Newsday slideshow features 11 Long Island places that were formerly golf courses

Golf On Long Island and Newsday have teamed up to offer readers a glimpse of Long Island's long-lost golf courses.

A photo-history slideshow that highlights 11 Long Island locations that were once home to golf courses is live on Newsday.com.  The slideshow features vintage photos and brief historical descriptions contributed by Golf On Long Island's Phil Carlucci, with present-day photos provided by Newsday. 

Featured in the slideshow are well-known golf courses of Long Island's past, including the original Lido and Meadow Brook clubs, as well as obscure and short-lived courses like the Valley Stream Country Club and Reydon Golf Club in Southold.  All historic photos can also be found in Images of America: Long Island Golf, available for purchase here at Golf On Long Island.

View the photo-history feature at Newsday.com.

Comments

[John Kingston]

Phil, I just saw that story and I just found this page. Great work! One course you can add to it is Charter Oak, which I am familiar with because for one year, in 1972, it was the home course of the Carle Place High School golf team. I always wondered what happened to it. It became the Hoffman Center, which is a nature preserve. I couldn't find many references to it, but here are two:

http://www.hoffmancenter.org/pdf_files/Hoffman%20Center%20Plants%202003.pdf

http://www.hoffmancenter.org/

[Phil]

John...thanks for the note. I mention Charter Oaks in the book, but since I couldn't find any photos, I couldn't feature it more in the book or in the Newsday slideshow. However, while researching I did collect a number of Newsday articles from the 1970s, including a 1977 feature outlining the entire rise and fall of the club. It was designed to be a kind of "super club" but ultimately collapsed under its own weight before it really got off the ground. I can send you the articles if you'd like.