Where at in GR are you?
Just off the east beltline near north of 28th
I’d imagine boulder creek, the mines and thornApple point would be equally close.
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Is any one of those better than the others. I’m not a fan of hitting off mats so anything with real grass is preferable. Shocking lack of information about practice facilities on their websites
Boulder creek is my go to since I’m just a few minutes north of there and they do have grass. No good short game area if that’s your thing. Mines also has grass hitting area. I haven’t been to thornapple since I moved back so I’m not sure on that one
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I’m probably late to the party on this but a giant artificial grandstand that says “forged by nature” is crazy. What’re we doing as a species.
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Thornapple is a good spot. Good turf and they have a really great short game area. Downsides are the range is not close to the club house where the range balls are (you can take a cart to drive over there) and the range itself has a valley that runs from the front of the teeing pads to about 100 yards out. So no good targets for working on 50-80 yard shots.
Played Stony Creek Metroparks course on Sunday morning. For $49 bucks on a Sunday morning, you could do ALOT worse. A couple tee boxes were a little beat up but thought the conditions were quite good. Pace of play wasnt horrendous for a Sunday morning, about 4:40. They also stock Long Drinks which helped alleviate my poor putting day.
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Another option: Quail Ridge (SE of you, Ada) has a large grass range with TopTracer set up, it also has a decent short game green. The main putting green is not good however, it’s one giant slope.
FYI The Mines range is uphill past like 175-ish yards if that matters to you and I feel like they generally are on mats pretty late into the spring/summer but obviously right now it’ll be off grass.
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That place has my fucking number. I don’t think i’ve broken 90 there the four times I’ve played it. I’m a 7.5.
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Quail does have a great set up, but that top tracer doesn’t work well, especially when the range is busy. The other downside of the top tracer is that a large bucket of balls is $20+
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I’ve never putted good there. Always over-read everything. Prolly went 1/10 on putts 6-10 feet. Could have been a great round and instead was just average.
The area around Arcadia (if not staying on site) lends itself to many more non-golf activities as well as golf not at the Arcadia courses.
Personally the experience of staying on site at forest dunes is perfect for a golf sicko group. Easy enough to play 18 + short course, 36, or 18. Facilities are more than adequate.
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Is this a low key ad for fourteenpointfive golf that recently just sent out mass emails to some Nest members who were not sure how you got their info?
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It’s definitely that (seeing as how this exact board is pictured on their website)
…but it could also be looking for trip advice.
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I’m trying to find the damn post where a fellow Nester was like, “hey did anyone else get a random email from this company?”
Because we’ve had this problem before AND the name of the company was ways to remember…
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Did I get swindled into golf trip advice from amass marketing scheme.
My it security department is going to yell at me
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