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
Hard to believe, but the first holiday golf outing of the new season is within sight. Even better, it includes corned beef and an open bar. Mill Pond's St. Patrick's Day Golf Classic will actually tee off the morning before on Friday, March 16, but golfers can still celebrate like it's the real holiday. After
Your dream round is over — it's time to grab a bite. Oh, and there's a hole-in-one on your card, so first you'll have to buy drinks for everyone at the bar. (It is a dream round, after all.) Then you can sit down to eat. Taste 99 at Bethpage State Park is the final
Low winter rates are only here for a few more weeks, and once they're gone, it's not long before peak-season prices kick in again. One way to stretch out the season of saving is by signing up as a member of Golfing Magazine's Free Golf Program. The mag is currently offering its annual Early Bird
On days when the focus is more on practice and repetition rather than double-fairway holes and merciless rough, the 40-stall driving range at Harbor Links is a more appealing destination than its Championship Course neighbor. Private lessons and group clinics are offered, and a prepaid range key is available for high-volume swingers. Golfing Magazine selected