Long Island National
Long Island National Golf Course is no pretender. From a 153-acre potato farm, golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. has shaped and crafted a masterpiece accessible to all for their golfing pleasure.
Jones was inspired to move between 800,000 and a million cubic yards of earth so that rolling contours underscore windswept and fescue dunes with the expected sea breezes, while maintaining the area's character and still providing variation. Granted, a tuberous mound to the left of No. 16 green reminded Jones of Balybunion, the world famous golf course in Ireland. Nevertheless, Long Island National is a unique jewel that illuminates the ...