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Golf club has unlimited range
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Published Thursday, October 2, 2008
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by David D. Dawson, For The Charlotte Post
Mitzi Nelson is first and foremost a Certified Public Accountant.
However, it is her love and passion for golf that has made her the successful owner of Northlake Golf Club, a private golf range in Northeast Charlotte. Celebrating one year of operation, Northlake Golf Club has taken the Charlotte golf community by surprise with its unique approach.
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Mitzi Nelson, a certified public accountant by training, is owner of Northlake Golf Club, a private golf range in Northeast Charlotte.
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Unlike traditional golf ranges, Northlake does not sell buckets of golf balls – it sells memberships. With 125 members, Northlake gives golfers their own practice facility with unlimited range balls and practice time to sharpen all aspects of their game in a relaxed serene atmosphere with the natural feel of being on the golf course.
“We are extremely excited that we are celebrating our one year anniversary. The enormous support that we have received from golfers and this community is overwhelming,” said Nelson.
Nelson admits that the club is more successful than what she expected it to be in their first year. However, the success of the club has been a long time coming.
After receiving golf clubs as a Christmas gift in 2003 from her parents, Nelson began taking golf lessons and practiced hitting balls on her family’s land. Her accounting clients, who golfed, soon used her land as a golfing range and encouraged her to turn it into a business. Nelson consulted her parents about the idea and on September 1, 2007, opened Northlake Golf Club-Private Practice Facility.
The facility features grass and mat tee stations with pyramid stack balls. The driving range includes Par-Aide yardage number signs, various flag targets and barber poles to learn your personal distances for each of your golf clubs. The short game area has a putting green, chipping green and three sand bunkers to help members drop strokes and improve their handicap.
Former Carolina Panther and Northlake member Tim McKyer, has nothing but praises about the facility and credits Northlake for improving his golf game.
“I enjoy practicing at Northlake,” he said. “I have shaved five strokes off my golf game due to the unlimited balls and practice time.”
Sean Providence, who practiced at the facility, compliments the staff, which is Nelson and her family.
“Their staff is very nice, helpful and very friendly. The grounds are very good and they have a lot of competition,” said Providence.
Nelson, an associate member of the U.S. Golf Teaching Federation, also provides private and group golf lessons. Her love for golf can be seen through her teaching.
“It’s so satisfying when teaching anything, when you’ve taken what you’ve learned and you’re able to infuse that into someone else and they have all that trust in you to help them hit that ball. They’re smiling and having fun, that’s rewarding,” says Nelson.
