’Hawks return home to Alvamar

Public golf course, driving range reopen in time for team’s NCAA practice

By Tim Hall

Tuesday, May 3, 2005



Alvamar Golf Club will officially open to the public tomorrow after finishing renovations to the driving range and greens. The men’s golf team will take advantage of the changes and practice for the NCAA Central Regionals May 19-21.

The men’s golf team can now return to its home course at Alvamar Golf Club since the new greens were unveiled during the weekend.

The team will begin practicing on the home course tomorrow, when the course officially opens to the public.

Alvamar Golf Club, 1800 Crossgate Dr., closed down its public golf course and driving range for renovations in October. For seven months, the team has done its golfing at Alvamar’s “private side,” as it’s referred to by members.

The new range is now open and ready to use. The project was completed by Landscapes Unlimited in Lincoln, Neb., a company that specializes in golf course renovations.

The improvements to the range include a flatter surface, which makes it easier to follow ball flight, improved yardage markings and four new target greens.

Both the men’s and women’s teams will use the facility as their home driving range, with their own private hitting tees on the north end of the range.

Morgan Minnis, assistant golf professional at Alvamar, said the renovations to the driving range would help increase business for the course as a whole.

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“It’s a first-class, full-boat facility,” Minnis said. “It will allow golfers to hit from three different areas at six different targets and give them the ability to practice every shot imaginable.”

Men’s coach Ross Randall helped direct the completion of the facility. He said the finished product was going to be terrific for his players.

Randall said players didn’t have visibility on the old range. The biggest change with the new range is that the contour of the land will help the players see their shot better than before, he said.

“It’s really aesthetically attractive to look at,” Randall said. “The nice thing about this new range is that it doesn’t look like one. It looks like a golf course.”

The opening of the new greens and range comes in time for the men’s golf team to use it to practice for the NCAA Central Regionals, which are May 19 through 21.

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