How much for your balls?

[Basher]

Following on from Mike's post re Structuring practise sessions, I have to ask:

What do you pay for a basket of balls at your local driving range?

At my local oop north I pay £3.00 for 60 or £5.00 for 90. It's a good range with many of the bays having power tees, plenty of room. Fully stocked shop and artificial surface putting green (Never used it yet!) I have to say it sometimes attracts the idiot youth type who have no respect for other users or the facility. Other than that it's a good driving range.
Should be interesting to see what people pay around the country.

 

[HTL]

I use the same as MikeH so £7.50 for 100, £4.50 for 60.
The only scheme that the range does is a bonus card where you have to put a minimum of £25 on a range credit card and you get 10% free balls during off peak hours, or a "GOLD" card if you put £75 and you get 10% free ball at all time.

I cant stand using the driving range at weekends or peak times, you have kids running around, South Africans pissed as farts doing happy Gilmore swings and rubbish golfers hitting the side netting or roof every other ball!! It drives me insane!!!

 

[birdieman]

£4.95 for 100, less if you're a member of the affiliated club.

 

[time_vans]

£2.00 for 50 £3.50 for hundred ...beat that anyone !!!

 

[Basher]

£2.00 for 50 £3.50 for hundred ...beat that anyone !!!

You're not a junior are you Tim?
Exceptionally cheap price.

 

[medwayjon]

£4.00 for 80 or £5.50 for 120

I use centregolf Chatham, good facility, I like the prices and the staff are all good guys.

 

[madandra]

£3.50 for 50 and £5.70 for the ton. No discount for the old or young which grips my 5h1t3r. They have a straight up fairway with some flags dotted here and there. They do have marker boards at 75,100,125,150,175 and 200. Only one actual green at 90 yds which hasn't been cleaned up for 15 years.

 

[MVP]

I use centre golf as jon does. same price obviously,
or if i got to swanley its 3.50 for 100 balls, same balls as centregolf use!

 

[GB72]

£1.00 for each drop of 30 at 2 clubs near me so pretty cheap

 

[medwayjon]

The other range I use (I warm up on it before using their courses) is a quid for 20 balls. It has those lazy boys electric tees though and the targets and distance markers are a joke.

 

[John_Findlay]

£25 for a digicard (10 baskets of 50)

 

[time_vans]

£2.00 for 50 £3.50 for hundred ...beat that anyone !!!

You're not a junior are you Tim?
Exceptionally cheap price.

i like to think so but at 43 few would agree !!

 

[DCB]

Like J_F I use a digicard at £25, however, I'm sure I get a cheaper basket of 50 for my daughter if she buys tokens at the shop.

Probalbly go through 2-3 digicards in a year.

 

[John_Findlay]

Cripes, DCB. I go through a digicard a month! Ahhh. That's where all the money's gone.

 

[Kaizer_Soze]

£3.35 for 50 or £5.25 for 100.

£7.30 for 50 balls + a round on the 6 hole par 3 course (61 - 180 yards)

 

[DCB]

J-F

Thats why I'm strugling at present, not enough practice. Need to get a bit more structured practice in this year I think so that I can get back to single figures.

Mind you, I do tend to go and hit 50 at a time not 100.

 

[Boabski]

Re: How much for your balls?

PRICELESS !!!!

Sorry couldn't resist

 

[John_Findlay]

Ah. Madandra and I were up there the other day and he was most impressed. The buggar was hitting his drives 20 feet up the back fence. I was only just reaching it.

Maybe meet up there some time? I get my lessons up there, too, so I'm around a lot. Which course is home for you?

 

[brendy]

I have a collection of 200 balls, I go to my practice range these days as membership includes use of them, why pay another 3-5 quid a week on a driving range which bares no resemblance to the real thing?

I used to use 2-3 different ranges but never improved. now im using real grass with real targets I can ht my driver or sandwedge then go collect them and get a bit of exercise at the same time.

edit:200, not 20 haha.

 

[John_Findlay]

None of the courses in our area let you do that anymore, Brendy. It's a bummer. The practice ball bag is now lying redundant.