The Red Course at Eisenhower Park will open for the 2019 season on Saturday, April 13. Until then, golfers with the Masters itch can continue to play the Blue and White courses, which have been open all year. Eisenhower Red, the Devereux Emmet course known as Salisbury #4 back when it hosted the 1926 PGA […]
Golfers returning to Bethpage State Park for early-spring golf have been treated to some uncommon scenery as the PGA Championship, formerly of August, looms just weeks away in May. For one, a look deep into the distance at the first green on the Red Course includes a view past roughly 300 yards of tents sitting
It was still far short of sunrise in the early-morning hours of April 18, 1989, yet a line of cars stretched near the gates of what had long been a leafy, bucolic private estate at Jericho Turnpike and Southwoods Road in Woodbury. Inside those cars, dozens of local golfers sat waiting to secure a spot
The Southampton-based Last Chance Animal Rescue will hold its fifth annual golf outing on Monday, June 3 at Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford. 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. Shotgun tee time is scheduled
Cherry Creek's "Double Play" spring special will be back in 2019. Double Play cards are available for purchase at the Woods and Links clubhouses, entitling players to discount rounds at the two Riverhead courses. For $75 golfers can play one 18-hole round at each of the two courses with cart included. The deal is valid
Pine Ridge Golf Club will ring in the March holiday and the new 2019 golf season with a special "Shamrock Open" set to tee off on St. Patrick's Day morning. Shotgun tee time at the Coram course is 11 a.m., and when the round is over, the celebration continues with a late-afternoon dinner party. The
After a successful inaugural match-play championship in 2018, Spring Lake Golf Club in Middle Island is planning a second tourney this April with a bigger field and condensed play. The 2019 Spring Lake Championship, open to golfers of all skill levels, will take place Friday, April 26 through Sunday, April 28. Unlike last year's double-weekend
This promises to be a spring unlike any other at Bethpage State Park, where work and preparation for this May's PGA Championship on the Black Course carried on through the winter and will soon continue amid the din of refreshed Long Island golfers. Local players will have to make a few sacrifices, however, before play
In addition to parades, green-tinted bagels and adult beverages, St. Patrick's Day is known, at least to local golfers, as the unofficial start of holiday-themed outing season. A handful of Long Island courses celebrate the dawn of a new golfing year by inviting players to chilled fairways for golf and a side of corned beef
We're almost out of the winter free of blizzards, clear of long blocks of time with closed courses. Offseason golfers have had plenty of days to tee it up while the rest stay put until spring. Well, spring now appears on the horizon, and with March about to arrive, it's reopening season on Long Island.