Newsday's "Community Watchdog" Judy Cartwright tied up a couple of loose ends as 2012 drew to a close, filling in readers on the resolutions, or lack thereof, to stories covered during the year. Among them was an update on errant-ball issues at the West Sayville and Bergen Point golf courses: Residents near Suffolk County's West […]
Just over 24 hours before the New Years Eve ball drop in Times Square, the final putts of the 2012 season dropped into the cup at Suffolk County's Timber Point and West Sayville golf courses. Both municipal courses closed for the season on Sunday. Timber Point is scheduled to reopen on March 15, 2013, with
Stonebridge Golf Links in Smithtown might have a bigger clubhouse in the near future if an expansion proposed by the club's catering company, Carlyle Stonebridge, is approved next month by the town. Newsday reported earlier this week that Carlyle, which also operates Carlyle on the Green at Bethpage State Park and several other Long Island
Christmas Week is a great time to test out all the new clubs, waterproof shoes, gloves, windbreakers and fleeces you picked up during the December holidays. Not at the range — on the course. Sure, it's a little cold, a tad uncomfortable, and your chips might skitter across a nearly frozen green like you're trying
The 2012-13 winter golf season on Long Island already has a slightly different feel than usual, even though the winter has yet to arrive. In Nassau County, dependable offseason outposts at the Lido Golf Club and, on a smaller scale, North Woodmere Park, are out of the winter rotation, both recovering from severe blows delivered
The 2012 season will come to a close at Brentwood Country Club and Holbrook Country Club this coming Monday, December 17. When play concludes Sunday afternoon, both courses will begin a three-month break before reopening in mid-March. The sun will be out Friday and parts of Saturday, so get to either of the two Town
Anyone who has ever had a putt, chip or approach accelerate off the back of the notoriously nasty 11th green at the Great Rock Golf Club can take some joy in the latest course news. Great Rock superintendent Dan Wolf has already completed a minor renovation of the green that will keep more balls on
Voting closes next Saturday, December 15, for the annual "Best of LI" poll conducted by the weekly (soon to be monthly) Long Island Press. Most relevant to Golf On Long Island readers is the poll's "Best Golf Course" category, which has been dominated by Bethpage State Park for the last half-decade. You can also cast
The Red Course at Eisenhower Park has been closed since Hurricane Sandy arrived last month, and it will remain closed through the offseason, according to park personnel. Eisenhower's signature layout — a Devereux Emmet design — typically shuts down for the season in early to mid-December, but tree damage from the storm kept it quiet
Timber Point Golf Course in Great River is open again for 18 holes, and has incorporated part of the hurricane-damaged Blue Course into its modified post-storm layout. The Red Course — the most inland of the three nines — is available in full. For now, the other half of an 18-hole round consists of