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Steve_ Shaffer

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"Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses ... "  Adlai Stevenson
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Tim_Weiman

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2017, 09:54:26 PM »
Basically, it is bowling, certainly not golf.
Tim Weiman

Tommy Williamsen

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2017, 10:23:12 PM »
I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago playing golf. I met a guy at one course on the practice tee. He stunk. I mean he really stunk. He saw me hit a few shots and asked a few questions. I discovered he had been playing Top Golf for a few weeks and learned he loved to hit a golf ball and wanted to play on a "real course." So maybe we pick up a few players that way. Then they can get drunk on the course.
Where there is no love, put love; there you will find love.
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Ian Mackenzie

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2017, 08:48:35 AM »
....a fantastic new venue to expose golf to more people.


....a shrewd timely idea that appeals to the trends of today's entertainment seeker.


....a great place for newbies to learn the fundamentals before venturing to a golf course and creating a 5.5 hour round behind John Kavanaugh....;-)


....a way to make golf less stuffy, less steeped in elitism and less expensive


....a welcome breath of fresh air.


....a really fun thing to do at night with a bunch of your friends.
« Last Edit: May 19, 2017, 08:51:54 AM by Ian Mackenzie »

jeffwarne

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2017, 08:50:04 AM »
I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago playing golf. I met a guy at one course on the practice tee. He stunk. I mean he really stunk. He saw me hit a few shots and asked a few questions. I discovered he had been playing Top Golf for a few weeks and learned he loved to hit a golf ball and wanted to play on a "real course." So maybe we pick up a few players that way. Then they can get drunk on the course.


Probably very true.
Golf may pick up a few that otherwise wouldn't have been exposed.
Unlike bowling, if you like Top Golf, you can try real golf-in perhaps a very unurban,peaceful, natural setting and all the appeal that comes with that.
There are plenty of courses even in the northeast which can be played no more inexpensively than a conservative outing at Top Golf would cost.


Get introduced to bowling socially and you're stuck with...well...bowling...
"Let's slow the damned greens down a bit, not take the character out of them." Tom Doak
"Take their focus off the grass and put it squarely on interesting golf." Don Mahaffey

BHoover

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2017, 08:59:44 AM »
...making lots of money.

Terry Lavin

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2017, 09:43:14 AM »
For Beard Tuggers with craft beer bellies, brown shoes and their girlfriends and wives.  Not a bad demographic to serve.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  H.L. Mencken

Carl Rogers

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2017, 09:45:25 AM »
The intersection of grow the game and the race to the bottom.
I decline to accept the end of man. ... William Faulkner

Eric Smith

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2017, 09:47:43 AM »
Fantastic!


After watching the final round of the Masters in the lobby bar at the Wynn Las Vegas, I grabbed a taxi to Top Golf to watch the playoff. An amazing place to watch golf I promise you! Wish there was one in Nashvegas.

PCCraig

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2017, 09:53:39 AM »
They just announced that they are opening/building one here in the Twin Cities. They are buying a 15 acre plot of land that is currently home to a 20-plex movie theater.


I've been to a couple of their facilities, one in Chicago and one in Kansas City. I'm always amazed at their popularity. I don't think I would want to visit one once a week, but every once in a while it's not the worst thing to hit a few balls and drink beer. It's certainly more fun than going to one of those industrial park golf simulator setups.


I'll be curious to see how Top Golf does here in Minnesota. I'm sure it will do great in the warm months, but there isn't an overhead space heater in the world big enough to make a -30* wind chill feel warm!
H.P.S.

Peter Pallotta

Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2017, 09:59:25 AM »
My compliments to Terry and Carl, who come in like the heart of Murderers' Row - Ruth and Gehrig - to knock it out of the park!


I don't think I'll go to Top Golf - but if they start piping in loud rock music or an uptempo disco groove I might...



 

Eric Smith

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2017, 10:25:40 AM »
Race to the bottom? Seriously? Had golf just found its groove before Top Golf and after Lee Elder played in the Masters? What was that - a span of 40 years? The glory days of golf as it was meant to be. Ha!


