Former Calverton Links site now covered by solar panels

It took a few years, but the long-discussed transformation is complete.  The former Calverton Links golf course is now part of the solar industry.

For nearly a decade since the course abruptly closed for good in 2013, past players could still see the old front nine resting in plain view alongside Edwards Avenue in Calverton.  Its future loomed right across the street, where solar panels eventually took over a former sod farm.  Today the course itself is buried under a new solar farm installed earlier this year.

That makes two former East End courses that are now home to hundreds of thousands of solar panels.  The transformation of Gil Hanse's popular Tallgrass Golf Course was extensively covered on this site during the years-long lead-up to its closure in 2017.

Amid the debate over Tallgrass's then-proposed future in solar, one opponent of the plan said she did not want her hometown of Shoreham to become "the solar capital of the world."  Calverton residents voiced similar concerns in the recent past, though the building continued.  Now visitors taking the Edwards Avenue route to get to North Fork farms and vineyards first pass through fields of Calverton solar panels before reaching the area's open space and scenery.

What's become of Long Island's other closed golf courses?  You can find out in this updated post from last spring.

[PICTURED: The par-3 11th at Calverton Links, just a few months before its closure.]