Interesting Driving Range today

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Just moved areas, and found a driving range close by. To my amazement it was both grass and artificial turf for teeing off. Now for bucket size you could get a large $8 probably 100 balls so pretty good. Or a bucket (I mean one of those huge ones) for $16 and it held I would say 300-400 balls. Then the range was only 250 yards long where it had a 10 foot high wooden/tin fence. My first shot I hit it off the fence (large ping sound) so I was hopeful of clearing it, from then on out I hit 70% of my balls over the fence as did a couple of gentlemen beside me.

Now I was started thinking how economical this would be for the company. The balls were all callaways, so they weren't the super cheap yellow ones. So they would be paying a little for the balls, but I know many people would be clearing the fence, so wouldn't that cut deep into the profit they would be making?

[DBake]

  -Mini- said:

Just moved areas, and found a driving range close by. To my amazement it was both grass and artificial turf for teeing off. Now for bucket size you could get a large $8 probably 100 balls so pretty good. Or a bucket (I mean one of those huge ones) for $16 and it held I would say 300-400 balls. Then the range was only 250 yards long where it had a 10 foot high wooden/tin fence. My first shot I hit it off the fence (large ping sound) so I was hopeful of clearing it, from then on out I hit 70% of my balls over the fence as did a couple of gentlemen beside me.

If you are happy with those prices and hitting "nicer" balls, I would suggest not hitting the balls over the fence anymore.

It may come back and bite you in the butt.

[iacas]

  DBake said:

If you are happy with those prices and hitting "nicer" balls, I would suggest not hitting the balls over the fence anymore.

Yeah, seriously. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

And what, they don't own property beyond the fence to retrieve the balls? Prediction:

People are going to doubt that you carry the ball over 260-ish yards 70% of the time.

[shankapotamus]

Yeah, if you hit 70% of 400 balls over a 250 fence, then you're pretty good. But why would you want to. Ima guess those were with your driver, which you'll probably hit 12-14 times a round. You should work on your practice routine.

[twinke masta]

Yeah that's not a nice thing to do. Just because you can doesn't mean you should haha. I think hitting 5-6 balls over the fence would have been enough fun for me. Then I would spend that deal working on your irons, chips etc.

My range 80 balls is like 10$ :(, and they are pretty bad balls

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  shankapotamus said:

Yeah, if you hit 70% of 400 balls over a 250 fence, then you're pretty good. But why would you want to. Ima guess those were with your driver, which you'll probably hit 12-14 times a round. You should work on your practice routine.

I didn't get that big of a bucket, I just got the medium one. I noticed the 250 yard was marked from about 5-10 feet behind the green, so its actually a little shorter than a 260 yard carry.

Yeah I'll start just using my irons and woods at this place - at one of the courses (little further away) they have a full range. I don't know if they own the property behind the fence or not, I would imagine they wouldn't or they would move the fence back.

[flopdarock]

whats behind the fence?
the range a few blocks away from my house has the back fence at 220...
beyond that is the maintenance shack... on the left side is #18 and the right is #10...
ive been on #17 and have seen balls carrying the maintenance shack onto the area between the green and #18's teebox's... crazy long

[klaymon]

Our range is maybe 240 to the net, but the net is probably 30-40' high at least.