Most visitors to Baseball Plus on February weekends are there to hone their swings for upcoming baseball and softball seasons. For the past year, however, golfers have had a practice area for their own swing work, where the crack of a 5-iron and the thud of a simulator screen join the chorus of aluminum bat […]
Years ago, before I had much of a clue about what I was doing with a golf club, I woke up early while on a family vacation in Montauk and tried to get onto Montauk Downs as a single. An outing kept me from playing there, which, in retrospect, was probably a good thing for
So you showed up at the Long Island Dream Club with a dozen Titleists, and you left the 18th green at Cherry Creek Links with only three. A full sleeve disappeared into the drink when you tried to pull a Roy McAvoy through the wind at Montauk Downs. You tensed up in the face of
The Spring Lake Golf Club's Thunderbird Course is the main attraction at the 27-hole facility in Middle Island, offering a combination of challenging, strategic golf and a pleasant, park-like setting that cannot easily be topped on the Island. It is a par-72 that measures 7,048 yards from the championship tees and 6,455 from the middle.
Golfing Magazine put together a Long Island Dream Golf Club in its Fall 2008 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 from as far west as Garden City and Great Neck, and as far east as Montauk and Greenport,
[A full Eisenhower White Course flyover was published on February 10, 2012. Click here for the updated post.] Eisenhower Park's Red Course gets most of the attention thanks to its past presence on the Champions Tour and its high marks from Golf Digest and Newsday, but the park's White and Blue courses each have good
Golfing Magazine put together a Long Island Dream Golf Club in its Fall 2008 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 from as far west as Garden City and Great Neck, and as far east as Montauk and Greenport,
The folks at Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River are using the down time this offseason to update the course's website. The new site will be up and running sometime in February. Great Rock is a par-71 noted for its elevation changes and impeccable conditions. The tenth hole is a long, uphill par-4 that
We're nearly a month deep into 2009, but so far the new year has not been kind to those looking to play some cold-weather golf. A frozen sheet of snow has kept the fairways and greens under wraps and it doesn't appear to be letting go anytime soon. In the event a good golf day
Thanks to Golf Digest, the USGA and NBC Sports, all Long Island golfers (plus thousands more nationwide) are only six words away from being chosen to play Bethpage Black under U.S. Open conditions, with Michael Jordan as a playing partner. If that seems a tad intimidating, take solace in the fact that only a few