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Bethpage, Tallgrass, Montauk still New York’s Best Courses You Can Play

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March 12, 2012

Back in 2010, Tallgrass Golf Course joined Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs among Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play, the magazine's annual ranking of each state's top public-access courses. The foursome hasn't broken apart since. Golfweek released its 2012 list of the Best Courses You Can Play last week, and for the third […]

Long Island public golf course reopenings for 2012

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March 1, 2012

The 2011-12 offseason will go down in local golf circles as the winter that wasn't. Sure, a couple of courses hung a "closed" sign in their window through January and February, but elsewhere, the golf season didn't skip a beat. Now it's March, and those courses that shut the engine over the winter are about

Bethpage retains title, edges Rock Hill and Eisenhower in annual “Best of LI” poll

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January 20, 2012

The "Best of LI" hot streak continues at Bethpage, where each of the five courses have a victory medal all their own thanks to readers of the Long Island Press. For the fifth year in a row, Bethpage bagged top honors in the "Best Golf Course" category of the local newspaper's annual "Best of Long

Bethpage Black cracks top five in Golf Digest’s Toughest list

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January 13, 2012

A crushed drive soars through the air on Bethpage Black's par-4 fifth — the straightest drive you've struck in weeks — and settles into the first cut off the left side of the diagonal fairway. You get to your ball and find you have no shot at the elevated green. Unless there's an incredible power

Closer Look: Bethpage Yellow #12

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January 5, 2012

"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

Long Island Dream Club: Bergen Point #7

18-hole, Suffolk Courses

January 2, 2012

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’s 2011 Dream Golf Club

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December 9, 2011

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

Bethpage Red to close for the season this Sunday, December 4

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December 1, 2011

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

Bethpage Black to close for 2011 on November 15

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November 1, 2011

Two weeks remain in the 2011 playing season at Bethpage State Park's Black Course. The Black will close for the season on Tuesday, November 15. Despite the early taste of winter here in the Northeast this past weekend, prime golfing conditions still await the cool-weather golfer at Bethpage and across Long Island. The Black Course

Fall discounts include 36-hole special at Brentwood, Holbrook CC

18-hole, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Suffolk Courses

September 29, 2011

Head to the Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River next week to "take a swing in the fight against breast cancer" as part of the fifth annual Pink Rock Classic. The event will take place on Thursday, October 6. All proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Fund For Uninsured Women at the Fortunato

Golf on Long Island

A Golfer's Internet Guide to the Public Courses of Nassau & Suffolk