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An Expat’s Guide To The Best Golf Courses On Long Island

BY JORDAN FULLER

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ecently moved to Long Island? If you’re a golfer, you’re probably going to be wondering where you can play a great round nearby.

The good news is, there are plenty of excellent golf courses around Long Island.

Unfortunately, many of them are private courses with access for members and their guests only, although they’re well worth playing if you find a member of the golfing community willing to take you along for a round.

This is our expat’s guide to the best golf courses in Long Island. Although one or two are private courses that are just too good to pass up, most of those on this list are public courses that you can head to at any time for some great golf.

Let’s check them out.

Best for Experienced Golfers

Bethpage State Park Black Course A list of Long Island golf courses wouldn’t be complete without Bethpage Black.

However, it’s certainly not for everyone—it’s one of the most difficult courses you’ll find, so we advise only giving it a go if you’re experienced and looking for a proper challenge.

It’s a parkland layout with impressive trees scattered throughout, beautiful bunkering, a treacherous rough, and just a single water hazard, despite its difficulty level. The fairways may be extremely challenging, but surprisingly, the well-protected greens are very flat.

The signature hole is the 517-yard, par-5 4th, which features dual doglegs and tricky bunkers that challenge you from shot one.

And the best thing is that this course is open to the public, so if you’re looking for a challenging round of golf for an experienced golfer, this is definitely the one.

Best Public Course

Eisenhower Park Golf Course An all-American golf course, Eisenhower Park features red, white, and blue golf courses, each with fun and challenges of their own.

It’s been around for a long time, with the most famous course—Red—hosting the PGA Championships back in the 1920s.

As well as the three championship courses, the park also features four executive courses of 9 holes each, which allows golfers to get in some gameplay without having to commit to a full 18 holes.

This is ideal for those who are short on time, looking for a relaxed, fun round or still learning. Alternatively, the 60-by driving range is a good choice for working on your swing.

Best for All Levels

Swan Lake Golf Club Swan Lake Golf Club features an 18-hole layout that’s varied enough to present fun and challenge for golfers of all levels.

Spacious, sweeping fairways and notoriously oversized greens grace every hole. Add some strategically-placed sand traps and water hazards on half the holes, and you’ve got an interesting and exciting course.

This layout makes the course suitable for golfers of every level of ability. Amateur golfers will enjoy the wide-openness of the course, while there’s still enough hazards to be challenging for more experienced golfers.

Great for the Whole Family

Peninsula Golf Course If you’re looking for something to do with the whole family that involves a round of golf, Peninsula Golf Course is a great place to spend a few hours.

The course is just nine holes, but it’s enough for a quickfire round or a game with the family. You can also take a group golf lesson with the resident PGA professional.

They also offer after-school programs if your kids are serious about learning.

You can have breakfast or lunch at the resident cafe, Rita’s, either before or after your round. You can also hold events here, so it’s a great spot for a golf-themed party.

Take note that you will need to make a reservation online if you want to play a round of golf, as they don’t accept walk-ins.

Public’s Favorite

Pine Hills Golf Club Pine Hills Golf Club has been voted the number one course in Long Island by

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GOLFNOW, and it’s a much-loved favorite amongst golfers in the area.

It’s located in the beautiful Pine Barrens, making it feel like you’re a million miles away from the real world. Worries get left behind.

Forgiving fairways lined with stunning pine trees lead you to plush greens. New golfers and experienced players alike will enjoy the game on this par-73 course.

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Willow Creek Golf & Country Club The entire experience of Willow Creek Golf and Country Club is luxurious. The golf course is a winding resort-style layout, with many natural hazards in a beautiful setting.

As well as stunningly manicured fairways and greens, the architecture of the country club oozes luxury.

The Grill Room restaurant overlooks the 16th hole, the course’s signature.

It offers both spectacular course views and a variety of amazing meals.

This is the place to be if you have a fancy event coming up. Weddings, conferences, team buildings, and other events can be enjoyed in this stunning setting.

