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
Parbuddy, a new mobile rewards app that allows golfers to earn free gear and green fees, launched on Long Island earlier this month in partnership with two facilities in the ClubCorp family of courses — Wind Watch Golf & Country Club in Hauppauge and Willow Creek Golf & Country Club in Mount Sinai. The Parbuddy
The fifth edition of the "World's Largest Golf Outing" will tee off at more than 100 courses from New York to Hawaii on Monday, August 3, and registration is open for participation in the local leg at Coram's Pine Ridge Golf Club. The annual event is held at Billy Casper Golf properties around the country
Spring Lake Golf Club wants you to play golf on Father's Day, but also wants you to spend time with the family. So the Middle Island course is looking to make it all come together with a family-foursome special valid Sunday afternoon, and it will get you home in time for the late stages of
Cherry Creek's annual Scleroderma Charity Golf Outing will tee off on Wednesday, June 24, 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. Shotgun start is scheduled for 8
Golf On Long Island's Rob Dimino has been all over the Island this spring, teeing it up on both sides of the bay on Nassau's south shore, navigating slick greens at Great Rock in Wading River, and finding plenty of fairways in between. Out at Great Rock, the devilish 11th green may have been renovated
Feedback from readers has been largely positive regarding the greens at Bethpage State Park, which absorbed a heavy beating from the winter of 2015 and needed until the very end of May to get back to full capacity. For much of the spring, a half-dozen temporary greens were in play on the Black Course, and
Middle Island Country Club will host the 16th annual Lee & Aidan McMahon Family Golf Outing & Auction on Saturday, June 20, with proceeds once again benefiting the Hospice Care Network, Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation and American Liver Foundation. The Lee & Aidan McMahon Foundation has raised more than $1 million through its charity efforts. Shotgun