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A Golfer's Internet Guide to the Public Courses of Nassau & Suffolk

Junior golfers play free this Saturday at New York State Parks courses

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Pitch and Putt, Suffolk Courses

Take your junior golfers to the nearest state park for nine or 18 holes this Saturday — New York State is picking up the green fee. This Saturday, July 20, is Free Youth Golf Day, a statewide event that Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this spring as New York welcomed the PGA Championship to the crown […]

Flyover: Smithtown Landing Country Club

18-hole, Suffolk Courses

Here's a general rule of thumb about golf courses on Long Island — the closer you get to Long Island Sound, the more likely it is that you'll square off in an 18-hole battle with hilly, tumbling terrain.  Up in Kings Park, not far from where the Nissequogue River flows into the Sound, Smithtown Landing

Bethpage and Montauk named to Golfweek’s 2019 “Best Courses You Can Play” list

18-hole, 18-hole, Bethpage, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Suffolk Courses

Golfweek released its 2019 Best Courses You Can Play ranking last month, a familiar list of various New York golf courses all filling in spots in the state's top 15 behind the long-untouched leader, Bethpage Black. Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs once again represent Long Island in Golfweek's annual ranking of the top

A half-century in East Rock: Nassau muni Bay Park in the midst of its 50th-anniversary season

9-hole, For Beginners, In the News, Nassau Courses, Origins, South Shore, Voices of Long Island Golf

It's a special season at Bay Park Golf Course, though you won't find any milestones announced on a banner billowing over the park entrance or stretched across the facade of the course's faceless, utilitarian brick clubhouse.  There are no anniversary logos printed on hats and polos, no leather-bound books to chronicle the course's half-century beside

Original Lido Club featured on Golf Channel, golf history podcast

18-hole, In the News, Nassau Courses, South Shore, Voices of Long Island Golf

Amid its wall-to-wall PGA Championship coverage at Bethpage Black earlier this week, the Golf Channel aired a short but fascinating six-minute feature on a lesser-known Long Island golf powerhouse, one that's long gone but certainly not forgotten by followers of golf history. The segment covered the original Lido Club (1914-1942) with insight provided by Connor

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A Golfer's Internet Guide to the Public Courses of Nassau & Suffolk

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