Golf Digest released its 2025-26 list of America’92s 100 Greatest Golf Courses earlier this month, and Bethpage Black, home of the upcoming Ryder Cup, is comfortably inside the top 50. One of nine Long Island courses and clubs to make the list, the Black Course settled in at #38, a few spots ahead of powerhouses […]
Long Island golfers have access to 50+ public golf courses. In this unique Ryder Cup season, with Bethpage’92s five courses open for only a shortened summer, local and visiting players will be hungry for open tee times across the region. This 2025 Long Island Golf Guide is a general directory of places where golfers can
Starting May 1, Bethpage State Park will implement several new policy measures that officials hope will discourage users from utilizing automated methods to gain unfair access to tee times. The park announced this weekend that the $5 online reservation fee normally collected at check-in will instead be charged as a booking fee and collected at
Last Chance Animal Rescue will hold its 11th annual golf outing on Thursday, July 31 at Stonebridge Golf Links in Smithtown. All proceeds from the event benefit the non-profit organization's efforts to rescue animals from inhumane kill shelters and relocate them to safe facilities and foster homes. Former New York Jets defensive lineman Marty Lyons
The Long Island Golf Junkies players group, among the largest and most active golf groups in the region, will hold this year's spring golf outing at one of the Island's most highly regarded clubs. The event tees off on Monday, May 12 at St. George's Golf & Country Club in Setauket. Shotgun start is 12:30
Opening weekend at Bethpage Black is wet and wintry, with first tee-time temps barely breaking 40 degrees, but still, the course's Ryder Cup season is officially underway. The Black Course's 2025 golf year will certainly be unique. Along with the Green and Yellow courses, the Black will close in mid-August and reopen after the Ryder
A round of golf in the Five Towns area usually means a tee time at a private club like Seawane, Inwood or Rockaway Hunt, but this season it could also mean 18 on the opposite coast ’97 say, Pebble Beach. The Back Nine, one of Long Island's newest indoor golf venues, set up shop in
Golf courses are full, empty stalls at the driving range are often hard to find, and open slots at junior golf camps tend to disappear fast. Participation in golf remains incredibly high, and more players see the lifelong value of making professional instruction available to new and experienced junior golfers. On Long Island, summer
It's going to be a unique season at Bethpage State Park. Unlike past years when the Black Course hosted a U.S. Open or PGA Championship before the summer officially arrived, the presence of late September's Ryder Cup will loom over the whole complex for the entirety of the playing season. Ryder Cup festivities begin on
As most local golfers know, March is reopening month on Long Island. Sure, it's still barely above freezing outside and the ground is mush, but as far as cold-weather players are concerned, that's what hand warmers and golf spikes are for. Long Island's seasonal golf courses are getting set to stick the pins back in