<p>I have a D who is a high school junior and starting to look at schools, including Alabama. One of her interests is golf. She’s not interested in or anywhere close to good enough for collegiate competition, but she likes to play and is on her high school team. I noticed on the website that there is no club sport for golf. It looked like there might be intramurals, but maybe just a tournament or two over the course of the year rather than anything regular. Any golfers out there? Does anyone know anything about golfing opportunities at Bama?</p>
<p>[ALABAMA</a> CRIMSON TIDE - University of Alabama Official Athletic Site - Facilities](<a href=“http://www.rolltide.com/facilities/golf-center.html]ALABAMA”>http://www.rolltide.com/facilities/golf-center.html)</p>
<p>I found this, which to me would suggest that there must be something available at the club or intramural level… (I didn’t even know Bama had its own golf course! LOL ) I would contact the rec center to ask for specific info.</p>
<p>Here’s a link of FAQ that includes how to form an intramural team if desired.</p>
<p>[Student</a> Affairs | University Recreation Center](<a href=“http://urec.sa.ua.edu/intramuralfaq.cfm]Student”>http://urec.sa.ua.edu/intramuralfaq.cfm)</p>
<p>*Additionally, the **University of Alabama Golf Center **is a bargain for students and faculty alike. The scenic layout makes this course enjoyable to play even for the high handicappers. What makes these courses even better is that they are all affordable, as it is possible to play at any of them for less than $20. *</p>
<p>*The University of Alabama - Jerry Pate Golf Center</p>
<p>Maps & Directions | Photo Gallery
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Jerry Pate Golf Center**</p>
<p>A top team needs excellent facilities in order to compete at the highest levels of collegiate golf. Thanks to exceptional support by donors and the athletic department, the University of Alabama’s men’s and women’s golf teams enjoy the use of one of the nation’s finest practice facilities while also enjoying a home course that ranks among the finest public courses in the nation.</p>
<p>The Alabama men’s and women’s golf teams can boast one of the nation’s top courses as their home course in Ol’ Colony Golf Course, named one of the “Top 5 Best New Public Courses in America” by Golf Digest in 2001. Enhancing their home course is the state-of-the-art Jerry Pate Golf Center.</p>
<p>Officially opened on November 19, 2004, for exclusive use by the University of Alabama men’s and women’s golf teams, the Jerry Pate Golf Center is also one of the top practice facilities in the nation. The center provides plentiful open space for the men’s and women’s teams as well as the ability to have full practice sessions inside or out depending on the weather. The facility features a quality hitting and putting practice facility, a swing analysis studio, private driving range, putting green and short-game area, coaches’ offices, men’s and women’s team locker rooms, and a media/entertainment area with couches, club chairs and flat-screen television.</p>
<p>The center, named after the course’s designer and former Crimson Tide golfer Jerry Pate, is a $1 million dollar project funded by the Alabama Golf Charities, a non-profit 501(c3) organization headed by Mike Thompson. The course is considered one of the best public courses in the nation and was designed to be a test to even the best of golfers with large bunkers, mature trees and numerous water hazards; including a 25-acre lake on the course that is a challenge on almost every shot.</p>
<p>Recent Renovations
The Pate Golf Center is undergoing another expansion to be completed by August of 2010. The renovation will expand the chipping and hitting area, complete with new bunkers and practices tees that will allow players to hit their own gold balls up to 200 yards into six new targets.*</p>
<p>I also found this which isn’t any help…</p>
<p>**
Jun 3 2010
Women’s golf completes historic season**</p>
<p>The University’s women’s golf team recently completed a successful season, finishing No. 3 in the country. It was the Tide’s best year in school history, eclipsing its No. 9 finish in 1987.</p>
<p>The team finished the NCAA Championship with a 5-over-par 1,157, which was 50 strokes better than the previous best showing for Alabama at this event.</p>
