{"id":675717,"date":"2026-05-31T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675717\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:57:56","slug":"wellesley-island-golf-course-wont-open-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675717\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellesley Island golf course won\u2019t open this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WELLESLEY ISLAND, New York (WWNY) &#8211; A state-owned golf course in the North Country won\u2019t open this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state says it tried three times to find a concessionaire for the Wellesley Island State Park Golf Course, but had no luck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cNew York State Parks has determined that reopening the 9-hole course for the 2026 season is no longer feasible,\u201d officials said. \u201cGiven the timing and operational requirements necessary to prepare the facility for public use, there is insufficient time and resources remaining to open the course this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state says it will continue mowing and performing basic grounds maintenance on the 9-hole course. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It also says it\u2019s open to having discussions with any third party interested in operating the course.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WELLESLEY ISLAND, New York (WWNY) &#8211; A state-owned golf course in the North Country won\u2019t open this season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,5190,99,294732,294733],"class_list":["post-675717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-wellesley-island-state-park-golf-course","tag-wont-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675717","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=675717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}