The Spring Lake Golf Club in Middle Island will host a Turkey Day outing on Thursday, November 25 for those golfers who want to loosen up their arms and legs before they loosen up their belt buckles for a holiday feast. Shotgun start for the outing is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. The $65 entry fee […]
Beginning this Saturday, October 30, rates at one of Long Island's newest and most pristine public courses will drop like falling pine needles. Golfers can play the Pine Ridge Golf Club in Coram for as low as $30, with cart included, thanks to "winter" twilight rates that kick in at noon every day. The $30
Fall is always a great season — maybe even the best — to enjoy a few hours on the course. With little rain falling and the mercury rising as high as the 70s, the Fall of 2010 may go down as one of the best in recent years. By now, most courses are offering special
The Swan Lake Golf Club in Manorville will host a Saturday Scramble on November 13, an event open to all players willing and able to putt the course's enormous greens while braving a mid-autumn chill. Shotgun start is scheduled for 11 a.m. Bring long sleeves and lag putts. A buffet dinner and two-hour open bar
Dix Hills Park is currently in the second year of a scheduled three-year renovation that will improve the conditions of tee boxes, greens and bunkers on the golf course's nine holes. As of October 2010, a round at Dix Hills Park begins with an approach to a temporary pin at the end of the fairway.
Voting is open for the 2011 "Best of LI" poll, brought to you annually by the Long Island Press. By now you've probably noticed signs at your favorite deli, gym, restaurant or chamber of commerce (yes, chamber of commerce) boasting about its nomination in this year's contest. Well, once again the crown for "Best Golf
It seems the Long Island National Golf Club is starting to loosen up a bit. Don't believe it? Sling your clubs over the shoulder of your Lady Gaga getup on Halloween and see for yourself. The Riverhead course — home to one of the priciest public rounds of golf on the Island — is making
[This flyover was updated on September 12, 2021.] Purists might object to a number of things about the Heartland Golf Park in Edgewood. After all, nobody plays nine holes at a "golf park." Floodlights on a golf course? Leave that to sports like football and baseball. Yet there they are, light stanchions for — gasp!
Have you ever thought that a clean iron shot on a local par-3 course could put a $20,000 check in your pocket? If so, well…you have quite an imagination. But on Monday, October 25, Long Islanders will have an opportunity to win a $20,000 grand prize at the Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition's 2010 Golf Skill
Four of the five courses at Bethpage State Park will be temporarily closed for aeration during the month of October. (The Yellow Course was already aerated in August.) The Black Course will be the first to close. Aeration is scheduled for Monday, October 4 and Tuesday, October 5. The rest of the park's aeration schedule