Decades after he first put his hands in the turf of soon-to-be Long Island golf courses, Charles K. Martin's fingerprints remain on most of those fairways and greens built during the 1960s golf boom, and they're still there on a handful of courses that arrived long before. Yet, according to a 2010 Newsday article, Martin […]
Cherry Creek's annual Scleroderma Charity Golf Outing will tee off on Wednesday, June 29, with proceeds from the event benefiting the Scleroderma Foundation and Scleroderma Research Foundation to help find a cure for the little-known but debilitating skin disease. The outing will take place on Cherry Creek's Links Course. The team scramble will begin with
The Black Course at Bethpage turned the big 8-0 today, joining its sibling courses and fellow octogenarians Green, Red and Blue. The youngster of the group — the Yellow Course — still has two-plus decades to go. Bethpage Black opened for play on May 31, 1936, marking the completion of an ambitious golf-course construction project
Cherry Creek will host a series of golf clinics for men and women throughout the month of June at the Links and Woods courses in Riverhead. A women's introductory clinic led by LPGA teaching pro Suzi Caprise will run every Wednesday morning at the Links Course starting June 8. The first clinic will cover orientation
Anybody who's grown up on the schoolyards, soccer fields and golf courses around Long Island is overly acquainted with the, uhh, material left behind by flocks of Canadian geese. That doesn't make the situation at Sumpwams Creek Golf Course any easier to handle, as the nine-hole layout in Babylon, according to Newsday, is doing all
Not only is Tallgrass Golf Course consistently high on Golfweek "Best" lists, it's also notoriously tops in perseverance. The Shoreham course will stay open through the summer, according to Newsday's Mark Herrmann, as delays in applications and approvals have pushed back the start date for the solar farm — formally Shoreham Solar Commons — that
Brentwood Country Club and Holbrook Country Club are offering special rates through the end of May. Resident and non-resident golfers can ride anytime after 11 a.m. for $42 at either of the Town of Islip municipal courses (all fees included). The May special is valid at Brentwood Tuesday through Sunday, and at Holbrook Wednesday through
Despite all that has transpired off the course in Shoreham, there's still golf to be played at Tallgrass Golf Course — for how much longer is anyone's guess. Tallgrass Golf Course has made it to May despite reports that the course — the future site of a massive solar farm — would be closed before
New Beginnings Community Center will host its fifth annual charity golf outing at Rock Hill Golf and Country Club in Manorville on Friday, May 20. The Medford-based organization is raising money to support its variety of programs offering assistance to brain-injury survivors. Shotgun tee time for the outing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. The $225
Eight Long Island golf courses are participating in this year's Free Golf Program, an annual subscription special offered by Hicksville-based Golfing Magazine. The 2016 slate of offerings also includes an hour of free simulator time at Simplay in Hauppauge. Golfing Mag certificates, now available for $49, will soon arrive in subscriber mailboxes and allow "free"