It's officially winter again on Long Island. Luckily for golfers, even though the daylight is shorter and the shadows stretch a little longer, the playing season around here never actually ends. There are brave, determined souls across Long Island that will lace up their golf shoes and pad themselves in layer after layer of cold-weather […]
Golfing Magazine recently announced its 2010 Long Island Dream Golf Club, this season's collection of the Island's finest 18 holes and top off-course facilities. The club's six public golf holes can all be found on the front nine of this 6,636-yard par-71. Every Monday through the winter, Golf On Long Island will feature one public
The Town of Islip's two municipal 18-hole golf courses — the Holbrook and Brentwood Country Clubs — are both closed for the season. They are scheduled to reopen in March. The nine-hole Gull Haven Golf Club in Central Islip will remain open for play through the winter, weather permitting.
Golfing Magazine recently announced its 2010 Long Island Dream Golf Club, this season's collection of the Island's finest 18 holes and top off-course facilities. The club's six public golf holes can all be found on the front nine of this 6,636-yard par-71. Every Monday through the winter, Golf On Long Island will feature one public
Golfing Magazine, Long Island's top regional golf mag, published its annual Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue. Each year, magazine editors select the best holes in Nassau and Suffolk, plus the finest clubhouse, restaurant, pro shop and practice facility. The 2010 Dream 18 is a 6,636-yard par-71 that features only six
To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Golf Digest published a list of America's "Most Important Courses" by decade in its November 2010 issue. These are the courses, according to the mag, that have had the biggest impact on the game since the late 19th century. Rich in golf history, Long Island and the New York metropolitan
The Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River is offering hard-to-beat winter rates to match the quickly dropping temperature readings. Play 18 holes with cart during the week for just $29, or walk for $19. On weekends, the rate is $49 to ride, $39 to walk. Highly regarded for its pristine conditions, the course and
The voting period for the 2011 "Best of LI" poll, brought to you annually by the Long Island Press, will come to an end on Wednesday, December 15. That leaves two weeks for Long Island golfers to cast their vote for one of 12 public facilities and three private clubs among this year's "Best Golf
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park still had plenty of golf cleats and pushcart wheels traversing its fairways as we looked on last week from the Red Course's fourth green. But after squeezing in two bonus weeks of golf beyond its original November 14 closing date, the Black is now officially in hibernation until
Golf On Long Island took part in last week's Swan Lake Scramble under a gorgeous blue sky and unseasonably warm November breezes. The course, serene and secluded in the Manorville pines, remains in fantastic shape two months into the autumn season. Swan Lake's huge greens played a bit firmer and faster than usual and have