Wake Forest Athletics
New Golf Center Construction
8/17/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest has begun construction on it's new on-campus golf facility and hopes to have it available for the men's and women's teams by the spring of 2010.
The first phase of the project will be to expand on the current facility, using the land which used to house Gene Hooks Stadium. The new 18-acre facility will feature a number of target greens, three new chipping greens, two putting greens and a five-person hitting bay.
Demolition of the old Gene Hooks field started early this summer and grading of the land will take place over the next few weeks. Once the land has been shaped, it will be seeding by mid-September and sod will be laid on the teeing grounds by the end of September. If everything goes as planned this fall, the teams will be able to use the hitting bay and new driving range next spring.
The second phase of the process will be the construction of the Golf House. The state-of-the-art facility will house offices for both coaches, separate team locker rooms as well as an indoor putting green and a club repair room.
Stay tuned to WakeForestSports.com for more photos of the construction process.
A view down the entrance road to the current golf facility.
What is left of one of the old target greens.
Workers shaping the land where the left-center field wall of Gene Hooks Stadium used to stand.
A look out over where the infield of Gene Hooks Stadium used to be.
Workers clearing trees from left of the old driving range.
Workers tearing-up the old target greens.
A view from the practice tee.
Far right end of the current driving range looking at where the baseball scoreboard used to be.
A view from what used to be left center field looking at the infield.
A look down the warning track from left center towards center field.
Looking out from where home plate used to be.
Looking in from atop what used to be the pitchers mound.
Area where the grandstands of Gene Hooks Stadium used to be.
The last remaining bricks from the grandstands.
Large mounds of dirt that will be used to shape the land for the target greens.
A look back from center field at where Gene Hooks Stadium used to be.