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Shinnecock Hills Golf Club Shinnecock Hills is an historic golf course, being the first 18-hole track in the late 1800s. It’s regularly named amongst the top courses in the country, but it’s members and their guests

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only, so if you want to play here, you’ll need an invite.

The links-style golf course is laid out on rolling hills and although there’s only one water hazard on the entire course, every hole has its own exciting challenge.

The signature 7th Redan-style hole is famous for its small, tricky putting surface that slopes severely from right to left.

Another thing that adds challenge to this course is the prevailing Atlantic wind, which requires calculated strategy and patience to conquer.

Conclusion

Although our expat’s guide to the best golf courses in Long Island focuses mainly on public golf courses, there are plenty more private golf courses that you may be able to join someone at for a round.

If you’re looking for a golf club to join, we highly recommend getting involved in the local golfing community so you can find a chance of getting a round in. Join the Facebook groups, talk to local golfers, and try to play as many of them as possible so you can find the course that you truly love and can call home.

In the meantime, see how many of these courses you can play and let us know which was your favorite.

Jordan Fuller is an experienced golfer who’s played on courses across the country. When he’s not on the course or in the pro shop, he’s writing golf-related articles and reviews for his website, Golf Influence.

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ith St. Patrick’s Day celebrations just barely past us and spring in the air now is a great time to shift gears from pubs and beer to brightened bars and fresh, clean gin cocktails. Beefeater Gin recently tapped award-winning bartender Matt Chavez (pictured, right) of Ci Siamo on 33rd Street in Manhattan (previously The NoMad) to use Beefeater—the world’s most award-winning gin—to create a signature cocktail you are going to want to sip all spring long.

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Spring Has Sprung…

Let’s Garden

BY KAREN MUSGRAVE

Vegetable beds need prep.

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arly April is the perfect time to get outdoors and prepare your landscape for the warmer days ahead.

Every space from the lawn to the vegetable garden requires us to think about what each area will need well in advance.

Spring is your chance to start the season off on the right foot.

makes for quick and easy work. Unless absolutely necessary, do not prune plants that bloom in spring and early summer.

You can prune them later after they finish flowering in early summer.

SPRING CLEANING A proper clean-up is the easiest way to make your landscape appear spring-ready. Rake up leaves and other debris that may have collected in the beds over the winter. This can be accomplished with a large rake for lawn areas and a smaller, spring-action rake or garden hoe for the areas around trees and shrubs. I tend to wait until after St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) to begin work, but any time the weather is nice is a good opportunity to garden.

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Mulch beds for a finished look.

LAWN CARE We all want to have a thick, lush, weedfree lawn that is the envy of our neighbors.

Now is the best time to seed bare spots in your lawn with a quality grass seed.

Resume mowing only when your grass is actively growing. For spring, the mower blade height should be set to 2½ - 3 inches.

LIMING It might surprise you to hear that liming

is not required for all lawns every year. It’s best to first test your soil’s pH and see if you need it. Lawns prefer a pH range of 6.2 to 6.8 (6.5 is optimum). A proper pH helps your grass to better absorb fertilizers and other trace elements, which leads to a healthier lawn with fewer weeds and less fungus issues. pH testing kits are available at most major garden centers.

VEGETABLE GARDENING

Vegetable gardening should not be overlooked in April. Now is a great time to decide where the garden will go and how Do not prune springmuch space you blooming plants. want to devote to it.

So many of us wait until FEEDING YOUR after we’ve purchased the LANDSCAPE plants to decide where the garden will go.

This is typically when we discover we’ve Spring is a great time to fertilize your purchased too many plants! Save time landscape. and money by taking measurements now.

