What are the most important considerations when a builder is setting up a golf course driving range?

Ideally a driving range should be a golf learning center. This can include a putting green, some practice bunkers, possibly a place for some indoor lessons.

The nicer your practice facility, the better positioned you will be at attracting new members, especially if you are a private club. It really is a benefit and an asset. If we can do something more than just a driving range, it will serve the golf course well.

What are the kinds of things you look at when setting up an exceptional driving range?

In this day and age, with the developments of technology, we often have to set up the range to be about 330 yards long because people are simply driving the ball that much farther these days.

So we start with a driving range, then we like to set up an area at the back of the tee where we can set up mats. This is helpful because sometimes you may need to work on the driving area and you might want the turf to be able to recuperate.

We also like to see a good putting area that is about 10,000 – 15,000 square feet.

We also encourage some sort of short game facility. That could be another practice green that would have some chipping areas, some practice bunkers, something that you could hit something 20 – 60 yards.

We generally try to provide some sort of a facility that would allow you to practice all aspects of the game, including: Driving, chipping, putting and sand shots.

I’m sure safety has to be an important consideration when you are setting these up?

Orientation is obviously important and you have to be able to have the space to set it up right. We generally would not want to have a driving range that would have a golf hole or the clubhouse or houses on the right side of the range, the slice side of the hole. So we always try to separate that a little bit.

What about driving range nets?

When ever possible, we try to put the practice facility where we don’t have to put nets. It’s a little more expensive so if we can set up a range by just using the land, it’s much better.

What about how the range stalls are set up and the design of actual facility?

There’s some common sense issues like circulation on and around the teeing area, things that we do about radiusing the tee (pointing the tee a little left of center), looking at the overall orientation, the prevailing winds, the rising or the setting sun. Ideally we would like to set the range up to the northeast – we don’t like it pointing directly to the east or the west.

We also like to set up some target greens down the range so that there is something interesting for people to aim for.

What about considerations for the actual landing area? There can be problems with the golf balls getting beat up if the surface of the driving range is not in good condition. Problems like rocky surfaces, poor drainage, etc.

This is really a function of turf quality and maintenance and proper construction. You want to make sure that rocks and debris are removed before you put the seed in the ground. You need to also make sure that you have a quality stand of grass out there. Irrigation, fertilizer, maintenance and drainage are all important to make sure you have good healthy turf.

Any other considerations that a developer should consider when they are developing a driving range?

I think if people are thinking about a practice facility they should find themselves an architect, someone who can work them through the process of developing more than just a driving range, something that includes a practice facility. I would encourage them to get detailed plans and work out all the details of drainage and safety issues.

You can see the complete golf course design article as well as the mP3 audio interview at Golf Course Designers Herfort Norby

Colin Goehring
http://www.articlesbase.com/ask-an-expert-articles/golf-course-driving-range-design-127547.html

It’s a short low running approach golf shot with overspin or bite used in approaching the green. Other terms used for chipping are:
Chip In – When your ball rolls into the cup after chipping, you hole out with a chip shot.
Chip-and-run – A chip shot intended to run the ball after landing.
Chili-dip – A mishit chip shot, the clubhead hitting the ground well before it hits the ball. 

If you wonder: when chipping? The answer is: in every situation within a few yards of the green. 

Chip Shot Golf Sequence

Basic Chip Shot Golf Tips 

This step by step chip shot checklist will help to drill and improve your chip shot techniques. 

1. Take a 6-, 7-, 8- or 9-iron or pitching wedge. 

2. Use your normal grip for this chip shot. 

3. Address the ball with a narrow stance. The ball placed more towards back foot. 

4. Open your feet and shoulders a little bit, not too wide. 

5. Lean your body a bit to the left of the pin. 

6. Keep your shoulders and your wrists firm, like you should hit with a putter. 

7. Hands ahead of the ball, inside your left thigh. Your left hand has to block the vision of your left knee. Right hand for lefthanded golfers. 

8. Lean your weight to your front foot. 

9. Aim the face of your lady golf club towards the target. 

10. Make a slow tempo swing with your arms and shoulders. Like you want to put. Your arms and shoulders move like a pendulum clock. 

11. Touch the ground – before you chip the ball. Crisps the grass. Accelerate through the ball and hit it off the toe of the club. Keep your hand ahead of the ball at impact. 

12. The follow through of a chip shot should have the same length as your back swing, as mentioned before, like a pendulum clock. A short back swing causes short distance chipping, a long one a longer traject. 

13. The golf club lifts the ball up in the air. Practice a lot, and you can make a perfect chip shot on the fairway within a reasonable distance to the pin. 

14. And: Don’t look up to early! I think that’s my most important tip for chip shot golf.

Avgolfer
http://www.articlesbase.com/golf-articles/basic-chip-shot-golf-tips-1078954.html

Answers only from people who have bought or tried them out, please.

My friend bought a pair and we both found them to be pretty dumb. Basically they seem to filter light similar to how things look under a blacklight so that white things show up as brighter. What they don’t mention is that this works for anything that is white or light colored and since you can’t really see very well through these things except color differences it ends up highlighting every little bit of junk on the course and not just balls. This was especially brutal on our regular course as there are a lot of cottonwood trees on the back 9 that dump white fluffy seeds all over the place like snow during this time of year.

I am going to teach you a few golf club basics. If you are new to the game of golf then you probably have no idea how many clubs or what type of clubs you need in order to play a round of golf much less the proper use for the various clubs that exist. This is a tutorial of sorts to help you learn a little bit about the clubs you will find in your bag.

