Golf Course Driving Range
GOLF COURSE DRIVING RANGES
GOLF COURSE DRIVING RANGES
A selection of golf course driving ranges designed by Steve Ritson at Green Tyger Design.
Topgolf at Watford
A REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPT IN GOLF DRIVING RANGE DESIGN Topgolf
is really the new way to play and practice golf. The whole concept is to have fun for all of the family to enjoy the experience together.
The breakthrough which makes this possible is the placement of a microchip inside the golf ball to when it is scanned entering one of the target greens, a score can be given, depending upon the distance and proximity to the centre of the target. The concept was to create a more family orientated golf experience similar to that of bowling alleys where each bay is for several players and individual scores appear on the screen. The targets were set within a full-size artificial turf golf outfield in order that few golf balls would be lost by plugging and the whole area is surrounded with high ball stop netting.
Trafford Park Driving Range
Steve Ritson worked on the early layout and concept design on behalf of Roger Griffiths Associates for Playgolf's new driving range at Trafford Park Manchester which was completed in 2000.
On the outskirts of Manchester this modern driving range was designed to create a realistic golf experience for golfers, with target greens, bunkering, fairways, trees and ponds in an attractive setting. Ritson Golf Design were appointed to develop the concept plan for the range outfield for Roger Griffiths Associates.
The range building designed by Charles Mador is a superb example of a modern two-tiered driving range with 64 bays and provides excellent facilities for the golfers including heated driving bays, a restaurant / bar and golf shop. Since opening the range has proved a great success.
Erewash Valley Golf Driving Range
Erewash Valley Golf Club is a beautiful golf course in Derbyshire appointed Steve Ritson to redesign and upgrade their practice facilities from an informal open grass area to a covered driving range.
The new covered golf range was designed as a realistic outfield featuring golf green targets set within a remodelled landform using the importation of inert soils which will allow the golfers to see all the targets up to 300 yards and at the same time create an attractive rolling landscape to tie in with the rest of the existing golf course. The landform was created using the latest Trimble GPS systems and allowed our plans to be loaded directly into the bulldozers on site.
Radlett Driving Range
This was an existing driving range which was dominated by a large sycamore tree in the centre of the outfield, beyond which the land dipped which meant that the players could not see where the balls were landing.
The tree which was in poor condition was removed as this should not have been the focus of the range and insead the range was extended and remodelled using imported inert fill, to create a range which was modelled as a golf course with green targets and all areas of the outfield could clearly be seen.
The range now has a new lease of life and is a well run modern and popular facility.
Tilgate Forest Golf Driving Range
Steve was the designer on behalf of Roger Griffiths Assoc for this existing range which was remodelled and extended to create an outfield which could contain more golf balls and the golfers could see all of the way ot the end of the range.
The par 3 course at surrounding the original range was also then re-designed to accomodate the new larger range and extensive planting of native woodland trees and shrubs were added all around the range to compensate for the loss of some mature trees in the ancient wood here.
