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For information click on each item below:

1. Golf courses in this area;
2. Golf practice and training centers;
3. Driving ranges;
4. Alternative golf facilities; 
5. Golf retailers;
6. Our featured local golf course; and
7. The latest news from the National Golf Foundation.

1. Golf courses
   
    

   All Courses near Newburgh, New York

   Click a course for the current weather, course overview, and contact phone number, courtesy the Weather Channel.   Course Name Type Storm King Golf Club Cornwall, NY Private The Powelton Club of Newburgh Newburgh, NY Private Mill Creek Golf Club Newburgh, NY Public Southern Duchess Country Club Beacon, NY Private West Point Golf Course West Point, NY Public Fishkill Golf Course & Driving Range Fishkill, NY Private Osiris Country Club Walden, NY Private Otterkill Golf & Country Club Campbell Hall, NY Private Stony Ford Golf CourseO.C. Dept. of Parks, Recreation, and Cons. Montgomery, NY Municipal Scott's Corner Golf Course Montgomery, NY Public Winding Hills Golf Club Montgomery, NY Public Highlands Country Club Garrison, NY Public Garrison Golf Club Garrison, NY Public Central Valley Golf Club Central Valley, NY Public The Golf Club At Mansion Ridge Monroe, NY Public Monroe Country Club Monroe, NY Public Town of Wallkill Golf Club Middletown, NY Municipal Beekman Country Club, LLC Hopewell Junction, NY Public Dogwood Golf Center Hopewell Junction, NY Public Branton Woods Golf Club Hopewell Junction, NY Public Shallow Creek Golf Club Shrub Oak, NY Public Mahopac Golf Club Mahopac, NY Private Putnam National Golf Mahopac, NY Public Orange County Golf Club Middletown, NY Private The Sedgwood Golf Club Carmel, NY Private Centennial Golf Club of NY Carmel, NY Public Mc Cann Memorial Golf Course Poughkeepsie, NY Municipal Vassar Golf Course Poughkeepsie, NY Public Sanctuary Country Club Yorktown Heights, NY Public Mohansic Golf Course Yorktown Heights, NY Municipal Anglebrook Golf Club Lincolndale, NY Private Scenic Farms Golf Course Pine Island, NY Public Dutchess Golf & Country Club Poughkeepsie, NY Private Casperkill Country Club Poughkeepsie, NY Public College Hill Golf Course Poughkeepsie, NY Municipal Patriot Hills Golf Club Stony Point, NY Municipal Walker Valley Golf Club Walker Valley, NY Public Somers Pointe Golf Club Somers, NY Private The Links At Union Vale Lagrangeville, NY Public Apple Greens Golf Course Highland, NY Public Phillip J. Rotella Golf Course Thiells, NY Municipal Vails Grove Golf Course, Inc. Brewster, NY Public Morefar Golf Course Brewster, NY Private Hudson National Golf Club Croton-On-Hudson, NY Private Lake Mohonk Golf Course New Paltz, NY Public New Paltz Golf Course New Paltz, NY Public Dutcher Golf Course Pawling, NY Municipal Quaker Hill Country Club Pawling, NY Private Hickory Hill Golf Course Warwick, NY Municipal Warwick Valley Country Club Warwick, NY Private Green Ridge Golf Course Johnson, NY Public Minisceongo Golf Club Pomona, NY Private The Tuxedo Club Tuxedo Park, NY Private Salem Golf Club North Salem, NY Private Pehquenakonck Country Club North Salem, NY Public Homowack Lodge Golf Course Spring Glen, NY Public James Baird Golf Course Pleasant Valley, NY Public Waccabuc Country Club Waccabuc, NY Private GlenArbor Golf Club Bedford Hills, NY Private Nevele Grande Country Club Ellenville, NY Public Shawangunk Country Club Ellenville, NY Public

   
   
    

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6. Our featured local golf course
   
   Branton Woods Golf Club, Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
   
   By Ron Whitten - www.GolfDigest.com
   
   Eric Bergstol makes it look so easy.
   
   His first golf course design, Pine Barrens in Jackson, N.J., was 10th on Golf Digest's list of America's Best New Upscale Public Courses back in 1999.
   
   His latest design, Branton Woods Golf Club in Dutchess County, N.Y. ranks even higher, finishing second on the just-released list of America's Best New Upscale Public Courses of 2002.
   
   Not bad for a guy who isn't really even a golf course architect. He just dabbles in the craft, designing and building some of the courses his company, Empire Golf & Hospitality, owns and operates.
   
   Now 45 years old, the 6-foot-5 Bergstol is another of those great success stories in golf. A native of Rockland County, N.Y., he worked as a painting contractor after college, then began building houses, following his father in the business. In the late 1980s, Bergstol, a one-time scratch handicapper, got into golf business by developing the private Minisceongo Golf Club in Pomona, N.Y., which he built to a design of British architect Roy Case.
   
