Golf Driving Range

A Golf Driving Range is a place where golfers can go and practice and sometimes even warm up before starting a match. The golfer can enjoy a degree of privacy, sometimes the golfer can even have his own ‘bay’. Another benefit is that the golfer doesn’t have to go and pick up all the balls afterwards and have to do a lot of walking.

Most ranges have individual bays, with a mat and a rubber tee if you want to use that. Many are covered and air-conditioned so can be used weather independent. There are all types and sizes of range multi-tier bays, floodlights. The most technologically-advanced ranges now even have automated ball-retrieval systems (so that you don’t have to try to watch your ball amongst the many thousand already out there) and self-loading tees, so that whilst you are watching one shot, another ball is set up ready for your next one. Some have a practice bunker and a special short-game area, including a putting green.

Golf ranges do not require a membership of any sort in most cases. You pay your ‘fee’ and get a basket of balls to hit. Many visiting golfers have no idea how to practice effectively. A session at the range often consists of buying a bucket of balls, then trying to impress the person in the next bay.

But really, a structured program of goals to achieve with each visit to a range gives the best opportunities for serious practice offered to a golfer. Just make a point of when to go out and practice a particular element of the golf swing and then move to the next element. Then just start over again. Each time you might notice an improvement.so keep going back!