(05-06-2018, 06:48 PM)PF* Wrote: I stopped at Top Golf yesterday to check it out. Has anybody been there? Is it  any fun? Compared to real golf it just looks kinda lame. It felt like a bowling alley to me with the tables and the drinks. Is this "golf" of the future?

My son showed up unexpectedly and we were looking for something to do. This isn't it for me. Am I just too cynical?

I played it with my sons and I enjoyed it. It's more challenging than it looks and there are several games with different strategies. It's a fun way to pass some time while having food and drinks, although there are some who take it pretty serious. There's a national tournament which the Golf Channel airs. My son tells me his boss even keeps a set of clubs at the facility because he's so into it.  

It's a tool to grow the game. Greg Norman, a former world #1 who only played 5 rounds last year because he is so occupied with his business interests, made a compelling argument for the importance of Top Golf. Of the 90 million people who played there last year, half had never set foot on a golf course. If the golfing industry can get a fraction of those people to visit a course, it would grow the game tremendously.

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