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The Only Thing Weirder Than A Golf Course On Governors Island Is That Dennis Quaid Is Hollywood’s Best Golfer

I don’t know how you forget about an entire golf course, but whatever:

It’s tee time on Governors Island, where a long-forgotten golf course will be revived for a celebrity competition this fall.

The Manhattan Golf Classic on Governors Island, announced yesterday for Oct. 22, will pit female champs Annika Sorenstam and Natalie Gulbis in an 18-hole battle of the sexes against actor Dennis Quaid, rated Hollywood’s best player by Golf Digest, and another star yet to be named.

Actors Craig T. Nelson and Bruce McGill, who was the rowdy D-Day in “Animal House,” will be among those squaring off in a four-man celebrity contest also being planned.

. . .

ArenaCorp Holdings, which is paying $75,000 plus expenses for use of the island, will restore the nine-hole course last used by Coast Guard officers before the service left in 1996.

The nine holes, spanning a relatively compact 10 acres or so, will do double duty by rearranging the tee approaches and placement of the pins.

“We’ve been able to embrace the historic character of the property . . . with meandering holes around Fort Jay, the skyline and the Statue of Liberty,” said Robert McNeil, president of The Northeast Golf Co., which is helping to restore the course.

Posted: May 25th, 2006 | Filed under: Dude, That's So Weird
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