It was started about five years before that by a group of schoolteachers, one of a number of water courses in the country. At the driving range, the idea is to hit a ball and watch it splash down. And while you can always try to smack the ball as far as you want, know that these floating orbs fly about 10 percent less than conventional balls. But despite management's efforts to scrub the missiles, the balls quickly take on a tannish tinge. Short on pretense, Aqua Golf is a low-key institution, a simple celebration of water in an arid climate.
Customers respond in kind, and the balls fly as traffic thrums nearby.
The rhythm is hypnotic. Occasionally one of the aqua ducks takes flight, and you can imagine that the fish are a bit wary of these airborne bobbers. I don't know about that. One guy said it saved him from road rage. On a recent afternoon, David Hogle of Lakewood was hitting balls along with his two teenage sons.