Drivers in downtown Birmingham may have noticed a different sight – a multi-story golfer in mid-swing from the windows of the Regions Building.

The display will be visible each night through May 18, the ending of the Regions Tradition golf tournament at Greystone Golf and Country Club.

The tournament takes place May 14 through 18.

Birmingham residents may be more familiar with the building’s holiday display.

Each fall, the 30-story building traditionally illuminates on the day after Thanksgiving, with lights in the building’s windows projecting two Christmas trees, a wreath and a Christmas stocking.

The traditional lights go back about 40 years.

Construction on the building was finished in 1971, when it was shared by the First National Bank of Birmingham and Southern Natural Gas.

A Sonat executive saw a building in Houston that had a similar “curtain wall” design used for a Christmas lighting display during the holidays, and he brought the idea to Birmingham. Regions Bank continued the tradition.

Crews begin working on the display weeks ahead by manually installing gel sleeves over the light tubes in all the windows that will be part of the display, one at a time. The workers follow design grids showing them which colors go on which windows to form the design.

Other designs were a flag and the letters USA during the 1991 Gulf War, and a torch and the Olympic rings for the 1996 Olympic soccer games in Birmingham.

“It’s always fun seeing the display come together,” Jeremy D. King, a Regions spokesman, said. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s worth it.”

Regions Center will be lit each night from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. and again from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m.