Very very new in driving range near me and once they're a month or two old they'll actually lose the lacquer now most of the golf balls you play with will have the lack of still on them and that will affect the flight of the golf ball so these balls generally speak and I found over the years from experience on driving ranges and flight ten to twenty percent less for a decent condition ball and actually thirty to forty percent less for a bad condition golf ball.So when you're practicing if you know how far you hit the golf balls from your own bag and the balls that you generally play on the golf course try not to work too much on yardages on the driving range work more on separation so how far as my 7-iron go past my 18 was my seven always fly the same distance does my eight it was fly the same distance so rather than looking that oh it's only going to the hundred yard flag at 150 yard flag if you know your distances are correct on the golf course.
Don't worry too much about the distances here think more about the line of the shots that you're hitting so one thing that I think could really help and benefit you when you're practicing is understanding the equipment that you're practicing with now the range golf balls that you're using might not necessarily be the same sort of golf ball that you would be playing with on the golf course.
Now we sometimes get one-piece range balls two-piece three-piece balls different covers and quite importantly different compressions these are all factors that the the operators of the driving range will take into consideration in terms of how big their field is a lot of people are limited by the length that they can literally you can hit the golf ball because modern technology is now hitting the ball further but driving ranges.
If they're built in built-up areas with houses at the end they have to limit the size of the field so the technology gets better they actually have to rein the golf ball back in a little bit they can do that by reducing the pressure or the compression of the golf ball so you might be down as low as a 60 or 70% flight of golf ball now some driving ranges would adjust the yardages so the yardages would be shorter for the shorter balls otherwise you've got a 60% ball trying to go a 200-yard flag you're going to feel like you're way down on flight so by all means go on ask the range operator the people who run the place in the shop and ask them what sort of golf balls they're using.
Whether they're one piece two piece whether the field should be the same whether the compression should be the same you also have the issue that the golf ball that you're hitting might not be in the same condition that you use these golf balls go through a lot of pounding they probably get hit every day they get collected by the tractor they get jiggled around and the tractor baskets they go through the washing machines to get them clean then get put through all of the machines come back out in your basket and then somebody hits them again and most of the range golf balls you'll see unless they're.