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Five Iron’s first Connecticut location: ten TrackMan bays in 8,500 square feet of South Norwalk, with about forty jobs attached. When a national chain finally crosses your state line, the demographics decided first.
Spot CheckSims up front, putt-putt and a kitchen behind them. The menu runs steak frites to hot-honey salmon skewers, and in Plano’s crowded entertainment-golf market, that is the plan.
Spot CheckFour TrackMan bays, a bar menu, and a 700-square-foot patio in Shallotte. The Grand Strand’s indoor golf wave just crossed the county line, and Net Par built it a clubhouse.
Spot CheckFlight Indoor Golf gives Delaware another year-round option: hourly bays, tour-grade turf, and coaching under one roof. Small market, smart build.
Spot CheckYears of planning and a pandemic pivot, and Sun Dog’s doors are finally open. Downtown storefronts and sim bays keep proving they belong together.
Spot CheckOwner Chris Brown parked his late grandfather’s golf cart just inside the door at 222 South Loudoun. Hundreds of virtual courses, Augusta to Star Wars, and downtown Winchester gets its year-round game.
Spot CheckRibbon cut on Coliseum Blvd, and the bays run 24 hours. The Back Nine keeps planting flags in markets the big chains skip. That is where round-the-clock golf wins.
Spot CheckFive simulators, 6,045 square feet, and a chef-driven menu at the Plaza at Cherry Hill. TruGolf’s first flagship franchise is location one, and location one is always the sales pitch for two through fifty.
Spot CheckCornelius worked, so Charlotte is next. Another Nine is betting its 24/7 model scales across a whole metro, and that is a real bet.
Spot CheckGolf Lounge 18’s eleventh location lands at Nanuet Town Centre with TrackMan bays, a full bar, and a forty-dollar weekday special. The Northeast keeps absorbing new bays.
Spot CheckEight TrackMan simulators and an 850-square-foot putting green, and they are hiring before the doors open. Northbrook’s job fair is the tell: sim bays are now core retail, not a corner gimmick.
Spot CheckThe Westside has not seen a new private golf club in fifty years. Stableford ends the drought with 13,000 square feet on the Brentwood-Santa Monica corridor, built more like a members’ club than a sim lounge.
Spot CheckOne bay, keypad entry, open 24 hours with nobody on staff. The Vickerys are betting O’Fallon wants a private-club feel without the private-club overhead. Soft opening mid-September.
Spot CheckThree sound-insulated Full Swing bays, members only, 24/7. The Back Nine’s Southlake pitch is privacy over party, and founders memberships are already on sale.
Spot CheckAn indoor 18-hole course is a different animal from a bay lounge. If GOLFZON makes CityGolf work in Nashville, every big metro gets a copy.
Spot CheckIt has a name now: Salty Swing. Machias approved the building permit Wednesday, the liquor license is off to the state, and a town of a few thousand is getting its simulator. The format has officially gone everywhere.
Spot CheckHosel Rockets Golf Center. A father-son build from Bob and Travis Bolner, with simulators, a pro shop and a repair bench. No chain, no press tour. This is how most of the map actually fills in.
Spot CheckSeventeen thousand square feet on two floors with an outdoor terrace, opening early 2027. Tysons is Five Iron’s first Virginia location, and Capital One Center is exactly the flagship address the brand hunts for.
Spot CheckGolfCave sold out New Jersey, opened Staten Island and White Plains, and now wants franchisees in Connecticut and Long Island. Dense, cold, golf-mad. Expansion targets do not get much better.
Spot CheckSeptember 23, seventy thousand dollars guaranteed, and locals can enter. Nashville is the fourth stop after Sarasota, Scottsdale and Palm Beach. PopStroke keeps wiring real stakes into casual formats.
Spot CheckFive Iron Tournaments puts cash play in fifteen markets: walk in, enter, compete across the country, get paid out digitally. The CEO compares it to online poker, and every league operator should sit with that.
Spot CheckA 29,600-square-foot PGA Tour Superstore in a former Bealls, with five fitting bays and a simulator working the floor. When big-box golf moves in this hard, it is reading the same demand curve we are.
Spot CheckTrackMan adds the Solheim Cup to the trophy shelf. Every pro-tour deal makes the bay at your local lounge an easier sell.
Spot CheckCarl’s Place turns twenty by letting you design your own sim in 3D and maybe win the twenty-thousand-dollar version you built. Home-sim shopping is getting the car-dealer treatment.
Spot CheckKids twelve and under eat free daily with a twenty-dollar monthly add-on, unlimited mini golf included. PopStroke is buying the next generation’s loyalty one chicken tender at a time.
Spot CheckFourteen regional offices, 45 states, 1,300 cities. Assembled Golf’s install network started as a single Nashville operation, and every venue in this issue needed builders first.
Spot CheckThe forecast industry now tracks golf simulators out to 2034. When the market-report people find your niche, the boom is on paper.
Spot CheckMulti-sport is the quiet upsell: same bay, more seasons. Worth a read if your screens sit idle in June.
Spot CheckA bier hall with sim bays, and Valparaiso waited years for it. When the local paper calls an opening long-awaited, demand showed up before the doors did.
Spot CheckA former Golf Channel host is wiring Jacksonville for golf: simulator sites, country-club partnerships, and an event space on the 20th floor of Riverplace Tower. Coaching follows the bays. It always has.
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