In the latest nonsensical twist to New York State golf in the age of the coronavirus, it seems that private clubs are now permitted to allow member play on the sly, while public golf courses are to remain shuttered. Empire State Development, which kept golf courses open for weeks before categorizing golf courses as non-essential […]
Following the recent update to our "Nassau 18" for 2020, the latest collection of best or most notable holes in Suffolk County — Golf On Long Island's "Suffolk 18" — is now available as well. Even though the original Suffolk 18 was posted a relatively short time ago in 2017, there's since been significant turnover
Long Island and New York State golf is shut down until the end of the month and in some places longer after the state added golf courses to its ever-changing list of non-essential businesses earlier today. The announcement seemingly puts an end to the short, strange and bustling early-spring season that saw thousands of golfers
As the early spring moves closer and closer to ideal golf weather amid the coronavirus pandemic, the vast majority of Long Island public golf courses are open for play. One more reopened for the 2020 season this morning. The Golf Club at Middle Bay in Oceanside is now open with 16-minute tee-time intervals and a
The local public golf scene continues to represent some semblance of normalcy on Long Island, even with its slew of social-distancing measures that have been implemented at all open courses over the past two weeks. Bethpage State Park's Red Course reopened on schedule yesterday. Word from several GOLI readers is that the spaced-out tee sheet
It's been just about nine years since the first edition of Golf On Long Island's "Nassau 18" was published back in spring 2011, and with little else to talk about in local golf except what's open and what's closed during the battle against coronavirus, now's a great time for version 2.0. Besides, with no sports
A lengthy list of public and municipal golf courses around Long Island announced Tuesday that they will reopen for play — some today, some tomorrow — with social-distancing precautions in place to ensure the safety of players. What looked like a statewide shutdown of public golf on Monday morning quickly reversed within hours once the
When the sun rose this morning it seemed Long Island golfers would have nowhere to play for the foreseeable future. And now as the first day of New York State's non-essential business shutdown draws to a close, local golfers will have an unexpectedly broad selection of places to play starting again tomorrow. New York State
New York State municipal golf courses — Bethpage, Montauk Downs and Sunken Meadow — will in fact remain open for play, starting again tomorrow, with heightened social-distancing restrictions in place. To increase safety, the parks will stretch the interval between tee times, eliminate bunker rakes and ball washers, and limit use of golf carts. Each
County-operated municipal golf courses have shut down until further notice to comply with Governor Andrew Cuomo's order to close all non-essential businesses, which went into effect last night. Nassau munis at Eisenhower Park, North Woodmere, Cantiague, Christopher Morley and Bay Park are all closed, effective today, according to a phone message on the Eisenhower golf