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Coronavirus Uppost_date: State, county munis begin to reopen

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New York State municipal golf courses on Long Island — Bethpage, Montauk Downs and Sunken Meadow — will reopen for play on Monday, April 27, with social-distancing guidelines in place. Bethpage's Black Course will follow with its 2020 reopening on Friday, May 1.  Starting that day, four Bethpage courses will be open daily. On the […]

Coronavirus Uppost_date: All golf courses now closed through April

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Long Island and New York State golf is shut down until the end of the month and in some places longer after the state added golf courses to its ever-changing list of non-essential businesses earlier today. The announcement seemingly puts an end to the short, strange and bustling early-spring season that saw thousands of golfers

Coronavirus uppost_date: With NYS reopening park courses, non-munis plan to reopen too

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When the sun rose this morning it seemed Long Island golfers would have nowhere to play for the foreseeable future.  And now as the first day of New York State's non-essential business shutdown draws to a close, local golfers will have an unexpectedly broad selection of places to play starting again tomorrow. New York State

Coronavirus Uppost_date: State park courses closed

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Golf courses at New York State parks will be closed starting tomorrow, despite the announcement earlier this weekend that park courses would remain open with social-distancing measures in place. Locally, that means Bethpage, Montauk Downs and Sunken Meadow will join other non-municipal courses around Long Island and close to golfers for an unspecified length of

Bethpage Black closed August 8-10

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The Black Course at Bethpage State Park will close Tuesday, August 8 through Thursday, August 10 as it hosts the New York State Amateur Championship.  The course will reopen to the public on Friday, August 11. Bethpage Black will also close for its regular Monday maintenance days.  For updated information, contact the park at (516)

Tallgrass offering 2016 tee-time memberships as threat of solar development lingers

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[UPDATE, May 19:  Tallgrass will remain open through the summer of 2016, according to Newsday's Mark Herrmann.] The long-term forecast for Tallgrass Golf Course in Shoreham is unstable, to say the least, yet that has not stopped management from proceeding as normal as the winter offseason approaches.  Tallgrass is currently accepting tee-time memberships for the

Golf Galaxy to close its Westbury store at The Source Mall

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Golf Galaxy announced in an e-mail this week that its retail store at The Source Mall in Westbury will close for business on Saturday, January 17.  The Source location is Golf Galaxy's only Long Island outlet. The store was scheduled to remain open through January, according to the company e-mail, but the closing date was

Pitch & Putt uppost_date: Robert Moses State Park Golf Course open again, Cedar Beach open, Jones Beach closed

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Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island reopened this morning for the first time since the grounds and its main traffic circle were heavily damaged last October by Hurricane Sandy.  Included in the grand reopening is the pitch-and-putt golf course at the west end of the barrier-beach park.  The golf course, accessible at Field 2,

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