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Practice Range

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Sat, Dec 15 2012 8:03 PM

  cdnbacon:

  Think about it! You PAY to rent the club; you PAY to practise on the green/fringe/fairway. Are you freakin' NUTS?? This is a CASH-COW morons!!!! Get with the program!!!! LOL

  Why would I pay for a bucket of balls when I can do the same on the course and have real conditions? I did want a range and a practice green once but I would learn less doing this than actually playing a hole.

  What has been mentioned is the option of mulligans in practice mode - this would far outweigh any pratice facility. If you want a range you can forget it - it will not happen!

• borntobesting 9,701 Posts

  Sat, Dec 15 2012 11:37 PM

  alanti:

  cdnbacon:

  Think about it! You PAY to rent the club; you PAY to practise on the green/fringe/fairway. Are you freakin' NUTS?? This is a CASH-COW morons!!!! Get with the program!!!! LOL

   

  Why would I pay for a bucket of balls when I can do the same on the course and have real conditions? I did want a range and a practice green once but I would learn less doing this than actually playing a hole.

  What has been mentioned is the option of mulligans in practice mode - this would far outweigh any pratice facility. If you want a range you can forget it - it will not happen!

  Well said. No driving range will show you if a shot with less than Full BS will clear the tree on # 4 @ congressional or if a shot with less than full T/S will go under the tree on #5 @ Olympic. Those and other shots can only be learned by trial and error on the course.

• puttersman 240 Posts

  Sun, Dec 16 2012 7:46 AM

  I agree with you, and have made this request many many time, I too played Links for many years and they were far superior in many ways. I do not agree with charging for balls. With so many members asking for this , I just don't understand why they won't do it.

• puttersman 240 Posts

  Sun, Dec 16 2012 7:50 AM

  You can only hit the shot once and with the same club.

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Sun, Dec 16 2012 8:50 AM

  more chance getting balls cleaners than a practise range. try to forget it as it won't happen.....that is unless folks are prepared to pay $5 for a bucket 100 practise balls.

  $$$ incentive = WGT might seriously listen.

  Zero $$$ incentive = more chance of hell freezing over.

• sixkiller 1,147 Posts

  Sun, Dec 16 2012 9:09 AM

  thebigeasy707:

  $$ incentive = WGT might seriously listen.

   

  Ok WGT, here is a product suggestion that would produce revenue.

  In the Pro Shop under Accessories.

  Mulligans, to be used in practice rounds only.

  10 for a 100 credits, 50 for 350 credits, etc., etc.

   

• Glossopade 518 Posts

  Sun, Dec 16 2012 10:18 AM

  alanti:

  What has been mentioned is the option of mulligans in practice mode - this would far outweigh any practice facility. If you want a range you can forget it - it will not happen!

  Agreed 100%.

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Sun, Dec 16 2012 10:37 AM

  I think the reason that we don't have all this, is that WGT are worried that people would improve more quickly. Thus they would lose less balls and peak earlier.

• mrgolfaholic 440 Posts

  Mon, Dec 17 2012 12:29 PM

  was just about to write a new post about this! ye, why not even have a very simple driving range, and it will just help evry1 know their club distances.

  mr.g

• IRISHPUNK 4,019 Posts

  Mon, Dec 17 2012 1:42 PM

  8802:

  Build a practice area and charge credits for a bucket of balls.