Columbus State will host a groundbreaking for a new $3.2 million, 6,447-square-foot donor-funded clubhouse at the University’s Key Golf Studio Thursday.
This initiative, led by alumni golfers and community leaders, seeks to ensure that Columbus State’s student-athletes have an experience unrivaled by any other golf program in the Peach Belt Conference and beyond. The clubhouse will serve both the Men’s Golf and Women’s Golf teams and enhance existing Key Golf Studio facilities by adding state-of-the-art practice technology and outdoor playing surfaces—thereby increasing team competitiveness and bolstering student-athlete recruitment and retention.
The groundbreaking launches a $3.2 million fundraising campaign by the CSU Foundation. Through it, Columbus State boosters, community patrons and golf enthusiasts can invest in the Men’s and Women’s Golf teams through multi-year facility-naming opportunities.
During the last 50 years, the CSU Golf Program has garnered a combined eight men’s and women’s Peach Belt Tournament championships and 35 NCAA Division II championship appearances. Men’s Golf has secured six DII national championships and 67 total individual All-American honors.
The 13-acre Key Golf Studio opened in November 2015 and is named for the late James W. “Billy” Key, a 2001 CSU Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, a founding member of the CSU Athletic Fund and one of the most decorated golfers to come out of the Chattahoochee Valley.
The CSU Golf Program is under the leadership of Lee McCoy, who is in his third year as director of golf and Men’s Golf head coach. Kristin Culpepper, a two-time Columbus State graduate and Women’s Golf team alumna, was named the Women’s Golf head coach in December 2023 and also serves as the university’s senior woman administrator.
