Before there was a Bethpage State Park, there was Lenox Hills. Railroad man Benjamin Yoakum hired Golden Age architect Devereux Emmet to build eighteen holes on his Long Island land; the course opened in 1923, ran as a private club, and didn’t survive the Depression—New York took it over in 1932 and renamed it the Green.
It’s the oldest layout at Bethpage and it plays like it, in the best way: a short, classical Emmet routing over rolling ground, small undulating greens, tree lines doing most of the defending. Tillinghast added two holes in 1934 so it would start and finish at the new central clubhouse. More than a thousand yards shorter than the Black and far more forgiving, it’s the one to walk for the history and the easy pace—$38 on a weekday for a hundred-year-old parkland course.
This course books through the resort's own reservations portal.
Reserve at Bethpage tee-time reservations →Club members put Bethpage Green on watch—when a time opens on their dates, they hear about it first.
🔒 A Club feature—see plans →Skip the portal entirely. Tell us the dates and the group—we’ll secure tee times, stay and the whole itinerary for you.