There's good news for Long Island golfers amid the current health crisis — local golf courses are among the last holdouts in a region where staying safely at home is the new norm. Both Nassau and Suffolk have kept their county parks and golf courses open — for now — for relatively safe outdoor recreation. […]
The Town of Islip's three municipal golf courses are closed as a safety precaution, according to a notice sent out Monday night. Brentwood Country Club, Holbrook Country Club and the nine-hole course at Gull Haven in Central Islip are tentatively scheduled to reopen on Friday, March 27. Brentwood and Holbrook recently reopened for the 2020
It's business as usual at many golf courses on Long Island despite the widespread closings, cancellations and postponements at area businesses, school districts and events related to this month's coronavirus outbreak. As "social distancing" works its way into the American lexicon, golf courses — outdoors and inherently "distancing" — might be among the safest spots
After a fluky 2019 when the Bethpage State Park golf courses were partially and temporarily reopened in advance of the PGA Championship, it's back to regular business for the park in 2020. Over the next few weeks, reopenings of the Green, Red and Black courses will bring the facility back up to full capacity. First,
Corned beef, cabbage, beer, birdie putts — they all come together on or around St. Patrick's Day each year at a couple of Long Island golf courses that celebrate the holiday with chilly, Irish-themed outings. One of them is Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford, which will hold this year's outing on St. Pattie's Day
It's natural for golfers emerging from the winter to look ahead to The Masters in April as the unofficial start of the new golf season. But there are dates to mark on the calendar far ahead of the pros' tee times at Augusta — the mid- to late March reopening dates at Long Island's handful
With the 2010s now recent history, Golf On Long Island published a three-part series on "A New Decade of Long Island Golf," examining where local golf stands and some of the issues confronting the industry and area golfers as the 2020s get underway. Part 1 covers the changing landscape of Long Island public golf and
East End golfers can save a pretty penny on a handful of Riverhead-area rounds this season thanks to an annual promotion by the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce. The Riverhead Chamber is once again offering its seasonal Golf Book, good for eight rounds total at two participating courses. The discount package is available for $240, or
Golf courses are at their least photogenic in late winter, their bare trees and dulled, dormant fairways still a few weeks from the earliest infusions of spring color. But even if the landscapes are not the prettiest, the memories that take shape on the golf course in February can be just as vivid as the
[Follow the links to Part 1 of "A New Decade of Long Island Golf," which covered the main themes of the 2010s and what to expect in the 2020s, and Part 2 on developing local players as time runs low and millennials plan to leave Long Island.] When followers of local golf scroll over Long