Old Town Club

ld Town Club has served as the official home course of Wake Forest golf for many decades. Like Wake Forest, Old Town also maintains a rich golf tradition. Located immediately next door to the University campus, this 1939 Perry Maxwell masterpiece has just recaptured the attention of the golf world following a 2013 restoration by famed architects, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw.

The restoration served as a catalyst for one of the biggest jumps ever in Golfweek magazine's annual rankings. In 2014, Old Town catapulted an unprecedented 43 places up the chart to the 29th position in the country. That's the largest leap by any "classical" course in the history of the rankings. Still today, Old Town continues to climb to No. 23 on Golfweek's prestigious listing, following additional restoration work in 2023 by Coore & Crenshaw.

The results are universally glowing. Old Town also landed at No. 38 on GOLF Magazine's biennial list of the Top 100 golf courses in the country and No. 84 on their prestigious World 100 list. Golf Digest currently ranks Old Town No. 54 in the U.S. A short list of Old Town's current golf course rankings is located in the box to the right.

For Coore, the Old Town restoration represented a homecoming. Coore grew up 24-miles away from Old Town outside of Denton, N.C. and attended Wake Forest as an undergraduate. Though he only remained a member of the Wake Forest golf team through his sophomore year, Coore developed a keen sense of knowledge and understanding of the Maxwell design while regularly playing the course as a student.

Old Town's restoration focused on recapturing the size, shape and character of Maxwell's original bunkers, which often contained jagged-laced edges and tall stalks of native grasses, called broomsedge.

The restoration also featured the redesign of Old Town's double green at holes 8 and 17. Coore enlarged the dual putting surface from 8,200 to 16,700 square feet to more closely resemble its source of inspiration at The Old Course at St. Andrews -- home to seven double greens.

The layout is highlighted by expansive fairways, meandering creeks, uneven terrain, sweeping cross-course vistas and undulating green contours, widely known for their trademark "Maxwell rolls." While golfers never tire of these green undulations, it's those tilting fairways -- producing a variety of stances and lies - that require a golfer's full attention. Wake Forest legend and World Golf Hall-of-Famer, Lanny Wadkins, who just became an honorary member of the club, professes: "Old Town offers so many varied lies that it is the best proving ground for training serious young golfers."

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Arnold Palmer Golf Complex / Haddock House

Wake Forest boasts one of the elite on-campus golf practice facilities in the country in the Arnold Palmer Golf Complex. The complex, which opened in the spring of 2010, features the Haddock House, the Haas Family Range and the Dianne Dailey Golf Learning Center.

The Haddock House, named for former men's golf coach Jesse Haddock ('52), opened in the spring of 2016. The $4.5 million facility serves as the home for the men's and women's golf programs while also showcasing the history and tradition of Wake Forest golf.

The 10,000 square foot Haddock House, situated in the southwest corner of the Arnold Palmer Golf Complex, features coaches' offices, locker rooms, team meeting areas and a Heritage Room that showcases the history of Wake Forest Golf. The Heritage Room and other adaptable spaces within the building will also be available for use for campus events, gatherings and receptions. A landscaped green space featuring the recently erected statue of Arnold Palmer leads to its entrance off Wingate Road.

The complex features over 17 acres of 419 Tif Bermuda grass, five chipping and putting greens and 24 practice bunkers. Practice tees are situated around the entire complex to allow players to hit in any direction.

The 3,500 square foot Dianne Dailey Golf Learning Center, named for long-time women's golf head coach Dianne Dailey, is equipped with the latest, state-of-the-art technology and has been highly regarded as one of the best training facilities on the east coast, if not in the country.

The Learning Center has heated hitting bays, which allow up to five people to hit simultaneously, and includes one bay that is equipped with a state-of-the-art V1 filming system and the newest TrackMan technology. The Learning Center also includes an indoor putting room that utilizes the Tomi video system, as well as a club repair and a club storage room.

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