$15M Michigan Golf Clubhouse completed
You may have noticed a familiar looking brick building being built on the Golf Course while driving towards The Big House on Stadium (when Stadium wasn't closed due to construction).
Another athletic department building project has been completed.
The Richard L. Postma Family Clubhouse.
The U-M Golf Course restoration will be underway soon to the tune of an estimated $6M. The Men's and Women's Golf teams received a beautiful indoor practice facility back in 2011-
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So thrilled that the Postma Family Clubhouse construction is completed! #Stunning
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It was a pain walking around it last year. So many people bottled up to the tunnel under Statium st.
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An old budget pdf from 2012 said it was an estimated $6M which obviously grew as far as the clubhouse went.
Interesting. It's certainly not planned any time soon though.
WD, I'm guessing your document is referring to the green restoration and rebuilding of the nursery. See this LINK for details. It could also include upgrades and restoration to Radrick Farms that took place starting in 2015 using UMGC personnel.
How does a golf clubhouse not have a bar? What kind of dipshit thinking is that? I mean, how does one add his (or her) scorecard without something refreshing to drown the memory of the occasional fairway ball 'cleaning'?
does one play golf without beer/alcohol? Is it BYOB? I thought that was against the law?
The lacrosse/track stadium complex should open next spring. Hopefully we can host the big ten outdoor track championships.
Brian needs to have Ace organize the First Annual MGoGolf Outting...break this joint in right. Dont bring a sunroof car MeanJoe07 may show...
C'mon Wang, it's a parking lot!
I loved playing there in my years as a student. However, man could the employees (and wealthy donors/alums) treat the students like dog shit. Some of them were true professionals at being Assholes. I understand money makes the world go round and as an undergrad I did not have much to my name but... if you're going to offer a student rate and take tee times for students then honor them like you do everyone for else. Hopefully it has improved for today's student body but I doubt it.
It was the same way in 1972. It's about tradition, man!
You do get your nice employees there too though. Flip the snobs the bird, or ask them about their portfolio, or about Chinese tariff policy.
I can't see it as anything other than a generic-looking medical facility in an office park somewhere. Uninspiring architecture.
Exactly. A golf clubhouse is not an educational/institutional building and shouldn't look like one. This looks about as friendly as a UM hospital annex building. Just does not fit the situation at all. It certainly fits the UM architectural 'style', but that is not fitting for a clubhouse.
15M? Seems like a bit much for golf.
I thought LOW number were better in golf.
ADs. They got shit built.
Now, we'll wait for the new AD to end the nose dive of hockey and men's soccer by firing their coaches.
We could save even more money by discontinuing the soccer teams.
Mr. Ufer could have added to his line "...so I guess that makes it 84,000 truck drivers."
Given the climate of college athletics, when North Dakota cancels their women's hockey program, there's no way you can say this with any certainty (and, as usual, authority).
LOL don't really care, honestly. And the fact that you don't know squat about how much NoDak prioritized that program only to choose to cut it says a lot.
But, do continue to speak authoritatively as if you can both tell the future and know something about the broad, changing landscape of college athletics.
As usual, you're completely missing the point.
what happens when/if the TV bubble bursts? Are we going to keep building palaces for varsity sports no one actually watches? Maybe Michigan will never drop another varsity sport, but when that bubble bursts, a lot of the bottom tier sports at FBS schools are going to start disappearing
Well, they already are. A lot of schools are beginning to see, even with the TV money, that adding non-revenue sports at will and sustaining financially non-viable/unpopular programs is a losing enterprise. Michigan, apparently, doesn't see it that way, but there's no reason to say they won't have to make hard decisions in the future just because it's Michigan. Nothing is concrete with this kind of stuff, particularly, as you point out, when the bottom inevitably falls out with cable TV revenue.
To me, it's really kind of shameful, and I love playing golf. The 'old' clubhouse could have been modernized to a first-rate facility for a tenth of that cost. I see a lot of this type of extravagant spending all across the campus these days. The school, its athletes, and facilities are becoming more and more like a 'country club' set, IMO. I prefer the campus and atmosphere of the 1960s.
Rich Postma is my boss, well, I work for his company, he has no idea who I am.
Not that this thing isn't nice and uniform and all, but the old clubhouse was a unique building. I liked it.
There really was nothin wrong with the old clubhouse. IMHO this was built to provide another venue to entertain big donors before and after the football games.
I play the course almost every weekend and I love it. The greens are diabolical.
This looks good, but nothing like the renderings.