"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
Storms have done a number on the Merrick Road Park Golf Course in recent years, destroying several veteran trees around the bayside nine, including notables on #2 and #5. One of them, however, is making a comeback after its brush with Mother Nature. The fairway tree in the middle of the par-4 fourth is climbing
A pre-Barclays round at Bethpage State Park's Red Course is a few strokes softer thanks to the behind-the-scenes work to prepare its next-door neighbor for the international spotlight. While the Black Course fills with tents and pavilions and all the trimmings associated with a professional golf event, the Red Course will go about its business
In June, the Riverhead Times-Review profiled Ken Weinstein and Chris Wahlers, brothers-in-law and new owners of the nine-hole Sandy Pond Golf Course in Riverhead. The duo took the reins of the 1,070-yard course this past January. With the help of the mild winter, the new owners immediately began making improvements at the course. ’93We turned
Bethpage is still three weeks away from hosting a competitive golf shot at The Barclays — which begins on Thursday, August 23 — but local players are running low on time to enjoy midsummer golf at the park. The Black Course, already operating on a limited schedule, will close for final tournament preparations this Monday,
In places like South Carolina and Florida, backyards and barbecue grills are almost as much a part of some golf courses as Bridgestones and bogeys. Houses in golf-course communities — seemingly more common than not in areas like Myrtle Beach — are nothing more than a slight hook or slice away from the fairways, placing