[Tiger_Bernhardt]

I know this was done recently. I just saw Stanford's pirvate facilty this week for the first time. Jay Blasi and the Jones Jr team set a new bar for creativity and quality in a practice area. It should be tough to recruit against them for years to come.

[Robin Doodson]

I know this was done recently. I just saw Stanford's pirvate facilty this week for the first time. Jay Blasi and the Jones Jr team set a new bar for creativity and quality in a practice area. It should be tough to recruit against them for years to come.

Any chance of some pics? I'd love to see what all the fuss is about.

[Adam Clayman]

The new short game practice area @ shadow creek would certainly qualify.

[Wade Whitehead]

Kinloch, hands down.

WW

[Steve_ Shaffer]

http://www.golfdigest.com/rankings/2009/05/top75practiceareas_gdindexspring

[Tom Huckaby]

JB, I spend many hours near and around that area.... and that's the BAD part of the whole thing.  Yes it is incredible - quite seriously, I can't even imagine a better place for practicing this game.  However, given it's open only to the team members, really who the hell cares?  Does it really matter?

It is a fine recruiting tool, true.

[K. Krahenbuhl]

After staying/playing at Flint Hills National for a couple of days that club has to be near the top of the list.

[Eric Franzen]

Yes it is incredible - quite seriously, I can't even imagine a better place for practicing this game. 

More details, please.
Great range, a wide selection of different practice greens etc?
Just curious...

Thanks.

[Tom Huckaby]

It's HUGE... covering many many acres.  It has I think 7-8 real greens... with fairways connecting them... there is one main area to just beat balls, but really you could make a course out of it, playing pretty much endless combinations of "holes."  On top of that, many different grasses are utilized.. and each green is done in the style of an architect... the idea is that the team can use whatever part required to practice for whatever course they are slated to play.

It really does have to be seen to be believed.

TH

[Eric Franzen]

Thanks Tom.

I also found a video tour of the pratice center at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3mubLW97GY and a bunch of construction photos at http://www.stanfordphoto.com/slideshow.php?albumId=50773.

And yes, it looks like an amazing facility.

[Tom Huckaby]

I work about a 5 minute drive from this place... walk around it quite a bit... have been priviliged to use it once, so I suppose I ought not complain... but man the more I see it (and it's damn near always empty, or being used by 2-3 people at most) the more the words of Rich Goodale haunt me... he wondered what might have been done with all that land given the owners... what greater good for society....

[Tim Pitner]

Is it better than the publicly-accessible driving range at Stanford?   I once attended a week-long conference at the Stanford Law School, tried to get on the golf course, was somewhat reluctantly refused and then was relegated to a mats-only, chain-link fence enclosed coop of a driving range.  I was not amused. 

[Mike Nuzzo]

tiger
next time you are in town come check out what will become the best public practice are in Houston
it's 2 miles south of Champions and will open this summer
cheers

[Drew Standley]

Mike,

Kyle and I will be making a run over to your project next week.  I'm anxious to see the progress.

-Drew

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