The USSSA Junior Golf Tour returns to Smithtown Landing Country Club this weekend and will once again be offering young players the opportunity to show off their skills on television and earn a spot in a national championship. Boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 18 are invited to participate in the Tour's […]
The Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River will be aerated on Tuesday, September 4 and Wednesday, September 5, but you can save a few bucks this week by taking advantage of a $49 aeration special on morning tee times, with cart. After 2 p.m. the rate drops to $39; after 4 p.m., $29. Over
Two of the golf courses at Bethpage State Park will be aerated in September. The Green Course will be aerated on Monday, September 10 and Tuesday, September 11, followed by the Yellow Course on September 18-19. Blue already underwent its aeration this past week. The Black Course, which reopens to the public tomorrow after hosting
Skills Unlimited, an organization that offers men and women with disabilities the opportunity to reach their full vocational potential, will hold its 13th annual golf tournament on Monday, September 10 at the Rock Hill Golf Club in Manorville. Participants who ring in the post-Labor Day season with an ace will go home with a 2012
The Red, Blue, Green and Yellow courses at Bethpage State Park will reopen to the public tomorrow, August 30. Blue is currently being aerated. After hosting The Barclays last week, the Black Course will remain closed for a few extra days. The course opens for play on Saturday, September 1.
"Blink and you'll miss it" is a handy way to describe the peaceful seclusion of the Cedars Golf Club, though it's not entirely accurate. Even if your eyes are taped wide open, you still won't stumble upon the course. Truth is, unless you live on the North Fork, are roaming the quiet residential streets south
Town of Hempstead residents are invited once again to enjoy 18 late-summer holes on the water as part of the Supervisor's Cup Golf Classic, an annual tournament hosted by Kate Murray and the Department of Parks and Recreation. Now in its fifth year, the Supervisor's Cup is scheduled to tee off on Wednesday, September 19
All 90 holes at Bethpage State Park are now closed until The Barclays finishes up and the pros head out of town. The Red, Blue, Green and Yellow courses will resume play on Thursday, August 30. (Blue will be aerated during the break on August 28 and 29.) The Black Course will reopen on September
This edition of "Closer Looks" examines another of Long Island's split-fairway holes. Not quite as dramatic, scenic or penal as our previous double-fairway installment — #16 at the Lido Golf Club — the 400-/385-yard 13th hole at Bethpage's Red Course is an interesting change of pace from the series of long par-4s that precedes it.
The staff at Wind Watch Golf & Country Club spent years tinkering with and lengthening its opening hole, eventually maxing it out to a 491-yard par-5 before the 2010 season. With nowhere else to stretch it in the physical sense, new management at Wind Watch moved the hole on the scorecard instead — across the