 2, the course's grand reopening date after a snowed-out winter. The first group will go out at 9 a.m. Sign in before noon and play all day for $40 ($30 after noon). The wind-swept course on Suffolk County's north shore was ranked #8
Hard to believe, but we're only a few hours away from March. Typically, the end of February brings five days of the Accenture Match Play Championship on television and leaves you primed for any sort of golf competition. Luckily, it also means the annual Leprechaun Golf Classic at the Crab Meadow Golf Course is only
Give Long Islanders clear grass, a sunny sky and 50-degree temps in late February and all of a sudden you're battling for tee times as if it's an August morning at Bethpage. After being snowed out for two months, Golf On Long Island was gearing up to make its 2011 debut this afternoon, but another
It's been a long winter for golfers in the Northeast. Golf has been an afterthought since Christmas, when a blizzard dumped two feet of snow and, with help from follow-up storms, effectively buried the winter playing season on Long Island. However, there is at least one positive to emerge from the never-disappearing layer of winter