On a recent trip to a new restaurant in Sayville, I decided to take the scenic route through the downtown centers of Babylon, Bay Shore and Islip on Montauk Highway. Along the way, the fairways and greens of the West Sayville Golf Course waved hello from the south side of the road. Eighteen hours later […]
The winter of 2009-10 has started off as a poor one for golfers. Temperatures are stuck far below freezing, chilling any desire to bundle up beneath layers of cold-weather golf gear and venture into the Long Island tundra. Thin patches of snow linger on the ground and render courses unplayable. December's blizzard delivered the knockout
[This flyover was updated on January 4, 2017.] SEE ALSO:Observations: Middle Island Country Club, 11/26/2011 The road to the clubhouse at the Middle Island Country Club takes visitors past the Spruce Course's sixth hole, a narrow par-4 with a line of trees standing tall down the entire length of its right rough. It stands out
The Crab Meadow Golf Course will host its annual Turkey Shoot Scramble on Thanksgiving morning, November 26. The scenic course on the rolling, waterside hills of Northport will load you up with golf and pre-turkey appetizers before sending you home to your Thanksgiving feast. Shotgun start is scheduled for 8:30. Arrive early for continental breakfast
The White Course at Timber Point is the shortest and "newest" of the three nine-hole layouts along the waters of the Great South Bay in Great River. The original 18-hole Timber Point course was part of an ultra-exclusive private club built in the 1920s and considered to be one of the country's finest golf courses
Back in January, I noted here that the website for the Pine Hills Country Club in Manorville was out of service. That's nothing uncommon during the offseason, and a staff member at the course assured me that Pine Hills is open every day of the year except Christmas. Well, the offseason came and went, and
Bethpage will be the center of the golf universe in a little more than two months, and until then, local and visiting amateurs can get a taste of the Black course before it shuts down for U.S. Open preparations. The Black reopened yesterday for its abbreviated spring season, which will come to a close on
The folks at Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River are using the down time this offseason to update the course's website. The new site will be up and running sometime in February. Great Rock is a par-71 noted for its elevation changes and impeccable conditions. The tenth hole is a long, uphill par-4 that
Golfing Magazine put together a Long Island Dream Golf Club in its Fall 2008 issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes from as far west as Garden City and Great Neck, and as far east as Montauk and Greenport,
[This flyover was updated on June 1, 2022.] SEE ALSO:Street Names: The Ghosts of Long Island Golf’s Past — Mill Pond East (6/17/2021)Observations: Mill Pond Golf Course (12/3/2016)Closer Look: Mill Pond #5Observations: Mill Pond, 6/2/2010 Mill Pond Golf Course is a breath of fresh air, and not just because of the crisp and constant wind whipping through the