Shouldn't our life experiences in golf be more about ourselves and not what everyone else is doing?





Brian Finn

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2017, 10:32:01 AM »
...fun.

I've been once (in Cincinnati) and had a good time.  The new site in Charlotte opens 6/9, and I'm sure I will go a couple of times a year. 
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Mike_Young

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2017, 10:33:34 AM »
is a short term thing...similar to upscale batting cages and go kart racing...all the hype of it being the saviour is being paid for...
"just standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona"

Kalen Braley

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2017, 10:55:32 AM »
...is very buggy.


I've been twice and their software solution is chock full of issues

Mike Hendren

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2017, 11:19:42 AM »
Fantastic!


After watching the final round of the Masters in the lobby bar at the Wynn Las Vegas, I grabbed a taxi to Top Golf to watch the playoff. An amazing place to watch golf I promise you! Wish there was one in Nashvegas.

Eric, it's under construction across the river from Germantown.  You can see the net poles from our office.  I won't say who's financing construction - only that I've become very familiar with the business.

Dinner's on me when you come down after it opens.  Maybe we can pull Pants 'n Snacks out of his shell to join us.

Mike
Two Corinthians walk into a bar ....

JESII

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #16 on: May 19, 2017, 11:39:13 AM »
Top Golf is...


Not golf. But why does it need to be?

Peter Pallotta

Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #17 on: May 19, 2017, 11:52:39 AM »
Top Golf is...

Not golf. But why does it need to be?


Nicely put, as always.


I can't think of an answer, except to say that words should mean something - or at least I'd like them to.


It helps when we try to communicate with eachother...








Bob Montle

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2017, 11:59:25 AM »
Great for women who want to learn the game but are embarrassed to go to a "real" course or to a driving range.
"If you're the swearing type, golf will give you plenty to swear about.  If you're the type to get down on yourself, you'll have ample opportunities to get depressed.  If you like to stop and smell the roses, here's your chance.  Golf never judges; it just brings out who you are."

Bill Seitz

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #19 on: May 19, 2017, 12:25:52 PM »
...crowded, at least in Dallas on a Tuesday night.  I'd never been to one before, but went for a work event earlier this week.  We had to wait a bit to get a spot.  I thought it was fun, but I'm not exactly aching to go back any time soon.  It's something I'd do if a bunch of friends wanted to go, but not something that would be my suggestion.  Probably not good for my game unless I bring my own clubs, which I can't imagine doing (though some people had brought their own clubs).  Slick grips, no glove, and on the second level means I had the club in a virtual death grip for fear of letting one one fly.

Buck Wolter

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #20 on: May 19, 2017, 12:27:06 PM »
Only this group could find the negative in Topgolf --GolfCurmudgeonAtlas
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience -- CS Lewis

George Pazin

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2017, 12:38:22 PM »
GolfCurmudgeonAtlas


dot coooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!


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Tons of stuff I don't understand in the world, don't feel the need to. I hate musicals, my wife loves them - and she sings like few people on the planet. I don't get cricket, but I couldn't care less if others are obsessed with it.


Move along...
Big drivers and hot balls are the product of golf course design that rewards the hit one far then hit one high strategy.  Shinny showed everyone how to take care of this whole technology dilemma. - Pat Brockwell, 6/24/04

Greg Clark

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #22 on: May 19, 2017, 01:38:02 PM »
Tom Dundon, who has a 25% stake in Top Golf, is the primary money man behind the Trinity Forest course.

Steve Lapper

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #23 on: May 19, 2017, 01:42:44 PM »
My 11yr old daughter attended a birthday party there over the winter with 20 other kids. Now, 6 of those kids (all girls) are way into golf and taking lessons and anxious to try out for the middle school golf team.


Please explain to me where the downside is to that potential "growth of the game? ??? ?"
« Last Edit: May 19, 2017, 01:46:02 PM by Steve Lapper »
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."--John Kenneth Galbraith

Rory Connaughton

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Re: Top Golf is...
« Reply #24 on: May 19, 2017, 01:45:33 PM »
A little more expensive than it feels like it should be . . .
but it's entertaining enough and maybe brings a few folks to the game.


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