IJGA Newsletter: The Oaks February 2018 | Page 8

Current Renovations to Pinecest and Old Carolina are on schedule. Here’s a list of the current rounds of renovation. Pinecrest Golf Club Under construction, ready by May 1. Cart path has been rerouted to allow members to use back range only, giving IJGA exclusive access to the front range which is being redeveloped. 2. We have built a 20,000 sq. ft. new training tee, featuring both flat and undulating lies to improve skill transfer. 3. We are building a new green and bunker zone in the right corner of the existing tee. This allows for more pitching, chipping and bunker skill options. 4. We are taking out some cart paths and filling them in to create more chipping and pitching areas. 5. We will picket fence, zone and brand the whole area as IJGA. 6. We will create a unique ‘pitching field’ consisting of shallow, random and small target bunkers to hone the skill of landing zones in pitching. IJGA’s Old Carolina Centralized Campus Under construction, ready by May 1. Coupled with the IJGA Performance Center, our new state-of-the-art indoor training facility, we are developing a six green, random-tee short game ‘Challenge’ course at Old Carolina This will be outside Fuel and work its way around the lake. It offers holes of lengths between forty to one hundred and forty yards, the crucial ‘scoring zone shots’ that we talk about in our Sub288 Golf Course Management system. To add to the ‘Challenge’, we are including undulating and sloped tees to hone skills off slopes which is often overlooked. Note: The par 3 challenge course is a great addition which will be utilized during Summer Camp as well as the Academy program, and also occasionally by the local community via family days. 2. We are creating a Himalayas putting green. This is based on the famous green at St. Andrews of the same name, and will feature large undulations to create great challenge and problem solving solutions. 8