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Pitch and Putt golf on Long Island

Published: June 12, 2009 11:23 AM
By JIM MERRITT  Special to Newsday

Photo credit: Photo by Minny Lee | Tina Machado is about to chip onto the eighth green at the Jones Beach pitch & putt golf course while friends Robert and Joie Galiardo wait in the back.

Novice golfers Eddie and Beverly Fried of Old Bethpage are reluctant to play at Bethpage State Park - even though the famously challenging golf course is practically in their backyard.

"We're intimidated by the big golf courses," says Fried, 68. Instead, he and his wife, Beverly, 66, enjoy the relaxing 18-hole, par-3 Cedar Beach Pitch and Putt in Babylon. The course is less stressful than...