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 But rarely has a Back Nine surface resulted in such immediate improvement at a high-profile location than its installation of a practice facility at Loyola Marymount University. The 18-hole green, which cost approximately $90,000, is credited by golf coach Alex Galvan as being “our tenth man. Without it, I don’t know if we could have matched our success this year. The green is so realistic, so challenging and so close — our guys could walk from their dorms any time — that I had no problem getting them there. In fact, I couldn’t keep them off.” The addition of the new green this year turned a last-place conference team in 2005 to a first-place squad in 2006. About 70 strokes were shaved off the team’s cumulative total, most of them coming in the short game. “It’s a phenomenal green that is quite challenging,” Galvan said. “We have a group of good, tight guys who like each other but the practice facility was undeniably a factor.” Dominic Nappi, who launched Back Nine Greens in 1997, obviously knows his business. While a myriad of other turf distributors and installers have come and gone over the years, Back Nine stays atop the mountain. It uses only the best sand-filled fibers that uncannily duplicate the look, feel and response of natural grass. And, unlike a lot of companies that have to contract with non-specialists, Back Nine Greens keeps 35 installers in-house, guaranteeing that your job — small or large — will be done by experienced hands. Loyola Marymount’s 7,000-square-foot putting green includes areas for chipping, sand bunkers and a putting surface that rolls at 10 to 12 on a Stimp meter. Though not the biggest project in Back Nine Greens’ history, it was among the most complicated. “It took about a month and we had to go over everything with the athletic director and the university’s project building manager,” Nappi said. “It took a lot of time but it paid off for them. It’s a great practice facility and they’ll never have to replace it.” In nine years of business, Back Nine Greens has installed some 2,500 putting greens, from the deserts of Palm Springs to the coastal shores of Santa Barbara. Back Nine’s greens are customizable to just about any specification a client needs, whether it’s a major university golf team, a parent who wants their child to have the best possible putting surface to practice on at home, or a retiree who wants to putt around his backyard during a summer barbecue. Along with installing greens for companies and private homeowners, Back Nine also maintains, repairs and rebuilds greens built by other companies that have gone belly-up over the years. Its unique ability to integrate synthetic turf with existing natural landscape is why so many clients, large and small, have called upon Back Nine since 1997. For more information, call (800) 583-6619 or visit www.backninegreens.com. |
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