Since last winter went so swimmingly, let's try it again! TFS has very graciously opened her home in the west San Fernando Valley to me again. This time her daughter AS (and dog and cat) are there too. Two women + two dogs + two cats = not my usual solitary winter again. Huzzah! Place name links like Los Angeles, CA go to Wikipedia. Place name links like Los Angeles use a local tourism or government website.
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| 2014.04.30 |
Dallas Golf Driving Ranges |
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I visited about a half-dozen golf ranges in Dallas, don't think I got any better though. Most involved hitting off grass rather than mats, and in the spring "grass" is an optimistic term. The list is in alphabetical order.
Cedar Crest Golf Course was one of the closest, but most disappointing ranges. It was the first time I encountered a "large" bucket for a large-bucket price ($10) that was only 60 or 75 balls. The place was also pretty unimaginative, with only a few flags and distance markers that didn't seem accurate.
| Country View Golf Club had one of my favourite ranges. A large bucket was $10, for an empty large bucket that I could fill myself from a trough full of balls. The grass wasn't so good - gouged with divots and requiring a little moving about to find a reasonable patch of grass. But it was only 20 minutes away on the I-35E and usually pretty quiet. |
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In March the field was pretty tan-coloured and it was hard to see where my balls dropped | |
but by April it had started to green up. | |
| The Golf Club of Dallas was another one-shot place with expensive balls - a large-bucket (plus tax if I wanted a receipt) price for a medium-bucket number of balls. Except they didn't use buckets, only different sizes of bags that tended to blow around in the wind. The course seemed to be convereted from private to public, and it showed. |
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Old Brickyard Golf Course was a range we had seen along the I-45 in Ferris, TX coming back from Galveston and San Antonio. It was the last range I tried, and if I had found it sooner it would have been my favourite. Medium-bucket-price for a large bucket, and the one day I was there, a hot humid day, I had the range completely to myself.
Red Oak Valley Golf Club was a charming little rural course just south of Dallas on the I-35E with the cheapest prices: $3 for a "large" bucket which was about 50 balls. It was cheap for a reason - the balls were scuffed old found balls of various sorts and the field was a section of cow pasture that couldn't be used for the course. Perfectly serviceable though. I meant to go back there but never got around to it.
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Tangle Ridge Golf Club was not my original choice - I was headed to another range that turned out to be undergoing renovation and was closed, so I used Google Maps to find the nearest place and it was nearby in Grand Prairie, TX . It was another place with medmium buckets for a large-bucket price, but it was another hot humid day and 60-some balls plus a dozen left by others was plenty for me.
Tenison Park Golf Club was the closest range to our hotel, only 8 minutes away, and the only range that had mats, and targets better than a few flags stuck in a field. It had several clusters of flags with distance maps at every other hitting station, with adjusted distances. The most "professional range I went to, and also the busiest.
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