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2025 golf course reopening dates on Long Island

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

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 […]

Upgrades at Harbor Links include robots, range renovations and a rebranded Executive Course

18-hole, 9-hole, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Voices of Long Island Golf

Harbor Links has a new course operator and will soon have a variety of spiffy new amenities to enhance the playing experience. And among those incoming amenities are robots ’97 yes, robots ’97 that will deliver food and drinks to players as they swing their way around the Port Washington golf course.  Kelley Brooke, whose

Bethpage Black and Red land in GOLF Magazine’s Top 100 Courses You Can Play

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

Another list of top public golf courses, another chance for Bethpage State Park's marquee layout to shine.  Bethpage Black is featured near the top of the latest course ranking, this time GOLF.com/GOLF Magazine's 2024-2025 list of Top 100 Courses You Can Play, though for once the Black Course is forced to step back and cede

2024 closing dates at Long Island’s public golf courses

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

The handful of public golf courses that close for the Long Island winter typically go dark between the end of Thanksgiving weekend and the middle of December.  Some might hang on until Christmas week if warm weather lingers, but usually the only courses still open by then are the ones that welcome players year-round. So,

Expect short rough and deep tees at next year’s Ryder Cup, say Bethpage, Cup officials

18-hole, Bethpage, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Voices of Long Island Golf

Prepare to see massive drives and aggressive lines at next fall's Bethpage Black Ryder Cup. The Black Course's notoriously lush rough, what the pros typically encounter during championship play at Bethpage, will be rocking quite the buzzcut when the Ryder Cup tees off nearly a year from now in late September 2025.  More notably, it

Momentum building toward Golden Age-inspired restoration of Timber Point

18-hole, 9-hole, Origins, Suffolk Courses, Voices of Long Island Golf

Stars aligned in recent years to free Long Island's original Lido Club from grainy black-and-white photos and resurrect it halfway across the country at Wisconsin's Sand Valley.  Now it seems they might be positioning themselves again to inspire another Golden Age rebirth, one that stays right here on the Island's south shore. The restoration of

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