I have an extra spot for yellow at 736 on Saturday.
Love Indian Island for the Green Card rate. They usually keep it in good shape and the front 9 has a nice stretch of holes beginning with the Par 3 5th.
Fun story, the Par 3 17th is the site of my greatest mental collapse in tournament golf. I birdied the 16th to get back to +7 with 5 holes to play on the first day of the Suffolk County HS Tournament. Cuts normally in the low 80s so just had to play steady golf in and I was making the cut to Day 2. We were backed up on the 17th tee due to the group ahead and I let the wait get to me. Hit a snap hook so far left I nearly cleared the highway and landed back on the other side of the golf course. Just forgot how to play golf the last 5 holes to come in with a smooth 87 to miss the cut by 3.
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do you still have that available? Iād happily be āinā
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Play here all the time, glad it treated you well. My folks live in East Q, like 10 min awayā¦ early saturday AM round followed by the beach is an ideallll summer day. Also, take the drive out to Islandās End in greenport/orient point. Worth it, plus a great drive through the vineyards/farms in the AM.
lol @DaLK23 i hear you on 17! Never snapped it onto/over the highway. Especially if itās late in the day, staring straight into the sun, youāre just guessing. Iām fine with most of the holes on the front and along the water, 7-8 are very meh. 11-14 are meh, but I really enjoy the last 4. Hope to get out there at some point this summer.
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worth getting the green key?
Iām mostly in Nassau which is āhomeā, but live in Astoria
Happy to share my strategy for the Bethpage system thatās been pretty successful for me so far (5/5 getting times these past few weeks including Black on Opening Day).
Note: This HAS to be done on a computer, doesnāt work on the phone.
1.) Decide what course you want, you have basically only one shot so donāt try to flip flop when 7pm comes. Especially since it kicks you back to the intro screen when you switch courses.
2.) Be logged in and on the course you want to play at approx. 6:55 or so just to be safe.
3.) Once 6:59 hits, click the date youāre trying for on the calendar rapid fire, Iām talking one click a second if not more. Youāre basically trying to have the times refresh the second they come available.
4.) Once the times load, donāt think just click the time you can land on the fatest, any time, itās 50/50 whether or not youāll get it but if not just let the times refresh and keep trying as some times will get dropped along the way.
The whole process is a very stressful 30 seconds but once you do it enough times you get pretty good at getting to the times fast enough. My one recommendation is try for times later in the morning/afternoon on your first click if youāre able to. Most people try for the first tee times of the day.
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It has been working so far with single tee times. Playing sat am 
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They had us back around 200 yards into a stiff breeze. Between the wait and my nerves Iāve never wanted to hit a golf shot less in my life when the time came haha.
The course is the pure definition of ājust fine and/or decentā, no holes thatāll stick in your mind forever but no outright bad holes (I think 3 is a bad hole but thatās more me never playing it well vs. anything actually wrong with it). For what you pay as a county resident, it gets the job done.
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i hate 3 lol. I deleted my mini-rant, i play it terrible. The āaggressive power fadeā seems to never come out on this one when needed. Talk about a no-reward shot off the tee and the brush straight away is full of poison ivy.
I do. Iāll send you a dm later.
NICE thanks!
I use a similar system. I open up another window for Sunken Meadow tee times, and book there if I am unable to get early times at Bethpage. The tee times at sunken meadow go pretty quick but not as fast as Bethpage.
There are usually some day before cancellations. I like to play early (like 7am) and can get lucky finding an early time just by randomly checking the day before I want to play. Of course, finding a random foursome on Black is almost impossible, but I have lots of luck finding twosomes and singles, especially during the week.
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How was it? I low key think Yellow is a hidden gem. Such good architecture on the back.
Iām happy to see Bp is opening all 5 courses and the range starting tomorrow.
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PREACH!! Iāve been saying this for years. I feel like it gets a bad rap bc itās the shortestā¦ 10-14 is such a good stretch. Short par 4 16 and true reachable par 5 17th has such a great green site
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Iām with you all day. Somehow it got the rep of the ābeginnerā course, probably because itās short. But itās better than Blue and Green. Iād go Red, Black, Yellow, Blue, then Green for order I would want to play on a given basis. Obviously Black is incredible but I donāt need to consistently be punched in the teeth.
Iām preaching the gospel of Yellow and Red this summer, and would love to play there with any refugees.
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I love you!
(Did I say that out loud?)
Btw, are you in our whats app chat? If not, let me know if you want in. We talk BP a LOT
I grew up out there but now Iām Westchester with too many kids to allow me to get out there
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I think for me itās red, yellow, green, then blue.
I will leave black in its own category. Only really interested in playing it once or twice a year. All I all canāt go wrong with any of the bethpage courses.
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Iām with you on playing it only a handful of times. I usually end up playing it with buddies who come up from out of state. If Iām looking to play on a regular basis, I try as early as possible on Red first.