Ocean Point’s Marlies Boyd walked out on the new driving range at the Boothbay Harbor Country Club and prepared to practice.

As she stared at the practice facility, which opened this week, a gaggle of automatic sprinklers began watering the new sod. Bright morning sun shone through the sparkling water and provided her with a cascade of mini rainbows.

Boyd, an avid golfer, stopped her practice routine and just stared at the sight. “It is so beautiful. It looks like it has always been here,” she said.

It took just three months for Paul Coulombe, the club’s new owner, to create his dream practice range.

All he and golf course architect Bruce Hepner had to do was hire a small army of construction craftsmen to blast out a huge granite ledge, remove the surface, and grade the hill into a shelf. Oh yes, they moved a house, too.

Then they installed a sprinkler system, added 21,000 square yards of sand, shaped it and covered the surface with 8,000 square yards of top soil. Next on their list was to round out a trio of target greens and top the whole nine acres with sod.

And they did it in just three months. Harry Potter and his magic wand couldn’t have done it much faster.

Hepner, a disciple and former associate of famed golf architect Tom Doak, said Boyd had discovered his plan. As he looked over the trio of target greens and lush rolling fairway, he explained his work to Dan Hourihan, the club’s general manager.

“I wanted it to look like the land has always existed this way,” he said.

The practice tee, which measures about a half acre, is sodded with bent grass. The large size allows course superintendent Rob Wyllie to move the practice areas around.

Each day, after the golfers are finished practicing, course workers will seed and top dress the teeing areas. “It takes about 21 days for new grass to fill in the divots,” Hepner said.

Now that the practice facility is open, next on Coulombe’s to-do list, is to rework some of the holes, fix drainage trouble spots, rework some greens, build some new tees, rework the bunkers and on and on.

New forward tees will be crafted to make the course playable for golfers of all ages, sexes and skill levels, Hourihan said.

So far, Boyd couldn’t be happier with the course, especially the new practice range.

“It looks like heaven,” she said.