About a dozen people were gathered outside the door of a new building on the back side of the Emerald Valley Golf Club driving range Thursday, when a golf cart approached them.
Riding in the cart were former University of Oregon all-American Peter Jacobsen and his wife, Jan, herself a former UO golfer. They stepped out of the cart to greet those already on hand — members of the UO athletics staff and others who had helped conceive of and build the new facility outside of which they stood.
The building is the Peter & Jan Jacobsen Oregon Golf Teaching Facility, nicknamed "The Jake.