| It is really funny how golf driving ranges or | | | | better known as the facility's driving range picker. |
| practice facilities and the driving range equipment | | | | Once you are finished with your practice time, |
| they use are so different even though they are | | | | you can sit in your air conditioned car and enjoy a |
| trying to serve the same customer base. I will | | | | cold soda from the soda machine. I have learned |
| give you two distinct examples of a high-end | | | | correct change is better. |
| practice facility and for a lack of a better term a | | | | To enter the other driving range experience, you |
| lower-end driving range. Both of these facilities are | | | | pull into their landscaped and paved parking lot. |
| within twenty minutes from my house. Keep in | | | | and we enter the literal club house that has a |
| mind that both of these practice facilities are | | | | snack bar, meeting rooms and a golf shop full of |
| charging the basically same rates they are two | | | | new golf equipment. You pay for your range |
| totally different experiences. | | | | basket and fill it as full as you would like without |
| The first driving range experience that we will | | | | extra range balls falling out. |
| walk through is the lower-end driving range. Even | | | | You then walk out to the practice tee which is |
| though the facility is located close to a busy retail | | | | large enough and maintained through proper bag |
| area, you will pull up into their gravel parking lot. | | | | stand rotation and turf grass maintenance |
| From there you proceed into their wooden building | | | | practices. There are additional practice areas for |
| to purchase tokens for the range ball dispenser | | | | putting, chipping pitching, green-side bunkers and |
| and as many rusted range ball baskets that you | | | | fairway bunkers. You can practice all of the |
| plan to use. I do not know how old their range ball | | | | different aspects of your golf game. In addition, |
| dispenser is, but I would almost bet it was one of | | | | this facility has PGA Teaching Professionals on |
| the first one ever made! HAHA | | | | staff and they have a very active clinic schedule |
| Once you have your golf practice balls, you then | | | | and offer individual lessons as well. |
| proceed to the golf mats. You may wonder how | | | | After practicing, you can sit in the snack bar and |
| come at this point you do not proceed to the | | | | be served a soda or adult beverage while |
| grass hitting area, well, you can. However, when | | | | watching their big screen tv. They have tables |
| you arrive at that part of the facility you better | | | | scattered throughout the area as well as some |
| be ready to practice off of a golf tee as you will | | | | comfortable chairs and a couch to catch your |
| only find tufts of grass left to hit off of for the | | | | breath in between practice sessions. |
| majority of the year. | | | | It is amazing to me that both of these facilities |
| While hitting your range balls, you will more than | | | | exist so close to each other while charging the |
| likely be interrupted by the loud farm tractor | | | | about the same prices. |