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John Kavanaugh

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Re: OT - Top Golf Worth $4 Billion?
« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2020, 12:45:08 PM »
What? You don’t get points for hitting the side net. That must have been humiliating after spending years telling your coworkers that you were a golfer.

Kalen Braley

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Re: OT - Top Golf Worth $4 Billion?
« Reply #26 on: January 15, 2020, 12:47:17 PM »
What? You don’t get points for hitting the side net. That must have been humiliating after spending years telling your coworkers that you were a golfer.


Hilarious Barney!  ;D ;D

JESII

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Re: OT - Top Golf Worth $4 Billion?
« Reply #27 on: January 15, 2020, 12:53:28 PM »
It was pretty good. Nice chuckle from me...

Don Mahaffey

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Re: OT - Top Golf Worth $4 Billion?
« Reply #28 on: January 15, 2020, 01:33:08 PM »
My take; why haven't more courses embraced the general theme of Top Golf.
If you have a nice range of ample size, potentially without all the hideous netting, why not add some music, bar service, other bells and whistles and liven things up a bit?
I've been to Top Golf, it's not just a bunch of Millennials with no golf experience beating balls and getting hammered. There are golfers there too.
If I had a nice big range in an urban setting, I'd be all over trying to create my own version of someplace fun to hit balls and hang with friends. 




Joe Zucker

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Re: OT - Top Golf Worth $4 Billion?
« Reply #29 on: January 15, 2020, 03:46:07 PM »
My take; why haven't more courses embraced the general theme of Top Golf.
If you have a nice range of ample size, potentially without all the hideous netting, why not add some music, bar service, other bells and whistles and liven things up a bit?
I've been to Top Golf, it's not just a bunch of Millennials with no golf experience beating balls and getting hammered. There are golfers there too.
If I had a nice big range in an urban setting, I'd be all over trying to create my own version of someplace fun to hit balls and hang with friends.


I think this is exactly right.  There is range in Seattle (Interbay) that has done exactly this.  It's a perfectly ordinary two story range with putt putt and a generic par 3.  But it is packed all the time.  They sell beer and cheap bar food where you buy balls, so you have top golf at half the cost and the only thing you lose is the games.


You can get your $7 medium bucket and practice or you can get a pitcher of beer with friends and grab a club from the random bin and smack the ball. 

Tim_Weiman

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Re: OT - Top Golf Worth $4 Billion?
« Reply #30 on: January 15, 2020, 08:48:16 PM »
My take; why haven't more courses embraced the general theme of Top Golf.
If you have a nice range of ample size, potentially without all the hideous netting, why not add some music, bar service, other bells and whistles and liven things up a bit?
I've been to Top Golf, it's not just a bunch of Millennials with no golf experience beating balls and getting hammered. There are golfers there too.
If I had a nice big range in an urban setting, I'd be all over trying to create my own version of someplace fun to hit balls and hang with friends.


Don,


I am probably an old fashioned snob, but will admit the Top Golf in Houston seems quite popular.
Tim Weiman

Craig Moore

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Re: OT - Top Golf Worth $4 Billion?
« Reply #31 on: January 15, 2020, 11:11:58 PM »
My wife and I had an hour and a half to kill before we caught a plane home so we decided to take in Top Golf for the first time. 
While my time with her is always enjoyable I felt Top Golf was nothing more than an obnoxious over priced driving range. 
I’m glad others enjoy it and hope they continue to enjoy it but I’ll take an open field of nature and turf every time..... and I even jarred my first swing of the morning right into the 140 target.

Colin Macqueen

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Re: OT - Top Golf Worth $4 Billion? New
« Reply #32 on: January 15, 2020, 11:43:42 PM »
Gentlemen,


What's with this "Top Golf" rubbish!  Golf is an outdoor pastime where you vie with nature and your own frailties to try and accomplish the onerous task of getting a wee ball into a slightly larger hole.


I want and love the landscapes, the weather, the vistas, the quietude and the challenge. I cannot imagine why anyone would swan off and bash balls into some sort of computer generated piece of shit whilst in the background patrons guzzle interminable beers and listen to crappy, loud music.


Golf for me is about internal challenges which need focus, patience and a "... perfect sense of equilibrium.... between the player with his instrument and Nature." It is not about a raucous mob trying to outdo their frenetic mates and whack their ball into the virtual blue yonder.


I want tp be able to traverse a piece of ground where I am divorced from reality; the mundane world of bellowing boozers is forgotten. I enter a realm where reality is suspended and I can partially submerge myself in a relatively transcendental state of mind! This to my way of thinking cannot happen in a den of iniquity provided by the likes of "Top Golf".


Where in that environment can you quietly reflect upon the shot just played and conjure up in your mind's eye how the the next one may despatched? Eh! I ask you! Give me the whispering breezes across the linksland, the cackling of the kookaburra as yer golf swing disintegrates, the egg-shell blue and salmon-pink skies as the evening draws in as you wander down the last fairway of the day.


I feel so much better now!


Cheers Colin
« Last Edit: January 16, 2020, 02:49:27 AM by Colin Macqueen »
"Golf, thou art a gentle sprite, I owe thee much"
The Hielander

John Kavanaugh

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Re: OT - Top Golf Worth $4 Billion?
« Reply #33 on: January 16, 2020, 12:06:52 AM »
Questioning the joy other men find only creates barriers to your own. Let them eat cake and you will have it too.

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