There's no shortage of trees at Holbrook Country Club, a course where all 18 holes are ringed by a dense collection of limbs and leafy branches. Aside from an occasional generous kick toward the fairway, these trees offer little that's of any aid to golfers. One tree, however, does serve a beneficial purpose to Holbrook […]
There is rarely any suspense when it comes to the Long Island imprint on Golfweek's annual ranking of America's Best Municipal Courses. Bethpage Black is usually at the top, followed a few tiers below by neighbor Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs. Change is found only in the number next to the latter two. Golfweek
Starting this week, Long Island golfers will receive a Golfing Magazine certificate that allows them to play for "free" at nearly a dozen golf courses Islandwide. The magazine's 2013 Free Golf Program includes 11 local courses — seven full-length and four nine-hole layouts — plus dozens more upstate and across the Northeast. Also, this year's
Knights of Columbus Council #5817 will support the Sunrise Fund, the Lieutenant Michael O'Shea Memorial Service Award Fund and the Sergeant Jonathan Keller Memorial Scholarship Fund at this year's annual charity golf outing, scheduled for Friday, May 17 at The Woods Course at Cherry Creek in Riverhead. Registration fee is $150 per golfer. The outing
The staff at Tallgrass Golf Course went back to the drawing board last season after a few too many errant drives irked neighbors alongside the course's short par-4 sixth. Though the plan was to keep the hole a par-4, there apparently wasn't enough room on that drawing board to allow it. The hole is now
At a time when more and more born-and-raised twenty-somethings are flying free from Long Island in no hurry to return, Marc Reda went out and came back. And when he returned, he brought with him a golf business founded on the same principle — go out and come back. All that differs between Reda and
Puccio Electric Contracting Inc. of Center Moriches will hold its second annual golf outing at Swan Lake Golf Club in Manorville on Thursday, May 9. The event raises money to support the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America and is being held in memory of Paul Puccio, who lost his battle with Crohn's disease at
[UPDATE – 6/3/2013: South Bay Country Club is open for play with phone service and new website. For more on the course, check out Golf On Long Island's South Bay Country Club flyover.] The rebranded South Bay Country Club in Oceanside will be available to public golfers when it opens for play next month, according
[For information on the current 2014 Suffolk County Junior Golf Tour, please click here.] It's a good time to be a junior golfer on Long Island. The USSSA Junior Golf Tour is up and running across the Island, giving young players a chance to compete in tournaments and reach the national finals this summer in
Spring has been slow to take hold on Long Island, but it seems to have arrived for good at Spring Lake Golf Club, and it doesn't have anything to do with the name. All that was missing at the Middle Island course this past weekend were the leaves on the trees, which works in golfers'