The Roost Qualifying series will be Quota events based on 75% of each players course handicap. The Roost Qualifier at Bethpage Green will be on May 5 at 12:30pm, open to 24 players.
$145 entry fee includes cart, lunch at the turn including a beer or soda, and pro shop credit for the winner.
The top 1-5 players, based on number of participants at each event, will qualify for the finals to be held in mid-late June 2024
Bethpage Green is the oldest course at Bethpage. Lenox Hills Country Club was built in 1923 by Devereaux Emmet. In 1931 it was absorbed into the Bethpage complex. We all love the Red course, and we are understandably polarized on the Black course. It’s time to take a look at one of the other 3 courses at Bethpage.
"When the State took over the Yoakum estate and planned a country club for the people," described the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, "golf was given its rightful place, and for the first time on fashionable Long Island the man who is not a millionaire will have a chance on first-class golf links."
- Golf On Long Island
Per Golf Club Atlas:
When Benjamin Yoakum built the Lenox Hills Golf Club, he had in mind a community golf club for the use of those who bought homes in the Lenox Hills area that he was developing. With the way many golf course/housing projects have come into being in the last few decades, he was way ahead of his time.Yoakum died one month and four days after the stock market crashed in 1929 (natural causes) and his family was left with a great deal of money, land, good stock and a great deal of worthless ones as well. They were also left a golf club - Lenox Hills. Though a private club, he was the sole owner of the property. The family faced the decision of what to do with it as they both didn't want to operate it as well as desired to see as much funds from it as possible.
New York State, through the Long Island State Parks Commission, founded just a few years earlier to obtain large tracts of land for the newly organizing state park system, had already been talking to Yoakum about purchasing both the golf course and another 100 acres of property adjacent to it that he owned. They also had their eyes on another nearly 900 acres that bordered the Yoakum property. Eventually, in 1931, a lease was signed, and purchase was finally made in 1934. As part of the 1931 lease, the golf course, much to the protests of the members of the club, was opened as a New York State public golf course with the new name of Bethpage Golf Club. When plans were made to build the new courses, two new holes were created for the course (holes 1 & 18) so that all courses would start and finish from the planned new clubhouse, and the entire course itself was renovated.