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,

Long Island Dream Club: Timber Point Blue #5

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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: Gull Haven Golf Club

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[This flyover was updated on June 1, 2021.] The Gull Haven Golf Club bills itself as Islip’92s family golf course, a claim based in its wide, flat fairways and friendly atmosphere.   Experienced fathers or mothers (and grandfathers or grandmothers) might hesitate to teach the game to their kids at the other Town-operated courses ’96 the

Morley, Bay Park closing for season

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The sun sets on Bay Park's opening hole (right) back in August, and this Sunday, it will set on the 2008 season at both Bay Park in East Rockaway and Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn.  The two Nassau County-operated courses will re-open sometime in March. Both nine-hole par-30s are very short with contrasting styles, and

Long Island Dream Club: Bethpage Black #4

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Golfing Magazine put together a Long Island Dream Golf Club in its recent Fall 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,

Final weekend of 2008 at Brentwood CC

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Like its fellow Town of Islip golf course in Holbrook, the Brentwood Country Club will close the curtain on the 2008 season this Sunday, December 14.  The course will re-open in mid-March. Gull Haven, the third town-operated course a few miles east of Brentwood in Central Islip, will remain open through the winter. 

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