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Construction Begins at Rod Myers Training Center
8/31/2010 10:14:00 AM | Men's Golf, Women's Golf
DURHAM, N.C. – The Rod Myers Training Center, which is used by the Duke men's and women's golf programs, has kicked off a major renovation of the driving range, bunkers and chipping green. The target completion date is the beginning of the spring semester.
“We wanted to redesign the range landing area in order to make it visually stimulating and create realistic views for a practice session, which would more closely mimic play,” commented Duke Head Men's Golf Coach Jamie Green. “And ultimately give the player as many diverse and target-appropriate views as we could manage within our space.”
The Rod Myers building is a heated indoor facility equipped with the latest video and teaching software technology (V1) as well as the best-selling launch monitor (Trackman). The Duke Golf Teams' practice area will be improved to become a state-of-the-art facility for the golfers to maximize their potential.
Listed below are some of the improvements to the areas:
Driving Range:
• Better layout of the landing area and targets by creating a visual of a long fairway with several slightly elevated greens on both sides.
• Target greens protected by deep bunkers forcing players to work on carry yardages and attacking tucked pins.
• Laser-level the teeing ground.
• Three (3) challenging pitching greens close to the tee area allowing players to work a variety of “100 yards and in” shots to multiple pin flags from all angles.
• Dig down in front of the teeing ground to acquire fill dirt and effectively remove the close wedge target green (preserving its materials for placement elsewhere).
Chipping Green:
• Current chipping green is being resodded and redesigned to lessen the severity of the slopes.
• All areas around the chipping green will be utilized for a large variety of shots such as downhill, uphill, side hill lies, long chip-and-run shots, flop shots, first cut lies and deep rough lies. The steep hills around the current chipping green will be eliminated by creating a few mounds and flatter grounds in between. After the renovations are completed, the whole practice chipping area will be used more efficiently.
• One of the bunkers will be deep enough to encourage players to practice high sand shots.
Bunkers:
• Move the fairway bunker in front of our teeing ground to a more “user-friendly” place between the putting green and the teeing ground
• Greenside bunkers will be slightly relocated and there will be three types of sand to practice from.
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“We wanted to redesign the range landing area in order to make it visually stimulating and create realistic views for a practice session, which would more closely mimic play,” commented Duke Head Men's Golf Coach Jamie Green. “And ultimately give the player as many diverse and target-appropriate views as we could manage within our space.”
The Rod Myers building is a heated indoor facility equipped with the latest video and teaching software technology (V1) as well as the best-selling launch monitor (Trackman). The Duke Golf Teams' practice area will be improved to become a state-of-the-art facility for the golfers to maximize their potential.
Listed below are some of the improvements to the areas:
Driving Range:
• Better layout of the landing area and targets by creating a visual of a long fairway with several slightly elevated greens on both sides.
• Target greens protected by deep bunkers forcing players to work on carry yardages and attacking tucked pins.
• Laser-level the teeing ground.
• Three (3) challenging pitching greens close to the tee area allowing players to work a variety of “100 yards and in” shots to multiple pin flags from all angles.
• Dig down in front of the teeing ground to acquire fill dirt and effectively remove the close wedge target green (preserving its materials for placement elsewhere).
Chipping Green:
• Current chipping green is being resodded and redesigned to lessen the severity of the slopes.
• All areas around the chipping green will be utilized for a large variety of shots such as downhill, uphill, side hill lies, long chip-and-run shots, flop shots, first cut lies and deep rough lies. The steep hills around the current chipping green will be eliminated by creating a few mounds and flatter grounds in between. After the renovations are completed, the whole practice chipping area will be used more efficiently.
• One of the bunkers will be deep enough to encourage players to practice high sand shots.
Bunkers:
• Move the fairway bunker in front of our teeing ground to a more “user-friendly” place between the putting green and the teeing ground
• Greenside bunkers will be slightly relocated and there will be three types of sand to practice from.
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