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Men's Golf Facilities
Grandover Resort (www.grandover.com)
Grandover Resort (right) is the new home course for UNCG men's
golf and the new home to the UNCG Bridgestone Golf Collegiate. The
host of the 2011 NCAA Division III men's championship, Grandover
will also host an NCAA Division I men's regional in May, 2012.
The public areas of the Grandover depict a grand, European style
castle. The elegant lobby evokes an old world feel, with a
contrasting floor pattern of Italian travertine, Tazmanian gold
limestone and black granite, combined with large columns of Spanish
marble. Chandeliers, lamp posts and gilded iron work further
enhance the décor. Signed, original oil paintings show a
variety of historic life in and about the grand old hotels of
Europe.
Memorable Meetings
Grandover has been designed from the onset to function as a first
class conference center, with meeting rooms to suit every need.
Thirty-six holes of world class golf are right outside your door.
Designed by world renowned golf architects David Graham and Gary
Panks and built amidst our 1500 acres of oaks, pine and dogwood
covered hills, the courses provide a blaze of color and assure
golfers they are in the Carolinas, America's heartland of golf.
Share stunning panoramas with the deer and fox in this golfer's
paradise.
Any Way You Look At It…It's a Grand Resort
Discover a picturesque resort nestled among 1500 acres of oak,
pine and dogwood covered hills. Designed in a European style, the
resort makes a remarkable impression rising above the North
Carolina foothills.
Grandover is the perfect location, with exquisite guest rooms, a
full complement of exciting recreational activities and
uncompromising service.
Forest Oaks Country Club
Carved from North Carolina hardwoods by noted architect Ellis Maples, Forest Oaks opened in 1962 to wide acclaim. It was already known as one of the best tests of golf in a state known for great golf tests when it became the home course of the venerable Greater Greensboro Open in 1977. It served as a PGA Tour stop for more than 30 years.
As the golf course matured, alterations to the course were necessary. In 2002, the job of restoring the course to all its glory was assigned to Davis Love III’s Love Design Group.
Having played the course numerous times in college, and later as a member of the PGA TOUR, Love had the advantage of a historical perspective in working on the course redesign. He also had the benefit of hearing the opinions, suggestions and comments from literally hundreds of touring professionals. In the end, however, he relied most heavily on his own golfer's eye and instincts.
Working with design associate Paul Cowley, Love answered the key concerns of his touring professionals. At the same time, Love brought his understanding of what was needed to balance the demands of tournament golf with the needs of building a members course. Forest Oaks is, first and foremost, a member's course, and that was the primary motivation in Love's redesign.
"The goal was to make a great course more aesthetically pleasing and also improve the nature of the strategic test," said Cowley. "It's really the older, more traditional courses that professionals like Davis enjoy, and that's what why we went back to some of the original Maples design while incorporating some tried and tested classical elements."
So, while the championship tees and fairways have been positioned to move the turns in the doglegs to a distance that can challenge the 300-plus-yard drives of the touring professionals, the members’ tees have been positioned to make cutting those doglegs well within reach of the double-digit handicapper.
One thing professionals and members alike can agree on — the conditioning of the fairways and greens is superb. The fairways have been re-sprigged with Tift Sport Bermuda grass, a strain that handles the extremes of summer heat and winter wetness better than the old local strains. As a result, the fairways can be cut lower and smoother than ever before. The new greens have been planted with a mix of A4 and A1 bentgrass, which offers a faster and truer surface than the old Penn Links bentgrass.
Coddled and nurtured year-round under the supervision of Geoff Dail, Forest Oaks’s golf course superintendent, the fairways are so well groomed that some new members are reluctant to take divots, and the greens are so smooth, they feel they ought to remove their shoes before walking on them. In fact, player satisfaction is so high that the readers of Golf World magazine give it a rating or 4.7 out of a possible 5.0.
Ernie Edwards Learning Facility at Bryan Park GC
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The ultimate game improvement facility can only be found in one place ... Bryan Park's Ernie Edwards Learning Center.
The brand new Ernie Edwards Learning Center features two climate-controlled hitting bays and two outdoor hitting bays. The facility features the latest in learning technology and is considered one of the top teaching centers on the East Coast.
Bryan Park also has a 27-acre Practice and Learning Facility with more than 12 acres of grass teeing area and 10 target greens. Practice bunkers and chipping areas are also available. This facility is overwhelmingly admired as one of the finest in the area and is open on a year-round basis.
Bur-Mil Park Practice Studio
The new addition to UNCG's off-campus practice venues is the Bur-Mil Park Practice Studio. Located at the City of Greensboro's Bur-Mil Park northwest of the downtown area, the facility includes three indoor hitting bays, an indoor putting green, areas for multiple camera video analysis and outdoor facilities that include a lighted driving range, grass and mat outdoor hitting areas and putting and chipping practice greens.
