Thinking about fall course aeration is depressing when it's still the heart of summer, but you can't ignore the fact that seasonal maintenance is just around the corner. And since most of the aeration at Bethpage will be done during what's technically summer, we can call the brief two-day closures "summer breaks" if it makes […]
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 looks back at courses that have been
The Long Island Golf Junkies players group, one of the largest and most active groups in the region, will hold a July Social outing next month at The Hamlet Golf and Country Club in Commack. Event date is Monday, July 15 with a shotgun start scheduled for 10:00 a.m. The LIGJ outing is open to
There are certainties in Long Island golf life ’97 group photos at the Black Course warning sign, wind at Montauk Downs, and Bethpage and Montauk ranked highly in Golfweek's list of the region's top public golf courses. Golfweek's 2024 Best Courses You Can Play rankings were published earlier this month and Bethpage Black finds itself
Bethpage State Park has heard the ongoing complaints about the fairness and circumvention of its tee-time reservation policies and is now taking steps to address them. In an email distributed earlier today, Bethpage announced several changes to its reservation system and policies, all scheduled to go into effect next Monday, June 24. The main change,
A development plan that would have built 28 additional homes at Stonebridge Golf Links and Country Club in Hauppauge and shortened its 18-hole golf course into abbreviated nines has been withdrawn by ownership, according to Newsday. All that remains now are lingering questions and concerns about the future of the current golf course. Newsday's Jean-Paul
[UPpost_date: Eisenhower Red and Blue will both reopen for play on Thursday, June 13.] Long Island golfers will have limited access to the golf courses at Eisenhower Park next month while local and visiting cricket fans take in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, part of which will be held at the Nassau County park
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[Looking for this year's camp info? See the Guide to 2025 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island.] As golf participation continues to rise, more and more young golfers are filling up driving-range stalls and looking to take live swings on local courses. With valuable instruction and guidance from Long Island's wealth of teaching professionals, they
Players who went looking for a one-on-one fight with Bethpage Black on the golf course's opening day were instead met with an ambush by briskly cold temperatures and a brutal, relentless wind. But the surprises weren't all bad ’97 waiting on the first tee for some of the park's morning players was the Ryder Cup,