Cleanup of the nearly 1.7 million square feet that anchored the 2025 Ryder Cup was in full swing this week after some 250,000 fans traversed Bethpage State Park for a three-day event that required the golf facility to undergo a major transformation.

Bethpage Black hosted the Ryder Cup from Sept. 26 through 28, with Team Europe hailing as victorious . But the contest, held every two years on a different course, required an entire village to be built inside the facility for everything from bleachers to merchandise and food concessions to the hundreds of portable bathrooms for fans following the players for miles around the course.

And since Bethpage is a public course, the pressure is on to return the Black and the other courses in the park, the less challenging Red, Blue, Green and Yell

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