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.
Golfing Magazine's annual Free Golf Program is open for registration, and if it's still too cold for most players to hit the fairways, then it means the mag's Early Bird discount is available. From now through April, Long Island golfers who take part in the program can save even more on heavily discounted green fees.
Golf On Long Island's "Origins" series explores the history and development of those local golf courses whose backstory is a bit more unique than most. Stay tuned for more as the season progresses. ****** Ralph Trost, chronicler of local golf history for the early-20th-century Brooklyn Daily Eagle, summed up the "epidemic of golf-course building" in
Rare is the golf outing scheduled during the winter months on a Long Island course. Sunken Meadow, however, is preparing to open up the playbook a bit, fittingly on Super Bowl Sunday. The state-park muni plans to mark the midpoint of winter with a "Halfway There" event (yes, outside) on Sunday, February 3. For $50,
Simplay, the indoor golf and sports facility in Hauppauge, will host a "Networking with Golf" event this Friday, January 25, complete with a simulator scramble for up to 40 golfers. The unique indoor scramble will tee off at 2:30 p.m. after registration and lunch. Beer, wine and soda will be served throughout the golf portion
Street names can give clues about a community's past. That's especially true with golf courses. When Long Island streets are tagged with golf-related terms, it often means that buried beneath sidewalks and front lawns are the remains of a long-forgotten (or fondly remembered) course. This series of posts will look back at courses that have