Golfing Magazine put together a Long Island Dream Golf Club in its Fall 2008 issue, a collection of the area's finest 18 holes and its top off-course facilities. Made up of ten private and eight public holes from as far west as Garden City and Great Neck, and as far east as Montauk and Greenport, the Dream Golf Club is a 6,881-yard monster from the tips that ends with the Island's only par-6.
Every Monday through February, GolfOnLongIsland.com will feature commentary from Golfing Magazine editor Terrence Jordan on the holes on the public side of the Long Island Dream Golf Club, with accompanying photos by Jim Krajicek and Brian Elder.
To view the Dream Club's 18-hole lineup, re-visit the original post here.
GOLFING MAGAZINE DREAM GOLF CLUB
#1: Garden City Golf Club -- par-4, 302 yards
#2: Sebonack Golf Club -- par-4, 454 yards
#3: Colonial Springs CC -- par-4, 420 yards
#4: Bethpage Black -- par-5, 530 yards
#5: Timber Point (Blue) -- par-3, 207 yards
#6: The Creek Club -- par-4, 465 yards
MONTAUK DOWNS -- HOLE #7
508 / 500 / 490 / 454 yards; Handicap - 7
Dream Club Handicap - 7
"This long par-5 is a great lesson in risk/reward golf. Ambitious golfers will flirt with disaster as they try to carry a lake to reach the green in two, while the safe play dictates keeping the ball on the right side of the fairway. Montauk's trademark wind gives this hole a different feel every time, as its direction can tempt golfers to go for the green one day and force them to lay up the next. This single hole has been drawing golfers out east for decades."
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