Only on this site would you bash something golf related that might actually be a marginal economic success and get some folks interested in playing. Drinking and quasi-athletic activities are linked to actually turning a profit in the sports business.
Bruce,
This seems like a silly post on Golf Club Atlas.
I just gave Topgolf a really good review when they sent me the follow up email today. I pretty much said what I said above, but added that the food was good, the staff was really nice (much nicer than many golf courses), and I appreciated their support of the Military (they gave my son a discount). Topgolf is just not golf enough focused
FOR ME! This is a website with roughly 1500 nuts that criticize Augusta National Golf Club on a fairly regular basis.
I would argue that TopGolf is in elite company by BEING BASHED ON GCA, and while "Golf's Most Beloved" has finally appeared in Maine, there are 14,000+ courses in Maine and the rest of America that are regularly ignored by this website.
I can actually see my son, his girlfriend, me, my Autistic son, and my very complicated non-golfing wife playing/drinking/watching bowl games at TopGolf Myrtle Beach over the holidays when we are staying at a GCAers Pawleys Island, SC beach house.
That does not mean it should get a free pass on GCA!!