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"
Harbor Links Golf Course in Port Washington will host Women's Golf Day on Tuesday, June 7, an afternoon gathering that combines golf, professional instruction and prizes. For $17, golfers can play nine on the Harbor Links Executive Course and take part in a free beginners' clinic held by course pros. Players also have the option
Smithtown Landing Golf and Country Club is in the middle of a class-action lawsuit brought upon by an area golfer who alleges the municipal course has been overcharging fees for golf and motor carts, according to Newsday. In the class-action suit filed on behalf of "at minimum hundreds" of Smithtown Landing golfers, Robert Dwyer of
Aeration is already finished at four of the five golf courses at Bethpage State Park. Only the Blue Course remains on the schedule, with aeration slated for April 18 and 19. For those interested in current green conditions, the other courses were aerated on the following dates: Green Course: April 4-5Red Course: April 11-12Yellow Course:
The spring of 1936 arrived like the many seasons of rebirth that preceded it, though in the minds of Long Island's golfers, it undoubtedly felt like the dawn of a new era. Less than a year earlier, the A.W. Tillinghast-designed Red and Blue courses opened at the sprawling new Bethpage State Park complex, whetting the