Golf clubs are generally divided into four classifications: fairway woods, irons, wedges, and putters. There are many different varieties, brands, and optional bells and whistles that can along with each of these don’t get lost in the details when purchasing clubs. If you ever hope to play in tournaments, it’s best if you learn to play with clubs that are tournament approved. That way you aren’t hindering your performance in tournaments by needing to learn new clubs.

If you are playing according to typical tournament rules you can have no more than 14 clubs in your bag. While there are no firm rules on which clubs you should have in your bag, the traditional clubs are 3 woods, 8 irons, 2 wedges, and a putter. Once a tournament has begun you cannot change the clubs that are in your bag.

1) There are three basic fairway woods that are used in tournaments. These clubs offer greater distance with the least amount of control. The three woods used in tournaments are traditionally the one wood, which is also called the driver, the three wood, and the 5 wood. You will want to practice driving with each of these on the driving range and get a feel for their distance and control as there are times when each of these will be a good idea for your golf game.

2) There are basically 8 irons that will be used in tournament golf. The number for irons begins at 2 and goes sequentially up to 9. The 2 iron has the least amount of pitch with each subsequent iron having a little more pitch. Pitch allows you to control the ball to some degree upon landing. The higher the pitch, the more control you are capable of having.

3) You will normally see two wedges in a tournament golf bag. The pitching wedge and the sand wedge. The pitching wedge has a 50-degree pitch to it and an excellent amount of control once the ball lands. Even better than the pitching wedge however is the pitch of a sand wedge. These wedges have a 55-degree pitch and excellent control.

4) Your putter is going to be a completely individual decision. No one can tell you the putter that is going to work best for you. We all want different things in our putter and if there was a magic in the hole putter, we’d all have one.

This is a very general guide of golf clubs and what a tournament bag will probably have in it. Keep in mind that you want your bag to hold the clubs that work best for you and that once again, there is no one size fits all in the world of golf. Happy golfing!

Edward Charkow
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/golf-club-basics-54862.html

Tomorrow I’m going to a 9-hole public golf course for the first time with one of my buddies. I’m kind of nervous. He has played on golf courses a couple of times, but basically we are both beginners. He basically knows what it’s like on a golf course but I don’t.

I’ve been to the driving range many, many times, just never out on a course. My friend keeps telling me that we should go and I finally agreed. I can drive the ball pretty far, but I often have trouble and slice the ball far to the left. I can’t really drive it consistently. I have done a little bit of work with irons but I’m not very good at it. I’ve also never putted before in my life (mini golf doesn’t count!).

So are there any tips or things I should know about before I tee off tomorrow? I just don’t want to make a complete fool of myself. Also, how am I to determine which iron to use in which situation? I have a full set (I think). I have so many questions, but can’t think of them all to put here!
Please help.
What does raking the bunker mean?
How do I know when it’s my turn on the fairway/green?
How do I know if it’s my job to pull the flag when someone is putting?
etc. etc. Give me any details you can!

Etiquette, etiquette, etiquette.

Raking bunker: if you step in the bunker (because your ball is there) when you leave, rake it to even out the sand surface, so the next player’s ball will not be in your sand divot, or footprint

It’s your turn if your ball is furthest away from pin.

When someone’s is putting on the green it’s your job to pull the flag out if you’re closest to it. Leaving the flag in is against USGA rule.

Play ready golf, i.e. when someone else is getting ready to hit their ball, be ready to hit your ball, that includes thinking which club you should hit, taking practice swing, walking to your ball, etc, so there is not considerable delay hitting your ball. However, do not do anything which may distract other players from hitting their shot, especially in his pre-shot routine.

Teeing off: the player who scored the lowest in the previous hole has the honor to hit first. If there was a tie, the person who teed off the previous hole will keep his honor. But most players play ready golf, i.e. whoever’s ready. But make sure that they did say it, some golfers can be a stickler when it comes to this. But on a 9 hole course, it’d be ready golf.

For 9 hole you should go through it in around 2 hours. Anything longer than 2:30 hours is playing slow, and golfers hate slow players.

……..is it gay to play putt putt golf with a friend.and watch his butt butt when he tees off.
BUT , BUT I AINT DONE YET.
in football game a quarterback yells out hut hut while he reaches in another grown mans ass grabs on his nuts,but just what if its was never meant, it was just an accident, but he tripped ,fell,slipped and his penis went in his teeny,tiny,little,round hiney.and he didnt mean it but his little weenie flinched just a little bit.
and i dont need to go into any more details .
but what if he pictured it as a females butt.

IS THAT GAY ,I JUST NEED TO CLEAR THINGS UP.

Dude, that’s SUPER GAY.

Clear enough for ya?

(not that there’s anything wrong with that…)

This video is average quality but it has down the line and side view.
I tend to hit the ball of the toe and hook it left any advice?

Set up looks good with one exception. You are very straight legged with no knee flex at all. If you notice in both views you struggle to maintain balance at the finish. The side view shows why. You have a large move to the right in your backswing, which I’m sure feels to you like making a big turn or getting behind the ball. But you are so far back there that there is no way for you to get all the way back to the ball at impact. Even in these practice swings we see the club bottoming out well before where the ball would be. That means the club is already closing by the time you get to impact. The slide to the right in the backswing causes much of this. The big question is what causes the slide?

Go back to your address position. Create a little bit of knee flex and maintain that flex in your right knee through the backswing. You should actually feel tension created in the inside of your right thigh as you coil. If you lose your knee flex you will again slide to the right and get too far behind the ball. If you can maintain your knee flex you will be more on top of the ball at the top, your backswing will become more compact, and you will see a huge difference in your drive through the ball and balance at the finish. Yours is actually a pretty easy fix!