Last spring I tried to find a convenient course for an after-work twilight round. Stonebridge in Hauppauge fit my location and rate preferences, but I had a very limited knowledge of the course itself. The only reason I even knew of Stonebridge at all was because of its listing as a "can't miss" course on […]
At many Long Island golf courses, the day doesn't end once the 18th flag is back in the cup and the shoes are tossed in the trunk. Some can host a relaxed post-round meal or a stylish night out just as smoothly as they can turn out a foursome every eight minutes. The Carltun at
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