We're thrilled to have our new grass tee open at Chuck Corica Golf Complex adding another layer of completion in the five year plan to make this one of the top golf facilities in the Bay Area and Northern California.
Specials through October on the Range, Mif and Short game!
We've got some specials for you the rest of the month
Early-bird special on the range! Half price range balls Monday through Friday from open until 9:00 AM
Tuesday through Fridays - After 3 PM $10 for a small bucket and Mif 9 hole greens fee
Thursdays 4:00-5:00 PM, free golf clinics with Kris Moe (just buy your range balls)
Fridays- All-day short game practice pass for just $10!
If you haven't been out to Alameda Golf Course lately (aka Chuck Corica Golf Complex) you're going to be amazed at all the improvements. This includes a new driving range, par three, short game practice area and last Monday we officially closed the South Coure's front nine to build the new Rees Jones designed golf course (opening in 2016).
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First off if you haven't had a chance to play the "pitch and putt" in Alameda then you are missing out. It is a
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treasure of a golf experience and it will challenge you at whatever ability level you're playing at.
Each week we've started a program for golfers to set the course record for their age group and gender. So for a week if you shoot the "low score" we'll take your picture, get your name and post that along with your score and date for others in your age category to beat.
Then each week we'll start all over again, giving everyone a change to get up on our "wall of fame".
Pitch and putt may be over simplifying what this golf course offers. The holes aren't 30 or 40 yards they actually range from 85-155 yards and the greens are shaped so there are no flat spots for better drainage. Marc Logan the golf course's designer, who I call the "grass whisperer", since he is truely one of the world's leading experts in growing any grass but especially bent grass.
I may lose a few of you out there that aren't geeks about putting green surfaces, but I am, because any experienced golfer knows that bent grass greens are second to none for putting surfaces. Mr. Logan is going against conventional wisdom that he can grow and then maintain bent grass in Northern California. Alameda's golf courses are going to prove to everyone that he can with his systems.
We're already really excited the conditions at the new Mif par three and the our new chipping and putting. Come out and check them out and while you're out it keep your score because you may set the course record for the week!
We're really excited about having a new launch monitor in Alameda (radar system that measures everything to do with impact with the ball and golf club).
And you know, if you can measure it, you can improve it.
Step 1: These days I'm offering what we call "club-gapping" to get golfers excited measuring and how it will catapult you're game to another level.
In club-gapping you'll hit ten balls with the clubs you want to measure. This will give us a direction and distance profile (notice the oval in the image below, this golfer's pattern is biased to the right of the target line).
Below is this golfer's ten drives. We can see a general shape of direction, spin and trajectory.
Step 2: At first most of these numbers won't mean much to you. I'll coach you decipher them so you can make the appropriate adjustments to create your desired ball flight because there is a formula for any ball flight you wish. Let's say for instance that you want a high draw with your driver, no problem, I'd have you swing 8 degrees right with your club path and have your club face four degrees left of that path. And for the desired heighth you'd hit it on the upswing two degrees.
Funny part is, I don't care how you do your formula and nor does the radar system. Of course if you are stuck that's where I can nudge you in the right direction :)
Step 3: A few repeat trips to instill your feel-with-what's-real. And then boom, you're calling your shots!
I'm in Alameda Wednesdays through Saturdays for $125 an hour.
Keep in mind the launch monitor is the ultimate club fitting tool. So if you're looking to improve your clubs we've got most of the top brands and our pricing is competitive.
