Roll Tide
If you missed the unveiling of Alabama’s new golf facility while glued to the Olympics, fix that immediately
For the past week, the golf world has had its gaze trained squarely on Paris. Le Golf National to be exact, where golf stars and golf nobodies from around the world have gathered for 10 days of fist-pumping, flag-flying Olympic goodness. While the Olympics have been a great reaffirmation of golf’s global appeal not just to golfers, but non-golfers too, the side effect is that we’ve have been distracted from some of the happenings on our home turf. Specifically Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
About the time Scottie Scheffler was beginning his golf medal tear on Sunday, the University of Alabama took to X to unveil its new $50-million, Justin Thomas-designed golf facility, Crimson Reserve. If you missed the reveal in all the chaos, go ahead and fix that RIGHT FREAKING NOW.
If you played college golf in the 1990s or early aughts, you probably just slammed your laptop shut in disgust thinking about the dingy conditions of your locker room vs. the literal mansion 18-year-old Crimson Tide freshman will now get to frequent. Everyone else is still peeling their jaws off the floor, and with good reason. The 176-acre compound features an 18,000-square foot clubhouse, a 9-hole course, a driving range, short-game complex, hitting bays and plenty more. The University of Alabama calls it “the nation’s premier collegiate golf facility” and not a single syllable of that title is hyperbole.
Crimson Reserve will house the Alabama men’s and women’s golf teams and is slated to open this fall. Just in the nick of time to stop dreaded rivals Auburn from winning a second consecutive national tile in 2025 … or so they hope.
