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Bethpage, Tallgrass, Montauk Downs again among Golfweek’s Best Courses in 2013

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March 9, 2013

It's a four-peat for one Long Island foursome. Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red, Tallgrass and Montauk Downs cracked Golfweek's list of best public courses together in 2010, and three surveys later — the 2013 best-in-state rankings were announced by the magazine earlier this week — the quartet remains intact. Golfweek's 2013 list of the Best Courses […]

Bethpage, Rock Hill, Eisenhower form “Best of LI” trio for second straight year

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January 22, 2013

Long Island Press readers liked the results of last year's "Best Golf Course" poll so much that they kept the winner and runners-up exactly the same in 2013. This week the local newspaper announced the results of the sports and activities categories in its annual "Best of Long Island" survey, and Bethpage State Park finished

Bethpage Black ranked #42 in Golf Digest’s Greatest Courses list

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January 16, 2013

Bethpage Black found itself in a familiar place when Golf Digest's February issue hit the magazine racks recently — listed among some of the best golf courses in the country, both public and private. Golf Digest published its list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses this month, with the Black Course once again in the

Season over at Timber Point, West Sayville

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December 31, 2012

Just over 24 hours before the New Years Eve ball drop in Times Square, the final putts of the 2012 season dropped into the cup at Suffolk County's Timber Point and West Sayville golf courses. Both municipal courses closed for the season on Sunday. Timber Point is scheduled to reopen on March 15, 2013, with

Eisenhower Red, Woodmere, Morley closed for the season

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November 30, 2012

The Red Course at Eisenhower Park has been closed since Hurricane Sandy arrived last month, and it will remain closed through the offseason, according to park personnel. Eisenhower's signature layout — a Devereux Emmet design — typically shuts down for the season in early to mid-December, but tree damage from the storm kept it quiet

Hurricane Sandy Uppost_date: Latest Suffolk County course openings

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November 6, 2012

The bayside West Sayville Golf Course has recovered from Hurricane Sandy and is open again on Suffolk County's south shore, walking only. Another Suffolk County municipal course, Indian Island Country Club, has opened all 18 holes in Riverhead. Stonebridge Golf Links in Hauppauge is open and running a $37 online special today through Thursday. Last

Hurricane Sandy Uppost_date: Reader checks out Bethpage conditions

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November 5, 2012

This from a Golf On Long Island reader, Mark L., who took his two wheels through the gates and onto Bethpage State Park's (damaged) bike trail last week to check out the conditions left behind by Hurricane Sandy on the back side of the complex: "The bicycle trails in the woods are completely destroyed. I

Hurricane Sandy Uppost_date: Suffolk course updates for Saturday

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November 3, 2012

The Links Course at Cherry Creek is open for play, while its companion course across the street — the Woods — remains closed due to severe tree damage. Phone and web service are still down so no advance tee times are available. The nine-hole course at Dix Hills Park reopened Saturday, but Town of Huntington

Hurricane Sandy Uppost_date: Eisenhower White and Blue reopen

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November 3, 2012

The Blue and White courses at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow are open for play on Saturday, November 3. The Red Course remains closed. Also open again for play in Nassau County is the nine-hole course at Cantiague Park. The driving range there is open, as well.

Hurricane Sandy Uppost_date: Trees down at Peninsula GC in Massapequa

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November 1, 2012

A handful of trees are bent over at their trunks around the Peninsula Golf Club, a nine-hole course at the center of a Massapequa neighborhood bordered by south-shore inlets and South Oyster Bay. Trees are down near the clubhouse and the par-3 sixth hole, to name a few, and there is some standing water alongside

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