The 10 best courses in New York (trust us – you want to play these)
Best golf courses in New York: Bethpage State Park (Black)
The only public course in our list is part of a public golf mecca of five 18-hole courses at the club.
The Black is the best known, not only because it is the host of the 2019 PGA Championship, the 2002 and 2009 US Opens, and the Ryder Cup in 2024, but also because it is one of the world’s most feared courses.
Many of you will have seen the sign (everyone who plays here obviously takes a picture next to it) warning how hard it is… and it indeed is acutely difficult.
This 1936 AW Tillinghast design – albeit it with significant input from Joe Burbeck – has narrow fairways, penal rough, huge bunkers and plateau greens. Enjoy!
NCG’s best golf courses in New York list continues on the next page…
Chris Bertram
Chris Bertram is a specialist in all things golf courses.
He was born and brought up in Dumfriesshire and has been a sports journalist since 1996, initially as a junior writer with National Club Golfer magazine.
Chris then spent four years writing about football and rugby union for the Press Association but returned to be Editor and then Publisher of NCG.
He has been freelance since 2010 and spends the majority of his time playing golf and writing about the world’s finest golf courses.