The Range Session Plan

A range practice planner: every ball you pay for given a job, the bucket, bay hour and membership priced at your real attendance, and each block scored

RoofGolf's Driving-Range Cost Calculator prices the balls you hit, rounded up to whole buckets, at the sessions you plan. It never asks what the balls are for, what a bay sold by the hour costs per ball, or whether you went as often as planned. The Range Session Plan does that arithmetic, then gives every ball a job. In the worked example, 70 balls from 50-ball buckets at $12.00 is two buckets and $24.00 a session, with 30 balls bought and never hit; a $149.00 membership that saves $43.00 at eight planned sessions costs $29.00 more at the five actually made; and a one-bucket plan with every ball in a scored block costs $720.00 a year against $1,440.00 as attended. It prices a shared bay by your pace ($21.60 an hour matches that bucket at 40 seconds a ball), builds your gapping chart from the middle of five carries, and turns green speed measured both ways (Brede's correction: 10.0 ft, not the 10.3 ft plain average) into the flat stroke for every slope. Every figure is computed from the site's own calculators and tagged as an example; it names no range or venue, promises no score or handicap change, and does not size or approve a practice net at home or on a roof. Inside: 7 steps, a range price sheet, session plan cards, a carry and green-speed sheet, a month log, cost-per-ball tables and a quickstart. Buy from a calculator and you also get a personalised sheet worked on your own prices, carries and green speed.

Look inside

Two full pages from the pack, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.

What is in it

• The Whole Bucket Rule: whole buckets, the spare balls, and the trim or fill plan
• The Pace Sets the Price Rule: a bay sold by the hour priced per ball at your pace, shared or alone
• The Sessions You Went Rule: a membership priced at your real attendance, with its break-even
• The Middle of Five Rule: carries you can trust, the gapping chart, and a swing before a club
• The Four Blocks Rule: warm-up, gaps, targets and play the course, a job and a score for every ball
• The Both Ways Rule: green speed by the USGA method, Brede's slope correction, and the flat stroke for each slope
• The Month Review Rule: the month priced at the sessions made, scores compared, one change
• Working pages: range price sheet, session plan cards, carry and green-speed sheet, month log
• Cost per ball three ways: bucket, bay hour, and the hour price that matches a bucket
• A quickstart that closes the score loop, plus a personalised sheet from your calculator inputs

The pack picks up where the free Driving-Range Cost Calculator leaves off. The calculator prices the balls you hit, rounded up to whole buckets, at the sessions you plan; the plan works out what to do with the spare balls in a bucket, what a bay sold by the hour costs per ball at your pace, and whether a membership pays at the sessions you actually went to. Then it gives every ball a job: carries from the middle of five with the Club Distance & Gapping Calculator, a four-block session card with a score for each block, green speed measured both ways with the Stimpmeter Green-Speed Converter, and a month review. Every figure is an example and it names no range or venue. It does not size or approve a practice net at home or on a roof.