Colorado's newest golf haven

When you unearth some of God’s green Earth on the links (even if fescue is nowhere natural in those back nine regions) you must replace your divot. It’s a reparation for your unruly and, more often than not, off-planed flailing of a golf swing.

But today in Erie, Colorado the University of Colorado golf teams will break this sacred code of the golfing world.

The 15^th and most devastating club in the bag won’t be a Jack Nicklaus 1-iron, but rather a shovel. They will be literally spearheading a new era in for the Buffs in the Pac-12 Conference, which is regarded as the best conference on both the men’s and women’s sides in America.

Today, they will initiate the process of building a 5,700 square foot practice facility located next to the practice range at Colorado National Golf Club. (Article on cubuffs.com) It will incorporate a 2,000 square foot short game room, several hitting bays and a state-of-the-art video system that will allow the Buffs to fine tune their skills all year round.

The George Boedecker, Jr. Golf Practice Facility is just another advancement that Colorado is doing to help their athletes prepare to perform at the highest level. The University continuing is solidifying numerous areas, not only in golf, that have lacked the necessary updates and renovations.

Colorado is making a genuine effort to bring the athletic department as a whole to the level and prestige it rightly deserves.

The women’s golf team, who is ranked within the top-25, and the men’s team, who unofficially won two tournaments in the fall season, will greatly benefit from this new addition. This building will just scratch the surface on the promising things to come for many Buff golfers in the Pac-12.