Dutch Driving Range

The satisfying swings today are nothing more than the culmination of years of effort that you've made every weekend, making sure that you worked that waist and sent that ball straight and far. The other golfers gaze at your perfect form, feeling envy, not knowing how hard you had to work. Even now, with your game perfect, you still feel like a little kid learning to take his first swing. A driving range is an area where golfers can practice their swing. It can also be a recreational activity itself for amateur golfers or when enough time for a full game is not available. Many golf courses have a driving range attached and they are also found as stand-alone facilities, especially in urban areas. Golfers pay for various sizes of buckets of balls, usually designated as small (30–50 balls), medium (50-80 balls), and large (80-100 balls), and hit at their leisure. Often there are golf professionals available to give lessons and instruction. Balls are retrieved by a specialty cart with a brush and roller attachment that automatically picks up balls and a cage that protects the driver from incoming balls. In urban and suburban areas, large nets protect surrounding people and structures from errant balls. Driving ranges are particularly popular in Japan where golf courses are overcrowded and often very expensive. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=120947