CliveW
Tour Winner
A lot of hackers come to the range before an outing and help themselves. That is why a lot of ranges do not allow golf bags on the range.
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A lot of hackers come to the range before an outing and help themselves. That is why a lot of ranges do not allow golf bags on the range.
stevie_r
Tour Winner
I tend to use two ranges, the nearest uses the real cheapo balls and won't allow even a shoe bag in the bays. Prefer to use world of golf, bit more of a drive but top-flites and better facilities
viscount17
Money List Winner
got me puzzled why you would go to range and use range balls to find your club distances. It wouldn't have any correlation with what you would expect to do on course.
Ours is I think down to 70% balls, built for longevity and nothing else, and I don't think the 70% is consistent across all clubs/swing speeds. I think it affects faster ballspeed more.
Ours is I think down to 70% balls, built for longevity and nothing else, and I don't think the 70% is consistent across all clubs/swing speeds. I think it affects faster ballspeed more.
G1BB0
Money List Winner
goto a local field/park area take the ball you use on the course, get your 5 or 6 iron out, hit five or 10, discard the crap ones and measure the decent strikes, work out the average... add or minus 10 yards per iron.
Thats what I did and still come up short or fly over the green
Thats what I did and still come up short or fly over the green
grumpyjock
Tour Rookie
most ranges have the markers at 90% so that the balls match the distances shown.
If you really want to know take a few and hit them on the course and then use your own and see the difference.
At Bradley the range runs along the 18th fairway and all those that are drawn over the lefthand fence line the fairway and in the trees up the side.
Makes it fun finding your ball if you hit it in there.
If you really want to know take a few and hit them on the course and then use your own and see the difference.
At Bradley the range runs along the 18th fairway and all those that are drawn over the lefthand fence line the fairway and in the trees up the side.
Makes it fun finding your ball if you hit it in there.
My range uses Srixon range balls. It would do as it is where the Srixon fitting centre is too. Howver I'm pretty sure they are still one piece. However the main point about the range is I'm not the tiniest bit worried about how far my irons and woods go on there. It is about working on my swing and making sure I'm swinging as well as I can. Range balls won't give you accurate numbers compared to even the hardest two piece rocks on the course. If I wanted to work on yardages I'd got to my clubs practice ground with a tube of Pro V's and my sky caddy and work out distances from there so it resembled proper playing conditions
oakey22
Head Pro
A local driving range to me, (Branston Golf club) has the markers at the correct distances (measured them on google earth).However i heard the pro saying they were 80% balls. They are also srixon balls, most driving range balls are the rejects at the manufacturers.
CliveW
Tour Winner
How can you justify that statement?
RGDave
Money List Winner
I use two ranges, in two different countries.
One has dirty-banana-rock type balls (yes, that IS a genuine type of ball) and the other Srixon balls mixed in with most of the club players off-casts. I like it there (the second one) because it seems to be an unwritten rule that you have to leave some old balls to appease the golf gods. Many a time, I hit pukka used Pro-Vs and stuff.....lovely jubbley.
It couldn't happen in England, as a) you aren't allowed your bag on the range in England for fear of theft and b) the Welsh have more of a communal spirit. Also, range balls are twice as costly in England.....bloody rip-off country.
Anyway, enough of my random ramblings.
I'd be lucky to crack 215 with the bananas, yet 230-240 is possible with the Srixons. I even got a Z-star over the fence the other day. No quite timgolfy, but still encouraging from RG the tortoise-swing man.
One has dirty-banana-rock type balls (yes, that IS a genuine type of ball) and the other Srixon balls mixed in with most of the club players off-casts. I like it there (the second one) because it seems to be an unwritten rule that you have to leave some old balls to appease the golf gods. Many a time, I hit pukka used Pro-Vs and stuff.....lovely jubbley.
It couldn't happen in England, as a) you aren't allowed your bag on the range in England for fear of theft and b) the Welsh have more of a communal spirit. Also, range balls are twice as costly in England.....bloody rip-off country.
Anyway, enough of my random ramblings.
I'd be lucky to crack 215 with the bananas, yet 230-240 is possible with the Srixons. I even got a Z-star over the fence the other day. No quite timgolfy, but still encouraging from RG the tortoise-swing man.
viscount17
Money List Winner
you really think you hit 250 with a range ball?
CliveW
Tour Winner
you really think you hit 250 with a range ball?
On my range, if it says 250 yds, it is 250 yds.
