The warning sign greeting players at the Bethpage State Park Black Course says it all. Unless you’re a very good player with a handicap in the single digits, this probably isn’t the place for you. But ...

It seems like everyone has a Bethpage Black story: Keegan Bradley began his college career there with informal practices as an 18-year-old St. John’s freshman with a crazy dream of making the PGA Tour ...

There is a great deal of performative concern about peace in professional golf, but I’m here to tell you it’s a lost cause. Even if professional golf ends its great war, it will not find peace. Real ...

For golfer Freddie Curtis, arriving to Bethpage State Park nearly 21 hours before his tee time was well worth it to play the iconic Black course. "This has been on my bucket list since I was a kid,” ...

About a year ago, Luke Donald flew into New York with his right-hand man, Edoardo Molinari, to suss out the next Ryder Cup course. Word quickly got out that the European captain was in town, so by the ...

The Athletic has live coverage of the final day of the 2025 Ryder Cup. The golf course will be a supporting character in perhaps the most highly anticipated Ryder Cup in recent memory next week, but ...

Editor's Note: This story first appeared in the June 2002 issue of Golf Digest. Since then, Golf Digest has listed Joseph H. Burbeck as the architect of Bethpage Black and A.W. Tillinghast as a ...

Major championships are coming back to Bethpage Black. In advance of Long Island’s iconic public course hosting next week’s Ryder Cup, the PGA of America and New York governor Kathy Hochul announced ...

Last weekend, the best golfers in the world played at the historic Bethpage Black course, but this weekend, several courses that had been closed for the tournament are back for public use. “Our ...

During the Ryder Cup, all the focus will be on one course and one course only – the famed Bethpage Black at Farmingdale, Long Island. The course, which opened in 1936, has long had a reputation as one ...