St, Patrick's Day is not only the holiday of corned beef, green beer and bar crawls but also the unofficial soft opening of the new Long Island golf season. A small handful of courses ring in the new year with holiday-themed outings when conditions allow, Mill Pond being one of them. Registration is currently open […]
Spring can't come soon enough for the Long Island golfing community now that we've reached the tail end of a second straight winter season that has been, for the most part, a bust. A blizzard knocked out a couple of playing weeks on its own, and poor ground conditions led many golf courses to remain
Turns out it's true. Down in Lido Beach, a small oceanfront community that plays a giant role in golf history, there is an old, lost golf course, after all. It's right next door to the present-day Lido Golf Course, and its features, drawn up by one of Long Island's most influential golf builders, remain almost
It hasn't been the best Long Island winter golf season of the recent past, but on the bright side it hasn't been among the worst ones either. Outside of one shovel-required snowfall, winter fairways have remained clear. Now if we could just got a slight reprieve from the constant sub-freezing temps, we might have ourselves
The Town of Babylon has commissioned a feasibility study to explore the possibility of eliminating nine holes of its Cedar Beach Golf Course due to low use, and replacing them with cabanas, lockers and other revenue-generating amenities, according to Newsday. In 2021 the Cedar Beach course, currently an 18-hole pitch-and-putt, drew its highest turnout in
Christmas morning on Long Island, there are a great many local golfers opening up new "toys," whether it be a box of balls or a new putter, looking forward to the spring when they can debut them on the course. Then there's the small subset of local golfers scrolling through five-day forecasts and tee-time lists
A round on the Blue and Red courses at Timber Point in Great River is a bit of a walk (or ride) through history. Since the 1920s, when the course emerged on the edge of Great South Bay as a highly touted and equally exclusive private club, players of all social strata have aimed the
The middle of December is when the curtains come down and the house lights come up for Long Island's seasonal public golf courses. There are only a few days left to squeeze in nine- or 18-hole rounds on these courses, most of which are municipal facilities. You can expect nearly all of them to reopen
Lido Beach golf both past and present, as well as local, national and even international, is the subject of the most recent podcast just published this month by The Golfer's Journal and narrated by New York sports and golf writer Brett Cyrgalis. If none of that seems to make much sense and the connection between
Just ahead of Thanksgiving, Golf Magazine has reminded Long Island golfers that there are plenty of reasons to be grateful this holiday season. Seven reasons, to be exact — that's the number of Long Island golf destinations included on Golf's list of Top 100 Courses in the World for 2021-22. Most notable for public players,