Anybody have any details on the new Webb practice area?

They had the tees where the ladies/seniors are. Right between the practice green and 1st fairway.

The pro shop told me they were going to add a driving range about 4 years ago. Instead they added a playground and have even less room to work with.

Webb definitely has potential.

Shot an 89 at Webb with like three triples on the card. The combination of the fear of hitting balls into the road on multiple holes ( hit it over the net last time on the par three and somehow didn’t hit a car) and that crappy grass they have around the greens that’s basically the same grass in your front yard kills me.

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The pro shop told me they were going to add a driving range about 4 years ago. Instead they added a playground and have even less room to work with.

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The playground is about the size of a chipping area and isn't connected to any location that could have a range.

If they built a range and kept it a Par 72, 18 hole course, it would need to be on the property where the school board building is located.

They need to just sell the 5 holes across College, take the $$$ from that and renovate the other side into 18 holes like Audubon, or 9 holes with a top notch practice facility.

I'm working through this in my head.

If you went to a 9 hole, you could sell off the 5 holes on the other side of college and the 1.75 holes on the left side of the ditch. Turn 1 and 9 into a range and add a short game area. Play 10, 11, 12, 13. 14 tee would be combined with 17 tee and moved on the other side of 16 green and you'd play a shortish par 3 towards 2 tee. Move two tee up 50 yards. Play 2, 8, wrap around between 2 tee and the new par threes green. Play 17(now a long par 3), 18.

Edit to add:
Thought about this on the way home a good bit.

First, if it is next to a road or ditch, it gets a big bush all the way down. Make it much nicer looking than the green poles that are currently there.

You'd take out the trees between 1 and 9. 1 tee to 9 green would be the short game area. The putting green would stay the same, but no chipping. The driving range would start on the other side of 9 green and 1 tee and go the length of 1/9. You'd have to put up a net down the road.

#1...start on 10. I'd move the cart path on 10, wrap it from the right of the tee, turn left in front of the tee and go up the left side of the fairway. I'd tee everyone up on the front of the current tee box and probably build the box out further and make the green basically drive able for almost everyone. I'd put the tee where you could hit a good 3w or hybrid over the trap or a 4i to the left of the trap. Over the trap in the right side towards the tree, I'd make fairway instead of rough. Give you a good spot to land the ball that isn't near the road. On this hole, if you were to hit driver, you'd have a small chance of getting it on the green. It then becomes a real risk reward.

#2... Play 11 as 2. I'd leave it the same, with the exception of the bushes down the left side.

#3... Play 12 as 3. 12's tee would be extended down towards 13 green and I'd cut back those trees so you could hit a ball through it.

#4... 13 would get a couple big bunkers on the right center of the fairway and some bunkers about 75 yards from the green on the left side. Some bunkers if around the green as well. How this hole is this long currently without any trouble anywhere really is shocking.

#5... New hole. The new tee on the other side of 16s current green. It would be one giant tee, think Old Course big. Basically would wrap around that oak tree that is there and would be the signature design feature of the new course. It would wrap from the current 14 tee all the way around 17 tee down 16 fairway. You'd put a new green towards two tee about 125 yards away. Maybe a double green with 17 could be cool.

#6... 6 would be 2. It would have the water more in play, because the tees may move to accommodate the new green. I'd also put a bunker behind the green to keep more balls in play. Bushes down the ditch and road.

#7... You'd play the current no. 8 as hole 7. I'd restructure the green on 8. Id put a huge bunker on the right side and slope it right to left. Prevent people from going down two on the tee shot.

#8... Play 17 as hole 8. 17 would play the same, except it could play much longer.

#9.... Finish on the current 18.it would play the same except you could also play from the old 14 tee, in tournaments or for the scratch golfer. Would give you at least 490 yards.




That was much more fun than I thought it'd be, but now my wife is wondering g what I've been doing for the last 20 minutes.


Tldr: I got bored and redesigned Webble Beach.