   Bergstol and Case worked together again on the daily-fee New Jersey National Golf Club in the early 1990s. Then Eric went big time, developing the exclusive Tom Fazio-designed Hudson National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York.
   
   But his heart is really in public golf, and almost every project since then has been a public one. Besides his own designs, Empire Golf (which now includes Delaware restaurateur and course owner Davis Sezna) also owns and operates Twisted Dune in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. and The Links at Madison Green in Royal Palm Beach, Fla., both very impressive new upscale public designs, but, in the view of Golf Digest panelists, at least, no match for Bergstol's own handiwork at Branton Woods.
   
   What makes Branton Woods the second-best new upscale course in the country? In my opinion, it's the combination of a fine site and a designer who took the time to massage every hole to get the best from each. The land, very near the junction of I-84 and the Taconic Parkway, is rolling and wooded, and there's no housing development around it whatsoever, so the brand-new course looks like it's been there for a decade or two. Bergstol's routing flows nicely across the landscape. It's not perfect. The side-by-side second and eighth holes are squeezed so close together atop a ridge between two ravines that the holes have to share a cart path. And there's a 300-yard trek over protected wetlands between the par-4 11th and par-3 12th that pretty effectively discourages walking on a course that might otherwise seem very walkable.
   
   He gives us gambling par 5s, like the double-dogleg 516-yard fourth, which moves across a slope, down into a valley and back out to a green perched on the other rim. He also gives us a true three-shot par 5, the 610-yard 15th, a hole that curls to the right around a huge lake (hidden behind a thick stretch of hardwoods) and over terrain so rugged that we wonder if we'll ever find the green. (Whatever you do, don't drive it into that nasty fairway bunker on the right. It's absolute jail. Whoever planted the cluster of trees atop that bunker needs to reconsider their reasoning.)
   
   Bergstol is savvy enough to avoid any bunkers on the extremely narrow 404-yard fifth, a hole that tumbles from hilltop tee down to a long narrow green at the base of a hill. And he's bold enough to install cross bunkers that everyone must carry off the tees on the short par-4 eighth, and more carry bunkers across the face of the elevated green on the par-5 14th. In an age where some demand the right to dribble a golf ball from first tee to last green, it's nice to see a designer who demands an airborne shot once or twice during a round.
   
   The Bergstol bunkering at Branton Woods is elaborate, with flashed sand and all sorts of fingers of turf. It's what you'd expect from a guy who has seen Tom Fazio's work up close and personal.
   
   What I liked best about Branton Woods is how its little details gave me a sense of its locale. There are low rock walls stretching clear across the first and 10th holes (which don't have to be carried from the forward tees) and more rock walls edging holes like the par-3 third, all mimicking walls seen throughout New England. There are outcroppings on hillsides on the sixth and seventh holes that remind us this is a mountain locale, and there are tee boxes that seem positioned in part to provide some great views of those mountains, the adjacent Stormville range.
   
   If there's one spoiler in the bunch, it's the huge triple green that serves the ninth and 18th holes and as a practice putting area. It's an architectural feature sometimes used effectively to fill up space and attract attention, but I don't think it was needed at Branton Woods. This course gathers enough attention without the need for a gimmick.
   
   The Verdict
   I once asked Bergstol why, after doing a pretty good imitation of Pine Valley at his Pine Barrens course, he hired Tom Fazio to design his Pine Hill Golf Club near the real Pine Valley in New Jersey, "I needed a marketable name for that job," Bergstol said. Well, if Bergstol keeps creating golf courses as well-received as Branton Woods, he may soon find his own name is pretty darned marketable. Branton Woods is worth seeking out. It's the second-best upscale course of the year, and the second in what could be an emerging career for a talented designer who has the eye and knows golf.
   
   The Details
   Branton Woods Golf Club
   178 Stormville Rd.
   Hopewell Junction, New York 12533
   For tee times: 845-223-1600
   www.brantonwoodsgolf.com
   Green fees (through March 1): $65 until noon, $50 from noon -- 2:30 p.m., $30 thereafter
   Walking allowed anytime
    
7. The latest news from the National Golf Foundation
   
   Retention in Golf Better than Expected
   
   NGF president Joe Beditz presented the results of a GOLF 20/20-commissioned research study regarding retention in golf, at the 20/20 annual conference on November 15. The objectives of the study were to quantify the retention rate of beginners in golf, see how golf’s retention rate compares to other sports and discover whether golf’s retention can be positively affected and, if so, by what factors. Click here for the story.
   
   NGF Rounds Played
   
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   Click here to view map showing regional rounds data for October.

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