Farmingdale, NY
Bethpage State Park
In the early 1930s, the Bethpage Park Authority bought Lenox Hills Country Club and neighboring properties. The acquisition became the basis of a public park with an unusually large concentration of golf courses.
- Courses
- 5 courses
- Club website
- Visit website
Courses
Course design
Public golf grows from Lenox Hills
Demand continued to expand. The Yellow Course opened in 1958, bringing the complex to five eighteen-hole courses, each identified by a color.
Championships
View all 7 past editions
Results and dates 7 editions
FedEx St. Jude Championship
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The Barclays
Nick Watney
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The Barclays
Patrick Reed
U.S. Open
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Tiger Woods
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Lucas Glover
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PGA Championship
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Brooks Koepka
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Ryder Cup
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Europe (Ryder Cup)
U.S. Amateur Public Links
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B. Patrick Abbott
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In the archive
Sources and editorial notes10 references
Sources for this story
- Bethpage State Park Golf Courses New York State Parks
History and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources9 references
- Farmingdale Public Library: Lenox Hills course history
- Ryder Cup official history The official Ryder Cup history data records the 2025 course and result.
- DP World Tour: 2025 Ryder Cup final report The official final report names Bethpage Black as the 2025 Ryder Cup venue. Bind the existing canonical Black Course; do not infer unchanged routing, tees, course par or all-round usage.
- 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 101st playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text.
- PGA Championship host record The 2019 PGA record names Bethpage State Park, Black Course. The canonical Club name and state match the dated PGA host record. The dated PGA venue explicitly identifies the Black layout. Host and competition dates: www.pgachampionship.com
- PGA TOUR 2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship Media Guide PDF page 9 records this completed tournament. Historical competition dates are not inferred from event-week headings.
- 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 2009 Championship, champion, explicit date span, and site in Championship Results: 1895 to 2025. The recorded champion and site preserve the higher-resolution register text. The current official U.S. Open Champions table independently confirms the year, champion, and site.
- USGA championship host record Dated USGA host wording Bethpage State Park (Black Course), Farmingdale, N.Y. is explicitly reconciled to Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, NY. The dated Black Course qualifier resolves to the existing Black Course owned by this Club. Host and competition dates: www.usga.org
- USGA: Amateur Public Links results 1922-2014, 1936 results row Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/amateur-public-links-results-1922-2014.html; SHA-256 f09d2cf13365029ab6057ae52ccc45fb100e1bd9696f028057e55f4b80a1ffe3. Exact result row: 1936 (July 20-25): B. Patrick Abbott d. Claude B. Rippy, 4 and 3; Bethpage State Park (Blue Course), Farmingdale, N.Y; Medalists - 145, James J. Molinari, Claude B. Rippy; Entries: 223 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. Named Course identity is supported by the championship result or the archived primary routing evidence.