[UPpost_date: This event has been rescheduled for Friday, March 31 due to weather.] March is reopening month, and soon enough St. Patrick's Day will arrive, marking the unofficial start of outing season. Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford plans to welcome the new year with a holiday golf outing and Irish buffet on Friday, March […]
Nothing to see here. The results are in for the 2017 "Best of LI" poll by the Long Island Press, and Bethpage State Park is still on top. In fact, all of the golf-category winners from 2016 are back in the top spot — Bethpage for "Best Golf Course," Heartland Golf Park for "Best Driving
It's hard to resist — you get a few 60-degree days in late February and instincts tell you to start looking ahead to the spring golf season. On a warm President's Day Sunday, the parking lot at Lido was full. Winter golfers don't waste time taking advantage of playable conditions. Soon enough, Long Island's seasonal
What better day to talk about the dawn of a new golf season than on a balmy 70-degree day in February? Timber Point Golf Course in Great River will reopen for the 2017 season on Friday, March 10, weather permitting. Check back later this month for information on Timber Point's annual St. Patrick's Day scramble.
North Coast Golf and Travel Shows is bringing a Long Island golf expo back to Brentwood after an extended absence. Suffolk Community College will host the Long Island Golf & Travel Show — sponsored by the Metropolitan PGA, Golfing Magazine, Golf Magazine and The Inn at Pocono Manor — from Friday, March 3 to Sunday,
For years, on the way to playing nine holes at North Woodmere Park, I wondered why a street named "Golf Drive" existed in a residential area with no apparent connection to golf. The Nassau muni was about a half-mile away, and certainly not the type of course to be commemorated on road signs. Had I
Golf On Long Island's Phil Carlucci will lead a discussion on local golf history and sign copies of "Images of America: Long Island Golf" on Sunday, February 12 at the Long Island Maritime Museum in West Sayville. The event is part of the Maritime Museum's winter lecture series. Refreshments will be served at noon, followed
The "Suffolk 18" is a collection of some of the county's best public golf holes by hole number, organized as a fantasy golf course with a typical par-71 to par-73 layout. To look back at the front nine in detail, click here. Today is the back nine, following a quick front-nine refresher: 1) GREAT ROCK
You can save on summer green fees even in the dead of winter thanks to Golfing Magazine and its annual Free Golf Program. And you can save a few additional bucks on top of the deal by taking advantage of the mag's Early Bird Special, available now through April. For $39, early subscribers receive "free"
Golf On Long Island's "Suffolk 18" has been on the back burner since we published our "Nassau 18" back in 2011. With a lengthier list of courses and much more ground to cover, Suffolk County's fantasy collection of top public golf holes was a bit more challenging to construct, but the end result is 36