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Golf Season Tees Off on Long Island
Williston, 7:00 am Breakfast, 8:00
am Shotgun, 11:00 am Brunch,
12:30 pm Shotgun. Meadow
Brook Club, Jericho, 7:00 am
Breakfast, 8:00 am Shotgun,
11:30 am Brunch, 1:00 pm Shotgun, 6:00 pm Cocktail
Reception. Contact [email protected] or
www.winthop.org/events 516663-8275.
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May
2 Monday
Community Mainstreaming Associates,
Inc. 22nd Annual Golf & Tennis Tournament & Bike Ride Monday, May 2nd
(Insurance – Golf). Monday, May 9th
(Real Estate – Golf Bike & Tennis). Muttontown Country Club, East Norwich.
Events: Sign-In/Brunch 9 am; Driving
Range 9 am; Shotgun Start 10:30 am;
Tennis Starts (May 9 only) 11 am; Bike
Ride Starts (May 9 only) 11 am; Cocktail
Reception 4 pm; Dinner and Awards 5:30
pm. Contact: Don Williams.
[email protected]
or 516.683.0710
5 Thursday
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Maurer Foundation for Breast Health
21st Golf Classic Meadow Brook Club,
Jericho. Brunch, BBQ lunch, reception
and buffet. Reg. 9:30 am, shotgun start at
11:30 am and reception at 5:00 pm.
www.maurerfoundation.org/events-calendar/golf-classic or Call 631.524.5151
5 Thursday
Time for Teens, Inc. Golf Tournament
honoring Ann Liguori, Sebonack Golf
Club, Southampton Reg., Breakfast &
Driving Range. 10:00 am, Shotgun Teeoff. 2:30 pm Awards & Luncheon. Sponsorships Available. Contact Laraine
631.338.7258. Register online at
www.time4teens.org.
9 Monday
31st Annual Golf Tournament to benefit
Winthrop's Research Programs, rain or
shine at Wheatley Hills Golf Club, East
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Wednesday
Eastern Long Island Hospital 24th Annual Golf Classic,
Gardiner’s Bay Country
Club, Shelter Island. Sponsor:
Bridgehampton National Bank. 10:00 am
Registration & Breakfast. 12:00, Shotgun
Start. 1:00 pm BBQ Luncheon. 5:00 pm
Cocktails. 6:00 pm Dinner/Awards. 631
477 5164. [email protected].
12 Thursday
Townwide Fund Of Huntington’s
Spring Golf Outing Indian Hills Country Club, Northport. Check in starts at
10:30 am, brunch 10:30 am - Noon, shotgun start is scheduled at 12:30. Cocktails,
dinner, dessert and awards from 5:00 pm
– 9:00 pm, Information on sponsorships,
foursomes and details, call Executive Director Trish Rongo at the Townwide
Fund’s office at 631-629-4950.
16 Monday
Mercy First Spring Golf Outing at Tam
O'Shanter Club, Brookville and The
Creek, Locust Valley. Registration 11:00
am followed by golf and a 5:00 pm Cocktail Reception. Registration and sponsorship opportunities, contact Kerri Sneden,
VP of Resource Development at (516)
921-0808 ext. 114 or email [email protected]
18 Wednesday
North Shore Land Alliance 8th Annual
Golf & Tennis Outing Piping Rock, Locust Valley. Honoring Frank Castagna of
Castagna Realty. Contact: Nina Muller
516 626 0908. [email protected]
23 Monday
Molloy College 2016 Annual Golf Classic The Seawane Club & The Rockaway
Hunting Club. Registration 9:30 am (both
clubs). Tee Off: 11:00 am Rockaway; 11:30
am Seawane. 5:30 pm Buffet Dinner Reception at Seawane. Information: 516 323
4701, email [email protected] or
connect.molloy.edu/2016golfclassic
23 Monday
The 18th Annual Ann Liguori Foundation Charity Golf Classic Friar's Head,
Reg. & Brunch 10:00 am. Shotgun 12:00
pm. Register: www.annliguori.com/charitygolfeventinfo.php. Info. call the Ann
Liguori Foundation at 631-801-2233
23 Monday
10th Annual COPE Golf Outing COPE
Foundation, Inc. (Connecting Our Paths
Eternally), Muttontown Club, East Norwich. Info. www.copefoundation.org.
23 Monday
The SASS Foundation Golf Outing &
Tennis Tournament The Creek, Lattingtown. Info. Lois Lerner, 516 365 7277 or
[email protected]
June
2 Thursday
nities. [email protected].
631.979.2620.
