In an effort to boost awareness of its waterside municipal golf course often overlooked by its ritzy private counterparts on Nassau's north shore, the City of Glen Cove recently launched a television ad for the Glen Cove Golf Club. The 30-second ad features aerial footage of the course along with an appearance from Glen Cove […]
Treat Dad to a free greens fee this Father's Day, then let him sit back and watch the final round of the U.S. Open in peace. The Town of Islip is giving away free greens fees for every purchased round this Father's Day, June 19, at Brentwood Country Club, Holbrook Country Club and the nine-hole
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