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
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,
NOTE: An updated course flyover was posted in April 2010. Check it out by clicking here. Normally I wouldn't write about a course that I have yet to play in full at least once. After passing by the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury numerous times over the years while working in Syosset
Last week I noted that the Pine Hills Country Club website was out of service. It still is. A phone call to Pine Hills over the weekend revealed that the par-73 in Manorville is unaffected, thankfully. "We're open every day but Christmas," said a Pine Hills employee. No word on when the Pine Hills website
The long-abandoned, graffiti-faced skeleton of a Burger King in Rocky Point was finally reduced to rubble this Monday, after serving as a local eyesore since 2004. What does this have to do with Long Island public golf? Well, the former Home of the Whopper stood adjacent to the Rolling Oaks Golf Course, and the property
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,
SEE ALSO:Flyover: Bethpage – Green Course (6/3/2011) The Green Course at Bethpage State Park has a tendency to get lost in the shuffle, understandable for a course that tees off only a few paces from the opening and closing holes of the crown jewel of Long Island public golf. It doesn’92t have a warning sign
I noticed earlier this week that the website for the Pine Hills Country Club is out of service. For anyone who has visited that site in the past in search of helpful information about the course, layout or rates, this latest development isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world. Unless I'm missing something —