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2024 golf course reopen dates on Long Island

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Pitch and Putt, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

It took an extra day to get here this year, but today is the start of Reopening Month.  March is when Long Island's seasonal golf courses put the pro-shop lights back on, stick the pins into the cups and start taking tee times.  Except for Bethpage Black, just about every golf course on Long Island […]

Winter Golf 2023-24: Mild, snow-free offseason forecasts to be tested with looming storm

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, For Beginners, Indoor Golf, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Off-Course Destinations, Pitch and Putt, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

It's been nothing but good news of late for Long Island's winter golfers ’97 going back to the fall, forecasts for the 2023-24 offseason predicted milder temperatures and precipitation in the form of rain, not snow, thanks to an El Nino weather pattern.  And that's following a 2022-23 winter that was entirely snow-free. But that

2023 closing dates at Long Island’s seasonal golf courses

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December is golf's closing month on Long Island, which might come as news to the many players who pack the clubs away before Halloween.  It's true ’97 plenty of people play golf well into December, if not the whole year round. A handful of courses, though, don't join them, and instead lock the doors and

Harbor Links approaching 25 years since its grand opening in a Port Washington sand mine

18-hole, 9-hole, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Origins, Voices of Long Island Golf

To the untrained eye, or rather, the eye of anyone who is not a golf-course designer, the big, barren sand mines of Port Washington were exactly as they appeared ’96 big, barren sand mines.  To Michael Hurdzan and his design team, the excavated pits that drove industry along Long Island Sound for more than a

2023 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island

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[Looking for this year's camp info?  See the Guide to 2025 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island.] Golf participation remains at a high level following the Covid spike, meaning spots at local junior golf camps are still in elevated demand.  Junior golfers of all ages and skill levels have a wealth of options at Long

Bethpage prepping for 2023 season with Ryder Cup changes already taking shape

18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Voices of Long Island Golf

It won't take long for Bethpage golfers to catch a glimpse of something new when they return to the course for the first time in 2023.  One of the main offseason renovations at the park — carried out with the 2025 Ryder Cup in mind — took place right behind the clubhouse near the start

Golf on Long Island

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

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