The new $47 million Alabama Intercollegiate Athletics Golf Facility in Tuscaloosa has opened for the University of Alabama’s men’s and women’s golf teams.
The facility includes a nine-hole course, 16-acre training facility, 410-yard driving range and 25,000-square-foot team building. The facilities have been built on a 176-acre site on Kicker Road and will be used solely by UA’s golf teams, as well as 30 donors, who contributed $14m of the total, with the remainder in the form of an internal loan from the university.
The project team, assembled by the UA coaches and athletics department, led by director of athletics Greg Byrne, included Love Golf Design, golf coach Darren May, who is director of golf at Michael Jordan’s Grove XXVIII course, land planner Quercus, Traci Rhoads Interiors, Kuo Diedrich Chi (KDC) Architects and Davis Architects. [Golf Course Architecture]
After making their stadium plans public more than two years ago, Sacramento Republic FC and the mayor’s office have announced plans for the construction of a new, state-of-the-art soccer stadium and entertainment district in Sacramento’s downtown Railyards they hope to open in 2027 as the team takes on new majority ownership.
Republic FC and outgoing Mayor Darrell Steinberg, at a news conference Thursday morning at City Hall, announced a term sheet is in place to construct a 12,000-seat stadium with the financial backing of the Wilton Rancheria, the Native American tribe in the Sacramento area that owns Sky River Casino in Elk Grove. [The Sacramento Bee]
Cal Poly Athletics officially unveiled the brand new, state-of-the-art Comerford Pavilion to the public during a ribbon cutting ceremony this weekend.
The completely donor-funded $8 million facility is the new home for the Cal Poly men’s and women’s tennis programs and is the cornerstone of roughly $10 million in improvements to the Ronca Tennis Center.
Hundreds of alumni, the lead donors on the project; Kevin and Carolyn Comerford; chair of the Cal Poly Athletic Director's Council John Ronca and his wife, Tracy, Cal Poly President Jeffrey D. Armstrong and the Cal Poly tennis teams were all on hand to celebrate the completion of the facility that will change the future of tennis at Cal Poly and help take the men’s and women’s programs to new heights. In addition, all six Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Famers from the tennis programs attended the ceremony — Hugh Bream, Andre Dome, Mike Giusto, Dan Lambert, Bob Zoller and Brittany Blalock Huang. [Go Poly]
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