“The Jerry Pate Center is a state-of-the-art training facility that aids our players and program in many ways. The full-swing and shortgame practice areas are outstanding and there is room for our entire team to practice indoors with six hitting bays and two putting rooms. The Pate Center also provides our team a newly expanded hitting, chipping, pitching and bunker areas. This practice area allows us to hit our own golf balls, which is invaluable on approach shots. We can also work on flat or uneven lies to target greens up to 200 yards away.” Mic Potter Head Women’s Golf Coach
The Jerry Pate Golf Center at the newly renovated Ol’ Colony Golf Complex provides the University of Alabama women’s golf team with one of the best practice and playing facilities in collegiate golf. The Pate Golf Center is a private facility that is only utilized by the Alabama golf teams. The Pate Golf Center provides plenty of space for both the men’s and women’s teams with the ability to conduct full practice sessions during inclement weather. The facility has six indoor hitting bays and two indoor putting surfaces. The Pate Golf Center is also equipped with state-of-the-art teaching tools, including the V1 Swing Analysis System, the SAM Putting Lab and Trackman, which aides the coaching staff in ball flight analysis using doppler radar and club fitting. The locker rooms inside the Pate Golf Center feature tour-sized lockers and all of the amenities, while the lounge area includes comfortable seating and a large-screen television.
A Closer Look at the Pate Center Indoor hitting and putting facility
Indoor hitting and putting facility
The Ol’ Colony Golf Course was named one of the “Top 5 Best New Public Courses in America” by Golf Digest in 2001 and Golfweek named it one of the top-50 municipal courses in America in 2010. The Jerry Pate-designed course is considered one of the best public courses in the nation. The course is a test for even the most advanced golfer with large bunkers, mature trees and numerous water hazards, including a 25-acre lake that challenges almost every shot. The practice range at the Pate Golf Center, which already provides the Crimson Tide golfers all of the practice components and tools needed to develop, recently finished an expansion and renovation. The practice facility includes a full practice range, putting greens, a chipping area and practice bunkers. The Jerry Pate Golf Center recently has added a new putting green with an expanded chipping and hitting area. The new chipping and hitting areas are complete with new bunkers and practice tees that allow players to hit their own golf balls up to 200 yards into six new target greens.
Expanded Hitting, chipping, pitching & Bunker Area
Locker Rooms
Lounge
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