 Jerry Pate Golf Center
On Nov. 19, 2004, the Jerry Pate Golf Center officially opened for exclusive use by the University of Alabama men’s and women’s golf teams. Home to Crimson Tide Golf, it is located in Tuscaloosa at Ol’ Colony Golf Complex, a city-owned public golf course operated by the City of Tuscaloosa’s Park and Recreation Association. The Jerry Pate Center is owned by and was built by the University of Alabama and features a variety of amenities important in developing and improving Alabama's golfers. The center, named after the course’s designer and former Crimson Tide golfer Jerry Pate, includes teaching bays where the Crimson Tide’s golfers can hit out on to the driving range or putt on the artificial grass surface and still stay dry in inclement weather when practice outside is not an option. Both teams have their own bays and both have video systems, allowing Alabama’s golf coaches to analyze their swings and work with the golfers on improvement. The club room area has a snack and entertainment area as well as couches and club chairs and a large flat-screen television, making it a room perfect for hosting receptions or just relaxing before or after practice. Alabama’s golfers have exclusive use of the facility and its surrounding putting greens, driving range and practice holes. Office space for both the men's and women's coaching staffs as well as the men's and women's team locker rooms are also located at the Pate Center. |
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