Chip Shot: Oyster Bay GC (Front 9)

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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 […]

Pine Hills website follow-up

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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

A Burger King falls in Rocky Point….and a pro shop rises?

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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

Long Island Dream Club: Long Island National #12

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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,

Chip Shot: Bethpage – Green Course

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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

Pine Hills CC is MIA on the Web

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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 —

Long Island Dream Club: Great Rock #10

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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,

Flyover: Sumpwams Creek Par-3 Course

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[This flyover was updated on June 26, 2023.] Golf courses are certainly not difficult to find across Long Island.  No matter where you're sitting, it's likely that a flagstick is dug into a golf hole somewhere within a 15-minute drive.  Par-3 courses, however, are a different story.  Sometimes during the ongoing love-hate relationship between golfer

Winter Rates Update II

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As 2008 draws to a close, golf courses around Long Island are still hanging on to their fittest blades of green grass before the winter's cruel temperatures and blankets of snow and slop turn everything to a muddy shade of sickly brown.  Until then, there are some decent bargains and conditions to be found. Winter

Long Island Dream Club: Great Rock #10

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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,

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