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There is Fresh pond course in Cambridge and Pine meadow in Lenxington. Both of them are 9 hole. I found that Fresh pond can be a little more crowded on weekends. Lexington has a decent driving range called Stone meadow.

If you read the article, that's supposed to be a teaser. NE has more to to come. We'll see.

There is a claimed picture of him at the sex rehab. Certainly looks like him but this age of photoshop, how can you trust anything? http://blogs.golf.com/presstent/2010...ex-clinic.html

It's good to hear that you had a good experience. I'll just need to find a time during weekday. Now, you mentioned, the net is 50 yard away? They advertise (also from the picture) that it's 200 yard long so what's up with that? It's not a show stopper but still 50 yard and 200 yard are quite different. Not being crowded is good but I hope that there will be enough people going there so that they can continue to offer this. I really think that they should do more advertisement since I'm sure there are lot of people like us looking for winter practice.

Nope, it has driving range too. http://www.forekicks.com/marlboro/co...n=drivingrange 200 x 100 yard big. It looks great although it may be the ceiling that's going to stop your ball first. But I cannot complain compared to hitting into a net 10 yard away Can't wait to check it out.

I work near the southborough range so I go there almost every week during the season. I was thinking of going when I see the temperature going up at least 40. Yeh, I had the same problem with the mats so I usually bring my own portable strip. Regarding the grass, in 2008, there was grass hitting area with extra charge. But last year, somehow they stopped offering the grass area. I don't know why. You can get a 40 bucket card that give some discount. You can also get a $40 (or 50?) membership that allows you use the short game area for one year.

I went Natik Golf Center over the weekend. Only indoor part, of course. The putting area is rather small but they have about 5-6 net hitting bays, which were't that crowded. There are two golf simulators. Using hitting bays is only $6 for all day, which I thought was pretty good deal. You can also try different clubs available there. The golf simulator looked nice- it can be in driving range mode or actual golf course mode. Driving range mode gives you all the swing info- club speed, ball speed, flight, distance and club path. Golf course mode is basically playing virtual golf game. The only thing is it's $50 per person/hour, which I thought was too pricy. Overall, I liked the fact that I can just hit the balls to the net unlimited $6. It's beats hitting a mat at home. I just wish the golf simulator was a little cheaper.

Start your take away slowly and stop when your hand is about waist high. Turn your head and look at how the shaft is angled. It may point up/down or left/right. "parallel to the target line" means it shouldn't be too far left nor right. The butt end of the club should point to the target. "parallel to the ground" means it shouldn't be too far up/down. The butt end and club head should be equal distance from the ground. This insures that you are 1) not too far in/out of the plan 2) making correct amount of wrist hinge during back swing.

I bought a kid club set for my 5 year daughter. It turns out that I was using it more than she did at home since it was short enough for our ceiling. I do practice 1/2 swings with 9 iron from time to time. Of course when I'm getting hang of it, it becomes 2/3 swing and I have a few clipping marks on the ceiling.

Thanks for the info. I've been meaning to check out NGC soon. I was told that there are two teaching pros in Soughborough. Do you know which one your friend goes to? I forget his name but one of the teaching pro seems to be very friendly. When I'm on the range and he walks by, he sometimes gives a quick advice.

The theory is that by having the toe lighter than heel, the club face will have easier time closing through the impact. I never tried it and don't know any tests that show that's the case but physics does hold. You seemed to have gotten the desired effect by putting the tape on the hosel. That's great. But in theory, the same amount of tape will give more swing weight if you applied it further away from the grip. So you could have used less amount of tape with the same result, if you put it on the bottom of the head. This may also add to higher launch angle and possibly more spin since it will apply more force to the lower parts of the ball at impact. Depending on your current ball flight, this may or may not be a desired effect.

I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. As far as outdoor range, my regular spots are Stone Meadow in Lexington or Southborough Golf in Southborough. Stone Meadow are a little cheaper but than can get crowded on weekends. Southborough has bays with heaters on the top but I found it inadequate for weather like now. Another thing is their mats are way too hard so I usually bring my own.

NGC looks good. I'll check it out. I did some search and it looks like the indoor range in salem has been closed

Fellow new englanders, hope you guys are enjoying the snow Besides courses, do you know of any good indoor practice place? I've tried a heated outdoor one but it's still tough when the weather's like this.

Who cares how it looks when you can have so much quality ball striking? I usually bring my own mat- small one to the range for the same reason. I've seen another guy doing the same thing.