Crossword clues for driving range
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context golf English) An area where golfers practice their swing, and try to hit the ball far, toward no target.
WordNet
n. a practice range for practicing golf shots [syn: golf range]
Wikipedia
A driving range is an area where golfers can practice their golf 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. They are typically run by businesses or sometimes by universities. Distances are usually marked by target greens at regular distances. Driving ranges may have natural grass, similar to a golf course, or players may have to use synthetic mats that resemble real turf.
Golfers pay for various sizes of buckets of balls, usually designated as small (30–50 balls), medium (50-80 balls), and large (80-150 balls), and hit at their leisure. Some ranges feature electronic tee devices, which load balls automatically, and record ball use on a smart card. 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. Many commercial driving ranges are seen in conjunction with other sports-related practice areas such as batting cages or miniature golf, for entertainment. Some driving ranges also offer areas for practice chip shots, bunker shots, and putting.
Driving ranges may use golf balls that differ significantly from those used on the golf course. Range balls, as they are known, are often cheap and specially designed with a harder cover to make them more durable. As such they also may not necessarily conform to the rules of golf. In order to distinguish them from other type of ball, they may have a distinct coloring or colored band and be stamped with the word "range".
Usage examples of "driving range".
The giant props of the Marine Corps Osprey set it down gently on the rain-softened driving range a few minutes before Friday noon.
The very next afternoon, on his way to the driving range, Stoat tossed a Kentucky Fried Chicken box.
A U-shaped berm, no more than twenty feet high and perhaps a hundred feet long, had been built of sandbags on what had been the practice driving range before the OSS took over the Country Club.
Or from Claude Harmon, father of Butch - Tiger's teacher - when I ran into him at a driving range in south Florida years ago?
Bleakly Kingsbury thought of front-page headlines and multimillion-dollar lawsuits and minimum-security prisons with no driving range.
Suites 2350 through 2390 comprised a full-size golf driving range.
There were no parking lots in the middle of town, no need for them, and no shopping center or aluminum custard stand flanked by a miniature golf course and a driving range.
For the active set, the roof over the spa featured tennis courts and a mini golf course that wound around the deck, with a driving range where guests could drive balls far out into the sea at floating targets spaced at fifty-yard intervals.
If I was at a driving range or supermarket I would be sure to see him.
I took her to a driving range, where she hit golf balls, and very well, with a five-iron older than she was, and with a three-wood that was not only wood, but was no bigger than her fist.
Albov had been introduced as a friend of the militia, and the militia protected Borya Gubenko's driving range.
We were at the driving range at Rancho Park, where I was trying, unsuccessfully, to correct his chronic slice.
He passed a bowling alley and a driving range that was closed for the season.
It might have been less had Ellis not pried the custom golf spikes off Gene's dead feet, and had he not been wearing them the day the process server found him on a public driving range in Port Malabar.