Masters, U.S. Open Champion to Visit Lyman Orchards Next Week

Legendary golfer Billy Casper will entertain golfers at The Golf Center at Lyman Orchards on Monday, May 20 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

A Masters and two-time U.S. Open champion with 51 PGA TOUR victories, Casper will conduct a junior golf clinic, provide swing tips, sign autographs and take photos in addition to conducting a Q&A session with golfers.

The Q&A session, beginning at 2:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.

“I look forward to visiting this wonderful new facility and home of the famous Hi-Top Apple Pie,” says Casper, a member of the PGA and World Golf Hall of Fame. “It will be my pleasure to make some new friends and share tales and tips with golfers who love this great game.”

“We’re ecstatic Billy Casper will be at Lyman Orchards to see our state-of-the-art golf center,” says Dave Christenson, General Manager at Lyman Orchards. “His unbelievable career, affection for the game and genial personality will make for an experience golfers won’t soon forget.”

Opened in 2012, The Golf Center at Lyman Orchards was imagined by the Lyman family, managed by Billy Casper Golf and designed by Mark Mungeam of Mungeam Cornish Golf Design. The Golf Center at Lyman Orchards features Apple Nine, a nine-hole, 1,600-yard, par-29 course and the only new layout to open in Connecticut since 2012. Holes are 85 to 314 yards with bentgrass greens built to USGA specifications.

Built for practice and PGA instruction, The Golf Center at Lyman Orchards showcases a 40-stall driving range complete with target greens and sand traps, a short-game practice area and a 2,000-square-foot clubhouse.

Lyman Orchards' Golf Club is also dedicated to eco-friendliness. The Jones and Player Courses have been designated a “Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary” by Audubon International for high standards protecting the environment and preserving the natural heritage of golf. Following Audubon-approved steps protects the wildlife habitat while reducing the use of energy, water, pesticides and fertilizer.

The par-72, 7,011-yard Robert Trent Jones, Sr. course opened in 1969 and underwent a major renovation in 2009. This course features rolling hills on the front nine and varying doglegs on the back. Meandering throughout acres of woodlands, wetlands and grasslands, “The Jones Course” offers four sets of tees on each hole and its more than 50 bunkers provide unique challenges to golfers of all abilities. On the back nine, water comes into play on seven holes, and undulating greens rankle nerves of novices and scratch players alike.

In 1994, PGA Hall of Fame golfer and course designer Gary Player opened Lyman Orchards’ second course, a par-71, 6,725-yard gem. “The Player Course” is sprinkled with deciduous trees and classic white pines. The routing takes players through apple orchards and features ample elevation changes throughout. On holes No. 11 and 13 especially, golfers are treated to 360-degree views of southern Connecticut’s picturesque landscape.

For more information about Lyman Orchards or to book a tee time: www.lymangolf.com, 860.349.6031.