If you go to the range a couple days a week and spend $15 per bucket, you could easily sink $100+ a week on improving your game. No one wants to do that and no one wants to play bad. So people find other stuff to do that isn’t so expensive. A driving range shouldn’t be a revenue item for a golf course, but rather viewed as part of a marketing budget.

I worked my uncle’s golf course for 4 years in a really small town. I had all the course access I wanted but the range was off limits for me. The superintendent didn’t want to spend the money on fuel to pick up my range balls.…