November is cool-weather scramble season on Long Island, highlighted by the cornucopia of turkey-themed team events that are scheduled around Thanksgiving (more on those to come next week). A little short of Thanksgiving week, Island's End will host a scramble of its own as it draws the 2021 season to a close. The Greenport course's […]
Willow Creek Golf and Country Club in Mount Sinai will host its annual Charity Classic on Friday, November 19, a nine-hole outing to benefit nearby Stony Brook Children's Hospital. Format for the event is two-person scramble. Entry fee is $100 per team, which covers green fees, motor cart and range balls, along with food, drinks
With the 2021 Ryder Cup at the forefront of the golf world this week, the host of the 2025 Ryder Cup made a tiny bit of news ahead of this year's competition, with Golf Digest releasing its list of America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses. The Black Course at Bethpage State Park, New York's only
Phil Young traces his love for the golf courses at Bethpage State Park to his early rounds as a teenager in the late 1960s, first on the Blue Course, then the famed Black. Like plenty that came before him and many more after, he was first staggered by the Black while looking through the trees
[This schedule was updated on September 19, 2021] September is aeration month at Long Island golf courses, and maintenance dates are good to know for local players planning their late-summer and fall rounds. The following public golf courses will be closed for play (unless otherwise noted) while undergoing fairway and/or greens aeration: Eisenhower White —
The Florida-based buyer who has offered more than $4 million to purchase Peninsula Golf Club in Massapequa told Newsday this week that he plans to keep the property a golf course and make improvements to the grounds and facilities upon acquisition of the site. Holding up the sale, however, is Oyster Bay Town's own rumored
Aeration season is set to get underway at Bethpage State Park, and first up for the hole-punch treatment is the Blue Course, which will close for fall maintenance on August 31 and September 1. Its neighbor, the Yellow Course (pictured), will close for aeration September 2 and 3. Bethpage's other three courses will close according
Huntington Town has renamed Crab Meadow Golf Course to honor the former town supervisor who played a key role in developing Huntington's parks system and two municipal golf courses. Robert J. Flynn, Huntington supervisor from 1959 to 1965, was instrumental in the town's creation of municipal parks and recreational facilities in the early 1960s, preserving
Topgolf is not the only national golf and entertainment chain planting its first flag on Long Island this season. California-based X-Golf, an industry leader in golf simulator technology with more than 20 indoor golf centers nationwide, will open a Westbury location this November at Samanea New York, formerly known as the Mall at The Source,
After years of rumors and government approvals followed by months of pandemic-related construction delays, an opening day for Topgolf Long Island is finally on the schedule. Topgolf Holtsville, New York's first venue in the international golf, entertainment and nightlife chain, will open for business this Friday, July 30. The new facility stands tall as a