Who knew? The key to long-awaited amateur-golf glory just might be …. your 8-year-old nephew? Sure. Thanks to The Family Golf Challenge, adults can team up with the junior golfers in their family (age 7 to 17) to compete in skill competitions and shoot for the opportunity to reach a regional playoff later this year. […]
The Long Island-based Global Recreation Network and its national association, USSSA, are giving junior golfers from ages 9 to 18 the opportunity to compete locally and on a national stage with their Junior Golf Championship Tour, which comes to Mill Pond Golf Course in Medford this weekend, July 30-31. This two-day, 36-hole event will be
Tony D. from Valley Stream chimes in with some first impressions of the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury: "After the first hole, the course becomes really narrow and doesn't let you breathe until the back nine. #2 is a long, tight par-5 where it's easy to lose a ball in the trees.
Voting is open in the third round of Golf Digest's Fans' Choice tournament, and Bethpage Black is off to a rocky start. The Jack Nicklaus Course at the Pronghorn Golf Club is threatening to run away with the match before the turn. You can help the Black get back into it by heading over to
Beat the heat this Wednesday, July 20 with a cold drink or two, and buy those cold drinks with the cool cash you could save at a couple of Long Island's toughest public golf courses. Spring Lake Golf Club in Middle Island is running an 18-hole shotgun special Wednesday at 2 p.m. The $40 rate
The Boy Scouts of America's Suffolk County Council will host its 2011 F.D.R. Golf Classic on Tuesday, August 9 at Hamlet Wind Watch Golf & Country Club in Hauppauge. Long Island golfers are invited to participate and help raise money for special-needs Scouting. Entry fee for the event is $225 per player and includes breakfast,
Bethpage Black is in the Sweet 16. The NCAA Tournament references live on thanks to Golf Digest's Fans' Choice field-of-64 competition in which the country's top public courses are pitted against one another and advanced by reader vote. Last week, the famed Black Course clobbered #10-seed The Harvester (Rhodes, IA) by a 134-37 vote to
The Town of Islip's Brentwood and Holbrook Country Clubs are extending some of their June tee-time specials through July. This month, you can still tee off for as little as $24 at either course, fees included. Play for $42 with cart and reservation fees included at either course anytime after 11 a.m., or, if you
The last time we encountered a par-6 hole was in 2008, just south of the state line that separates North Carolina from South Carolina, on the 18th tee of the Farmstead Golf Links. This course — a personal favorite along Myrtle Beach’s “Grand Strand,” for those who care — hangs its hat on the 767-yard
The first round turned out to be a squeaker. Riding high on the recent announcement that The Barclays will be heading to Bethpage next summer, the Black Course might be primed for a more resounding victory in Round 2 of Golf Digest's Fans' Choice poll. Voting is open at GolfDigest.com for the second-round matchup between