[Looking for information on Golfing Magazine's 2013 Free Golf Program? Click here for details on this year's program.] Why pay the typical walking rate for one round at one area course when you can pay the same rate for one round at each of more than a half-dozen courses — and ride to boot? That's […]
An ongoing saga in the Hamptons is finally drawing to a close. The Fairway Restaurant will return to the Poxabogue Golf Center in Sagaponack this summer, according to Michael Wright of The Southampton Press. The popular cafe closed last year as a result of a lease dispute. In August, plans for a new cafe were
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will reopen for the 2011 season on Friday, April 15, according to park staff. The 90-hole facility will slowly get back into full swing in the coming weeks, with the Green Course scheduled to reopen on Saturday, March 19, and the Red Course on Friday, April 1. All
Want to win a dozen Golf On Long Island golf balls? Just answer a quick question on your local public golf courses and help us put together our "Nassau 18." Like most sports fans, we here at Golf On Long Island love a good list. And to help us get through the final weeks of
Already boasting holes worthy of praise in "Dream 18" collections put together by Newsday and Golfing Magazine, one of Long Island's most challenging and visually stunning public golf courses will be able to put more padding in its resume later this spring. Hamlet Willow Creek Golf and Country Club in Mount Sinai has been selected
A handful of Long Island golf courses close every winter and typically reopen for the new season anywhere from mid-March to the end of April. With almost all of January and February 2011 buried by snow, those courses that remain open year-round are finally beginning to announce "reopenings" of their own. One such facility is
Tallgrass Golf Course in Shoreham will welcome back walkers this Wednesday, March 2, the course's grand reopening date after a snowed-out winter. The first group will go out at 9 a.m. Sign in before noon and play all day for $40 ($30 after noon). The wind-swept course on Suffolk County's north shore was ranked #8
It seems the farther east you play golf on Long Island, the less chance you'll have to leave the course hungry. Last year's Long Island Dream Club restaurant was Blackwells at the Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River, one of the best and most relaxing settings for a post-round beer and burger (and steak,
The Nassau County municipal golf courses at Bay Park in East Rockaway and Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn are closed for the season. Both nine-hole par-30s will reopen sometime in March. Bay Park is a flat, wide-open course exposed to strong winds off Hewlett Bay and surrounding inlets. Christopher Morley is shorter and tighter. Nassau's
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park still had plenty of golf cleats and pushcart wheels traversing its fairways as we looked on last week from the Red Course's fourth green. But after squeezing in two bonus weeks of golf beyond its original November 14 closing date, the Black is now officially in hibernation until