[Looking for this year's camp info? See the Guide to 2025 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island.] The rise in golf demand during the 2020 and 2021 pandemic seasons has not only led to a rush on tee times across Long Island, but also heightened interest in space for juniors at local summer camps. Experienced […]
Bethpage State Park's three seasonal golf courses — the Green, Red and vaunted Black — are preparing to join the Yellow and Blue courses and reopen for 2022. The Green Course will open tomorrow, March 19. Opening day on Bethpage Red is April 1, followed two weeks later by the Black Course on April 15.
The Town of Babylon has commissioned a feasibility study to explore the possibility of eliminating nine holes of its Cedar Beach Golf Course due to low use, and replacing them with cabanas, lockers and other revenue-generating amenities, according to Newsday. In 2021 the Cedar Beach course, currently an 18-hole pitch-and-putt, drew its highest turnout in
A round on the Blue and Red courses at Timber Point in Great River is a bit of a walk (or ride) through history. Since the 1920s, when the course emerged on the edge of Great South Bay as a highly touted and equally exclusive private club, players of all social strata have aimed the
Daylight is becoming scarce as the calendar turns to November, and so are tee times at Bethpage Black. The course is set to close for the 2021 season at the end of play on Monday, November 15. That gives local and visiting players just over two weeks to find an available spot on the famed
November is cool-weather scramble season on Long Island, highlighted by the cornucopia of turkey-themed team events that are scheduled around Thanksgiving (more on those to come next week). A little short of Thanksgiving week, Island's End will host a scramble of its own as it draws the 2021 season to a close. The Greenport course's
Willow Creek Golf and Country Club in Mount Sinai will host its annual Charity Classic on Friday, November 19, a nine-hole outing to benefit nearby Stony Brook Children's Hospital. Format for the event is two-person scramble. Entry fee is $100 per team, which covers green fees, motor cart and range balls, along with food, drinks
With the 2021 Ryder Cup at the forefront of the golf world this week, the host of the 2025 Ryder Cup made a tiny bit of news ahead of this year's competition, with Golf Digest releasing its list of America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses. The Black Course at Bethpage State Park, New York's only
[This schedule was updated on September 19, 2021] September is aeration month at Long Island golf courses, and maintenance dates are good to know for local players planning their late-summer and fall rounds. The following public golf courses will be closed for play (unless otherwise noted) while undergoing fairway and/or greens aeration: Eisenhower White —
Aeration season is set to get underway at Bethpage State Park, and first up for the hole-punch treatment is the Blue Course, which will close for fall maintenance on August 31 and September 1. Its neighbor, the Yellow Course (pictured), will close for aeration September 2 and 3. Bethpage's other three courses will close according