Working on the Game....

Paris Style.....
After work today I went to hit some golf balls at the range. Cool thing is, this range is in the middle of a turf horse track. You have to walk cross the track into the center to reach the range. I stopped half-way across the track and took a shot looking up the home stretch. That is a hedge running across the track and lemme tell ya, it is eye-level - really high. I cannot imagine being on a horse going 40 miles an hr and going over that hedge.

Here is a similar shot but from the inside rail. On the inner portion of the track there is a water hazard right beneath the hedge - even scarier.

Here's a shot looking at the stands from inside the track. Just to the left of where I am standing is the range.

The range itself is pretty good. There are two hitting stalls on either side of this field. There is also a small area where you can work on your short game. This place will be my saving grace - I plan to go 2-3 times a week. It was funny to watch Parisians hitting golf balls. Almost all of them were over-dressed, fancy-style, as they seem to always do. Many of them were in suits, probably came straight from work, jacket off, tie off, swinging away in their dress shirts.

Here's a shot of the track from above. If you look in the lower part of the track you can see a small oval field - which is the range. The track is part of a large park on the west side of Paris called the Bois de Bolougne. Roland Garros is about 200 yards away and since the French Open is going on right now, the crowds were pretty thick coming out of the subway.