The driving range at Pine Ridge Golf Club in Coram is torn up on purpose right now, stripped to new soil and fresh seed, and the operator that tore it up has set a date for its return: Saturday, September 26. When it reopens, the range at 2 Golf Course Drive will be the start of something Long Island public golf has not really seen outside a Topgolf: an interactive practice facility bolted onto a real 18-hole course, with autonomous food-delivery robots and GPS carts in the plans behind it.

The paperwork that says this is real

On September 16, Pine Ridge Golf Group LLC filed an application with the New York State Liquor Authority for a golf venue license at the Coram property. A pending application is not a granted one, but it is the formal marker of the transformation underway: the new operating company putting its own liquor license on the building rather than running on the old one. It is the same pattern this publication watches across the Island, where the filing shows up weeks before the announcement does. In Pine Ridge's case, the announcements have actually been arriving all summer.

Kelley Brooke's sixth Long Island operation

Brooke Management Group took over Pine Ridge on June 22. The company is run by Kelley Brooke, and if the name is familiar, it is because her operation already touches a striking amount of Long Island golf: instruction and pro shop operations at Bethpage State Park since 2018, the complex whose Black Course hosted the Ryder Cup last fall, plus Montauk Downs, Harbor Links in Port Washington, Merrick Road Park in the Town of Hempstead, and Lido, which the company added in 2024. Pine Ridge is the sixth facility, and the first where the company is remaking essentially everything at once.

The stated plan is a multiphase overhaul of the roughly 20-year-old course and its amenities: Pinehurst-style waste bunkering, upgraded irrigation, covered range stalls with in-bay shot-tracking technology, night practice, GPS-equipped carts, a founding membership program, and Golf Channel Academy instruction arriving in 2027. A founding membership program is selling preferred pricing and perks ahead of the rebuild, and the course is being rebranded with a new logo along the way. The pitch is a public course that feels like a private club without the initiation fee.

The kitchen came back first

The fastest change is already open. The restaurant at Pine Ridge, now called The Clubhouse, reopened in mid-July, roughly three and a half weeks after the takeover, after its kitchen had sat idle for years. Brooke brought in executive chef Brock Katz from Harbor Links, and culinary direction comes from corporate executive chef John Perez, whose resume runs through Keens Steakhouse and The Mark by Jean-Georges in Manhattan.

The menu is gastropub-shaped rather than halfway-house-hot-dog-shaped: cheeseburger eggrolls, tuna tacos, wings, a lobster roll and a house Pine Burger. The Clubhouse is open Tuesday through Sunday, runs a dedicated brunch menu Sunday mornings from 10 to 3, and welcomes the surrounding community, not just golfers. The club also plans autonomous delivery robots to carry food and drinks out to players mid-round, which may be the most 2026 sentence ever written about Coram.

What September 26 actually opens

The range rebuild is the visible first phase. The turf is being regrown from the ground up, and the reopened range is slated to carry Inrange interactive technology, the ball-tracking system that turns a bucket of balls into games and data. A planned pedestrian bridge would eventually connect the range to the restaurant, making the practice-then-dinner loop a single property in a way the old Pine Ridge never was.

For anyone in the Coram, Selden and Middle Island stretch of Suffolk County, the practical version is this: the golf course down the road is becoming a place you might go on a Friday night without owning clubs. The range comes back September 26 if the new turf cooperates. The gastropub is open now. The robots are on the way.