For Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs, earning a spot on Golfweek's annual Best Courses You Can Play listing has basically become a formality. All three state-park courses are mainstays on the magazine's list of the nation's top public-access courses alongside famed New York layouts like Leatherstocking in Cooperstown and Saratoga National. Joining them […]
Four of the five courses at Bethpage State Park will close for one day this week while greens are aerated. The Red Course is closed today, April 6, followed by Blue (April 7), Yellow (April 8) and Green (April 9). Bethpage Black will reopen for the 2010 season a week from today on April 13.
When Bethpage Black opens up next Tuesday, April 13, New York State's premier public golf facility will be fully operational for the 2010 season. As a welcome-back gesture that many area golfers wish was just a poor April Fools Day joke, the state will ask all players — especially senior and juniors — to dig
The Crab Meadow Golf Course continues to coax area players out the front door and onto the first tee on holiday mornings. This Easter Sunday, April 4, Crab Meadow is offering a $60 golf special that includes continental breakfast, motor cart, range balls, a complimentary sleeve of balls and 18 holes on one of Suffolk
The historic Red Course at Eisenhower Park will reopen for the 2010 season this Tuesday, March 30. Nassau County residents with a Leisure Pass can begin making tee-time reservations online for any of the three Eisenhower courses. Home of the 1926 PGA Championship, Eisenhower Red — designed by famed architect Devereux Emmet — is one
Until April 1, Long Island golfers can take advantage of Golfing Magazine's Early Bird Special on its annual Free Golf Program. For $39, participants in the program receive a certificate good for single rounds at several area courses as well as a one-year subscription (five issues) to the magazine. The 2010 program will likely include
The middle of March is a time of golf rebirth on Long Island. For Mel Mindich, owner of The Links at Shirley, this March will instead be an especially cruel one, a time of dark skies and gloomy forecasts. When courses around the Island get into the full swing of spring, Mindich's will not take
Who needs all the Tiger Woods talk? The real discussion should be about the combination of 60- to 70-degree afternoons and special March rates at some of Long Island's top public courses. At the Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River, players can challenge the Island's slickest greens for no more than $49 between now
The Brentwood and Holbrook Country Clubs will reopen for the 2010 season this Wednesday, March 17. Both Town of Islip courses have been closed since mid-December. Tee times are available beginning at 6 a.m. on weekends and 6:30 on weekdays. Twilight rates kick in at 2 p.m. Brentwood is a 6,173-yard par-72 that is mostly
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year with corned beef and Callaways at the Crab Meadow Golf Course's annual Leprechaun Golf Classic. The Northport course invites all Long Islanders to participate in the season's first public golf outing next Wednesday, March 17, complete with food, beer and prizes. The Classic begins at 10:00 a.m. with a