Start the new week by golfing bright and early on Monday, May 7, when Sunken Meadow State Park hosts a spring tournament on its nine-hole Red, Green and Blue golf courses. Registration for the outing is currently open at the Sunken Meadow clubhouse in Kings Park. The tournament will begin with a shotgun start at […]
The Links at Cherry Creek, home of Long Island's only par-6, will host a St. Patrick's Day Shotgun next weekend on the holiday morning. Opening drives will go up bright and early and fresh pints will go down later in the afternoon. Registration is $69 per player, which covers a pre-round continental breakfast plus a
Players of all ages can learn, relearn or brush up on fundamentals this spring at Harbor Links Golf Course in Port Washington as part of a bevy of programs geared toward junior players and adults. Junior programs have already begun under the direction of James Hong, a Top 50 Junior Instructor as selected by the
The 2011-12 offseason will go down in local golf circles as the winter that wasn't. Sure, a couple of courses hung a "closed" sign in their window through January and February, but elsewhere, the golf season didn't skip a beat. Now it's March, and those courses that shut the engine over the winter are about
Two-thirds of the way through the winter and just as many people are cheering "The winter's almost over!" as are wondering "When is the winter going to arrive?" Mild winter, cool spring, whatever you want to call it — when 50-degree days outnumber total inches of snow in a Long Island winter, it's a bonus
Capping a suspense-free voting period, Bethpage State Park was crowned "Best Golf Course" last month when the Long Island Press announced the results of its annual "Best of LI" poll. The real surprise was over in the less heralded, more practice-oriented "Best Driving Range" category, where the Oakdale Golf Center flew under the radar and
Seems like only yesterday we were at the Crab Meadow Golf Course for its Trick or Treat Scramble on a pleasant Halloween Monday. Of course, at Crab Meadow, almost every major holiday doubles as a great day for a scramble (see Easter, St. Patrick's Day and others). The course's annual Thanksgiving Turkey Shoot is only
The way Golfing Magazine sees it, it's never too early to start planning next season's tee times. If you're a golfer who shares that opinion, then get on board Golfing Magazine's 2012 Free Golf Program by signing up for the mag's Early Bird Special. For $39 you get a certificate good for "free" rounds at
A popular gag among rival fans and the most cynical team supporters is that just about anyone could suit up and take the ice with the New York Islanders. While that's certainly not the case, it is true that anyone could tee it up and hit the links with the Islanders — some of whom
Nearly 2,000 golf holes at 100 courses across 27 states will be in play next week as part of the "World's Largest Golf Outing," and 18 of those holes are right here on Long Island. Pine Ridge Golf Club in Coram will host one leg of the outing, a multi-course event run by Billy Casper