Spring aeration begins next week at Bethpage State Park. The Yellow Course is first in line. Aeration is scheduled for Monday, April 1 and Tuesday, April 2. The Red Course, which opened for the 2013 season earlier today, will be aerated starting Monday, April 8. Following Red is the Blue Course on April 15-16 and […]
The spring weather has been slow to come around. That's not the case, however, for the Brentwood and Holbrook Country Clubs. Both Town of Islip courses are wasting no time getting back into form with their usual seasonal discounts. In April and May, you can ride for $42 or walk 18 holes for only $24.
The spring season arrived a few days early at Timber Point Golf Course in Great River, where on St. Patrick's Day morning, more than 60 golfers put down the shillelagh used in a casual putting challenge and posed for group photos on the practice green. After a few words of gratitude from Timber Point golf
A holiday tradition as welcome as a visit from the Easter Bunny, the Crab Meadow Golf Course will host its annual Easter Sunday shotgun outing on March 31, an early-morning event to kick off a day of food and family. Entry fee is $65 and includes breakfast pastries, coffee, motor cart, range balls and prizes
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will reopen for the 2013 season on Saturday, April 13, according to park information. As usual, the Red Course will get a two-week headstart on the Black. It will open for play on Friday, March 29. Both courses closed earlier than usual in 2012 due to the effects
Ken Weinstein and Chris Wahlers ended their first season as owners of Sandy Pond Golf Course the same way they began — by making improvements from top to bottom at their nine-hole course in Riverhead. More accurately, the improvements went from bottom to top. One of their first projects, according to this Riverhead News-Review profile
Lido Golf Club appears to be back in the swing of things. The recently reopened course in Lido Beach will host a holiday shotgun on St. Patrick's Day, this Sunday, March 17. Tee time is 10:00. For $60, golfers get 18 holes with cart, followed by corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and beer. Dress warm —
It's not out of the ordinary to catch yourself longing for the beach while stuck in the late stages of winter, amid the last stubborn, filth-flecked mounds of snow struggling to melt. So it makes sense then as the calendar slow-crawls toward spring to bring up #8 at Tallgrass Golf Course, a par-3 with a
It's a four-peat for one Long Island foursome. Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red, Tallgrass and Montauk Downs cracked Golfweek's list of best public courses together in 2010, and three surveys later — the 2013 best-in-state rankings were announced by the magazine earlier this week — the quartet remains intact. Golfweek's 2013 list of the Best Courses
The New York Dance Theatre/Frank Ohman School of Ballet will hold its annual golf outing and spring gala on Monday, April 22 at Smithtown Landing Country Club. The event begins with breakfast at 9:00 a.m. and includes lunch at the turn and a cocktail party with awards ceremony following the round at 4 p.m. Entry