Re: Our MEN's Golf Team . . .

Yes Sir. Watching all day, I was really excited how we finished round 2. I just knew that would carry into rnd 3. Our "team " golf has been miserable. Each round we've had at least 2 that's had bad rounds.

Thanks for posting that about Bama and ga tech. I guess a Justin Thomas has its perks too. That tells me a lot. Obviously Tech made the decision to make the investment. These are the kind of things that being in the sec or b1g can do for you. I keep seeing people post on here that Clemson has plenty of money yada yada and money's not the problem. Maybe that's true, idk. But if so, it's going to football and basketball. Which I certainly understand, but when you're in the big 2 conferences, there's plenty for the other sports.

Really appreciate your insight. Depressing but helpful in understanding. Wonder what Neff's plans are for our golf teams... M & W. ??? It's been several years since I've been down. But honestly, I was disappointed with the facilities in and around the clubhouse. Felt it was dated looking... watched a couple of guys practicing etc on the range across from track but brushed it off that I was missing a lot. Guess I wasn't.

Wonder where our facilities would rank against other teams?

Thanks again.

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Feb 18, 2025, 6:15 PM

CGA ..... Our actual practice facilities are fine and compared to other facilities I think we are in decent shape, but space is limited and with the distances the men hit the ball now, there is only so much room where it is now located. Another "little" issue is that the players hit from tees on both ends of the range and target greens can really only be oriented to play from in one direction. Therefore, the target greens on our range are not ideal because they have to serve being hit at from opposite directions. Think of greens on a golf course if you had to hit to them from the opposite direction...... not good! From the tee closest to the clubhouse, the tee on the other end is only 228 yards so the men and probably most of the women can't hit drivers or fairway woods from there (or longer irons). From the far tee, it is about 275 yards to the far left corner, but it gets quite narrow there.

The short game area has one Bentgrass green that is significantly large, an Utlradwarf Bermuda chipping green with two sand bunkers, and an Ultradwarf Bermuda putting green. They can literally practice about every short shot they need on that facility. I guess other universities now have caught up or passed, in a relatively short period of time, with a new "bling" to entice young impressionable golfers to come to their school. I'd like to hear Jordan's take on what is happening.

Finally, our team members have some nice places to play and the Walker Course is an outstanding college golf course ..... one of the best. But it stays extremely busy, relatively short for college golfers, and has Diamond Zoysia greens, which our golf teams never play on, so it is not used by our golf teams to practice on. I'm not sure about the women, but I don't think they play there much ..... maybe some, don't know.

Final note ...... with all of the new construction on campus and running out of room, I guess we could wonder how long some of the existing facilities that take up a good bit off acreage will be still be viable for their present use. Who knows what may happen a few years from now.

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