SEE ALSO:Spy Ring Golf Club in Setauket working its way toward a soft opening this fall (2023)Coming Soon: Heritage Spy Ring GC, Long Island's first shot at the Sweetens Cove model (2022) When a public golf course longer than a pitch-and-putt was last built on Long Island, the world was a very unfamiliar place. Taylor Swift was […]
[NOTE: Spy Ring GC is now open. Read more about the course in the Spy Ring flyover.] Looking out from a flat, elevated square marked with dusty footprints, Jimmi Conway points toward a slender oasis in an expanse of tire-tracked sand, the pings of a bustling construction site echoing in the background. Four bunkers stand
A new ownership group that includes a part-owner of two Riverhead-area golf clubs is preparing to resurrect the dormant Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River, according to an article published last week in the Riverhead News-Review. The sale to Chris Vene and Anthony Lomangino was expected to close this past week on May 27,
Mother Nature washed out Opening Day at Bethpage Red with a soggy April Fools' joke that saturated the course, much like the cold and snow that Old Man Winter whipped up to lop off six weeks of offseason golf and maintenance work. Bethpage Red instead reopened for the 2021 season yesterday under a stiff breeze,
We're at the height of fall aeration season on Long Island's public courses. Fall maintenance is underway or recently completed at many local courses, so be aware of potentially sandy greens and fairways when booking tee times this month. The Red Course at Eisenhower Park is currently closed for aeration and will reopen for play
Tees and greens in the heart of the Gold Coast are open to non-members this spring at the private Cedarbrook Club. The club, featuring an 18-hole course laid out amid fellow mid-century clubs and renowned stalwarts like Piping Rock and North Shore, kicked off a trial membership drive earlier this month, opening the facility to
Bethpage Black lifts the curtain tomorrow on the 2018 playing season and will feature several renovations made by park staff with the 2019 season — specifically, next May's PGA Championship — in mind. With the pros headed back this way come next May, some of the Black's more familiar holes have undergone or will soon
Between Manorville and Montauk, there’s a stretch of private golf clubs thoroughly documented in history books and prominently positioned in world rankings. One of them — Shinnecock Hills — is preparing to host the 2018 U.S. Open, and its neighbors, places like National Golf Links and Sebonack Golf Club, are bucket-list types far out of
Fall aeration at the Eisenhower Park golf courses is scheduled for early October. Aeration will begin on Tuesday, October 10, as follows: October 10: White Course, front nine October 11: White Course, back nine October 12: Blue Course, back nine October 13: Blue Course, front nine The Red Course will be closed for maintenance from
[UPDATE: The Vineyards Golf Club has transitioned back to a members-only private club after several seasons offering tee times direct to the public or through sites like GolfNow. The flyover below reflects course status as of the original date of publication.] The Riverhead golf hotbed has added another course to its public menu, despite the