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College golf facilities: Kent State Golden Flashes

Check out Kent State University’s Ferrara & Page Golf Training & Learning Center, home of the men’s and women’s golf teams.

Opened in 2007, the Ferrara & Page Golf Training & Learning Center houses both men’s and women’s teams at Kent State University in Northeast Ohio.

Covering 45 acres, the outdoor area features a 350-yard tree-lined practice range (to create a real fairway feel) with four Bentgrass target greens with greenside bunkers and swales positioned to simulate different distances. There’s also a 10,000-square foot putting green and short-game practice area.

During frigid falls and wicked winters, players can move to the 8,000-square foot indoor facility which features heated hitting bays and a 3,000-square foot practice green and chipping area, along with locker and team rooms for the men and women. Players can further analyze their game in the video room, or work out in the exercise area.

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Photos: Kent State practice facility

College golf facilities: Florida State Seminoles

Check out Florida State University’s Dave Middleton Golf Center, home of the men’s and women’s golf teams.

Opened in 2001, the Dave Middleton Golf Center houses the Seminole Legacy Golf Club clubhouse and is also the home of the men’s and women’s golf teams. Fit with locker rooms and a team lounge and study area, the building also features an indoor teaching and technology center, weight room, training room and coaches offices.

If you step outside, you’ll find a 19-acre private facility for team use only. Players can practice on a full length driving range with two fairways and six target greens, as well as on the Nicklaus-designed 12-hole short course.

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Florida State golf facility

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12-hole short course

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College golf facilities: Ball State Cardinals

Check out the Earl Yestingsmeier Golf Center, home of the men’s and women’s golf teams.

The Earl Yestingsmeier Golf Center opened in late 2017 on the Ball State University campus in Muncie, Indiana. The 6,500 square foot golf training facility features indoor hitting bays for up to five players, a state-of-the-art technology-based simulator studio, putting lab/platform, a 2,200 square foot short game area, locker and restroom facilities for the women’s and men’s teams, a dedicated meeting/study room, player lounge and club repair room.

The facility bears the name of longtime golf coach and Ball State alum Yestingsmeier, who passed away in 2014. Yestingsmeier coached the Ball State men’s golf team for 36 years until his retirement in 1998. Remarkably, he spent 31 of those years in a dual role as the university’s sports information director (a role he held full-time from 1959 to 1963, before he was hired as men’s golf coach).

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Photos: Ball state practice facility

Inside the Earl Yestingsmeier Golf Center.

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College golf facilities: Tennessee Volunteers

Check out Tennessee men’s and women’s golf’s incredible practice facility and clubhouse along the Tennessee River.

When it comes to Tennessee golf, there are two places you need to know: The Blackburn-Furrow Golf Clubhouse and the Mack & Jonnie Day Golf Practice Facility.

The 8,300-square-foot Blackburn-Furrow Golf Clubhouse opened in 2019 and is less than a mile from campus along the Tennessee River. The clubhouse features a 1,000-square-foot hitting bay equipped with Trackman, swing-analysis technology, video capabilities and a Putt View virtual-putting green. The facility also has locker rooms for the men’s and women’s golf teams, as well as meeting areas, a team lounge and coaches’ offices. The Vols and Lady Vols each have their own individual lounge areas, which look out over the facility and Tennessee River.

The Mack & Jonnie Day Golf Practice Facility is a a 28-acre, $4.5 million layout. The practice course was designed by Greg Norman’s group and opened in November 2010. The practice area includes three holes, four Bentgrass and two Bermuda grass greens, two dedicated wedge practice areas and uses the same sand as Augusta National Golf Club.

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Photos: Tennessee practice facility

College golf facilities: Bucknell Bison

Check out Bucknell University’s Bachman Golf Center, home of the men’s and women’s golf teams.

Opened in 2011, the Bachman Golf Center is a multi-purpose, indoor/outdoor facility adjacent to the Bucknell Golf Course’s practice range, just across the road from the 11th hole of the Bucknell Golf Club in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

The 5,600 square-foot building is the home of the men’s and women’s golf teams, complete with locker rooms and coaches’ offices, and features a video-equipped swing diagnostic area, indoor putting green and hitting bays, and a conference room.

Outside the facility is a 16,000-square-foot practice tee, a new 10,000-square-foot, two-tiered putting green and a 5,700-square-foot short-game practice green with bunkers.

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Photos: Bucknell practice facility

College golf facilities: University of the Pacific

Check out the Walter Chang Golf and Learning Center, home of the University of Pacific golf teams.

