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2021 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island

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April 25, 2021

[Looking for this year's camp info? See the Guide to 2025 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island.] Golf participation at the junior level is up during the coronavirus era. The sport's socially distanced nature led many new, young players onto the course in 2020, and according to many local course pros, the demand for structured […]

What’s become of Long Island’s recently departed public golf courses

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April 22, 2021

With signs that Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River might be returning to Long Island's public golf roster, it's worth taking a look back at other lost courses in the area. Back when Golf On Long Island began covering the region's public golf scene in 2008, the list of local courses was a little

Signs of life at recently closed Great Rock Golf Club?

18-hole, Suffolk Courses

April 21, 2021

Great Rock Golf Club is no stranger to bouncing back from a closure. The Wading River facility already did it once a few years ago — the course closed amid an ownership change during the 2013-14 offseason, then reopened that June. Now there are some signs that the again-closed Great Rock is preparing to come

Bethpage Red open for 2021, Black to follow as crews finish projects around the course

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April 3, 2021

Mother Nature washed out Opening Day at Bethpage Red with a soggy April Fools' joke that saturated the course, much like the cold and snow that Old Man Winter whipped up to lop off six weeks of offseason golf and maintenance work. Bethpage Red instead reopened for the 2021 season yesterday under a stiff breeze,

Heatherwood Golf Club remains closed amid real estate fight

18-hole, In the News, Suffolk Courses

April 2, 2021

A years-long battle over a proposed senior housing complex in Centereach that would cut the Heatherwood Golf Club from 18 holes to nine has instead reduced the entire course to overgrowth as the future of the development dims. Heatherwood has been closed since early 2020, and it appears likely the course will stay closed for

Tee times will be a hot commodity again at local golf courses in 2021

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March 20, 2021

On this first morning of spring, the season of new beginnings, opening day at Bethpage Green was slowed by a frost delay. It was a fitting way to follow a winter season that was largely snowed out. The cold thaw will do little to dampen local golf enthusiasm though, or the prospects for 2021. The

Peninsula Golf Club owners considering sale to Florida firm

9-hole, For Beginners, In the News, Nassau Courses, South Shore

March 12, 2021

Peninsula Golf Club shareholders will meet next week to discuss the potential sale of the Massapequa nine-hole golf course to a Florida firm, Newsday reported on Thursday. On the table is a $4.4 million offer from the Florida company for the 50-acre property, which must remain a public golf course, according to Nassau County covenants.

Progress at Topgolf site ahead of projected summer 2021 opening

For Beginners, In the News, Off-Course Destinations

February 25, 2021

There is activity at the future Holtsville home of New York's first Topgolf venue, which is on schedule to make its long-awaited debut this summer, Brookhaven Councilman Kevin LaValle told Golf On Long Island on Thursday. LaValle confirmed that Topgolf Long Island remains on track to open "in the third quarter" of 2021, likely around

Bethpage opening and spring aeration dates

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February 24, 2021

Bethpage State Park has announced spring aeration dates for its four non-Black golf courses in late April and early May. The aeration schedule is as follows: Blue Course: April 26-27Red Course: April 28-29Yellow Course: May 3-4Green Course: May 5-6 Also announced, the Green Course will reopen for play on Saturday, March 20. Blue and Yellow,

2021 golf course reopen dates on Long Island

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February 15, 2021

Every couple of seasons, Old Man Winter takes his frustration out on Long Island golfers, blanketing area golf courses with snow and ice, then blowing in a chill that freezes all that sloppy gray in place. The 2020-21 winter golf season has been a bust, and it doesn't appear it will turn around anytime soon.