The Hyatt Regency Long Island is home to 358 guestrooms and suites, many of which overlook the Wind Watch Golf & Country Club. The hotel offers a heated indoor pool and hot tub and a seasonal outdoor pool as well. The 24-hour StayFit Gym features various courts for tennis, volleyball and basketball as well as all the necessary strength and cardio…
In golf, "value" is a relative term. Matt Ginella selects his favorite value courses in the U.S., from $10 in Hawaii to $150 at a major championship venue in New York.
For years, golfers had to battle busy signals while calling to book a tee time at Bethpage Black. A new online tee time system launched earlier this spring makes getting a tee time easier than ever.
Rumors of a closure have plagued Tallgrass Golf Course in Shoreham, N.Y. for months. It looks now like it could be fall before we know its future. In the mean time, the message is: Play it while you can.
New York City has more municipal golf beyond Bethpage State Park. Westchester County, north of New York City, has a collection of great municipal courses of their own.
Pound Ridge Golf Club, located about an hour north of New York City, remains the only Pete Dye design in New York, and it's one of his most difficult and beautiful. The club had been operating out of what seemed to be a temporary clubhouse, but now it's been expanded into a permanent venue.
The first thing you notice about Pound Ridge (N.Y.) Golf Club is its beauty. The next thing you notice is how hard this Pete and Perry Dye course is to play. If you're a fan of Dye's work, you'll love Pound Ridge. It's visually stunning, you hardly ever get a flat lie and if you're going to challenge his design, be prepared to pay the consequences if you fail. But one thing is for sure: once you play it, you won't forget it, Mike Bailey writes.
The Black Course at Bethpage State Park has a championship pedigree like no other municipal golf course in the country. Sheer length, bold bunkering and burly rough challenge anybody lucky enough to nab a tee time.
The Blue Course is generally considered the third-toughest golf course at Bethpage State Park, but get through the front nine okay and you can have a great day.
Tallgrass Golf Course in Shoreham, N.Y. doesn't have the teeth of Bethpage's U.S. Open venue or the classic charms of Montauk Downs, but its faux links style has impressed enough raters to rank seventh the top public courses in New York.
With roughly 45 public courses, Long Island provides plenty of affordable golf within a five-hour drive of New York City. The epicenter, of course, is Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale. Other standouts include Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, Tallgrass Golf Club in Shoreham, and Montauk Downs State Park in Montauk.
It's easy to forget that Pound Ridge Golf Club is less than 50 miles from New York City. The most remote holes near the Connecticut state line sneak through the woods in scenic solitude. They're gorgeous and ferocious.
A revitalized Sleepy Hollow Country Club, located an hour north of New York City in Westchester County, continues to be one of the country's most revered places to play.
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