What a difference a year makes. At this time in 2011, Long Islanders were reaching for the snow shovel, not the sand wedge. Fast forward to the present and you've got 60-degree weekend afternoons and tee times flying off the board. Take away the bare branches and the early-morning freeze and it's like swinging a […]
Golfing Magazine recently announced its 2011 Long Island Dream Golf Club, this season's collection of the Island's finest 18 holes and top off-course facilities. Public golf holes make up half of this year's 6,954-yard layout, which begins and ends with lake-jumping shots at the public Sandpiper Course at Spring Lake Golf Club and the historic
"Not many people realize that Tillie did design a driveable par-4 for Bethpage, but not for the Black Course. He put it on the original Blue Course." — Phil Young, golf historian and author When Bethpage Black hosted the U.S. Open in 2002 and 2009, many golfers who hadn't already known of famed course architect
Membership permit rates at the Glen Cove Golf Club will change in 2012 and include a slight increase to city residents, a Newsday report said last week. Non-resident permit rates will decrease by close to half as the City of Glen Cove tries to lure more golfers to its municipal par-67 and away from other
The Tallgrass Golf Course in Shoreham is closed for the months of January and February. If the winter weather cooperates, the course will reopen in the beginning of March. To read more on Tallgrass, check out the course flyover.
Golfing Magazine recently announced its 2011 Long Island Dream Golf Club, this season's collection of the Island's finest 18 holes and top off-course facilities. Public golf holes make up half of this year's 6,954-yard layout, which begins and ends with lake-jumping shots at the public Sandpiper Course at Spring Lake Golf Club and the historic
The famous ball will drop in Times Square this weekend on New Years Eve, and a few hours later, the final balls of the season will drop onto the greens at Timber Point on New Years Day. Timber Point's Red and White courses are closing for the season at the end of the day on
The Nassau County municipal courses at Bay Park in East Rockaway and Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn have closed for the season. Sister nine-hole courses at North Woodmere and Cantiague parks will remain open through the winter. Bay Park and Morley will likely reopen in late March. Check back as the spring season approaches for
Golfing Magazine recently announced its 2011 Long Island Dream Golf Club, this season's collection of the Island's finest 18 holes and top off-course facilities. Public golf holes make up half of this year's 6,954-yard layout, which begins and ends with lake-jumping shots at the public Sandpiper Course at Spring Lake Golf Club and the historic
The 2010-11 winter golf season was over almost as soon as it began. By the time Golf On Long Island posted its first edition of Winter Rates Roundup in early January, Long Island golf courses were nestled under a blanket of post-Christmas snow. So this year, fittingly on a day that nearly touched 60 degrees,