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 sctag1015
     
Location: Middle GA
Gender: Male
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< on 1/10/2006 12:56 AM >
|  | | | A few days ago we stopped by what appeared to be an abandoned driving range. It turns out the property has been purchased by a local church, but so far as we can tell they only use the club building on the site. The rest they've pretty much let rot.
Spent some time looking at the ball retrieval system...
Behind the range, we found a Putt America, and a food stand
Definitely worth the trip
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westover18
Location: Houston County, GA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 1 on 1/10/2006 1:55 AM >
| | | | And oh so close to my house. Never been though. Im inspired to go now just because of the putt-putt course and ball retrieval pictures. Looks fun.
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Otaku
| | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 2 on 1/10/2006 5:20 AM >
| | | | wow, the place looks pretty untouched. that would be prime property to redevelop back into a driving range and minigolf for some extra income for that church.
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rev_skarekroe
 
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 3 on 1/10/2006 6:39 PM >
| | | | Can you see this place from the highway?
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themom
| | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 4 on 1/10/2006 6:48 PM >
| | | | The last time I was through there (a year or two ago) you could clearly see this from I75. It is huge! I remember when it was built we wondered if they would be able to make a go of it and had visions of law-suits from travelers! Yeah, I know, there are those huge nets. Still...!
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westover18
Location: Houston County, GA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 5 on 1/10/2006 7:28 PM >
| | | | Yep, viewable from I75 just south of Macon. On the right heading north, on the left heading south. Right below the Hartley Bridge Road exit just before (if driving north) or after (if driving south) the 175/I475 split.
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thewesticle
Location: ATL
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 6 on 1/10/2006 9:35 PM >
| | | | I'm renting a truck now...Dibs on the bear.
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volare
Gender: Male
| | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 7 on 1/13/2006 3:29 PM >
| | | | Yeah.. I see this place all the time..
Haven't checked it out though..
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mellon
Location: Savannah, Georgia
Gender: Female
SWANK member #pi
| | | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 8 on 1/14/2006 8:25 PM >
| | | | Posted by thewesticle
Dibs on the bear.
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I'll fight ya for it.
Oh yeah, I've seen this place going from Michigan to Georgia a lot.
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sctag1015
Location: Middle GA
Gender: Male
P(ie) Team
| | | | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 9 on 1/15/2006 1:37 AM >
| | | | Posted by mellon
I'll fight ya for it.
Oh yeah, I've seen this place going from Michigan to Georgia a lot.
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For the record, I saw the bear first. Ergo, it is mine.
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MutantMandias
Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
| | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 10 on 1/15/2006 2:39 AM >
| | | | I have been meaning to check this place out for a while. I think it closed about 2 years ago.
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sctag1015
Location: Middle GA
Gender: Male
P(ie) Team
| | | | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 11 on 1/15/2006 5:25 AM >
| | | | Posted by MutantMandias
I have been meaning to check this place out for a while. I think it closed about 2 years ago.
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I'm not so sure on that date.... ever since I've seen the place it's looked ratty... which is at least 4-5 years back. I'm not sure about the church's usage of the place, though. The sign at the gate seemed old, but there were notices posted outside warning parents to supervise their children. They were paper, and while they weren't in great condition, they had to be relatively new given their condition. The main building still has power, and supposedly cctv. Also, there was a small 4 wheeler at the base of one of the stairwells that looked to be in decent condition, suggesting that the church is still active there.
So in short, I don't know when this place was first abandoned, reacquired, or even to what extent it might be in use. I have some ideas as to where to inquire though.
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phrog
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 12 on 2/27/2006 12:14 AM >
| | | | That place is abandoned? I saw it all the time on my way to Warner Robins and Florida. I figured something that obvious and that close to the highway had to be in use.
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rotten peach
Location: Atlanta
Gender: Male
| | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 13 on 2/27/2006 4:21 PM >
| | | | Posted by thewesticle
Dibs on the bear.
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Malign sez you'd get more utility from the ball retrieval system...
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andrea
Location: Baltimore MD
Gender: Female
Apparently, I am heinous.
| | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 14 on 2/27/2006 7:15 PM >
| | | | Posted by rotten peach
Malign sez you'd get more utility from the ball retrieval system...
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He is unable to locate his balls eh ? That is sad. Good luck with that.
This isn't boot camp and you are not a ninja. But you sure look like an idiot in that outfit.
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placidserenity
Gender: Female
p(ie) team
| | | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 15 on 3/7/2006 12:35 AM >
| | | | wow, i haven't posted in a while :x
here are some more photos from the driving range:
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sctag1015
Location: Middle GA
Gender: Male
P(ie) Team
| | | | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 16 on 3/7/2006 3:04 PM >
| | | | Took your time posting those 
I like the first one there a lot... something about the winding road...
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WingedNatalina
Gender: Female
S(ue)/P(ie)
| | | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 17 on 3/7/2006 11:21 PM >
| | | | Skiis???? Awesome.. At first I was like.. placid serenity placid serenity.. then I saw the shadow (of yourself, and then the bag) and was like ohhh... I know Hopefully my camera shall return from Indiana soon...
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smurf1
Location: Georgia
Gender: Male
| | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 18 on 6/28/2006 5:42 AM >
| | | | This site has an interesting story behind it... the original builder / owner made no money, obviously.. the site is about 7-9 years old. I used to go there, but the concept was screwed from the beginning.
The ball is automatically set from the floor on a metal tee. How stupid. Anyone who's ever played golf knows you sometimes take the tee with the ball. Well, these metal, mechanical tees don't exactly fly out when you hit them - more like your club gets a big dent or scratch in the club face. Clunnng.
We had an office party there not long after it opened. We all got very drunk and were trying to wash our balls in the ball washers they had. Har har, right? It seemed funny considering our state
When the state decided to widen Hartley Bridge Road, the bridge at this exit had to be widened first, which meant new ramps. (They are STILL working on it).
The owner got greedy and figured the state would just HAVE to buy him out because they needed his newly developed property for the new ramp in that quadrant. He held out for lots of cash from the state and also ceased taking care of his newish business, because, surely, he was about to close it when he cashed in, right?
Well, the joke was on him. The state wrangled with him for 2 years and finally he pissed off someone high-up enough that the ramp got routed AROUND his overgrown fishing net assembly and he had spent two years letting his establishment go to shit for no reason. He now owned a brand new, run-down facility.
Even worse, whoever he pissed off also found it necessary to reroute the road that lead to his grand entrance so that not only does virtually NO traffic pass by it anymore, it's a bit harder to get to now.
He gave up and closed it down. I assume he sold it to the church because he had to option left. Ha Ha. Don't be a greedy bastard.
So, as they finish up construction on that bridge, when you next exit at Hartley Bridge Road, notice how the exit ramp from the South on I-75 has an odd twist-and-turn routing to it and how much extra cash they must have spent on the drainage system in the middle of it to accommodate the bowl it made.
Now you know why ;)
(edited for spelling)
[last edit 6/28/2006 5:48 AM by smurf1 - edited 2 times]
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MutantMandias
Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
| | | Re: Macon Driving Range
<Reply # 19 on 6/28/2006 5:48 AM >
| | | | Nice.
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