Friday 24 July 2009

Driving Range Heaven!

It was Sunday evening. The TV had little to offer ( Why do we pay Sky so much money?) and I was feeling restless. I knew I had to do something and then it hit me. Driving Range!
So off I go, Clubs in the car and I'm off. I arrived there to find a sprinkling of golfers honing their skills and venting their frustrations on the range balls. I hadn't been for a while and was pleased to see some improvemnets to the range (World of Golf, Sidcup). I slotted my range card into the machine and to my amazement and pleasure on the screen it said 174 balls for £6.60!! Bargain if ever I saw one. Other differences were that they have installed an old London Taxi at about the 150 yards mark. It just had to be hit!! So I took out my 6iron and proceeded to aim at the cab. About 20 balls later I had hit it twice and came close a few times. Good enough I thought. At this point I noted I was one of only 3 guys left there. Everyone else had gone. Had I said something wrong or were they just intimidated by my superior skills!!
Anyway a few shots with several different clubs brought me on to the Driver. I generally struggle on the course with the Driver and tend to tee off with my 3 wood which is fairly reliable and gives me good distance but I would like to get my Driver working for those long par 5s that seem to last forever(for me anyway) After a few tentative drives which went in varying directions I started to relax a little. By now I was the only one on the range and I just decided that I would go full pelt and see how it went. Really opening up my swing I started to let rip and soon I was hitting long and straight. I started to get that feeling you get when you're in the zone and it all comes together in a fluid motion. I must have hit about 60 balls in quick succesion. One by one they flew into the distance dropping about the 250 mark.
The question I have is can I now replicate that on the course when I play next week? I don't know, maybe si maybe non but for now I can be truly satisfied with my own slice of Driving Range Heaven.

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