[AlexBolduin]

Around here, they're pretty reliable. I guess I'm fortunate. 2 of the 3 ranges I frequent has ball dispensers (the other one is super old school, they don't have a sorter or anything, but rather a table with rails on it, each rail holds a sack full of balls, they just move a board down for each sack to be filled)

You buy a token in the pro shop, and take a basket to the machine, drop your token for th prescribed # of balls (there are different token shapes for different quantities)