Golfers who work up an appetite during their rounds have an opportunity to save on dinner this month at The Woods Course at Cherry Creek. The Woods is offering separate Golf and Dine specials for nine- and 18-hole afternoon rounds played Wednesday through Sunday in May. The 18-hole special, valid after 12:30 p.m., is $75 […]
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will open for the season tomorrow, April 14, following a busy offseason of renovations and repairs around the park courses. Greenside bunkers on 12 of Black's 18 holes have been renovated since last fall with the replacement of sand and installation of new sod around the edges. More
The Red Course at Bethpage State Park will open for the season tomorrow, March 31. Bethpage Black is scheduled to open on Friday, April 14. The course has undergone several bunker renovations in the offseason. For information regarding aeration on the Red, Green, Blue and Yellow courses, view the April schedule here.
Bethpage State Park's four non-Black courses will be aerated next month, starting with the Red Course, which is scheduled to open for play on Friday, March 31. Red will be closed for aeration on April 10 and 11. Here's the rest of the aeration schedule: Green Course — April 12-13 Blue Course — April 17-18
Nothing to see here. The results are in for the 2017 "Best of LI" poll by the Long Island Press, and Bethpage State Park is still on top. In fact, all of the golf-category winners from 2016 are back in the top spot — Bethpage for "Best Golf Course," Heartland Golf Park for "Best Driving
For years, on the way to playing nine holes at North Woodmere Park, I wondered why a street named "Golf Drive" existed in a residential area with no apparent connection to golf. The Nassau muni was about a half-mile away, and certainly not the type of course to be commemorated on road signs. Had I
Golf Digest published the 2017-2018 edition of its America's Greatest Golf Courses last week, a list that typically includes a variety of high-profile Long Island clubs and one particularly noteworthy public course, and this year's ranking is no exception. Bethpage Black, among the minority of public courses on the list, turned up in the top
The North Fork Chamber of Commerce will host its tenth annual Columbus Day Golf Extravaganza on Tuesday, October 11 at Island's End Golf & Country Club in Greenport. The outing combines picturesque golf with dinner, drinks and prize opportunities, with proceeds supporting local youth through the chamber's scholarship program. Tee time is 12:30 following a
The New York Islanders are swapping out their ice skates for Footjoys next month, and you can play right alongside them as part of the Islanders Children's Foundation Golf Outing at Bethpage State Park. Islander players, coaches and alumni will take on the Red Course to benefit an organization that has raised more than $10
Aeration is already finished at four of the five golf courses at Bethpage State Park. Only the Blue Course remains on the schedule, with aeration slated for April 18 and 19. For those interested in current green conditions, the other courses were aerated on the following dates: Green Course: April 4-5Red Course: April 11-12Yellow Course: