It doesn't matter what the calendar says — when weekend temperatures are hovering around 60 degrees and the sun is shining, it's a weekend to think about golf. And not just golf on TV as the pros get tan in Hawaii and California. It's time for playing golf, at least for those who haven't buried […]
ALSO SEE:Part 2 — Developing lifelong players as time runs low and Long Islanders leavePart 3 — Finding a new voice for courses as marketing evolves in the age of social media Another decade of Long Island golf is coming to a close — the thirteenth, to be exact, since the first shots went airborne
Great Rock Golf Club will end its season this afternoon, closing the book on a tumultuous 2019 littered with widespread reports of horrendous course conditions and rumors about the future of the Wading River facility. Typically praised for its fast greens and overall excellent conditions, Great Rock fell into disrepair this year, with many Long
Two years after the long-running Skydrive Golf Center was torn down in Farmingdale, the busy Route 110 corridor near the Nassau-Suffolk line regained another golf facility, all thanks to one Long Islander's passion for … pickleball. Yes, pickleball, the hybrid of badminton, tennis and ping pong introduced to thousands of teenagers each year by way
Long Island golf courses are beginning to schedule aeration for late summer and fall, with some about to get underway this month. Timber Point Golf Course will aerate its three nines this week, beginning with the Blue Course on Tuesday, August 20. The courses will close as follows: August 20: Blue CourseAugust 21: Red CourseAugust
Golfweek released its 2019 Best Courses You Can Play ranking last month, a familiar list of various New York golf courses all filling in spots in the state's top 15 behind the long-untouched leader, Bethpage Black. Bethpage Black, Bethpage Red and Montauk Downs once again represent Long Island in Golfweek's annual ranking of the top
Amid its wall-to-wall PGA Championship coverage at Bethpage Black earlier this week, the Golf Channel aired a short but fascinating six-minute feature on a lesser-known Long Island golf powerhouse, one that's long gone but certainly not forgotten by followers of golf history. The segment covered the original Lido Club (1914-1942) with insight provided by Connor
Pine Ridge Golf Club is celebrating the arrival of spring weather with, well, a spring-themed outing open to all. And following just a few weeks later, the Coram course will host another outing to coincide with one of the season's trademark events. Pine Ridge's "Spring Fling" tees off shotgun-style at 12 noon this Saturday, April
Golfers returning to Bethpage State Park for early-spring golf have been treated to some uncommon scenery as the PGA Championship, formerly of August, looms just weeks away in May. For one, a look deep into the distance at the first green on the Red Course includes a view past roughly 300 yards of tents sitting
It was still far short of sunrise in the early-morning hours of April 18, 1989, yet a line of cars stretched near the gates of what had long been a leafy, bucolic private estate at Jericho Turnpike and Southwoods Road in Woodbury. Inside those cars, dozens of local golfers sat waiting to secure a spot