Abstract A range for playing a golf game including, at the tee-off end, fairway grass, rough, a bunker, and a green on which putting takes place. The putting green includes indicia thereon designating distances from the cup in the green. Extending beyond the putting green, and located between fences defining side boundaries, is a continuous sequence of rectangular plates, each having an upper surface slanting to one side, to permit any golf ball landing thereon to roll into an adjacent ball return trough communicating with all the plates. Associated with each plate is a switch for operating ball distance indicating apparatus. The most remote end of the driving range includes a vertical wall with apertures therein, at various heights, through which apertures driven golf balls may pass and ultimately be returned to the tee-off end, by way of the aforementioned trough. Ball distance indicating apparatus also is associated with each of the apertures in the vertical wall. Some of the plates are provided with target greens, and hazards, such as a bunker and a water hazard, to simulate the conditions found on golf course fairways.
A golf practice range, comprising in combination: a. a plurality of uniform rectangular section plates (9) disposed one after the other to form an elongated golf course with near and far ends, said plates each having an upper surface slanting to one side; b. a guide-trough (10) defined at said one side; c. at least one bunker and at least one water hazard defined on at least separate plates; d. a wire netting (15) at least on both sides of said elongated golf course; e. a vertical wall at said far end with graduations indicating distance with apertures therein at said graduations permitting balls to pass therethrough and drop into said trough; and, f. golf holes and pins at said near end.
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A golf practice range, comprising in combination: a. a plurality of uniform rectangular section plates (9) disposed one after the other to form an elongated golf course with near and far ends, said plates each having an upper surface slanting to one side; b. a guide-trough (10) defined at said one side; c. at least one bunker and at least one water hazard defined on at least separate plates; d. a wire netting (15) at least on both sides of said elongated golf course; e. a vertical wall at said far end with graduations indicating distance with apertures therein at said graduations permitting balls to pass therethrough and drop into said trough; and, f. golf holes and pins at said near end.