Golf on Long Island

Rock Hill to host memorial golf outing to benefit Kids Need More on August 5

The 17th annual Robert "Appo" Lodato Memorial Golf Outing will take place on Friday, August 5 at the Rock Hill Golf & Country Club in Manorville.  The event helps support Kids Need More and its Camp Adventure, a Long Island camp for children with cancer.

Registration is $185 per golfer ($200 after July 29).  Included with the entry fee are beverages throughout the day, a post-golf buffet and open bar, plus raffles and prizes, and any participant lucky enough to ace one of Rock Hill's par-3s could return home with a 2016 BMW 3-Series convertible.  Tee time is 8:00 a.m.  To register, print the application at the Kids Need More website and submit as directed.

Kids Need More oversees Camp Adventure, a camp for children with cancer and their siblings.  The camp is staffed by volunteers and free for attendees.  For more on Kids Need More and Camp Adventure, visit the organization's website.

Rock Hill has been a fixture in Manorville for 50 years.  For more on Rock Hill, check out the course flyover.

Sunset golf and dinner special at Cherry Creek on July 15

There are plenty of places to dine while taking in an East End sunset, but few include 18 holes and an open bar.  One of them is the Links Course at Cherry Creek in Riverhead, which will host a Sunset Golf shotgun outing on Friday, July 15.

The special includes a full round on the Links -- home of Long Island's only par-6 -- followed by a buffet dinner and a two-hour open bar with views of the sun setting over Riverhead farmland.  Shotgun start is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.  Entry fee is $79 per player.

To sign up, call the Links pro shop at (631) 369-6500.  And for more on Cherry Creek's Links Course, check out the course flyover.

Bethpage course closures for The Barclays in August

Bethpage Black will host The Barclays tournament from Thursday, August 25 to Sunday, August 28, but local golfers will be affected as early as August 8.  That's the day Bethpage Black will close to the public in preparation for the event, which will bring some of the world's most famous golfers to Long Island for the FedEx Cup playoffs.

The Black Course will close on August 8 and remain out of regular operation through September 2.  Meanwhile, Bethpage's other four courses, as well as the driving range, pro shop and restaurant, will all close on Saturday, August 20 and reopen on September 1.

Call the park directly at (516) 249-0701 for additional details.

Pine Ridge to host local leg of "World's Largest Golf Outing" on August 1

The sixth annual "World's Largest Golf Outing" is scheduled for Monday, August 1 at more than a hundred golf courses across the country, from as far east as Long Island's very own Pine Ridge Golf Club and west all the way to Hawaii.   Run by Billy Casper Golf, the event gives golfers the opportunity to play and help raise money for American servicemen and women.  This year's event will benefit the Fisher House Foundation. 

Pine Ridge's leg of the golf outing will include separate morning (8:00) and afternoon (2:00) start times.  Entry fee is $75 per player, with $10 from each registration -- plus all additional donations -- going to the Fisher House Foundation.  The fee covers cart, range balls, lunch, an awards reception and some golf-related parting gifts.  Format for the tournament is four-person scramble.

Register for the event by visiting the World's Largest Golf Outing website.  You can also sponsor a team or make an online donation.

Since its initial event in 2011, Billy Casper Golf has raised more than $3 million for various causes, including the Wounded Warrior Project, through the World's Largest Golf Outing.  The 2015 Outing raised over $1 million on its own.  This year's charity, the Fisher House Foundation, is a non-profit organization that provides comfort homes for military and veteran family members at no cost while their loved ones receive medical treatment.

For more on the local host course, check out the Pine Ridge flyover.  And for additional information on the Fisher House Foundation, visit the organization's website.