Other sports thumb|Preparing for the Belmont Stakes horse race, the final leg of the Triple Crown, at Belmont Park, in April 2005 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.
Other sports thumb|Preparing for the Belmont Stakes horse race, the final leg of the Triple Crown, at Belmont Park, in April 2005 Long Island has a wide variety of golf courses found all over the island. Two of the most well-known are the Sh.innecock 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.