Practice Facility
The ability to improve one’s game is crucial to the pure golf experience, and Sedgefield provides a comprehensive practice facility for this purpose. Expert instruction from Class A PGA professionals complements the facilities and TrackMan radar technology swing analysis is available as a teaching aide.
The two-acre practice area — designed by Steve Wenzloff, Senior Vice President of Design Services for the PGA Tour — made its debut during the spectator-free Wyndham event in August 2020. Wenzloff, who also updated the short-game area at TPC Sawgrass in 2016, incorporated ShotLink technology to review data from every Sedgefield green complex.
Providing Sedgefield with five times more practice space, the new area features two Ultradwarf Bermuda greens that measure about 3,600 square feet apiece, along with a trio of bunkers, giving players the option of working on greenside bunker shots as well as 30- to 40-yard bunker shots.
The expanded space also features closely mowed areas off the greenside slopes and shoulders, where players can focus on putting the ball up the hill or practice a pitch shot up the embankment to a tight pin. The addition gives Sedgefield about 15,000 square feet of short-grass area, allowing a dozen or more players to hit shots from a variety of locations.
The enhanced area features:
- Turf, sand and landscape to mimic course conditions
- Fairway & rough cuts to practice both shots
- Similar bunkers to golf course
- Ultradwarf Bermuda greens
- Donald Ross signature native grasses