The golf learning, practice and club-fitting facility includes indoor and outdoor bays, a grass teaching area tee box, and a host of high-tech teaching aids.
Prestonwood Country Club, Cary, N.C., has opened a new Golf Learning Center designed to provide members of all playing ability with a multi-disciplinary and personalized approach for improving their games. The 2,500-sq.-ft. building includes indoor and outdoor bays, and a 10,000-sq.-ft. grass teaching area tee box. Technological features made available in the center include a V1 swing analysis video system, indoor putting studio with the S.A.M. PuttLab putting analysis system, S.A.M. BalanceLab, K-Vest, and TrackMan launch monitor.
Architect Erich Wilkinson—along with Larry Conner, Director of Golf Operations, Golf Instructor Tom Ream and Prestonwood General Manager Matt Massei, who was formerly Director of Golf at the Pinehurst Resort—visited and researched other notable golf learning facilities up and down the East Coast, including Pinehurst and Pine Needles, for design models. “We got a good footprint and we modified it for the space we had here,” said Conner, Prestonwood’s Director of Golf since 2008. “We can now safely say we offer complete game-improvement programs to meet all our members’ needs.”
Prestonwood’s golf learning philosophy focuses on five core instruction areas, including long game, short game, putting, golf fitness and club fitting. The club specializes in offering customized, one- to four-day game improvement programs for individuals and groups, as well as year-round golf clinics and member-sponsored corporate golf programs. In addition, Prestonwood offers strength training and golf-specific exercise programs from its Titleist Performance Institute Certified Instructor, Mike Barker.
Prestonwood has hosted the SAS Championship PGA Champions Tour event for the past 10 years, and has also hosted the Nationwide Tour and qualifying events for the U.S. Open.
Originally designed in 1987 by architect Tom Jackson, the club’s three golf courses underwent recent renovations by Prestonwood resident and member Rick Robbins, a former Jack Nicklaus design protégé who has achieved worldwide success since going out on his own. The Meadows Course reopened in 2009 and the Fairways Course, along with the Club’s PGA Family Tee Course, reopened in fall of 2010. The Highlands Course is currently under renovation and will re-open in September 2011.
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