On route to Austin for a first visit ahead of covering this week’s Shell Houston Open we passed by a practice range that on closer inspection gave new meaning to hitting the bull.
Here on the outskirts of Dripping Springs and located some 21 miles south-east of Austin the first practice range where the targets were not just the markers.
At 107-yards there is metal outline of a Texas steer, 171-yards to the bus on the right and six yards further to the left school bus.
Hitting golf balls on the practice range has never been more pleasurable.
Dripping Springs, TV practice range.
Dripping Springs Practice Range and a Texas steer and two former school buses for targets.
Hit the Texas steer at Dripping Springs practice range.
Distances to the Texas steer and two former school buses.
And a check of Wikipedia reveals Dripping Springs that aside for boasting just 1,788 residents was home to the following:-
- John F. Gregory, inventor of the Gregory-Maksutov telescope, was a resident of Dripping Springs until his death in 2009.
- E. D. Hill, a former host of “Fox and Friends” on Fox News and now CNN
- Johnny Gimble, Noted Texas fiddle player and songwriter. Played with the Bob Will’s Texas Playboys from the 1940s through 1960s
- Phillip Sandifer, songwriter, recording artist
- Kurt Neumann, lead singer and guitarist of BoDeans
- Jesse James (customizer) (born 1969), American television personality, motorcycle builder, and ex-husband of Sandra Bullock
- Kyle Chandler (actor), best known for his roles in the television shows Early Edition as Gary Hobson and as Eric Taylor in Friday Night Lights
