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Originally Posted by MrChip72
What's with the serious lack of driving ranges within TV? There are 4 on TV property that are well North of 466A plus the public one at Lady Lake and another public one in Oxford.
The newest one at the Sarasota Golf Practice Center was built 13 years ago. Hasn't TV over tripled in size since 2011? I don't see any reason that a range couldn't have been added to any of the executive course south of 466A or 44 for that matter. There's certainly no shortage of land that TV owns.
Incidentally, I went to the Sarasota driving range today for the first time. I'm south of 44 so normally just drive a few minute outside of TV to the Continental Country club and use their range for $4/small or $6/large. When I went to Sarasota today I was directed to buy a token from a booth for $6. I then took the token to a machine and proceeded have it fill the bucket. It filled the bucket up to around the 1/3rd mark. I then pointed out to someone that the machine must be malfunctioning but then was made aware that you only get that much per token. I understand that they need to make a profit, but charging the same price as the outside TV places for 1/4 of the range balls just seems like gouging.
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Agree and you are paying to hit off of mats most of the time. Makes a person feel good about ball striking as you can not hit a FAT shot off of a mat. Personally go to Baseline in Bellview. Bigger buckets and no mats.
Probably main reason for less/no driving ranges is the cost of land. Most impendent ranges have been closing EVERYWHERE