Sometimes Long Island's winter golf season gets off to a blazing start — sunny skies, temps in the 60s, a comforting feel of October golf in December. Other times it's … well, it's not so great. And the winter of 2020-21 has started off as one of the latter, only fitting since Mother Nature had […]
December is closing time on the Island, meaning the busiest and most bizarre Long Island golf season in the recent past is coming to an end, at least for those courses that operate on a seasonal basis. This week is the last opportunity to book rounds at a handful of popular public courses in the
Sister courses Wind Watch in Hauppauge and Willow Creek Mount Sinai will host Thanksgiving shotgun outings this Thursday morning, November 26. First to tee off is Willow Creek, where the shotgun start is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. The Wind Watch outing will tee off an hour later at 9 a.m. Both events are $69 per
Riverhead-area golfers can roll out of bed and onto the tee at Cherry Creek this Thanksgiving morning, with a shotgun start planned bright and early next week. Cherry Creek's annual Turkey Shootout will begin at 8:00 a.m. next Thursday, November 26 on the Links Course, home of Long Island's only par-6. The outing includes hot
Not long after one "Tradition Unlike Any Other" at Augusta comes another one on Long Island — Thanksgiving Day golf outings. Timber Point will host its annual holiday scramble at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning, November 26. Format is four-person scramble played over nine holes, with pro shop gift cards given to the top team
Golf On Long Island's "Origins" series explores the history and development of those local golf courses whose backstory is a bit more unique than most. Stay tuned for more as the season progresses. ****** At first glance there's not a whole lot that's noteworthy about the 1972 opening of Bergen Point Golf Course in West
[UPpost_date: Bethpage Black will remain open an extra week until November 22, thanks to favorable weather conditions.] Normally the sights and sounds of Augusta inspire the first rusty golf swings of a new season. In the bizarre golf year of 2020, Bethpage Black will shut down for the winter in the week following The Masters.
If you drove near exit 62 of the Long Island Expressway in June, you might have caught a quick glimpse of the shell of a new driving range — New York's first Topgolf location — along the north service road. And if you made the same drive in September, you might have noticed — well,
No further confirmation was really needed — the abrupt closing last fall, the disconnected phone line, frozen-in-time social media and lack of a 2020 playing season were all dead giveaways regarding the fate of the Great Rock Golf Club. And without an official notice or a brief snippet in the newspaper, it seems a three-word
Street names can give clues about a community's past. That's especially true with golf courses. When Long Island streets are tagged with golf-related terms, it often means that buried beneath sidewalks and front lawns are the remains of a long-forgotten (or fondly remembered) course. This series of posts will look back at courses that have