Quite simply, Golf On Long Island was made for the golfer who wants information about golf courses.
There are dozens of public courses across Long Island, stretching from the Queens border at a 9-hole muni like North Woodmere and the Arizona-esque Harbor Links near the Sound, to the tips of the Island at Montauk Downs and the very aptly named Island's End. When Lucas Glover walked off Bethpage Black in 2009 with a U.S. Open title, it marked the second time in a seven-year span that the sport's national championship was played at the Island's crown jewel of public golf. Long Island's Sunday morning hackers took a great deal of pride in the Open in 2002 and earned for the New York region the reputation of a rabid, vocal, golf-crazy fan base.
Yet these golfers have not had a single resource on the Web to find detailed, in-depth information about the courses they can walk onto and play.
Golf On Long Island is a place where scratch golfers and high-handicappers alike can come to find out about the public golf courses on the Island, from the perspective of an average golfer just like them -- or most of them, anyway. We provide "flyovers" of the courses that we've played and become familiar with -- overviews detailing course layouts, conditions, points of interest, anecdotes, nearby courses, etc. The idea is to offer something more useful and memorable than the stock paragraph you can find on any of the Internet lists and databases available in a Google search. Anyone can turn up a wealth of information on Bethpage Black -- the goal here is to offer a similar dose of info on the rest of the crop of LI courses.
In addition, I'll also direct readers to relevant news and updates from other sources when they become available, as well as information and promotions from the courses themselves and details about charity outings held on public fairways and greens.
Overall, the goal is to simply promote one of our area's finest resources -- public golf on Long Island.
