Sunken Meadow State Park is receiving $1.25 million from New York State this year to improve the irrigation system on its three nine-hole golf courses, according to an announcement earlier this week by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The work is part of a statewide "NY Works" improvement plan that is devoting approximately $2.6 million to minor […]
The Father John Papallo Lodge of the Order Sons of Italy in America will hold its 12th annual Memorial Golf Outing on Monday, August 19 at Smithtown Landing Golf & Country Club. Tee time is 8 a.m. Entry fee is $185 per player and includes an early-morning breakfast, lunch at the turn, cocktail hour at
Two months into its grand reopening season on the water in Oceanside, South Bay Country Club is quickly working its way up to full speed. The Sandy-damaged facility had the course up and running in time for Memorial Day weekend this spring, but the driving range and halfway house remained in the very early stages
The seventh annual Chrissy's Wish Memorial Golf Outing, which raises money each year for the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, will take place on Saturday, September 7 at Rock Hill Golf Club in Manorville. The event has raised more than $370,000 over the past six years for research and treatment of various mental illnesses, including
Public players will still be able to play Long Island National Golf Club this season before it transitions to a private club in 2014, but it appears the new ownership would rather have you get a headstart on the changeover and just take your clubs elsewhere. In an e-mail distributed this past weekend to all
Changes are in store at Riverhead's Long Island National Golf Club, one of which is to clear the place of Long Island's public golfers. Long Island National, the Robert Trent Jones Jr. design that opened on the East End in 1999 and filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, will turn private at the conclusion of
The "World's Largest Golf Outing" — a Billy Casper Golf event to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project — will tee off at 110 different courses in 28 states on Monday, August 12. Long Island golfers can participate at Billy Casper Golf's lone local course — Pine Ridge Golf Club in Coram. The outing
Summer afternoons are best spent with a golf club in one hand and a cold beer in the other. Sure, this setup won't promote much of a ball flight, but it will certainly be relaxing. Great Rock Golf Club and the Blue Point Brewing Company will pair these two summer classics on Friday, July 26
The Blue Course at Timber Point has made its 2013 debut, just a few months later than normal. The waterside nine and home of the Gibraltar par-3 is open again at the Great River course, bringing the 27-hole facility to full capacity for the first time since last year. Blue's bayside holes were heavily damaged
Fireworks will fly later that night, but in the morning, tee shots will soar on the south shore as part of Lido Golf Club's first annual Independence Day Shotgun, scheduled to kick off at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 4. Registration is currently open through the Lido pro shop. The $70 entry fee covers breakfast