Bethpage State Park is slowly but surely shaking off the lingering snow from a rough offseason and preparing to welcome Long Island golfers back for the 2010 season. The Yellow and Blue courses, open for business all winter but rarely used due to weather, will be joined by the Green next weekend when the course […]
The Swan Lake Golf Club will reopen for play this Saturday, March 6, assuming the winter rain and snow take a break from pummeling the Northeast. Winter rates at the Manorville course are $39 to walk and $49 to ride during the week, and $44/$58 on weekends (breakfast or lunch is included before noon). A
The Tallgrass Country Club has been hard to find on the Internet this winter, but the great Shoreham course resurfaced on the web recently at its new and hopefully permanent home — www.TallgrassGC.com. A redesign makes the site easier to navigate and a bit more concise than the previous address, which led to nothing resembling
The month of February has been a miserable one for Long Island golfers. Snow storms completely washed out the mid-winter golf season, and more threaten to be a major disruption in the weeks ahead. The only consolation is that March and April signal rebirth on the Long Island golf scene. Golf On Long Island readers
Long Island golf courses strive more and more to keep your group on the grounds for as long as possible. One way to accomplish that is to make sure the day ends with a burger in the clubhouse rather than a bogey on 18. Blackwells Restaurant is an upscale, Zagat-rated steakhouse at the Great Rock
It may be hard to believe at the moment, but some of Long Island's seasonal golf courses are only three weeks away from their target date for a 2010 grand reopening. Of course, that date has a nasty habit of getting pushed back when residual snow and ice and overall nasty weather fail to cooperate,
Golfing Magazine put together its 2009 Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes, the Dream Golf Club is a 7,219-yard par-73. With holes like the blind-carry 16th at Lido and
Long Islanders pining for the warmth of spring and summer as they dig out from the blizzard of 2010 received some bad news Thursday when a Newsday report (subscription required) by Bill Bleyer revealed that New York State is threatening to close up to ten state parks on Long Island and either raise fees or
Golfing Magazine put together its 2009 Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes, the Dream Golf Club is a 7,219-yard par-73. With holes like the blind-carry 16th at Lido and
The Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford will look exactly the same to Long Island golfers when the winter breaks this season, but for those who settle comfortably into routine, it will have a significantly different feel. Management used the down time earlier this offseason to break in the course's new 18-hole configuration. Golfers will