Golf driving ranges

Golf driving ranges

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Japan is a small island and land is scarce and very expensive. Only the rich people belong to golf clubs and actually play the game. Most spend most of their lives on driving ranges and play when they go on vacation to Hawaii, which the Japs virtually own and run. They should change the name of that place to japawahu.

Driving ranges used to be pretty much like you saw in the movie, Tin cup. You got a bucket of balls and went out and wacked them off a mat or rubber tee. Hitting balls was cheap. My local driving range which was really nice got taken over by the Asians and the first thing they did was let the practice green for putting and chipping go up in weeds as these people just want to wack their big drivers. They also raised the prices up so a real big basket is now $15. This place is going to be toast because we now have the latest greatest Jap driving range close to my house.

3 stories, I like the ground level and balls are zooming off over my head. The place is totally amazing and high tech. You don’t carry out a bucket of balls, you buy time. An hour is $15 and the ball pops up after you hit one, or you can pull it off the tee and hit it off the mat. I love that feature. Because you don’t have to bend over and fish out a ball and tee it up, you can hit twice as many balls as before, twice as fast. You have a foot pedal to adjust how high you want the tee and you can move it down for your irons or way up for your driver. It’s all controlled by computers and you have a timer showing your hour and when it’s up the balls stop coming. You have to go in and buy more time if you wish to continue. Jap golf hits my hood, what’s next? When I got on the Jap range, I threw up both arms and said, Bonzai..............
I have a new Sushi joint 6 blocks away. Ah so. Yo Sarah is driving a gookmobile.

As this place is brand new, all the balls are new and hot. You buy a monthly range program and you can play for $150. That sounds real cheap to the Japs but blowing 2 grand a year to wack balls is not my cup of tea. My country club which is 5 minutes away charges me $300 a year for unlimited range use by my entire family. When you are a scratch golfer like me, you got that way, you stay that way by wackin a zillion balls and you will find a way to do it on the cheap.
What was really smart about the Jap range was for the first week they opened, hit all the balls you want for free. That is brilliant, hook them in, what a great idea. Why pool halls never think of that I will never know.
You are on this really nice mat, heater with a blower over your head for when it’s cold, two fans to blow on you when it’s hot, you are sheltered from the rain with a roof over your head. I loved it. The place was packed and I was the only round eye there. And some of these little Japs with their new high tech big head R9’s are driving the ball tour long.

I think it’s a crying shame because technology is allowing people to buy shots, and a long game, they would have never had the talent to produce prior to it by using the old equipment. They could not hit my old 693's 250. It’s a new world, and the people who sell the stuff, drive the game.
Pool has always been a lot cheaper to play that Golf which is a rich man’s game in the country clubs. The public golf course are for the working men. Many walk and drag a small bag on a pull cart, and most don’t have a driving range.
15 an hour to just wack balls at a high teach range, when pool would be 6 to 8. The average golf course is now 50 a day, 4 hours, 13 an hour. A nice course will be 75, add the cart and balls and you are a C note, or 25 an hour.
The problem with the country clubs is you have to pay the big nut to get in the door, and then spend money, forget about the movie caddy shack, Rodney would not be let in most of the nicer ones. I pay $300 a month for unlimited play, plus 17 a cart. Say I play 3 times a week, 500x12 is still $42 a round, add in the driving range, and the admission initial membership fee pro rated out over several years, it’s still costing me $50 a round, or $13 an hour.
But I have the free tennis courts and the nice pool, the bar, the restaurant, my own big locker with my name on it. The sauna and steam room, what the hell, life is to be lived. You can’t take it with you, when you croak.

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