Two months remain in the 2009 golf season, and though some players have already packed the clubs away to hibernate in the garage, Golfing Magazine is doing its best to make sure the rest of us stay on the course for as long as we can stand the plummeting temperatures. Golfing Magazine's Free Golf Program […]
Autumn golf is upon us, and the Brentwood and Holbrook Country Clubs are celebrating the cooling weather and falling leaves with their final green fee specials of the 2009 season. The two Town of Islip courses are offering Long Island golfers a fall discount that will run up until the final putt of the year
[This flyover was updated on April 7, 2011.] Designed at the hand of Robert Trent Jones and situated side by side in the heart of Nassau County, the Blue and White Courses at Eisenhower Park are the area's fraternal golf twins. The two share many of the same traits — wide-open fairways, returning nines, gaping
For those who place high importance on course yardage, below are lists of the 20 longest public courses on Long Island from the back and middle tees. On courses where more than three tees are used, the second-longest distances are used for the middle. These lists are provided for informational purposes. Distances are accurate as
Beginning next week, the Holbrook Country Club will be open for regular play on Tuesdays, a day typically reserved only for golf outings. All golfers will be free to play at Holbrook unless an outing is scheduled. As of today, the next two Tuesdays — May 19 and 26 — are outing-free. A schedule will
Originally set to open for the season on April 1, the Tallgrass Country Club has moved its reopening date up to tomorrow, March 21. Online tee times are not yet available, but reservations can be made by calling the pro shop today after 11 a.m. Temperatures for the first spring weekend are supposed to be
For sports lovers, March is the month when the world seems right again. Spring Training brings baseball season into view and March Madness puts college basketball on center stage. Pro golf heads east to Florida, CBS Masters commercials become more frequent, and golfers everywhere get the itch to start swinging again. On Long Island, March
Years ago, before I had much of a clue about what I was doing with a golf club, I woke up early while on a family vacation in Montauk and tried to get onto Montauk Downs as a single. An outing kept me from playing there, which, in retrospect, was probably a good thing for
So you showed up at the Long Island Dream Club with a dozen Titleists, and you left the 18th green at Cherry Creek Links with only three. A full sleeve disappeared into the drink when you tried to pull a Roy McAvoy through the wind at Montauk Downs. You tensed up in the face of
[This flyover was updated on June 26, 2023.] Golf courses are certainly not difficult to find across Long Island. No matter where you're sitting, it's likely that a flagstick is dug into a golf hole somewhere within a 15-minute drive. Par-3 courses, however, are a different story. Sometimes during the ongoing love-hate relationship between golfer