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Make Your Own Driving Range

• dorkfeatures 712 Posts

  Fri, Jun 19 2009 11:40 PM

  Want a driving range - ?? Well heres how you can make your own.
  
  This enables you to practice hitting the sweet spot on the swing meter. Thats all - but it is the key to hitting a straight ball, and getting max distance.
  
  Its real easy, and I use it quite regularly to tune up and try to get the hang of those new clubs.
  
  So - heres how.
  
  1 - Get yourself into practice mode. Kiawah Island at this point in time.
  
  2 - On the tee - Choose your club -  the driver is the easiest from the tee.
  
  3 - Move your target aim off the fairway into some out of bounds area, or similar. You can even hit the shot behind you if you wish. Just move the target marker there.
  
  4 - Take your shot. If you use your driver the ball will probably go out of bounds, and you will see the "lost ball" dialogue box, and incur 1 shot penalty. (no matter you are in practice mode - your max number of shots per hole I think is around 10 - and it does not count against your rating)
  
  5 - Next - naturally you come right back to the same tee. Select your driver again , move the target aim, and hit it again. Out of bounds -  and on, and on, and on you go.
  
  6 - After you've hit 10 shots you will move to the next hole, where you do the exact same thing again.
  
  Simple eh ?? The par 3's are the easiest because you can go out of bounds dead easy using any number of clubs.
  
  If you simply hit that driver down the fairway, when it comes to your second shot - simply choose the driver again. It wont go very far (no matter), but you can still get use to the speed of the swing meter and you can practice trying to hit that sweet spot - again after 10 shots you move to the next hole etc etc etc.
  
  So - stop complaining about having no driving range - there are ways around these issues. All you have to do is think !!

  If you're interested please visit my blog  www.wgtgolfguide.com   any comments will be appreciated.

  Cya on the driving range.
  
  Doug

  PS You may come unstuck ocassionally and find yourself in deep, deep rough - no matter. Just keep selecting that driver or whatever and get the practice.

• cheersself 1 Posts

  Sat, Jun 20 2009 9:42 PM

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  You should just tell us roughly what the article is about, then send us to your page. Otherwise, whats the point of having your website eh? 

  Cheers.

• sealseal 67 Posts

  Thu, Aug 13 2009 2:58 PM

  Good idea! I never would have thought to practice like that.

• slider1 5 Posts

  Thu, Aug 13 2009 8:48 PM

  This may seem like a silly question but in practice mode does

  the balls you bought get lost?

  Thanks

  slider

• Crusty56 136 Posts

  Thu, Aug 13 2009 9:09 PM

  yes, and they ware out too.

• steelerspens 33 Posts

  Thu, Aug 13 2009 10:02 PM

  or, they can make us a driving range, and then we can hit as many as we want.  im not complaing, its just what are the point of these suggestion forums, if they arent gonna do anything bout it?

   

• sealseal 67 Posts

  Fri, Aug 14 2009 7:28 AM

  Ya I would perfer WGT to make a driving range and a practice putting green.

• dorkfeatures 712 Posts

  Sat, Aug 15 2009 11:04 PM

  Yeh OK - in the ideal world a practice range would be great. Of course it would.

  However, thats not the case - so we have to improvise for the time being.

  I'm just putting forward a method whereby you can achieve some sort of practice using what we've got - and its real easy. Its certainly better than nothing thats for sure.

  Just trying to help.

  Cheers Doug

• MHanson326 74 Posts

  Mon, Nov 17 2014 11:23 AM

  1. can i use replays to measure the yards carried vs total distance ?            

   2. what about a practice green or bunker simulator to aid us non golfers

   

• siggipj76 2,989 Posts

  Mon, Nov 17 2014 11:04 PM

  5 year old thread !

  but guessing you can't start a new one.

  1. no ! Kia nr 1 is good for practice ! try different spins (drivers ) if you ment irons back 10,11,12 beth for testing.

  2. not going to happen, we have practice rounds for that !

  I start each day with a 5 random practice round, don't ding and land in trouble , it is a good way to learn the game.