The Pacific men’s golf program opened its new Walter Chang Golf and Learning Center in Stockton, California, early in 2020. The facility – named after the program’s long-time supporter, Walter Chang, who earned his bachelor’s degree from the Eberhardt School of Business in 1982 – totals 4,200 square feet and features coaches offices, a conference room, team lounge, locker room, alumni locker room, a kitchen and three hitting bays with swing-analysis technology.

The project began in 2017 with the dedication of the Dr. Glen Albaugh Short Game Area. That area includes three chipping greens and space to putt. Diverse terrain, which includes seven bunkers as well as Bermudagrass greens, allows Pacific players to practice an array of shots there.

Photos: University of the Pacific practice facility

University of the Pacific golf facilities — Inside the Walter Chang Golf and Learning Center at the University of the Pacific. (Photo: Pacific Athletics)

University of the Pacific golf facility — Inside the Walter Chang Golf and Learning Center at the University of the Pacific. (Photo: Pacific Athletics)

College golf facilities: Illinois Fighting Illini

Check out the University of Illinois’ Demirjian Indoor and Lauritsen/Wohlers Outdoor training facilities.

At the University of Illinois’ Demirjian Indoor and Lauritsen/Wohlers Outdoor training facilities, players can work on any aspect of their game, any time they want.

Indoor Features: The 16,000 square foot Demirjian Indoor facility opened in 2008 and features a team lounge, Hall of Champions, club repair room, locker rooms and coaches offices, six hitting bays for year-round practice and an impressive short game area. According to men’s coach Mike Small, players can hit anything from 40-yard pitches and four-yard chips to putts ranging from 3-80 feet. Don’t forget about the kitchen, aka, “Illini Fuel Station.”

Outdoor Features: The 24-acre Lauritsen/Wohlers Outdoor training facility features a complex short game practice area and multiple tees and fairways with the ability to emulate any situation. The 360-degree facility also allows the teams to practice in various wind conditions.

Photos: Illinois practice facility

College golf facilities: Purdue Boilermakers

With extensive indoor and outdoor practice areas, check out the Purdue Boilermakers’ practice facility for the men’s and women’s golf teams.

The Tom Spurgeon Training Center was opened in 2005 and is the home of both the men’s and women’s golf teams at Purdue.

Indoor Features: The Spurgeon Center features five public hitting bays, as well as three Purdue-only bays. The indoor putting room has 18 hole locations. The 11,400 square-foot training center also has team locker rooms and coaches offices, a team lounge and a classroom with a 30-person capacity.

Outdoor Features: The Purdue golf teams have tee locations on the opposite side of the range. There’s also a short game area, including a large putting green and 120-yard area to hit full and half shots into a separate putting green, flanked by bunkers.

The outdoor range allows for up to 60 people to hit on grass at one time. With the artificial mats, there are spots for up to 40 people. The public driving range golf shop is on the West end of the building and also includes a club repair shop and a ball washing/storage room.

College golf facilities: Iowa State Cyclones

The Cyclone Golf Performance Center is one of the nation’s best, featuring indoor and outdoor practice areas for every shot imaginable.

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The Cyclone Golf Performance Center has been home to Iowa State men’s and women’s golf since 2013. The facility sits on 16 acres just three miles from campus and was designed by Keith Foster.

Indoor Features: 400-square foot short game area, four hitting bays heated for year-round use, simulator with video analysis and other learning technology, locker room and club repair area, lounge, kitchen and study area.

Outdoor Features: Practice range (780 yards long and 200 yards wide), 360-degree tee stations for all wind directions, two fairways and multiple bunkers with different types of sand, 11 different green complexes inspired by five different architects, wedge area with three target greens.

College golf facilities: Oklahoma Sooners

Named after Oklahoma legend Charlie Coe, the Sooners’ practice facility has long been a model for collegiate golf facilities.

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Named after Charlie Coe, who played at Oklahoma from 1946-48 and was one of the best amateur golfers of his era, the 7,000-square foot Charlie Coe Golf Learning Center opened in 1997, but don’t let that date fool you. You wouldn’t think the facility is 23 years old.

Indoor Features: Three hitting bays with a video system that provides consistently clear images and immediate feedback, locker rooms and offices for both the men’s and women’s golf teams and numerous items documenting Oklahoma’s collegiate golf history.

Outdoor Features: Expansive practice area designed exclusively for the Sooners is 225 yards wide and 90 yards deep, two satellite chipping greens as well as a 12,000-square foot bent grass chipping area with seven bunkers. There is also a bent grass and Bermuda grass putting green.