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Lambrecht's modern photos are an awesome complement to the historic images in "America's Linksland." Great stuff. Quirin also wrote "Golf Courses of the MGA." Not exclusively Long Island but "Missing Links" (and "Lost Links") by Daniel Wexler has great info on some of the lost/modified courses from the early 1900s, like Meadowbrook and Timber Point. "Images of America: Long Island Golf" mentioned above has some interesting images I've never seen before, including aerials of places like Lido, Montauk Downs and Bethpage pre-Black. There's also a cool map showing how the military divvied up Lido when it took over during WWII.

"America's Linksland: A Century of Long Island Golf" by William Quirin is a fantastic history of public and private golf on Long Island. Touches on the background of many of the established clubs going back to the 1890s. Lots of details on the birth of Bethpage. I believe it was written right before the 2002 Open. A recently published book called "Images of America: Long Island Golf" is more of a photo-history but also discusses the history going back into the 1890s, and also includes a lot of information and photography on extinct courses that have been gone for decades.