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I used Toronto's Deer Creek facility in the past week. It was very good, but usage of the short game area was something like $5 for a half hour, $10 an hour, $20 for 1.5. Anyone ever encounter this elsewhere?

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I don't know of any public facility around here that charges for using the short game areas.  Not even sure how they could enforce this unless they hired monitors.  In any case I have never experienced this at a golf course. There are a few practice facilities with no course that you have to pay to use.  But that makes sense.

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There is a practice facility in Cambridge that charges to use the chipping and sand areas as well, though it's nowhere near that expensive.  I think it was around $3 per hour or so.  For what that place charges I'd rather just find a cheap 9 hole course and just walk up to the greens and throw a bunch of balls in the traps.

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I've seen short game places that are free, members only, and open to the public for like $5 for as long as you want, but never somewhere that charges you by the hour. That's kind of weird. I have seen ranges that charge you by the hour, but never short game areas.

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my local range charges $5/hr for short game practice.  they have a nice area, and give you a shack bag w/ balls to use.   it always seemed reasonable to me to charge.  my local courses don't, but they get the additional revenue from the course itself.

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A couple bucks an hour seems fair, but ~$10 an hour is absurd unless it's a fantastically nice facility, and even then I'll take my own shag bag and find a field to practice in.  Around here, the public courses almost all have free chipping / putting / bunkers for practice, although the quality is sometimes mediocre.  Biggest problem is that the proper putting greens usually don't allow chipping or pitching and the "greens" in the chipping areas are really just short fairway grass.   There's a nicer course (Angeles National) that's a bit too far for me to hit very often that has a really nice (and free) chipping green that is putting-quality.

I've never actually seen a course that charges for short game practice, but I can sort of understand the logic.

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I used Toronto's Deer Creek facility in the past week. It was very good, but usage of the short game area was something like $5 for a half hour, $10 an hour, $20 for 1.5. Anyone ever encounter this elsewhere?

I'm more worried that an hour and a half costs more than one hour, plus one half hour.

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The Golf Center in Des Plaines, IL has a short game area... $6 is the fee and its good for the entire day. So I would go in morning and then go back late in the afternoon... well worth it.

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  • Separate putting green

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Here are the exact charges:

0.5 - $9.73 CDN,

1.0  - 13.72,

1.5 - 16.81,

max (whatever that means, unlimited?) - 19.69.

Those funky numbers are because of taxes, they round out after you add the HST.

I know of two ranges that charge $20 for unlimited use of their short game area.

To me, more reasonable would be something like $5, $7.50, $10, $15.

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Originally Posted by ghalfaire

I don't know of any public facility around here that charges for using the short game areas.  Not even sure how they could enforce this unless they hired monitors.  In any case I have never experienced this at a golf course. There are a few practice facilities with no course that you have to pay to use.  But that makes sense.



They charge $5 per half-hour, $2 each additional half-hour at the two driving ranges/short game areas near my house. Both have a locking door on the gate into the area, which opens with a code they give you after paying. The gate at both spots is directly next to the clubhouse, so I guess that's how they (somewhat) monitor it. Neither place allows a shag-bag, and one of the ranges has a 9-hole of all 3s that you can play for $13 so it doesn't make much sense to spend a lot of time there IMO.

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one of the practice facilities in houston has a great short game area.  $20 all you can hit.  they send you out with a bucket of ProV1's and you can play around until the cows come home.

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