Cost of a bucket of range balls

[skoronesa]

My local range is pretty cheap, but it would still be cheaper for me to buy washed balls at walmart and then hit those at the range. Any of you guys ever do that?

[zoned_post_meridiem]

I pay $6.50 for a fairly large bucket. Can't imagine actually buying that # of balls for anywhere near that price.

[Dr. Block]

I used to practice extensively at a soccer and baseball field complex near my old house. Buy your balls, get some sort of tote to carry them around, and either use aiming sticks, trees, or even your golf bag as the target. Arrange the balls at various distances, or just practice particular shots you need to practice. You can hit balls for hours for basically nothing.

 

taking your own range balls to a driving range is a sure way to get uninvited to that place of business. The cost of the bucket is not just the balls in it, it also reflects the business costs they need to recover to stay in business while turning a fair profit.

[jwhite86]

Average price around here is $5 a bucket... I just got about a thousand balls from a neighbor that passed away... so won't need to be buying many buckets

[Bye]

It ranges from £5 to about £7.50 for a bucket of 100 balls over here. I’ve got practice bag full of used pro v1’s that is sitting in my office that hardly ever get used.

[Twism86]

I used to practice extensively at a soccer and baseball field complex near my old house. Buy your balls, get some sort of tote to carry them around, and either use aiming sticks, trees, or even your golf bag as the target. Arrange the balls at various distances, or just practice particular shots you need to practice. You can hit balls for hours for basically nothing.

 

I stopped doing that when I was unable to find too many. If you find every single one then thats good but when I was losing 5-6 balls out on the field somewhere I didnt like the thought of a kid twisting or breaking an ankle on the ball I left behind.

[Dr. Block]

I used to practice extensively at a soccer and baseball field complex near my old house. Buy your balls, get some sort of tote to carry them around, and either use aiming sticks, trees, or even your golf bag as the target. Arrange the balls at various distances, or just practice particular shots you need to practice. You can hit balls for hours for basically nothing.

 

I stopped doing that when I was unable to find too many. If you find every single one then thats good but when I was losing 5-6 balls out on the field somewhere I didnt like the thought of a kid twisting or breaking an ankle on the ball I left behind.

 

I never hit onto the actual fields themselves, only around or over them to the accompanying and surrounding land, and I never hit so many balls that finding them was an issue, but you do make a good point. Going out to a sports field and turning lose if you're a high handicap is probably a bad idea. Maybe a big park with open grass space would be better.

[mesquite2]

$ 5.00 for 40 balls at our range...and you are NOT supposed to hit your own balls on our range.

[kmay__]

9-11 dollars here at local ranges for a large bucket, only problem here is the balls are so shite, they really mark the faces of your drivers/woods, I know that'll happen eventually anyways, but man it sucks to mark up a fairly new driver like that so easy. And those bags of washed balls at Canadian walmarts are around 30 bucks if memory serves, my buddy whos new to the game bought a sack of callaways, half of em were gouged and bulged, garbage. I gotta find some better ranges.

[me05501]

I practice at a muni that's between work and home for me. $5 for 35 balls. I usually take my small bucket to the practice green first and chip/pitch balls for awhile before I go knock them into the range.

 

The ball machine is right beside the range and uses tokens they sell inside the pro shop. I usually get three tokens each time I go in, but I only use one per visit and keep the extras in my bag for my next couple of visits.

 

It would be great if it wasn't right beside a sewage treatment plant. The quality of air depends heavily on the direction of the breeze on any given day.

[zzyzxx33]

My last two home courses I've gotten the unlimited range pass for $100-150 for the year. I generally take my 3 sons, 9-9-8, one night during the week and then a warm up bucket before I play. It has worked out well for me.

[JabbathePutt]

$10 for 100 balls in my area, not the greatest balls ever but not rocks either. As per the post above, if you plan on spending a lot of time on the range an unlimited pass, if offered, is probably the way to go. The small, public course that I grew up playing at sold buckets of 30 for $5, not a great deal considering you could expect to find a few cut up balata's in the mix.

[elwhippy]

£1 for 40 at my club. £4 for 50 a local range.

[nsxguy]

Haven't been there for about 5 years but at the time, at Eisenhower Park on Long Island, one of the more expensive places to live in the USA, a bucket averaged out to about 11 cents per ball. Not bad.

 

Couple of years ago, since I've moved down to Florida, in the SUMMER, the OFF-SEASON, where you'd think ANY cash coming in would be appreciated I went to the range at a local course and the balls were about 18 cents per. 70% higher than L.I. IN-SEASON.

 

Hit that one bucket that one time and nothing since. Ridiculous.

[Lagavulin62]

It always makes more sense to hit your own. But the problem is finding an open field. Getting harder and harder, even here in the south.

 

This is the first time I have ever heard of buying balls, then hitting them once at a range. And I must be insensitive. Hit thousands of balls at public parks alll my life and it never occurred to me someone could step on it and break an ankle. What a dangerous world we live in.

