Hong Kong - Driving Range

I had arranged to go to the City Golf Club on Kowloon side with my manager on Thursday night to use the driving range. It had been sometime since I hit a golf ball and with my first round of 18 holes at Kau Sai Chau public course coming up next Monday I really needed the practice to make sure I was still capable of hitting a golf ball.

We left the office at about 19:45 I had my golf clubs with me and we took the Star Ferry across the harbour and then grabbed a cab to the Club. It is a pretty impressive place from the road. The driving range has 215 bays on 4 levels and there is an immense amount of people using it. (Picture below courtesy of www.golf007.com)

We headed to the booking office and booked our spaces. $100 HK (about £7) for 1 hour in a bay with unlimited balls. We got bays in the basement level and headed down there slowly watching a few people practicing on the way.

The range itself is only about 200 – 250 yards long which is plenty but they have a fair bit of earthmoving equipment in there at the moment. The surface is no longer grass but completely covered in astro turf. Needless to say it did not take me long to get my driver out to see if I could hit the back net (I am not a great fan of driving ranges and my practice quickly digresses into a waste of time) but I must say it was good fun spending an hour hitting balls.

I have now realised that I will have to get to the course on Monday early enough to get to the driving range as the distance the balls were going seemed very different to those I hit in the UK.