![]() ![]() We stopped in Westchester to buy gas and doughnuts, and as I was filling my tank I noticed a guy at another pump who was wearing golf shoes: a brother. On a crisp but snow-less Sunday morning in February, 2005, Hacker (real name) and I drove to Brooklyn for a bonus round at Dyker. The slates on the main roof are mostly original. The red-brick wing on the far right-hand side of the clubhouse, visible through the trees, was added a few years ago, during a major renovation. ![]() ![]() Slow play is definitely a huge obstacle to growing the game.Clubhouse, second green, and third tee, Dyker Beach Golf Course, 2013. Clearview at 10:45 unfortunately led to 5 hours plus. Dyker Beach at 8:30 was impressively a 4-hour round. “Speed of play varied at each course,” Wassem said, “but we also started at very different times of day at each course. In the Five-Borough Golf Marathon, players rode except for Manhattan where they each carried their own club and walk the entire course. Silberstein commented, too, that when he played in school they all walked and carried their own clubs. The Randall’s and Trump Ferry Point experiences were new ones for me, though.” “I remembered the courses from school but they are in much better shape today. On the three completed 18-hole rounds, Silberstein notched an 83 at Dyker, an 81 at Clearview, and a 44 at Randall’s Island. Silberstein, who competed in high school golf in all the boroughs back in the 60s played from the tips the first four rounds with the pro, moving up only in the Bronx. The official ball marker of the two day Five-Borough Golf MarathonĪ thunder and lightning storm that chased the players off La Tourette after the 12th hole also shortened the first day’s play that began in the morning at Dyker Beach just west of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He noted, too, that new carpeting had just been put in on the 15th hole and the roll, while truer, was also much slower. “I played Randall’s a little conservatively and made no holes in one there,” he said. The tips ranged from more than 7400 yards at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Ferry Point course to roughly 280 yards at the 18-hole Championship Miniature Golf Course (South) on Randall’s Island. Wassem, playing from the tips on all the courses, finished the Five-Borough Marathon in three under par. John’s Prep ’61), Queens and Heath Wassem current President of The Metropolitan PGA and head pro at The Fenway Golf Club in Scarsdale represented all the rest of America experiencing their first time on New York City municipal golf courses.Īlthough they scored no eagles (they had hoped to card a Brooklyn Eagle at Dyker Beach), Kuperman had two aces and Silberstein added another hole-in-one on the mini-golf Manhattan course. La Tourette had the longest tips except for Ferry Point.īob Kuperman (James Madison ’59) represented Brooklyn Stanley Silberstein (Columbia Grammar ’69), Manhattan Tom Messner (St. It competes with Clearview and Dyker for bridge views, but is almost treeless (we counted one) whose beauty is in its hills and bunkers and interestingly-placed greens, not to mention the Manhattan skyline to the southwest and the cemetery to the North. Trump Ferry Point is the newest municipal course in the city and clearly different from any area track. Clearview, especially, is noted for winter play, when the water hazards freeze and a good bounce can rescue a par. Clearview and Dyker for years have vied for the title of America’s most-played golf course. Courses played included Dyker Beach (Brooklyn), La Tourette (Staten Island), Randall’s Island (Manhattan), Clearview (Queens,) and Trump Ferry Point (Bronx). ![]()
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