Today is opening day at the Brentwood Country Club and Holbrook Country Club. As usual, the Town of Islip sister courses are welcoming golfers back with a seasonal special. See their coupon page for details. For more on the two clubs, check out the Brentwood CC and Holbrook CC flyovers.
The Red Course at Eisenhower Park will open for the 2012 season this Friday, March 16. If the 70-degree weather lures you to the park before then, you can play the Blue and White courses. Both have been open all winter. The historic Devereux Emmet design in East Meadow is the star attraction at Eisenhower
Back in 2010, Tallgrass Golf Course joined Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs among Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play, the magazine's annual ranking of each state's top public-access courses. The foursome hasn't broken apart since. Golfweek released its 2012 list of the Best Courses You Can Play last week, and for the third
Its netting still stands, though probably not for much longer. Its main building and two tiers of driving stalls have already vanished. The Island Green Golf Center has closed for development of its 14 acres on Middle Country Road in Selden. Last May, Golf On Long Island highlighted a Newsday article that outlined the fate
The 2012 season is about to begin at the Timber Point Golf Course in Great River. Suffolk County's historic muni will raise the curtain on 18 of its 27 bayside holes tomorrow, March 9, with the opening of its Red and White courses. The scenic Blue Course will open next month. Timber Point director of
The Links at Cherry Creek, home of Long Island's only par-6, will host a St. Patrick's Day Shotgun next weekend on the holiday morning. Opening drives will go up bright and early and fresh pints will go down later in the afternoon. Registration is $69 per player, which covers a pre-round continental breakfast plus a
Players of all ages can learn, relearn or brush up on fundamentals this spring at Harbor Links Golf Course in Port Washington as part of a bevy of programs geared toward junior players and adults. Junior programs have already begun under the direction of James Hong, a Top 50 Junior Instructor as selected by the
The 2012 Long Island Golf Show has been postponed, according to The Results Group, which runs the annual expo. No makeup date has been announced. The show was originally scheduled for for March 23-25 at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood. Last year's event featured two-time major champion John Daly and Michael Breed of The
The 2011-12 offseason will go down in local golf circles as the winter that wasn't. Sure, a couple of courses hung a "closed" sign in their window through January and February, but elsewhere, the golf season didn't skip a beat. Now it's March, and those courses that shut the engine over the winter are about
The calendar is one Leap Day from a full flip to March and the first domino in a chain of hibernating golf courses is set to fall. Island's End G&CC will signal the offseason's end when it reopens for business tomorrow, March 1, and welcomes players back with a March special. Greenport's waterside 18 will