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Net Par Shallotte holds its grand-opening open house Thursday, October 8, from 3 to 6 p.m. at 4636 East Coast Lane, with four Trackman bays, a 4 p.m. ribbon cutting, and PGA professional Sam Cole on hand to demo the tech. The event is free, and the venue pairs the bays with a bar, food menu, and room for leagues and watch parties.
Spot CheckThe Birdie Bay is now open at 210 S. Main Street in Aberdeen, giving South Dakota golfers an indoor simulator home just as the weather turns.
Spot CheckTraverse City Golf and Performance Center officially opened its East Bay location October 1, folding the four-bay TrackMan facility it acquired from Swing Theory into the fold at 4 Mile and US-31. The spot adds Nathan Beachey as the center's fifth PGA professional, plus 24/7 member access, club fitting, and a retail corner.
Spot CheckReady Golf opened its doors September 30 at 3401 Linden Drive in Bristol, with two bays ready to swing and a third framed out and waiting on its launch monitor. Co-owner Derick Endicott runs it with his sister and brother-in-law, and a bar and food round out the laid-back room.
Spot CheckGolf Haus opened in Mundelein's Butterfield Plaza with three Trackman simulators, three dart bays, and 24/7 access to a mostly unmanned floor where the beer pours itself from eight local taps, Tighthead Brewing among them. Owner Nate Groenendal is capping membership at 100 for now, with plans running $115 to $300 a month.
Spot CheckThe Golf Loft partially opened at the Plaza at Aspen in State College, where ten Trackman iO bays run $65 an hour and four dart lanes about $30, with the restaurant and 28-seat bar set to follow on October 8. Each bay cost about $50,000 to build out around an 18.5-foot screen, and there's a free PuttView augmented-reality putting green that took engineers from Germany to set up.
Spot CheckGolf Envy's San Gabriel club celebrates its grand opening October 17 inside the TAWA Gateway center on West Valley Boulevard, where franchisees Jerry Ybarra and Nancy Cheung are bringing GOLFZON bays with moving floorplates that tilt to match the terrain on screen. The 24-hour membership club is signing founding members ahead of a party that includes mariachi, a lion dance, and a ribbon cutting.
Spot CheckGrosse Pointe Woods approved a special land use permit for Full Send Golf Simulators at 20439 Mack, a four-bay, around-the-clock spot that owner Tyler Walker hopes to open in January or February. He expects pricing around $30 to $65 an hour with door and bay codes handling entry, and more than 300 courses to play, Augusta National included.
Spot CheckBack Nine Golf franchisees Evan and Patrick Lipinski signed a 2,900-square-foot lease at Robinson Crossing in Severna Park and expect to open by the end of the year, running Full Swing simulators 24 hours a day. Patrick already operates the Towson location that opened earlier this year and sees more Baltimore-area stores ahead.
Spot CheckForesight Sports is bringing back the GC2 as its entry-level launch monitor, packing the GC Quad family's 6,000-frames-per-second camera tech into a $1,699 unit that reaches retail October 12. Golf Digest points out that this kind of data cost closer to $10,000 fifteen years ago.
Spot CheckTGL opens Season 3 on Sunday, December 27 at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, going head-to-head with the NFL for the second straight year. Brooks Koepka joins the league this season, with teams and tee times still to be announced.
Spot CheckBenQ introduced the AK900ST and AK800ST, 4K projectors built specifically for golf simulation, with automatic screen fitting for curved impact screens and an AI-tuned Golf Mode 2.0. They arrive later this month at $5,999 and $3,999.
Spot CheckUneekor signed a memorandum of understanding with GSPro on October 1 to pair its launch monitors more tightly with the software's ecosystem, which now counts more than 2,500 community-built LiDAR courses. The two also plan to explore AI swing-analysis features from Uneekor's parent company, Creates.
Spot CheckTruGolf switched on the first installation of its TruGolf Range platform at Lucid Golf in New Albany, Indiana, letting up to five players practice at once on a single cinematic screen. The setup debuts the company's AI Coach, which turns shot data into drills and plain-language pointers.
Spot CheckResident Newt Brosius donated his personal simulator and rallied fellow golfers at Jenner's Pond, a West Grove senior living community, to build a virtual golf center with help from the Simpson Foundation. Residents can book tee times from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and play 80-plus courses, Pebble Beach and Bethpage Black included.
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