For lawns, keep it simple! Use a fourIt’s a great time to plant cool weather step lawn program that provides you with crops such as lettuce, onions, carrots everything you need to grow a healthy and spinach to name a few. These types lawn from spring through fall. There is a program for every need—whether you are of vegetables perform best in daytime seeding, not seeding or prefer organic-on- temperatures that hover around 60-65 degrees Fahrenheit and will tolerate some ly products. light frost. They are harvested late June For trees, shrubs and perennials use a through July before the heat of summer complete, long-lasting, slow-release fersets in. tilizer. Although there are many different By taking the time to prepare your products available, choose organic options yard and garden now, and then followthat are safe for people and pets. ing through on watering, pruning and fertilizing throughout the season, you MULCHING will ensure your landscape is lush, green, flowering and beautiful.

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Spring Into Reading S pring is a great time to refresh your bookshelves and dig into some read reads. Here are some popular titles that have recently been released or due from the publishers any day now. Take a look.

BOOK LOVERS BY EMILY HENRY

Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Romance.

THE MATCH BY HARLAN COBEN

From the creator of the #1 hit Netflix series Stay Close comes a gripping new thriller in which Wilde follows a tip that may finally reveal the truth behind his abandonment—only to end up in the sights of a ruthless killer. Mystery.

THE INVESTIGATOR

Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford. Mystery.

SERENADE: A BALANCHINE STORY

Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells the story of Serenade, his iconic masterpiece, and what it was like to dance—and live—in his world at New York City Ballet during its legendary era. Non-fiction.

TRUE BY KOSTYA KENNEDY

True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball’s and America’s most significant figures. Biography.

LEARNING TO TALK BY HILARY MANTEL

Learning to Talk is a dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize and number one New York Times best-selling author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy. Fiction.

THE DIAMOND EYE BY KATE QUINN

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. Fiction.

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Top Five Places For Bird Watching On Long Island

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pringtime is officially upon us. But we’re not the only ones who are ready to enjoy the nice weather. Our feathery friends are too and here are some local places where you can spot them on the island.

1. CENTENNIAL GARDENS

Downy woodpecker (Photos by Frank Virga)

Located in Floral Park, this 12-acre parcel of land serviced the residents of the Village of Floral Park for more than 70 years as an active storm basin. After years of deciding on how to reinvent the active storm basin, the village converted a portion of a storm basin into a bird sanctuary and special planting area.

Centennial Gardens is the perfect place to spot some of your favorite birds including robins, cardinals, starlings, blue jays, morning doves, mockingbirds, gold finches and many more.

Centennial Gardens is open daily and located at 251 Floral Pkwy. in Floral Park.

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2. COLD SPRING HARBOR STATE PARK Cold Spring Harbor State Park is another great choice to spot birds. The park is comprised of 40-acres of hilly terrain that offer scenic views of Cold Spring Harbor and is also ideal for observing spring and fall migrations of a variety of songbirds. Cold Spring Harbor State Park is home to great horned owls and redtailed hawks and serves as the northern trailhead of the Nassau Suffolk Greenbelt Trail that extends to Bethpage State.

The Cold Spring Harbor State Park is located at 95 Harbor Rd. in Cold Spring Harbor.

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3. GARDEN CITY BIRD SANCTUARY

Black-capped chickadee

Similar to Floral Park’s Centennial Gardens, Garden City’s Bird Sanctuary was a former storm water basin. After redevelopment of the area, the bird sanctuary is now is a seven-acre community nature preserve and is managed by The Garden City Bird Sanctuary, Inc., a certified nonprofit organization.

Some of the birds that can possibly be seen include the American crow, the Northern cardinal, red-tailed hawk, ruby-throated hummingbird and more.

The main entrance is opposite 181 Tanners Pond Rd. in Garden City.

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4. OYSTER BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge is located on the north shore of Long Island, which has 3,209-acres and is designated as a significant coastal fish and wildlife habitat. The refuge is especially important for wintering waterfowl such as black ducks, greater scaup, bufflehead, canvasback and long-tailed ducks. A variety of other

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water birds including shorebirds, terns and cormorants also use Oyster Bay. Oyster Bay has the greatest winter waterfowl use of any of the Long Island national wildlife refuges. The numbers of waterfowl using Oyster Bay are lowest from May through August, and start to increase in September and October. The refuge is open to the public, although there is no physical address.

