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Dogwood/Oak Tree at Middle Island Country Club
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About
Middle Island Country Club sits almost at the center of Long Island and has been one of the area's most popular public golf courses since first opening in 1965. The 27-hole course is divided into three nines that are played in different 18-hole combinations. The entire layout was carefully carved from 225 acres of the Lustengarten Nursery. Middle Island's Dogwood/Oak combination features narrow fairways lined with trees. The greens on the front nine are the most challenging of any of the three nines. They have subtle breaks that leave many golfers wondering how they "just missed" it. The Oak nine is almost as tough, but you will get a slight break. It requires careful course management since there are many doglegs that can make it play longer than what's indicated on the scorecard.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship | 72 | 7034 yards | ||
| Men's | 72 | 6621 yards | ||
| Ladies | 72 | 5560 yards |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue M: 73.7/127 | 430 | 585 | 170 | 393 | 175 | 340 | 438 | 597 | 433 | 3561 | 511 | 484 | 389 | 209 | 370 | 397 | 323 | 227 | 563 | 3473 | 7034 |
| White M: 71.5/125 | 397 | 561 | 160 | 365 | 144 | 316 | 405 | 562 | 403 | 3313 | 487 | 470 | 366 | 198 | 361 | 382 | 300 | 207 | 537 | 3308 | 6621 |
| Yellow M: 69.4/120 | 382 | 546 | 119 | 344 | 129 | 301 | 390 | 540 | 357 | 3108 | 451 | 455 | 337 | 178 | 306 | 367 | 280 | 187 | 520 | 3081 | 6189 |
| Red W: 71.6/118 | 327 | 429 | 110 | 313 | 129 | 264 | 323 | 453 | 309 | 2657 | 415 | 345 | 340 | 188 | 345 | 368 | 276 | 174 | 452 | 2903 | 5560 |
| Handicap | 8 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 1 | |||
| Par | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 72 |
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Photo submitted by sdl31 on 01/02/2025
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Photo submitted by sdl31 on 01/02/2025
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Photo submitted by pdrgolf218 on 06/26/2024
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9th hole on Spruce. Photo submitted by NZIENTARSKI on 09/24/2022
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Final hole on Spruce Photo submitted by golfever1969 on 08/26/2020
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Par 5 Photo submitted by golfever1969 on 07/12/2020
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Stone bridge after par 3 Photo submitted by golfever1969 on 07/12/2020
Old day!
Hadn’t played here since June. Fairways and greens in very good shape!
Early tee time. Done in a little over 4 hrs.
Extremely slow play for a twilight round, balls flying every where, granted we played the day after the “hurricane” it was wet and very slow greens, the course was packed, no real order or control. Tight fair ways and holes on top of eachother had balls flying every where. Fairways were in decent shape, most tee boxes were ok. Players do not repair pitch marks or divots, which isn’t the courses fault is the disrespect of inexperienced players.
Great bones
We played this course on a Thursday afternoon and felt like we had the course to ourselves. Obviously pace of play was great. The course itself was in great shape and the carts seemed to be all new. Very enjoyable round. We all commented that the place has great bones to be a country club style environment. I'm sure in its day it was amazing. I'd love to see the owners invest in a renovation of the grounds and buildings. The course itself was great and we plan to be back many times this season.
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very nice course, however, the pace of play was very slow
The website of this course is very misleading. What a waste of a layout. The layout of the course is ok and this course has potential, but the place is a dump. No manicuring, place looks run down and old! Needs major refurbishing! The traps and edges of greens are not well kept. They also have sprinklers going on in afternoon in the middle of your round. They need a new course superintendent. Much nicer places you can play for the same or even less $. Was disappointed. Clubhouse is run down and looks like a foreclosure!
Not Worth $86
To be honest, I played Middle Island because I was unable to secure an early tee-time at any of the courses in my normal rotation for Saturday and Sunday mornings. I was surprised to see that the cost for the round was $86. Initially, I thought to myself "Well, there must be a good reason the cost is so high".
I played The Spruce and Dogwood nines. Neither of then were tremendous shape. On the Spruce nine, I could recall that holes #6 and 8 were the ones that jumped out at me. Unfortunately, I don't recall any of the holes on the Dogwood nine. If I am going to pay $86, my hope is that I will find more than two holes to stickout. The only memory I took with me today, was the threesome of a father and his two sons I was paired with. A nice group of guys. I hope I have the chance of playing with them again. I'm sorry I do not have the same hope of laying the course.
To summarize - You can find many more quality courses for less money. Save yourself a trip.
Yellow Jackets
Course is not playable. Their are yellow jackets nests through out both woods courses, up and down the fairways and around the greens.
You should invest more focus on treating these pest so the golfers can enjoy a full round.
Fun course to play but...
The course was in good condition and fun to play. The only issue I had was that they were putting groups out 5 minutes apart which caused a lot of pace issues.
Slow Play Central
No rangers out on course to monitor pace of play, 5+ hour weekend round, over booking groups, tee times not spread apart enough
Ball Marks Everywhere
Wonderful layout and long from the blue tees.
Greens were slow problably due to heat and humidity today. However the ball marks on the greens were absurd!!! People need to learn to fix ball marks. Also the group in front of us were sooooo slow we had to skip a hole to pass them. 3 to 4 holes wide open!!!
These young kids starting to play golf needs to learn golf etiquettes. Slow play and ball marks everywhere. Oh and these people playing loud music needs to stop!!!
Worth the drive
Course is in great shape . A few greens a little choppy but overall great course, tight challenging holes. Worth the drive out
Course in need of better landscaping
There were several spots needing grass or landscaping . The course played well and was well taken care of for coronavirus..
Great condition
Course has a (3) 9 hole layout which allowed the starter adjust accordingly to control or better the pace of play. Green and fairway is in great condition, but some tee box are bare due to probably frequency of rounds been played. Overall condition are great, layout is fun between Dogwood & Oak tree course. Clubhouse needs a update but I rather see they spend money on the course itself than there which I don’t spend much time there anyways. Love it, will keep going back if it weren’t so far out for me.
Enforcing routing by Starter
Two weeks ago we were routed by Starter to play Oakwood to Spruce. When we came to Spruce other foursomes were converging there from Dogwood. No Starter around to sort this out. Finished round playing Dogwood. Yesterday 7/9 was no problem. Which 9 are golfers directed to when they are only playing 9. Having to get involved with other golfers in this kind of issue is not pleasant and should be totally handled by Starter or Ranger
Average at best
Insanely overpriced. I played Bethpage black for less money. Bunkers are awful, greens We’re bumpy, and the course is just all dog legs and long. Good luck.
