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Using the driving range is a great way to improve your golf game. That's kind of a no-brainer but driving ranges are not perfect. This free golf tip can help you get more bang for your buck with range time.

A lot of golf courses are adding themselves to the list that includes GPS coordinates. Simply look up the course you want to play and upload the coordinates into the unit. This gives the golfer advantages that were never available in years past. Knowing how far it is to the green from where you are on the course will take many strokes off the score card and now GPS units for golfers are inexpensive and come in small sizes that are easy to carry. Not having a GPS unit puts you at a serious disadvantage to those who do.

Herein lies the problem …

When at the driving range, you look at the marks which are typically flags or similar targets. These flags not only give you a target to aim at to judge the straightness (or not) of your practice shots but are also yardage marks. Just like the tee box at the golf course, driving ranges need to move their tee areas to allow grass to grow back after we patrons (read, duffers) plow the ground like we were planting the back forty.

I have been to the range at times and have seen the tee boxes as much as twenty yards difference as the week before.

How are you expected to know how far you are hitting each club? Well, that's a good question. Since we are always trying, and hopefully succeeding, to improve our swing, how far you hit each iron can change drastically. To successfully lower your average score you need to keep tabs on your improvement because if the new technique you have been working on causes a ten yard distance gain, you will want a different club when you are on the course and your new GPS unit says it is 163 yards to the pin.

A wise thing to do would be to purchase a range finder that can be used on the driving range as well as courses that do not yet have GPS coordinates mapped. You will no longer be in the dark as to yardage marks on the driving range once you have a quality range finder that takes all the guess work out of the equation. Knowing is half the battle because when you start guessing, you lose confidence and when you lose confidence, the score card reflects it.

Give yourself as many advantages as you can and you will enjoy, and find golf more relaxing than ever before. Buy a range finder and a GPS and you will have two powerful tools to improve your golf game. Here is a link to another article on Driving Range Tips [http://bettergolfspot.com/267/free-golf-tip-make-better-use-of-driving-range-time].

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Source by Rick Greene

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