Georgia fan base: Pretty please, Butts-Mehre, could you improve the game day experience for us by enhancing tailgating, fixing the restrooms, working with ACCPD to smooth out traffic, etc.?
Butts-Mehre: Sorry, fans, no can do. But to make up for it, how ’bout a new irrelevancy that you can send us your money for?
Sanford Stadium will be home to the Topgolf Live Stadium Tour in June, according to an announcement from the UGA Athletic Association on Thursday.
Topgolf Live brings an immersive golf experience to Sanford Stadium and more of the country’s other most beloved venues. The series enables players to tee it up inside the stadium, hitting golf balls into on-field, glowing targets placed between 60 and 140 yards from the tee box. Toptracer technology accurately traces the flight path of golf balls, instantly scoring every shot in an interactive, in-stadium game, designed for all skill levels.
“We are excited to offer a brand new experience within the confines of our iconic Sanford Stadium,” said J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Josh Brooks. “We have been working on ideas for people to enjoy and experience everything that Athens and our facilities offer, and we believe this is a big step towards doing just that. Similar to the first-ever concert we had in Sanford with Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan in 2013, this is another opportunity for us to showcase a stadium that we believe is second to none.”
The Topgolf Live Stadium Tour is scheduled to arrive in Sanford Stadium on June 18-23. Tickets go on sale on Thursday, Feb. 4 on http://topgolflive.com/. Tee times are reserved in one-hour increments. Prices start at $80 for player tickets and $40 for students. NCAA rules prohibit bringing a high school aged non-family member as a guest.
Premium tickets, which are available for $175, include access to drink tickets, a limited-edition Topgolf Live hat provided by Black Clover, a complimentary Topgolf Lifetime Membership and a game play voucher, redeemable at any U.S. Topgolf location, excluding Topgolf Las Vegas.
Be still, my heart.
I don’t need you to showcase Sanford Stadium, Josh. I already appreciate it. I need you to showcase making attending games on Saturday a better experience.
I can’t really figure out why this is so hard for them. Is nobody letting anyone in the building know we’d like something more than we’re getting for our money?
Get The Picture 
While I don’t disagree with you, Senator, I’d love to do this. But you have to reserve a bay, which requires 6 people. I barely know 5 other golfers, let alone 5 that would want to make the trip to Athens for it.
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Meet your new AD, same as the old AD.
Fucking oblivious asshole.
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I’m planning to do it. Top Golf is super fun. To do it at Sanford will be a fun thing to do.
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Apparently this has been a big hit in the other places Top Golf has taken this to.
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They gonna serve beer? Of course sneaking alcohol into Sanford has never been a problem.
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It looks like you only get an hour per appointment for a bay. Go have a couple of adult beverages downtown before or after. I know it won’t be the full Top Golf experience (like they are only taking the targets to 140 yards – no drivers), but I’ll be doing it for the novelty.
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Too late. Its Sanford, it’s a time honored tradition, so it must be done. I’m already planning it. Thinking maybe screwing spikes to the bottoms of an old pair of cowboy boots and dropping a pint in the shaft…
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Ya’ll have fun in Sanford – give me the UGA course any day! BTW, former Dawg golfer, Matt Peterson doing a spectacular job in managing the course. Great shape. Friendly staff. Spend $40 and play it if you get the chance in the coming months!!!
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I love the UGA Golf Course. Great track. I only wish the public side of the practice facility was in good condition. I’ve seen goat track courses with better practice/warm-up facilities than UGA.
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When’s the last time you played there?
https://golfcourse.uga.edu/facilities/range/
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I was at the range this fall during a day my daughter’s sorority had a Mom/daughter event. The range was beaten to death and the balls are now restricted flight.
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That’s a bit misogynistic, ee?
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Apologies, I’m having beers…
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I really don’t like that you can’t warm up and then go to the first tee, but that’s the way it has always been.
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Can we play top golf during the charleston southern game? Pretty sure I know which one of those will be more entertaining.
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A limited-edition Topgolf Live hat provided by Black Clover?!?!?!?! Yes!!!!
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The president is the same guy. Be assured that Jere Morehead and the board wanted nothing different. McGoofy was a puppet and that’s all Brooks will be. Just open your pocketbook up and STFU. The GEORGIA WAY lives!
