It was opening weekend within the Bay Space for a time-honored, slow-paced sport involving a small white ball that’s struck lots of of ft into the air on sunny afternoons.
And we don’t imply baseball.
Corica Park Golf Course in Alameda unveiled its North Course to the general public Saturday as a part of a long-awaited plan so as to add one other PGA Tour-level course designed by legendary golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. to Bay Farm Island.
“Our job — as stewards of this land for decades to come — is to do meaningful, long-lasting work that provides the highest-quality golf destination, and also leverages this amazing community asset to create broad benefits for everyone,” mentioned Greenway Golf President Umesh Patel.
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Golfers attend the North Course unveiling ceremony at Corica Park in Alameda, Calif., on Friday, March 28, 2025. The undertaking was made underneath the Internationally famend Robert Trent Jones Jr. Golf Course Architects. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group)
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Golfers attend the North Course unveiling ceremony at Corica Park in Alameda, Calif., on Friday, March 28, 2025. The undertaking was made underneath the Internationally famend Robert Trent Jones Jr. Golf Course Architects. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group)
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Corica Park is a 333-acre golf facility leased by Greenway Golf Associates (GGA) in 2012 to function two 18-hole programs, a 9-hole course, a driving vary and a clubhouse on Bay Farm Island. GGA employed award-winning golf architect Rees Jones to revitalize the South Course in 2018. Golf Journal deemed the course the “best municipal course renovation” and certainly one of America’s greatest city-owned programs in 2021.
In 2023, GGA employed Jones’ brother, Robert Trent Jones Jr., to supervise the multi-million greenback renovation of the North Course that started in June 2023. Friday’s opening marks the second time the Joneses have had adjoining designs on the identical golf membership, and the primary time at a public facility.
The North Course will characteristic greens just like programs in Australia and Scotland, with rolling fairways that supply a agency and quick play type to problem golfers’ technique on the course, GGA mentioned in a press launch.
“The beauty about Scottish golf is that it’s played on the ground. Part of this philosophy is integrating interesting contours in the fairway,” mentioned Mike Gorman of RTJ II Golf Course Design.
The grand opening to the general public will happen from midday to three p.m. on Saturday, March 29; the general public could have the chance to stroll the again 9 and putt on new greens. Meals, drink, music, and different leisure actions will likely be supplied as a part of a neighborhood day for the general public.
“Corica Park—like all municipal golf courses and open public spaces—belongs to everybody,” Patel mentioned.
