Retread61
Assistant Pro
I really did LOL when I read this!!!
Driving Range Etiquette
- Thread starter One Planer
- Start date
I really did LOL when I read this!!!
ManinBlack
Tour Winner
They got a death wish?
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
It would seem so, it was doomed from the off
thats a good night out in Ayrshire!
Piece
Tour Winner
I like it fairly quiet but if people are loud then OK as long as its not rude or intrusive. Its actually good practice in concentrating on your game when its noisy.
Keeno
Challenge Tour Pro
I agree with the noise part. I have never been put off by a noise, on the range as there is always something happening round about.
On the course however, someone moves during your back swing and its game over!!
Noisey golf courses are the way forward
MadAdey
Money List Winner
There are plenty of loud people on the ranges round here, so I just tend to block them out or have a bit of fun with them. Went to the range a few weeks with my stepson as he was down visiting, give him the pearls of my wisdom on how to hit the ball better...
Anyway, some bloke pitched up in the bay behind me with his mate and, they were seriously loud. It started off with him shouting at his mate how he was hitting his 9i past 160 yards. He was hitting at an AstroTurf green that is 20 yards front to back, the front being at 140 yards where he was landing the ball and it was running throughout the back.....lol
then came the driver and the shouts of 'now that's what you call Bubba long!' So he was carrying the 250 marker, shame not one of them was remotely close to the middle of the range and his dispersal width was somewhere in the region of 80 yards wide. It was then I gave him a display on how to launch it down the range, but that's another story.
Anyway, some bloke pitched up in the bay behind me with his mate and, they were seriously loud. It started off with him shouting at his mate how he was hitting his 9i past 160 yards. He was hitting at an AstroTurf green that is 20 yards front to back, the front being at 140 yards where he was landing the ball and it was running throughout the back.....lol
then came the driver and the shouts of 'now that's what you call Bubba long!' So he was carrying the 250 marker, shame not one of them was remotely close to the middle of the range and his dispersal width was somewhere in the region of 80 yards wide. It was then I gave him a display on how to launch it down the range, but that's another story.
chrisd
Major Champion
So long as people aren't doing anything dangerous I don't give a stuff what they do, It's not the course!
I have three ranges within easy driving distance. One is a yoof playground and noisy. The closest to me (Downshire) is ok but gets very busy and during happy hour there's usually a queue for bays and you get some disapproving looks if you are there taking practice swings or working on a move/feel. If I use it I just ignore them and try and get a bay as far down the range out of the way as I can. The one I prefer is Lavender Park in Ascot. I go right down the bottom and can usually get on with what I'm doing with no interruption as those that want to make noise or chatter tend to be much further back. Not always of course but I just focus on my own balls unless it really becomes a distraction. Very rarely happens.
There's no range etiquette I'm aware of and nor should there be. We need people to get out and use these and develop a love for golf, maybe get some lessons and certainly enjoy playing and hitting balls
There's no range etiquette I'm aware of and nor should there be. We need people to get out and use these and develop a love for golf, maybe get some lessons and certainly enjoy playing and hitting balls
hines57
Challenge Tour Pro
I guess that if we are able to block out all the distractions at the driving range and concentrate on what we are doing - can only help out on the course. We can't control what others are doing when they are there.
ger147
Tour Winner
