![]() Safety – It doesn’t matter how great your practice area is if someone working on using their wedge’s bounce gets beaned by an errant shot. ![]() As a golf course architect, here are my eight essentials for a successful short game area.ġ. If your course is debating the addition of such a facility, there are more than a few important things to consider before putting a shovel in the ground. While the demand is undoubtedly there, not all short game areas are created equal. These ‘alternative’ golf offerings are attractive to our time-strapped culture and provide a casual setting to learn the game’s finer points. I’ve seen first-hand how the addition of a proper short game facility can be leveraged as a recruitment tool for collegiate golf programmes and club managers competing for new members. While it’s hard to quantify the financial returns of a dedicated space for short game improvement, it’s increasingly challenging to compete in the golf industry without one. It’s no wonder that the popularity of short game practice areas is on the rise, catapulting from afterthought to must-have amenity. Stats confirm the most important real estate is the last 100 yards of any golf hole approximately two-thirds of one’s overall strokes occur within this zone. Golfers have largely embraced the importance of the short game’s role in scoring. For a printed subscription or free digital edition, please visit our subscriptions page. This article is based upon a piece that first appeared in the July 2019 issue of Golf Course Architecture.
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