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“Is nobody letting anyone in the building know we’d like something more than we’re getting for our money?”
The people they care about are in air conditioned suites stocked full of beer and food, with great bathrooms and a Magill society Bar down the hall. No complaints from them.
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I like how the 1st comment was “This is most Georgia shit ever.”
Pretty much.
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Well, when folks like myself quit giving them money, they replace me with someone willing to give them more money. As long as that keeps happening nothing will change. Just slap a little paint on those wretched old bathrooms. They’ll be fine!
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Wonder if beer sales are reserved just for the premium package. Can’t let the poor folks buy one in the stadium, right?
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Where has the new AD said he has no intentions to try and improve the things you mention?
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Where has he said he would?
All I can do is take things in the order they’re presented and this came first.
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Check the tape Senator. Look at literally all he has done his whole career.
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I’d settle for the hot chocolate concession vendor not running out of product during a cold November night game.
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What. The. Fuck.
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I’m quite sure that if you’re being dropped by a police escorted limo and sitting in a sky box that you figure the game day experience isn’t all that broken.
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I would have to know the beer situation.
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You got that right, SD.
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Gunner Stockton has pulled the trigger. He’s coming to UGA. #ABC
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Just posted something…
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One way to improve the game day experience would be to let us poor people buy beer too! Then the other stuff wouldn’t be so bad.
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God, just go all-in on the stereotype already.
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WTH is wrong with Brooks finding new ways to make more money that he can then turn around and put into the stadium? Give the guy a chance already. It seems smart to me.
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Sorry — must have missed where that’s happened.
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I swear… being a “normal” Georgia fan who may or may not have season tickets is akin to emotional spousal abuse syndrome. We keep believing B-M will change. We keep believing that B-M really loves us. And anytime B-M throws us the barest of scraps we take it as proof of both and of better to come.
We’re so completely effed as a fanbase when it comes to our administration.
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I actually have fallen down the stairs at Sanford. 😉
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What, you want a medal?
Post your style points, please.
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What’s wrong with it is that they already have shit-tons of money they just sit on. Maybe you hadn’t heard?
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This is the most galling of all. When people donated to the Hartman Fund, we did so with expectations that our money would be used to improve UGA Athletics in a more immediate sense. Not that those funds would be hoarded and leveraged as credit for projects 10-15 years down the road that may or may not happen, and oh by the way, won’t use that hoarded money as there is a newer fundraising arm with better perks that are used for piecemeal facility upgrades.
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There’s a lot the AD does that I don’t agree with and which seems like a ripoff or money-suck, but at least most of those things can at least be justified as tangentially related to the AD’s mission, and so I try not to get too upset or concerned about them. OTOH, this is a naked money grab, pure and simple…
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With the absence of fans this year, people are going to geared up more than usual. Add in a playoff contender and alcohol your gonna have a more than rockos crowd than usual. Pray for full stadium’s.
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Seems like a neat experience. I bet that the people that go will really enjoy it.
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UGA golf coach, Chris Haack (so perfect…you can’t make that up) is highly regarded and produced a ton of PGA Tour talent. He’s co-inventor of one of the best golf practice net systems. They could do everything Top Golf is doing, bring Bubba, Harris and some of the other UGA stars for an interactive event and skills exhibition.
Or, you know, rent out our most hallowed grounds for a few bucks to some corporate event.
Check the hedges this Fall for some free golf balls.
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How about letting season ticket holders who don’t shell out $2,500 get dibs on the parking decks before non-ticket holders? Cost UGA nothing, but makes us feel better about he $2,000 we shell out to the hartman fund every year. Just a thought.
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Lighten up Francis.
Any – and I mean ANY improvements that you have seen at the stadium since 2016 (Notre Dame coming to Athens, the LED lights, better sound, better gameday graphics and visuals on LED boards, grab-and-go concessions, historical displays in concourses, improved egress from gate 9 area) Brooks fought for tooth and nail.
There have been massive improvements with him leading the way behind the scenes already – not sure what the griping is about.
Maybe stop wanting to be proven right so bad that you miss the reality of the situation.
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Ok Greg.
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