On a recent trip to a new restaurant in Sayville, I decided to take the scenic route through the downtown centers of Babylon, Bay Shore and Islip on Montauk Highway. Along the way, the fairways and greens of the West Sayville Golf Course waved hello from the south side of the road. Eighteen hours later […]
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
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 golf apparel long after most other area golfers have buried their clubs in the basement. Island courses, with only a handful of exceptions, feed this year-round hunger for golf by keeping
It flew a little farther beneath the radar than the New York Islanders did when they won their third consecutive Stanley Cup in the 1981-82 NHL season, but Bethpage State Park clinched a three-peat of its own last week when the Long Island Press revealed the winners of its annual Best of Long Island competition.
Most of Long Island's public golf courses remain open for play in the winter. Before loading the trunk and venturing to the closest tee at the first sight of sunshine, however, be sure to call ahead and find out if your course is operating on schedule. Milder weather and increasingly blue skies have done little
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 golf course at Montauk Downs State Park received some well-deserved face time in the February 2010 issue of Golf Digest. The East End's heralded and hard-to-reach public course stepped into the national spotlight in the magazine's "Long Drives" travel feature, a column that takes a new car on a regional golf excursion. In this
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 winter of 2009-10 has started off as a poor one for golfers. Temperatures are stuck far below freezing, chilling any desire to bundle up beneath layers of cold-weather golf gear and venture into the Long Island tundra. Thin patches of snow linger on the ground and render courses unplayable. December's blizzard delivered the knockout
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