Wading River's Great Rock Golf Club closed late last week for a short mid-winter hibernation. The course will reopen on Friday, March 15, weather permitting. Great Rock's recently remodeled 11th green will make its debut this spring season. Work on the back side of the heavily sloped surface was completed last month by superintendent Dan […]
Long Island Press readers liked the results of last year's "Best Golf Course" poll so much that they kept the winner and runners-up exactly the same in 2013. This week the local newspaper announced the results of the sports and activities categories in its annual "Best of Long Island" survey, and Bethpage State Park finished
Bethpage Black found itself in a familiar place when Golf Digest's February issue hit the magazine racks recently — listed among some of the best golf courses in the country, both public and private. Golf Digest published its list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses this month, with the Black Course once again in the
Lido Golf Club, which sustained some of the most severe damage among Long Island golf courses during Hurricane Sandy last October, will reopen for play on March 1, 2013. The course and clubhouse were flooded during the storm, and early indications were that the Lido Beach course might not fully recover until later in the
Paychecks are a little lighter so far in 2013. All the more reason to check out Golfing Magazine's Free Golf Program, even if it is still only January. The mag's annual Early Bird Special is available now through April, and enrolls subscribers in the program for $39 — a $10 discount off the regular rate.
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