DRIVING RANGE REVIEW ONLY! For golf course review, see my previous review from 2022.
HOURS: open til 10pm (Sun-Th) or 11pm (Fri/Sat) every day, check hours before you go! This is the only driving range I know that's open til 11pm on weekends. Because of this, there are a lot of families, groups of teenagers and young kids, couples on dates, etc. because this becomes a "party", and not necessarily a place to seriously "practice your golf swing" **. We went on a Friday night and the music was blasting, food was coming out hot, and this must be the place for all the kids not old enough to go to 21+ clubs etc. Luckily I have one of those kids, so he really enjoyed the atmosphere and wasn't the worst one on deck.
2 STORIES! There are two levels you can hit off, with about 25 bays on each floor. This is like the cheaper version of TopGolf, and I'm here for it, because TopGolf has become really expensive.
NO RESERVATIONS. You show up and if they're full, you have to just wait til someone is done. **
BALLS. These are the WORST driving range balls in the history of all balls**. They are chipped, scuffed, or just flat out cracked down the middle. These balls are the rejects of the rejects, all different colors, brands, price points. I am convinced that these are the balls that everyone loses on hole 15 in the lake on their adjacent golf course. Why else do you think they make you tee off a mountain across a huge lake? It's to feed their driving range. Duh. If you do actually make it across the lake, it's on a backwards downslope so you can watch your ball roll backwards into the lake. And if you are skillful enough to not lose any balls on that hole, they get you on the next hole 16, where the green slopes downward...into the SAME LAKE! Sneaky huh. Now you know.
MATS. These mats have seen better days; lots of indentations where people have stood, scuff marks where people have repeatedly scraped the mat, but c'mon, when you get on the golf course, it's never perfectly flat either. **
PRICING. During peak hours it's $20 for a bucket of 100 balls. If you come during off peak, that same bucket is $15. If that seems pretty steep, it is, because you get TOP TRACER on each shot.
TOP TRACER is the program on their TV screens in each bay that gives you immediate feedback on each ball you hit. You can just hit and try to dial your distances for each club, or you can play a virtual course, just practice approach shots, closest to the pin, or there's a fishing game you can try to catch fish at each distance. It does make the practice more meaningful when you have these specific goals. I really enjoy having this feedback, vs hitting at flag markers on other driving ranges.
FOOD. They have their own food (chicken strips fries etc at night) or you can order from Jolene's in the clubhouse if she's open.
Overall, despite the crappy balls and mats, the staff here is EXCELLENT, the vibe fun, but be careful, I found out there are several people that lose their club heads flying into the range every day. I've never seen that before anywhere else. Yesterday there were 3 just while we were there.
**if you want serious golf practice, you may want to go somewhere else