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The Bridge |
Overlooking Sag Harbor and Little Peconic Bay on Long Island,
New York, is the private 18-hole Rees Jones-designed golf course called
The Bridge. The 512-acre Suffolk County site was once home of the
Bridgehampton Raceway, which hosted NASCAR stockers, such as Mario
Andretti. The golf course, 20 estate lots, and golf support facilities use
only 281 acres of the 512-acre site. Most of the course lies in the flat
to slightly rolling area the racetrack had occupied. Two-inch-deep
organic matter produced by The Town of Islip for the Northeast Organic
Farming Association of New York provides a soil amendment for the course.
The golf course retains some of the historical provenance of the raceway.
The clubhouse sits where the former raceway parking lot and bleachers had
been. Approximately three miles of asphalt from the raceway were chipped
and used as surface for its parking lot. Speed-check stations were
preserved in place as historical remnants of the raceway. Entrance to the
property comes through the one-time racetrack truck entrance, following
counterclockwise along the old track up the hill and under the “Chevron
Bridge,” which remains in good condition and retains its old red and blue
Chevron logo. The original racetrack guard rail barrier lines the north
side of the track before disappearing into the bunkered mounding of the 18th green.To buffer the golf course holes, the landowner donated 150
peripheral acres of land to the Town of Southampton as open green space
preserve. On May 17, 2005 The Bridge became the first private golf club
in New York State to be designated as a Certified Audubon Signature
Sanctuary. |
Town of North Hempstead
Harbor Links Golf Course |
Town of North Hempstead Harbor Links Golf Course is a municipal 18-hole
golf course with nine-hole executive course, miniature golf facility, and
athletic fields (soccer), located in Nassau County, New York. The most
recent use of the site was as a sand-mining operation, abandoned in the
late 1980s. Hempstead Harbor and its associated coastal wetlands lie a
quarter-mile to the east. The project covers 402 acres, including 10 acres
of athletic fields. One major goal of the project was to restore the
highly degraded site to a more natural Long Island habitat. All tees,
fairways, and some roughs are constructed of suitable on site soils and
have been amended with three to six inches of recycled compost. Treated
leachate and storm water runoff from an adjacent capped landfill supply
irrigation water to the site, providing a method of disposal of the
leachate and runoff, while obviating any on-site groundwater wells. The
local community water supply system serves only as a back-up system. The
Michael Hurdzan-designed golf course is the first municipal golf facility
in New York to become certified as a Signature Sanctuary. Learn more
about Long Island and Harbor Links by going to www.harborlinks.com |
Turning Stone Casino
Resort Golf Courses |
The Oneida Indian Nation created the Turning Stone Casino Resort’s nine
hole Sandstone Hollow, 18 hole Shenendoah Golf Course, and 18 hole
Kaluhyat in central New York near Verona, about halfway between Utica
and Syracuse. Sandstone Hollow was previously a quarry and orchard
while Shenendoah and Kaluhyat were primarily agricultural lands. Golf
course construction took place in upland areas and was designed to
integrate the existing site features, native vegetation, wildlife
habitat, and wetland habitat with course layouts thus minimizing project
impacts. Wooded buffer zones lie between fairways and around waterways
to provide travel corridors, cover, nesting sites, and food for
wildlife. The deciduous forest areas represent a second growth forest
dominated by northern hardwoods, including American beech, sugar maple,
white ash, and Eastern hemlock. The Oneida Indian Nation’s land is
sovereign, so governmental permits are not needed for purposes of
development on it. The Nation chose to work with Audubon International
because of our mutual respect for the land and AI’s standards for
sustainable resource management. For more information on this first
Certified Audubon Signature Sanctuary in New York peruse the web site
at:
Sandstone Hollow: http://turning-stone.com/golf/sandstone/
Kaluhyat: http://turning-stone.com/golf/kaluhyat/
Shenendoah: http://turning-stone.com/golf/shenendoah/ |
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