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Originally Posted by IrishGolfer I once hit 500 balls in a dream. I woke up the next day exhausted...
Jesus, Rock, are you tryin' to emulate Moe Norman? I don't think I have hit more than 50 balls in one day, ever!
I've never been one for the range. On that subject, to most people here in Ireland the range is an alien concept. Most clubs don't have the facility to allow people to warm up. If you do, you have to bring your own shag bag, hit them and go and collect them.
Sure there are driving ranges, few and far between, where you pay for a bucket of balls. Those places do well in Winter, as they are floodlit.
My warm up is usually a practice swing on th 1st, perhaps a stretch or 2 and a few putts (if I have the time).
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Yep Irish that's the way we have it here too. We have a practice area, which is about twice the width of a fairway, about 200 yards long, and there's intermittent flags stuck in the turf. Bring yer own balls set up. Ya gotta hope that theres no-one other than yerself out tho, coz if yer a thrid of the way down the range possibly practicing PW/SW to makey up green and I guy arrives up top ready to crash a few 4 irons about the place, it definetely becomes a hard hat area.
Warm up routine for a fun round is usually arrive in car park 5 mins b4 tee time. Scamper up to the 1st (dogleg left) 200 to apex of corner, 3 warm up swings with 5 iron. This usually causes a twinge in the tendon on my left wrist at the back of the hand. So I settle over the ball, slightly out of breath with a dull pain in my wrist and expect to hit a nice high draw.... yer guess is as good as mine as to what will happen
Compy day and I'm there 45 mins b4 hand .... usually 30 mins on putting green and 5 mins hitting into the net (pointless excercise personally speaking).
Driving ranges to me are generally to help me maintain a good swing tempo. The range balls are usually solid but light, like a bar of soap golf ball ... but ya do happen upon da Beav there ... emm ... which is nice