6 Monday
St. Johnland Nursing Center's 9th
Annual Golf Classic, honoring The
Townwide Fund of Huntington at Huntington Country Club. Info. 631-663-2457
7 Tuesday
Long Island Postal Customer Council’s
16th Annual Golf Outing, Wind Watch
Golf & Country Club, Hauppauge. 12:00
pm Registration 12:30 pm Luncheon. 1:30
pm, Shotgun Start. 6:30 pm Cocktails
& Dinner. Contact Cosmo Ifantolino
[email protected] 631.755.2850.
9 Thursday
Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, Inc. 25th Annual Golf Tournament. Muttontown Club, East Norwich,
10:30 am - 8:00 pm, Tee Off-Shotgun: 12:30
pm, Dinner: 5:00 pm, Information, call
(516) 870-1673 or [email protected]
www.nffhp.org
AHRC Suffolk Foundation 25th Annual
Golf Classic Willow Creek Golf & Country Club, Mt. Sinai, Registration begins
11:30 am, Shotgun Tee-Off: 1:00 pm, Contact Connie Albertina at [email protected]. or call 631.585.0100 ext 583
13 Monday
6 Monday
Westhampton Beach Performing Arts
Center 14th Annual Golf Tournament &
Cocktail Party, Westhampton Country
Club, Westhampton Beach. Honorees:
James Hulme, Esq. and Hon. Robert Kelly,
Esq. 9:00 am Registration & Breakfast,
11:00 am Shotgun Start, 4:00 pm Cocktails.
Contact: [email protected] or 631 288
2350 x117
St. Joseph’s College 26th Annual Golf
Classic. Plandome Country Club, Plandome. Registration 9:00 am. Practice &
Greens Open. Shotgun Start 11:15 am
sharp. Cocktail Reception 5:00 pm. Buffet
Dinner 6:00 pm. Call 631 687 2655 or [email protected]
6 Monday
Angela’s House Golf Outing, Indian
Hills Country Club, Northport. 9:45 am
Check in & Breakfast. Driving Range &
Putting Green. 11:00 am Shotgun Start.
BBQ Lunch. 4:00 pm Cocktails & Dinner.
Awards & Raffles. Sponsorship opportu-
Farmingdale State College Tech Island
Golf Classic, Cold Spring Country Club,
Cold Spring Harbor. Contact 631.420.2568
20 Monday
27 Monday
Peconic Bay Medical Center Golf Classic,
Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton, Information 631.548.6080 or
[email protected]
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The North Shore Land Alliance
will honor, Frank Castagna at its
8th Annual “Fore the Love of the
Land” Golf and Tennis outing on
May 18, 2016 at Piping Rock Club
in Locust Valley. Mr. Castagna,
a Land Alliance Trustee, is being
recognized for his leadership in
protecting and enhancing the
quality of life on Long Island.
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golf
Long Island Golf: A Look Back
BY PHIL CARLUCCI
www.GolfonLongIsland.com
Author of Long Island Golf
Bethpage aerial: The Red and Blue courses were open for play in this 1935 aerial, while on the left,
the still-under-construction Black course hosts a polo match. (Courtesy UCLA Department of
Geography, Benjamin and Gladys Thomas Air Photo Archives, Fairchild Aerial Surveys Collection)
Bethpage Green scorecard, circa late 1930s.
T
he spring of 1936 arrived like the many seasons of rebirth that
preceded it, though in the minds of Long Island's golfers, it
undoubtedly felt like the dawn of a new era.
Less than a year earlier, the A.W. Tillinghast-designed Red and Blue
courses opened at the sprawling new Bethpage State Park complex,
whetting the appetite of golfers near and far, especially those of modest
means. Not only did Bethpage announce
the arrival of golf accessible to the
masses, it also represented progress and
promise at a time when clubs and
courses were disappearing from view
amid Depression-era hardship.
That spring would also be the last that
local players welcomed a new season
without Bethpage's Black Course as the
centerpiece of Long Island golf. For a
very brief period, 80 years ago today,
Bethpage golf consisted only of the
Green, Red and Blue courses.
The Green Course predated Bethpage
State Park itself, first appearing on the
scene in 1923 as the Lenox Hills Golf
Club, a Devereux Emmet design within
the massive Benjamin Yoakum estate. A decade later, New York State
acquired Yoakum’s land and began operating Lenox Hills as the public
Green. "When the State took over the Yoakum estate and planned a country
club for the people," described the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, "golf was given its
rightful place, and for the first time on fashionable Long Island the man who
is not a millionaire will have a chance on first-class golf links."
Tillinghast's Blue Course followed in April 1935, a month ahead of the Red
Course. The "People's Country Club accommodates 1,500 players a day and is
the last word in swank," said the Eagle shortly
before the Red's official debut. It continued,
Bethpage "aims to accomplish for golf what
Jones Beach has done for saltwater bathing."
