Bethpage Black Golf Course might be the only muni that comes with a warning label.
Bethpage Black Golf Course, New York’s marvelous muni that hosted the US Open in 2002 and 2009, reopens today for the 2010 season…but with a whopping green fee increase.
Like other states across the USA, New York is struggling to balance its budget and increasing fees at parks (as well as proposing closures and service cutbacks) is one way it’s attempting to fill the gaps.
Still, if your travels take you to, or through, New York this golf season, you owe it to yourself to set up a tee time on the Black.
Normally, this can be as challenging as scoring a table at one of the Big Apple’s top restaurants, but here’s our step-by-step guide that shows exactly what to do and how much the rates have increased this season. Read more →
Pound Ridge Golf Club is one of the newest courses to play on a New York golf vacation.
I just heard that Pound Ridge Golf Club (poundridgegolf.com), the new public Pete Dye creation located an hour north of New York City, is discounting its peak green fee by nearly 20 percent.
This brings it down, yes, down, to $195 before 3 pm.
Owned by Ken Wang, Jr., the brother of famous fashion designer Vera Wang, the course is Dye’s first in New York State and, mainly due to environmental constraints, it took more than a decade and $40 million to complete.
The question is…is the final product, which takes dead aim at the area’s many top-tier private courses (and heralded as one of the best of the year by nearly all the major golf magazines) really worth nearly $200 to play on a New York golf vacation? Read more →
The Lodge at Turning Stone Casino Resort.
If any PGA Tour players are staying at the Turning Stone Casino Resort in Verona, NY, which is hosting this week’s tournament, you can bet they’re staying in The Lodge, the best choice among the resort’s accommodations.
Though there are other options, such as The Inn (the lowest-end, motel-like option), the main hotel (basic, Holiday Inn-style rooms), The Tower (newer, Holiday Inn-style rooms) and an RV park, none compare to The Lodge, a stunning, four-story boutique hotel located right between the casino and the resort’s Shenendoah golf course. Read more →
Make a point of playing the Atunyote golf course at the Turning Stone casino resort.
Despite the fanfare of the FedEx Cup, the PGA Tour season still includes more than a few official tournaments, and this week’s golf is being played at Verona, New York’s Turning Stone casino resort, which possibly has the best collection of 54 holes in the Northeastern United States.
As good as the resort’s Shenendoah and Kaluhyat layouts are (designed by Rick Smith and Robert Trent Jones, Jr., respectively), the best of Turning Stone’s golf courses, and the venue for the Turning Stone Resort Championship, is Tom Fazio’s Atunyote (pronounced uh-DUN-yote) course, based on the overall experience. Read more →
