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THE GOAT Bar & Grill brought its second location to Pike Road this month, three years after the original opened in Prattville. The draw is a golf simulator, 43 beers on tap, and a soft serve margarita to drink while you watch the game.
Spot CheckThe Golf Yards opened this month on the seventh floor of Three Ballston Plaza at 1100 N. Glebe Road, and it is already close to its membership cap. Members get 24/7 access to eight simulators, a short-game area, a putting machine that tilts to create real slopes, a gym, and a coworking space for the days you want to hit balls between meetings. Memberships run $299 a month for individuals and $399 for families, with the initiation fee waived for now. Co-founder David Stillman says Tysons and Alexandria are next.
Spot CheckX-Golf Wexford reopened under new ownership and came back a bay bigger, going from six full simulator bays to seven, with upgraded software and a longer food and drink menu. Saturday’s free party runs 3 to 9 p.m. with closest-to-the-pin and longest-drive contests every hour and a $100 gift card for each winner.
Spot CheckBoro Golf & Social Club cuts the ribbon Thursday, Aug. 27 at 1715 Old Fort Parkway, Suite 200, tucked between Hobby Lobby and Gold’s Gym. The Murfreesboro Area Chamber does the honors at 4 p.m., then the doors stay open until 8 for free simulator time on courses from around the world.
Spot CheckThe Turn Indoor Golf has opened at the Shoppes of Hampden, 4957 Carlisle Pike, one of more than 60 openings on PennLive’s latest central Pennsylvania business roundup. Back Nine Golf turns up on the same list, which tells you something about how fast indoor golf is filling retail space right now.
Spot CheckFlight Indoor Golf opened in early August at Hockessin Crossing, where Lancaster Pike meets Valley Road, with three open TrackMan bays plus a private room for events. Co-owner Luke Baffone, an assistant PGA professional, plans to add coaching and push the hours to 24/7. Bays run $65 during peak times and $55 off-peak, and there is no kitchen, so bring your own food or order from Six Paupers down the block.
Spot CheckGolf Cave is opening its third Monmouth County location in Tinton Falls this fall, joining its Eatontown and Holmdel spots. The new one gets nine private Trackman-powered bays with 24/7 CaveKey access, and it becomes the twelfth Golf Cave in New Jersey.
Spot CheckThe Fairway Golf Club will be Fort Collins’ first 24-hour indoor golf club when it opens at 2427 S. College Ave. by the end of October. Owner Mitch Andrews is putting in four Trackman iO bays, two open to the public and two reserved for members and fitted with Zen Golf swing stages that tilt to match the terrain on screen. Book online, get a code, walk in whenever. Early memberships go on sale in September.
Spot CheckHamburg Township’s planning commission signed off on Shotz Indoor Golf Lounge, which would take over the old Bluewater Party Store on Kress Road along the west side of Zukey Lake. The plan keeps the building footprint but raises part of the roof to get the ceiling height a simulator needs, and adds bays, food service and seating. It heads to the full township board next.
Spot CheckBabyDraw Golf soft opens Aug. 26 at 20049 House Hahl Road, Suite 501, with three private TrackMan iO bays running 24 hours a day and nobody behind a counter. You book online, a PIN arrives by email and through the TrackMan Golf app, and that gets you in the door. Clubs rent for $25 a person if you travel light.
Spot CheckIsland Greens is following its Franklin Square original with a second Long Island location at Station Yards in Ronkonkoma, targeting January 2027. Co-owners Patrick Lyons and Matthew Liotta are adding darts, a full bar and light bites to the simulator lineup this time. The pair opened the first location in January 2025 and built much of it themselves.
Spot CheckA Franklin restaurant called Wildcat Corner is planned for this fall, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner alongside two golf simulators. The owner brings decades of restaurant experience and has renovations, outdoor seating and possible future expansion on the list.
Spot CheckBack Nine is bringing indoor golf to Lafayette at 3809 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Suite 133-C in The Park, with Full Swing simulators and an opening date of Thursday, Aug. 27 listed on its website. Tee time reservations were set to go live Aug. 20.
Spot CheckBack Nine’s golf simulator spot at East Beach Square has its sign up and final inspections lined up, with managing partner Brian Ehardt putting the opening about a month and a half out. It joins Chelsea Bakehouse, Lolly’s Creamery and Frank & Patty’s at the Shore Drive center, which got a $1.3 million renovation last year.
Spot CheckCityGolf USA says its Nashville venue will be the first full 18-hole indoor golf course in the country when it opens this winter. The plan puts 18 sequential holes on Golfzon simulators inside a 175,000-square-foot warehouse, and after your approach the screen lifts to reveal a real putting surface to finish the hole. A restaurant, bar, pro shop and PGA teaching pros round it out, and Nashville is the first of several planned locations.
Spot CheckTruGolf got a Nasdaq notice on Aug. 19 for falling under the $2.5 million stockholders’ equity minimum, reporting about $2.06 million for the quarter ended June 30. Trading continues as TRUG and the company has until Oct. 5 to file a plan to regain compliance. Separately it agreed on Aug. 17 to acquire Polymath Research and reset its Series A conversion price to $1 a share.
Spot CheckBreaking Eighty makes a straightforward case for the outgoing SkyTrak+ over the newer ST MAX: the two units share the same dual Doppler and camera tracking, the same software, and the same Mac support, and the ST MAX adds speed training, dual USB-C ports, a slightly faster processor and a charcoal finish. Worth knowing before you buy either one: neither measures angle of attack, and SkyTrak has stopped supporting new customers on GSPro and E6, so Course Play is the road ahead.
Spot CheckGolf Monthly tested SportScreen’s Vanish Series, a retractable enclosure built for people whose sim room is also the family garage. One button and the impact screen folds itself up, with hand-crank and smart-home control options, and the reviewer found the screen and baffles solid enough that stray balls stay put. The mounting brackets are the trade-off, a bit obtrusive if the room doubles as a living space.
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