There's still time to pick up a Christmas or Hanukkah gift for the golfer and golf history fan in your life — signed copies of Images of America: Long Island Golf by Golf On Long Island's Phil Carlucci are available for $17.99, with free shipping included through the end of December. Order soon to ensure […]
There are two weekends left to golf at the Brentwood Country Club and Holbrook Country Club. The two Town of Islip municipal courses will close for the 2016 season at the conclusion of play on Sunday, December 18. Both courses typically reopen in mid March. For more on the Islip courses, check out the Brentwood
Two of Long Island's seasonal golf courses have closed for the winter. The Woods Course at Cherry Creek in Riverhead, typically among the earliest to end its season, will reopen in March 2017. Its sister course across the street — the Links — will remain open as weather permits. Harbor Links in Port Washington planned
Time is winding down in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll — voters have until December 15 to click in favor of their preferred course or club. This is the 12th edition of the survey, which runs each fall, giving Long Islanders the opportunity to nominate and vote for their favorite goods
Friends of Golf On Long Island made their traditional Thanksgiving pilgrimage to Medford this past holiday, braving the chill to take part in Mill Pond Golf Course's highly competitive annual Turkey Shootout scramble. On their way to a 7-under team 63, they snapped a few pics of the new tee box at Mill Pond's short
Town of Huntington board members voted unanimously last month to end its license agreement with Integrity Golf, the Florida-based management company hired in 2014 to run the Crab Meadow and Dix Hills Park municipal courses, according to Newsday. Newsday's Deborah S. Morris reported Thursday that the board voted 5 to 0 to revoke the agreement
This weekend is the last chance to play the Red Course at Bethpage State Park in 2016. The course will close for the season on Sunday, November 27. Reopen date is typically in early April. Bethpage Black has already closed for the year. The course usually reopens around the second weekend in April. For winter
Few golfers expected to tee it up at Tallgrass Golf Course this season, but the Shoreham course has a long history of perseverance. It skirted the looming threat of solar-farm development early in the spring, then survived through the summer, as well. In a mid-September column, Newsday's Mark Herrmann reported that the course would be around
Golf is as much a Thanksgiving tradition for some cold-hardened Long Island golfers as turkey and stuffing. So they don't mind missing the Thanksgiving Day parade as long as they can be out on a local fairway buzzing 3-irons through chilly wind gusts. And waiting out a brief frost delay is no big deal —
Active and retired military personnel are invited to play for free on Veterans Day — this Friday, November 11 — at Pine Ridge Golf Club in Coram. Military identification is required for redemption. Nearby in Medford, Mill Pond Golf Course will once again offer a "Comeback Coupon" to all golfers who play on Veterans Day.