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6 TO GO owner will set up 21 turf tee boxesget golf driving rangeBy JASON QREENTRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT NORTHERN CAMBRIA BUREAUMUNDYS CORNER - Jackson Township golfers soon can be at home on the range.John Hamula, who owns 6 TO GO, a Nanty Glo pizza and beer shop, is building a golf driving range off routes 22 and 271 in the township.Construction for the driving range has started and the project is expected to be finished in June, Hamula said in a telephone interview from his shop.Hamula said he enjoys hitting golf balls and drives to Claysburg every day to practice. He said he wanted something closer and decided to open his own range.“I drive a lot of golf balls,” Hamula said. “I figured it would go well around here. There’s nothing like it.”Hamula plans to have 21 turf tees when therange opens and, if business is good, he’ll add as many as 12 grass tees, giving him a total of 30 to 35, he said.For golfers who want to swing year-round, 13 tees will be covered, and heated for use in the winter.Hamula said he plans to install a hole on the range and attach a buzzer to it. Golfers sinking drives in the hole will win prizes.“I think it’s going to get busy,” Hamula said. “I think it’s going to be the thing.”Others in the business are split on how much green Hamula will realize.Donald Wolf, who owns Appledale Golf Course along Route 22 in Ebensburg, said a driving range will be good for the area.“I wish I had the space to put one in,” he said in a telephone interview from his home. “It’ll make a lot of money.”Wolf called a range an asset to golfers, allowing them to practice their game and lower their scores.But Tel Dixon said the new range could hurt business at Pleasant Valley Golf Course in Vin-tondale, which has an 18-hole course and 14-stall driving range.“You never know,” he said in a telephone interview from Pleasant Valley. “It all depends.”Dixon, who owned the course until his son Bernard took it over recently, said his range is busy. A full-time person is employed running a ball-picking cart. He said Hamula may not know what he’s getting in to.“I guess he thinks there is a demand,” Dixon said. “He’ll find out he’s not going to make as much as he thinks he will.”But Hamula said he expects the driving range to attract business.“I just have a good feeling,” he said. “Anything works if you work hard at it.”
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Johnstown Tribune Democrat
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Apr 12, 1998
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