Indiana Golf to break ground on Fort Ben HQ
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Officials with Indiana Golf will break ground Wednesday on the new Pete and Alice Dye Indiana Golf Center on the grounds of The Fort Golf Resort at Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park in Lawrence.
First announced last September, plans call for a 13,000-square-foot facility that will include administrative space, as well as the Indiana Golf Hall of Fame, a new indoor golf academy, and a short game practice facility.
Indiana Golf is the governing body for golf in Indiana and manages the Indiana PGA, Indiana Golf Association, Indiana Women’s Golf Association, Indiana Golf Course Superintendents Association, Indiana Golf Foundation, and First Tee-Indiana.
“This new facility represents not just a physical structure, but a testament to our unwavering commitment to excellence in golf and community engagement,” Executive Director Mike David said in a news release. “I am counting down the days until we can see this vision come to life and witness the positive impact it will have on our organization and the golfing community in Indiana as a whole.”
David told Around INdiana Reporter Mary-Rachel Redman last year that the organization wanted to find a more centralized location for the facility.
“We looked at several sites, but we landed here at the Fort for a number of reasons, and a central location is fantastic for us,” David said. “It’s a Pete Dye design and having the Pete and Alice Dye Indiana Golf Center here fits very well. It’s a public facility and a good public facility. So a lot of those things kind of led us to the decision that, you know, this makes total sense.”
Since the project was unveiled, Indiana Golf has raised more than $5.5 million toward its capital campaign goal of $6.5 million. The organization aims to reach its goal by this summer.
In addition to the new HQ, the campaign will support capital improvements to various First Tee program sites, a Dryvebox Mobile Golf Simulator, and scholarships for young people to attend First Tee-Indiana programming.
Indiana Golf expects to open the new headquarters in the spring of 2025.