The ninth annual Chrissy's Wish Memorial Golf Outing, which raises money each year for the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, will tee off this Saturday, August 15 at Rock Hill Golf & Country Club in Manorville. The event has raised nearly $500,000 since its inception for research and treatment of various mental illnesses, including depression […]
Help support Kids Need More and its Camp Adventure — a Long Island camp for children with cancer — by participating in the Robert "Appo" Lodato Memorial Golf Outing on Thursday, August 13 at the Rock Hill Golf & Country Club in Manorville. Registration is $200 per golfer. Included with the entry fee are beverages
Long, straight and a shade under 7,000 yards from the tips, Eisenhower Park's White Course makes it easy for players to choose what to hit off the tee. And with its trademark gaping bunkers at the mouth of every green, there's added importance on squeezing out every last yard with the driver. So when you
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Newsday sports columnist and longtime golf writer Mark Herrmann highlighted Images of America: Long Island Golf by Golf On Long Island's Phil Carlucci today in his weekly golf column. In his piece, Herrmann describes the work that went into the project and details some of the notable photos that stand out among the hundreds that
The Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury will host the 20th annual Massapequa High Schools Hall of Fame/Herbert J. Pluschau Memorial Golf Outing on Monday, August 3. The outing also includes an induction dinner and ceremony celebrating alumni from Massapequa and Berner High Schools. Proceeds from the event help support the Hall of Fame
The United States Golf Association wants all experienced, new and prospective golfers to understand the ease and benefits of nine-hole rounds, so follow along on Wednesday, July 29 and tee it up on a short course nearby. That day marks the USGA's second annual "Play 9 Day," a celebration of nine-hole rounds and all the
by Rob Dimino Earlier this summer, all that stood between me and a sub-80 round was the 18th hole at Stonebridge, a long dogleg right that plays about 430 from the tips. It's not the most challenging hole on the course, but it's a straightforward test after a fun-house round filled with double-tiered and humpback
The list of golf-course designers who have left their mark on the Long Island landscape over the past century includes some of the most famous architects in the sport’92s history ’96 C.B. Macdonald, A.W. Tillinghast, Devereux Emmet, Robert Trent Jones and his son, Rees, to name only a few. Long Island golfers ’96 especially public
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will be closed sporadically through the month of July for scheduled maintenance and the annual New York State Open. Dark dates for the New York State Open will be Monday, July 13 through Friday, July 17. The Black Course will also be closed every Monday for maintenance (except