Long Island has a wide variety of
golf courses found all over the island. Two of the most well-known are the
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club and the public
Bethpage Black Course that has hosted multiple
U.S. Open tournaments and several other top level international championships. Queens also hosts one of the four
tennis grand slams, the
US Open. Every August (September, in Olympic years) the best tennis players in the world travel to Long Island to play the championships held at the
USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, adjacent to
Citi Field in
Flushing Meadows Park. The complex also contains the biggest tennis stadium in the world, the
Arthur Ashe Stadium.
