How to Build a Driving Range in Your Home or Garage

How to Build a Driving Range in Your Home or Garage

Article by M Putterman







If you play golf, it can become an obsession. Whenever you pick anything thin and cylindrical up your hands immediately go for the overlap or interlocking grip. Golf becomes second nature. When you see a giant rolling field you can’t help but think, “Whoa, that area would make one awesome back nine.” As much as you like getting out to the golf course, or even just the range it isn’t always an option if you don’t have the spare time. Public courses and driving ranges can be extremely expensive (The closest public golf course to my home town in Wisconsin is up to 500 dollars a round). Even if you can’t always make it to the range, it doesn’t mean that you can’t be practicing. Let’s set the record straight on what practicing is and isn’t, practicing is not taking swings on your lawn with no target and no ball. You might improve your form, but when it comes time to actual hit a golf ball the whole process will feel alien. If you don’t regularly practice making contact with a golf ball you aren’t really practicing. You need to be able to hit real golf balls with real golf clubs to get real practice.There is a simple and easy way to set up an at home driving range that is safe and can be used all year long. If you are a homeowner and you have access to a garage or basement that provides enough height to be able to comfortably swing a golf club while inside, you are in the clear. By getting a few weighted safety nets and a synthetic turf matt with a built in tee, you can have your own driving range that is accessible twenty four hours a day and seven days a week. Imagine being able to practice hitting your 3 wood in the comfort of your own home. Any reputable sporting equipment dealer or internet golf retailer should have golf netting in stock. These weighted nets can handle golf balls being hit into them at maximum velocity. After the ball hits the net, it falls to the ground and stays by the netting for easy collection. Even though you can’t see where the ball would have ended up if it wasn’t stopped by the net, you can still tell when you make a good, solid, clean connection with the club face. If you have a tall enough ceiling you can string up an area as little as twelve feet by ten feet and have the perfect place to practice all year long. The instillation process is simple and all you really need is a hammer or a power drill, some hooks and the golf netting itself. It’s important that you use actual weighted golf netting and not random netting that you can purchase from other retailers that wasn’t expressly made for capturing golf balls. Other types of nets may let golf balls through the netting, which could damage your walls or even break a window. By using real golf netting you are making sure that accidents won’t happen.Even if you are a member of a golf club, or have a fairly accessible public course right by your home, those courses won’t be open during the off season. Imagine the upper hand you can get if you were to practice all year round, you could perfect your golf swing while your buddies are getting pudgy sipping hot coco by a fire place!



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How to Pick Out the Best Driver

How to Pick Out the Best Driver

Golf is one sport that is played the world over for the sheer amount of enjoyment that can be had when playing the game! It is one of the few games that is a competitive sport yet something that can be pursued for relaxation and enjoyment. It may not have the pace and frenzy associated with most outdoor sports but relaxes you completely after a round of the same.

Playing golf is no walk in the park. You need to be perfect with your shots; not to mention your eye-contact with the ball and confidence with the golf driver determines the kind of player you’re! Golf drivers that just fit your requirement are pretty hard to find. Actually it is hard to find because it is the weight, the swing and the level of player you’re. Depending on the level of your play, the golf driver is to be chosen. Not all experts need a shorter head; the length of the club and your confidence in swinging makes all the difference. In case you’re a beginner you’ll want to go for a club which has a wider and a heavier head that makes you land near accurate hits every time with a smooth swing.

Golf Equipment worth the Shot!

Choosing proper golfing equipment can be tough and if the ‘toughness’ factor is taken into account, it is the driver which is the toughest to choose and can really be a pain in the neck. Golf drivers are high-precision accessories. The amount of labor and finesse that has gone into the making of a driver makes all the difference. Earlier when the game was just born and not too many materials were known for the construction of sporting equipment, the golf driver was a wooden stick and further on, iron drivers were also tried on an experimental basis!

The wood was found to be too light and the iron was too heavy! Then came stainless steel and that was also used for quite sometime until titanium and aluminum were used as materials in golf drivers. Lightweight and strong that they were, made the perfect driver the golfing world had yet seen! Quite understandably, the drivers constructed out of the two metals gained fast prominence and still today are widely used!

Drivers Galore!

When choosing a driver, the material of the same is very important. There is something known as a degree of loft when using a driver; this is based on the handicap of the player. In easy words, a higher handicap player should use a club with a higher loft than the one who has minimum handicap. Some innovators decided to include both aluminum and titanium in the club and voila! One of the most popular variations of the golf club was born. Here the head is made of the ultra-light and ultra-strong element called titanium which gives balance, loft as well as strength to your shot so that the ball goes really far! With a bit of research and patience it shouldn’t be a difficult task for you to find a driver that suits you just fine!

There are many kinds of drivers and not all are created equal. To find the best golf driver that fits your swing (and budget), go to http://golfequipmentreviewsblog.com where you read personal reviews and compare prices.