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 […]
Golfing Magazine published its annual Long Island Dream Golf Club earlier this Fall, and after only six public holes cracked the layout in 2010, this year's all-star 18 is split down the middle with nine public and nine private golf holes from across the Island. Every season, Golfing Mag editors highlight some of the best
If you have a weekday afternoon free this winter and the weather cooperates, you can play and ride at a top Long Island course for less than two bucks a hole. The Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River is once again featuring a $29 weekday afternoon rate this offseason ($39 in the morning). Winter
The Red Course at Bethpage State Park will close for the 2011 season this Sunday, December 4. Forecasts call for sunny and cool conditions for the Red's final three days, so take advantage while you can. The course won't be open again until April. Bethpage golfers can still challenge the Yellow and Blue courses during
Thirteen public golf courses in Nassau and Suffolk are in the running for the title of "Best Golf Course" of 2012 in the annual Long Island Press "Best of LI" poll, and 12 of them are looking to wrestle that title away from Bethpage State Park. The 90-hole centerpiece of Long Island golf will win
Until the first substantial snowfall of the offseason, fairways and greens around Long Island typically remain in very good condition even as the players driving over and stomping on top of them add layers of apparel to block the chill. Plenty of layers were shed on Friday at the Middle Island Country Club during a
Registration is open for the Lido Golf Club's annual Thanksgiving Turkey Trot, which tees off shotgun style this Thursday, November 24 at 8:00 a.m. The $75 entry fee includes cart, range balls, breakfast and a Lido GC winter hat by Under Armour. There will also be competitions on the course for longest drive, most accurate
The Timber Point Golf Course in Great River will host an abbreviated holiday scramble on Thanksgiving morning, November 24, complete with food, drinks, prizes and bonuses for all turkeys (no, not the ones you douse with gravy). Timber Point's Thanksgiving outing — a nine-hole, four-person scramble — will begin with a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
Seems like only yesterday we were at the Crab Meadow Golf Course for its Trick or Treat Scramble on a pleasant Halloween Monday. Of course, at Crab Meadow, almost every major holiday doubles as a great day for a scramble (see Easter, St. Patrick's Day and others). The course's annual Thanksgiving Turkey Shoot is only
During our first visit to the Holbrook Country Club a few years ago, a crow — either hungry or simply mischievous — took advantage of our concentration on the putting green and helped itself without any hesitation to some of Rob's unguarded breakfast. It then joined its friends up in the trees for a hearty