<p>Head coach Mic Potter described this season, his fifth at the Capstone, as surprising.</p>
<p>“I thought we had a good group of players, and by the end of the season, they began to complement each other,” he said.</p>
<p>~snipped~</p>
<p>Public:</p>
<p>Ol’ Colony Golf Course 562-3202
Tannehill National 477-4653
U of A Golf Center 348-4653
Mimosa Golf Course 752-8112
Hidden Meadows Golf Course 339-3673</p>
<p>Private:</p>
<p>Country Club of Tuscaloosa 759-5535
Indian Hills Country Club 349-1504
NorthRiver Yacht Club 345-0202
Woodland Forrest Country Club 556-1232</p>
<p>Practice Ranges:</p>
<p>Delmar Golf Training Facility 349-4653
Hillcrest Golf Center 344-6502
Lakeside Driving Range 333-6933 </p>
<p>[Robert</a> Trent Jones Golf Trail](<a href=“http://www.rtjgolf.com/]Robert”>http://www.rtjgolf.com/)</p>
<p>My D was signed up for this class but had to drop it this semester… it sounded really cool…</p>
<p>UA Students to Tee Off, Thanks to Grant from Ryder Cup-PGA Play Golf America
July 15, 2009 - Filed under: Faculty & Staff, Research, Students | Tagged: College of Education, Kinesiology</p>
<p>Shown on the 17th hole at Ol’ Colony Golf Course are (L-R) Don Kelly, executive director of Tuscaloosa Parks and Recreation, Bart Rottier, executive director of the PGA Dixie Section, Dr. Matt Curtner-Smith of UA, and John Gray, Ol’ Colony head golf pro.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Students at The University of Alabama who may not have had an opportunity to learn the game of golf will soon be able to master the sport thanks to the PGA and the Ryder Cup Outreach Program.</p>
<p>UA has received a $30,000 grant through Play Golf America University, a PGA of America college and university program designed to teach and engage students in the game of golf.</p>
<p>As part of the Ryder Cup program, professional golfers who have played on a Ryder Cup Team may designate schools to receive the educational grants to teach golf to college students. UA was designated as a recipient of the grant by Ryder Cup Team player Boo Weekley.</p>
<p>This fall, UA students will enroll in golf classes taught at Ol Colony Golf Course in Tuscaloosa through the UA department of kinesiology in the College of Education.</p>
<p>Dr. Matt Curtner-Smith, head of the kinesiology department, is directing the grant. Our main goals are to get more college students involved in the game of golf and to teach them how to play. This goal is also to help students personally and professionally, he said.</p>
<p>The UA program will include four components:</p>
<p>-instructional classes in how to play golf. At UA, the golf skills course (KIN 106-Beginning Golf) will be open to all students through the department of kinesiologys basic PE program. Based on the PGAs First Swing curriculum, students will all play a round of golf during the class. Instruction will be provided by a PGA professional or PGA apprentice professional with a 1:10 teacher-student ratio. UA students will pay tuition for the class that will be some 16 hours in length, with one session per week during the semester.</p>
<p>-a local intramural, two-person scramble golf tournament at Ol Colony on Oct. 6, with the winners receiving a trip to play in the Collegiate Golf Alliance national tournament in Las Vegas.</p>
<p>-a one-day Golf Expo on the UA Quad on Sept. 9 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. featuring hands-on golf skills activities with a local pro.</p>
<p>-providing female students in the program with literature from the Executive Womens Golf Association, including opportunities to become members of that organization.</p>
<p>Destined to be a popular class among UA students, the fall session of Beginning Golf is already full, Curtner-Smith said. However, plans are under way to continue to offer the class at the end of the grant, which is designed to serve as seed money for the campus program.</p>
<p>The PGA of America has distributed more than $6.1 million to 65 participating colleges and universities across the United States on behalf of members of the U.S. Ryder Cup Teams in support of this initiative. To date, PGA professionals have provided instruction to more than 24,000 college students in the program. For more information, go online to [Learn</a> to Play Golf America University, Golf Instruction](<a href=“http://www.playgolfamerica.com/pgau]Learn”>http://www.playgolfamerica.com/pgau).</p>