For more information on the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge, call 631-286-0485 or email longislandrefuges@fws.gov.

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5. ELIZABETH A. MORTON WILDLIFE REFUGE

The Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife Refuge, a 187-acre peninsula on Noyack and Little Peconic Bays, boasts exceptionally diverse habitats.

Established in 1954, the Morton National Wildlife Refuge consists of upland forest, fields, ponds, salt marsh, beach and a lagoon. These habitats are used by a variety of wildlife including whitetailed deer, eastern chipmunk, painted

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turtles, green frogs, songbirds and osprey.

Waterfowl, such as long-tailed duck, common goldeneye and whitewinged scoter, are common during the winter months, while piping plover, terns and other water birds use the beach during the spring and summer months.

Elizabeth A. Morton Wildlife Refuge is located at 2595 Noyack Rd., in Sag Harbor.

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Plenty Of Options For Your Clutter

BY JOE SCOTCHIE

furniture items. Otherwise, drop off clutter at society headquarters at 249 Broadway, Bethpage. Call 516-822-3132 or email: info@ svdpli.org.

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here are plenty of worthwhile charities and organizations that would benefit from your household’s ever-growing pile of clutter.

According to a longtime expert on the subject, one “Miss Minimalist,” it is best, from an environmental point of view, to keep your castoffs in your community. That includes churches, hospitals, schools, libraries, animal shelters, homeless shelters, women’s shelters, halfway homes, food banks, senior centers, day cares, prisons and charity shops.

For clothing and fabric, set up a free account with GoGreenDrop. com, which coordinates home pickups with Purple Heart, National Foundation of the Blind, and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Those willing to discard designer and couture clothing, a number of online services are willing to help.

Animal shelters are always a good place to go to donate old linens, towels and pillows. In Nassau County, that would include the Town of Oyster Bay Animal Shelter, 150 Miller Place, Syosset (516677-5784), the Last Hope Animal Rescue, 3300 Beltagh Ave., Wantagh (631-425-1884) and the North Shore Animal League, 25 Davis Ave., Port Washington (516-883-7575).

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Used electronic items including computers and televisions sets, can always find a home at Best Buy stores in America, which offer in-store recycling of old, unused or unwanted consumer electronics.

There are numerous traditional outlets for donation drop-offs on Long Island.

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Long Island is willing to look at a whole array of items. The society is willing to make pick-ups if you are donating at least two large

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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LONG ISLAND Spring cleaning is the best excuse to declutter and rid your home of unused and unwanted things that seem to be ever-growing.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Long Island is a private, non-sectarian, nonprofit designed to provide for children facing adversity. The organization sends out mailers in advance of a town-wide pickup. It also makes phone calls to residents with listed phone numbers. Residents may schedule a personal pickup at your convenience by calling 631-234-0000.

GOODWILL INDUSTRIES

The Goodwill Industries store and donation center is a long-standing nonprofit chain with a range of pre-owned clothing, furniture, housewares and more. It is at 814 Hicksville Rd, Massapequa. Call 516-795-0237.

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LONG ISLAND THRIFT SHOP

The Junior League of Long Island Thrift Shop in Roslyn, likewise, is a drop-off for used clothing for men, women and children, as well as shoes and housewares.

It is at 1395 Old Northern Blvd., Roslyn. Call 516-621-4890.

SALVATION ARMY

Finally, no listing of donation centers would be complete without the Salvation Army. That famed organization has numerous sites in Nassau County, including the Westbury Corps, 992 Prospect Ave., Westbury and Salvation Army Donation Boxes at the following locations: 2310 Jericho Tkpe., New Hyde Park, 193 Broadway, Bethpage, 360 Dogwood Ave., Franklin Square, 3660 Sunrise Hwy., Seaford, 130 East Merrick Rd., Freeport.

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