[BrianMcG]

I remember when I was a kid I could get a bucket of balls from the ball machine for a dime....actual tokens cost $2.50, but we figured out that dimes could work too. LOL

[118811]

Here in Honolulu, the military golf course ranges & the daily fee course I frequent....balls are .10 each.

No fields to shag your own!

[Golfer4Life]

$5.00 for around 40 balls in my neck of the woods. I practice my short game at home with a couple of shag bags, one of the advantages of country living.

[dennis4190]

I work pt at a local range and if you get caught hitting/bringing your own balls you’ll be asked to leave..how long do you think we’d be in business if everybody brought their own. Do you take your own food to restaurants too?

[tocino]

About $7-10 for 70 balls

[dogleg0425]

Local range suburb of Columbus, Ohio. 175 balls 14 dollars, 75 balls 8 dollars, 40 balls 5.50. Brand new Calloway range balls every April. Can purchase a card in December for 120 dollars and get 185 dollars in value. Range open year round with heated bays in winter. Two putting greens, practice fairway bunker, chipping green. They put out 60,000 new balls each year. I feel quite lucky to have this place 13 minutes from home.

[FourTops]

$12...SoCal...the Climate Change golf ball disposal fee adds $5.

[RSinSG]

My home course is $12 for a large bucket but since I work there 1/2 day a week I get to use it as much as I want. I also live on an acre and from my front lawn to the horse trailer at the bottom of my lot is 50 yards. Perfect LW practice. The land across from me is vacant and slopes up to a large hill. I can hit all the way to driver when the urge hits me. Only problem is doing the Easter Egg hunt with my shag bag. When my grandkids visit I pay them to pick them up.

[ohioglfr]

I used to practice extensively at a soccer and baseball field complex near my old house. Buy your balls, get some sort of tote to carry them around, and either use aiming sticks, trees, or even your golf bag as the target. Arrange the balls at various distances, or just practice particular shots you need to practice. You can hit balls for hours for basically nothing.

 

I stopped doing that when I was unable to find too many. If you find every single one then thats good but when I was losing 5-6 balls out on the field somewhere I didnt like the thought of a kid twisting or breaking an ankle on the ball I left behind.

 

I never hit onto the actual fields themselves, only around or over them to the accompanying and surrounding land, and I never hit so many balls that finding them was an issue, but you do make a good point. Going out to a sports field and turning lose if you're a high handicap is probably a bad idea. Maybe a big park with open grass space would be better.

Invest in a Shag Bag. They're cheap and picking up balls is a breeze.

[Jagpilotohio]

Local range suburb of Columbus, Ohio. 175 balls 14 dollars, 75 balls 8 dollars, 40 balls 5.50. Brand new Calloway range balls every April. Can purchase a card in December for 120 dollars and get 185 dollars in value. Range open year round with heated bays in winter. Two putting greens, practice fairway bunker, chipping green. They put out 60,000 new balls each year. I feel quite lucky to have this place 13 minutes from home.

 

Sounds a lot like Westerville. Problem there is the grass is crap from such high use.

 

I much prefer Ables in Dublin but the damn developers bought it. Closing at the end of October to build more freaking apartments. Popping up everywhere like Mushrooms. Very depressing.

 

Get ready for Westerville to get even busier. That guy that owns that place free and clear may as well be printing his own money. Rolling in dough.

[soregongolfer]

My local range is pretty cheap, but it would still be cheaper for me to buy washed balls at walmart and then hit those at the range. Any of you guys ever do that?

 

Yes. Our pro will pay 10 cents a ball if you tell him you're doing it. A large bucket is $9 at my goat track. A little spendy for the economics of this area.

[spbrooks]

was $11, bumped it to $14. At least they renamed the large to XL so it feels good! :tease:

[976-Evil]

Ranges around here, cheapest one is $7.67 for a bucket with maybe 50-60 balls in it.

 

The other one charges $10 a bucket for maybe 50, and is $75 a month if you want an unlimited. We're getting f'n hosed here compared to other parts of the world. We have a lot golf courses around here in Northwest Arkansas.

[mikpga]

You’re saying they don’t wash their range balls?

 

At our facility...

 

Off the mats only ~ $5.50 for 40 balls and $8.25 for 80

 

At Natural Turf (includes pitching and putting greens, green side and fairway bunkers, and a large bent/Bermuda grass range)...

 

Usage Fee of $14.50 (unlimited time and balls per visit)

 

Or purchase a 10 Usage Card for $99

 

Get about 40k new balls a year...

 

 

[nsxguy]

My local range is pretty cheap, but it would still be cheaper for me to buy washed balls at walmart and then hit those at the range. Any of you guys ever do that?

 

The most expensive range balls I've hit were about 18 cents per ball.

 

Walmart sells golf balls cheaper than that ? :blink: