— WARNING — Bethpage Black’s iconic signal is leaving Lengthy Island.
The 200,000-plus followers planning to attend subsequent week’s Ryder Cup and pose in entrance of one in every of golf’s most well-known indicators — WARNING — The Black Course Is An Extraordinarily Troublesome Course Which We Suggest Solely For Extremely Expert Golfers — will probably be dissatisfied to be taught that the long-standing placard affixed to the railing behind the primary tee at Bethpage Black has quickly been eliminated due to the development of a 5,000-seat grandstand, which is able to wrap across the first tee and the 18th inexperienced, obstructing the placement of the decades-old signal that pulls golfers across the globe.
“The signal is gone,” Ryder Cup Director Bryan Karns informed The Put up. “The Ryder Cup will use a model new [first] tee that’s 40 yards in entrance of the present tee. If we had constructed that grandstand with the present tee, it could virtually go into the clubhouse. [The sign] would’ve been beneath the grandstands. It simply wouldn’t have labored out.”
As golf’s highlight shines on Lengthy Island, Bethpage Black’s legendary signal will probably be in Manhattan, featured in Rockefeller Middle on the Ryder Cup Dwell Fan Zone, which opens Sept. 25 and can run by the occasion’s last matches on Sept. 28.
Duplicate indicators will probably be displayed at Bethpage.
“Folks can take photographs with it,” Karns stated. “It simply received’t be the unique one on the authentic location.”