In its profile of the new golf destination, the
paper described elements that modern players
surely would find humorous -- talk of thin
rough, benign bunkers and fast, streamlined
play closely supervised by active rangers. "At
Bethpage, no sluggish group of players is
allowed to block traffic."
While Bethpage's original three led
thousands of players around their fairways, the
Black sat unfinished, awaiting its May 1936
debut. A 1935 aerial photo shows a polo match
in progress on what would soon become the
Black's opening hole. Nearby, construction
continues on the Black, still months away from its grand entrance into
Bethpage and America’s celebrated golf landscape. ■
Not only did Bethpage
announce the arrival of golf
accessible to the masses, it also
represented progress and promise
at a time when clubs and courses
were disappearing from view
amid Depression-era hardship.
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Bethpage State Park Golf, Est. 1952 / PHOTOS BY MIRANDA GATEWOOD
Just Golf
By Mike Katz
T
he PGA of America is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Through
this century golf has become an ever evolving game.
Golf has given us an outlet to exercise, socialize, debate and create a new
case load of medical symptoms. Tennis has its elbow, what does golf have,
maybe golf cart-castrophies and an errant body strike by a ball. Until now
One in three golfers has high blood pressure and their stress level is twenty
two percent higher when playing. The cures are simple, such as a hug which releases dopamine, the pleasure hormone that gives us a feel good and motivational feeling. Children laugh over one hundred times a day, but as we become
adults the laughter ratio drops to eight times a day. This is a complicated way to
describe what happens during an eighteen hole round of golf. We are stressed,
have high blood pressure and are bummed out. There is a group of professional
golfers led by Jack Nicklaus who are concerned about the
hugs and laughter
being put back in the
game for the recreational golfer. Dottie
Pepper LPGA hall
of famer, sums up
this thinking in the
following quote,
“Mental control of
the emotions is a
big part of golf,
you cannot get too
upset, and you
cannot get too happy. The
cklaus
game beats you up a lot
l Pascucci & Jack Ni
Tom Doak, Michae
more than you beat the
game up.” Who knew?
What’s the solution to this situation? We need a remedy which would make
the game more enjoyable, bring back more players and create livable scores and
competitions. Jack Nicklaus has come up with the following: a completely new
set of guidelines for recreational golfers. The innovations would be shorter
yardage holes, fourteen hole rounds not eighteen, doubling the size of the putting cup, sand and water traps would be bypassed, raise par on each hole one
stroke and play forward tees only. Your foursome would have a choice of playing
either USGA rules or recreational golf rules when they sign in. Handicaps would
be adjusted accordingly. Try questioning your foursome about what is the most
enjoyable part of the game to them. The probable answers are: being outdoors,
the comradery, enjoying the few balls during the round that you hit perfectly, a
par, a bogey, never hearing the words you are “away” and visiting the 19th hole.
Recreational golfers never seem to say, “Did anyone bring the rule book today.”
The time has arrived for the golf “Gurus” to realize in order to grow the game
they must create recreational rules.
Golf resolutions for 2016 are now in order. Be it resolved, no more mulligans,
no throwing the ball out of a sand trap, no kicking the ball back in bounds, no
gimme or in the leather putts and let’s please count each stroke. Equipment upgrades are also in order. Put on new club grips if needed, golf shoes should have
cleats changed as well as replacing your glove and purge those nasty, scuffed
golf balls. This season make it a resolution to enjoy the experience of playing in
at least one golf event that is sponsored by a cause you believe
in. Volunteers are always welcome at charity golf outings. In
the golf section of Networking®
Magazine there is a golf calendar
of events, feel free to contact any
of the outings as either a player
Mike Katz, National
or volunteer. ■
Charity Event Specialist
®
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631.543.9474 or [email protected]
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18 Monday
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25 Monday
Center for Developmental Disabilities,
Inc. 17th Annual Golf Classic Muttontown Club, East Norwick, Infor./
Reservations Deborah Patey. [email protected] 516.921.7650 x415
Monday
31st Annual Celebrity Golf Classic
Hosted by the Marty Lyons Foundation,
Old Westbury Golf & Country Club, Old
Westbury. Contact Jeanne Ellis
Head Injury Association Annual
Celebrity Golf Tournament, Glen Oaks
Club, Old Westbury. Brunch. Shotgun
Start. Luncheon. Awards & Presentations.
631.543.2245. Headinjuryassoc.org.
Nassau Suffolk Services for Autism
18th Annual Golf Classic Sands Point
Golf Club, Sands Point. Call NSSA
631.462.0386. Email [email protected].