Polish your game at the Tallgrass Country Club this summer, where pro Phil Tita and his staff will hold free player-development clinics every Sunday through Labor Day. Each one-hour clinic begins at 2 p.m. and includes a demonstration and mini-lesson. Sessions rotate each week and cover iron play, chipping, putting, woods and sand play. The […]
National Saferides, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing transportation for impaired drivers, will hold its first annual golf outing on Monday, July 12 at Long Island National Golf Club in Riverhead. The charity event is open to all golfers. Registration for the National Saferides Golf Classic is $700 per foursome, though smaller groups and individuals
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will reopen for the 2010 season tomorrow, April 13. Lucky golfers with a chance to tee off on the course ranked #19 on Golfweek's Best Classic Courses list will do so under mostly cloudy skies with the temperature hovering around 60 degrees. Until your first tee time of
When Bethpage Black opens up next Tuesday, April 13, New York State's premier public golf facility will be fully operational for the 2010 season. As a welcome-back gesture that many area golfers wish was just a poor April Fools Day joke, the state will ask all players — especially senior and juniors — to dig
Until April 1, Long Island golfers can take advantage of Golfing Magazine's Early Bird Special on its annual Free Golf Program. For $39, participants in the program receive a certificate good for single rounds at several area courses as well as a one-year subscription (five issues) to the magazine. The 2010 program will likely include
Who needs all the Tiger Woods talk? The real discussion should be about the combination of 60- to 70-degree afternoons and special March rates at some of Long Island's top public courses. At the Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River, players can challenge the Island's slickest greens for no more than $49 between now
The Brentwood and Holbrook Country Clubs will reopen for the 2010 season this Wednesday, March 17. Both Town of Islip courses have been closed since mid-December. Tee times are available beginning at 6 a.m. on weekends and 6:30 on weekdays. Twilight rates kick in at 2 p.m. Brentwood is a 6,173-yard par-72 that is mostly
The month of February has been a miserable one for Long Island golfers. Snow storms completely washed out the mid-winter golf season, and more threaten to be a major disruption in the weeks ahead. The only consolation is that March and April signal rebirth on the Long Island golf scene. Golf On Long Island readers
Long Islanders pining for the warmth of spring and summer as they dig out from the blizzard of 2010 received some bad news Thursday when a Newsday report (subscription required) by Bill Bleyer revealed that New York State is threatening to close up to ten state parks on Long Island and either raise fees or
The golf course at Montauk Downs State Park received some well-deserved face time in the February 2010 issue of Golf Digest. The East End's heralded and hard-to-reach public course stepped into the national spotlight in the magazine's "Long Drives" travel feature, a column that takes a new car on a regional golf excursion. In this