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
Cherry Creek has holiday plans for the upcoming St. Patrick's Day weekend, and luckily for Long Island golfers those plans involve offering a combination of discount golf, Irish-themed edibles and local ales. Drop by the Riverhead facility on Saturday or Sunday, March 16-17, and walk the Links Course for $40 or ride for $50, then
The spring golf season can't come soon enough. Every first tee shot that rises into the air at reopened public golf courses across Long Island is an indication that the offseason brought on prematurely and in swift, sudden fashion by Hurricane Sandy is finally in the past. And the coming spring signals rebirth for a
The road to Florida for the USSSA Junior Golf Championship begins in just a few weeks for Long Island golfers between the ages of 9 and 18. The 2013 USSSA Junior Golf Tour launches this April, and once again, local boys and girls will have the opportunity to compete for a spot on the national
Golfing Magazine's Free Golf Program is no longer confined to the great outdoors. The local mag has partnered with Eagle Golf of Bay Shore to include in this year's program an hour of indoor simulator time, a fun practice session that should come in handy between discounted rounds. Early Bird registration is currently $39 —