{"id":216580,"date":"2025-10-11T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/216580\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:58:12","slug":"golfers-flock-to-bethpage-black-as-the-course-reopens-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/216580\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfers flock to Bethpage Black as the course reopens to the public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black is back.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in nearly two months, the Bethpage Black course is open for public golfers. It&#8217;s the first time since the course closed on Aug. 18 in preparation for last month&#8217;s Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the course is only accepting walk-ups and the lot to get a tee time was filling up early yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Bethpage&#8217;s Lou Lavacca and his buddies got spot number 1, guaranteeing them an early morning tee time. All they had to do was get here at 8 a.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Lavacca, who attended last week&#8217;s Ryder Cup, called it an &#8220;awesome&#8221; experience to be able to play such a historic course in his own backyard that the world&#8217;s best golfers called home just a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3785.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as we pulled up, a gentleman was coming from North Carolina, driving 14 hours to be here, and they\u2019re like Where are you from? And I\u2019m like, this is where I\u2019m from,&#8221; Lavacca said.<\/p>\n<p>Tee times at the Black will run from 8:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey&#8217;s Whittaker Mack was in spot 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo play Bethpage right after the Ryder Cup is just unbelievable,&#8221; he said. &#8220;God just put me down here and I\u2019m ready to play golf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Friday, Oct. 24, the Black Course will begin taking reservations if camping isn&#8217;t your thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black is back. For the first time in nearly two months, the Bethpage Black course is open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[11815,427,11383,99],"class_list":["post-216580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-bethpage-black-golf-course","tag-golf","tag-ryder-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}