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Bethpage State Park: U.S. Open
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Bethpage State Park offers extensive recreational opportunities, including five golf courses. The park hosted the U.S. Open Championship in 2002, and the Open returns to the world-class Black Course there in 2009. The Bethpage Community Park on Stewart Avenue, which has swimming pools and playing fields, will have a new indoor ice-skating rink, replacing the outdoor rink, Barry said.
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Bethpage State Park offers five golf courses to choose from. One of them, the black course, was the site of the U.S. Open in 2002 and will again be the site for the upcoming event in 2009. Tiger Woods won the event in 2002. While much of the park and its five golf courses are located within Bethpage and Old Bethpage, the offices are within the neighboring Farmingdale postal district.
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Bethpage State Park is best known for its golf courses, including the Black Course which was home to the U.S. Open Championship in 2002 and which will host the 2009 U.S. Open. There are ... picnic facilities, playing fields, tennis courts, bridle paths, hiking and biking trails and cross-county skiing trails in the winter.
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Bethpage State Park features the Bethpage Black golf course, which hosted the 2002 U.S. Open. The Carlyle on the Green mansion on the park grounds holds a total of 1,000 for receptions in several spaces: the grand ballroom (the largest conservatory ballroom on Long Island); the Heritage Room (in a restored colonial clubhouse); the Lenox Room (an intimate, meeting-appropriate space with a fireplace); and the Tillinghast Lounge (a carpeted space with a dance floor). The Oakroom at Bethpage Black restaurant has indoor and outdoor seating.
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As the site of the 2002 U.S. Open, Bethpage state park is best known for its five world-class golf courses. However, thousands of visitors flock to this park for more than golf. Visitors enjoy its picnic facilities, bridle paths, hiking and biking trails, play fields, tennis courts, cross-county skiing trails, sledding hills and even its polo field. Also available at Bethpage is a restaurant and catering facilities.
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LANSING, MI - This year, the U.S. Open will be played for the first time on a public course, The Black Course at Bethpage State Park, New York. As such, this Open has already been dubbed "The People's Open," which is appropriate, since Bethpage Golf Club has been called "The People's Club" since its birth in 1932.
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