Watching golf on TV or in person gets weekend hackers like myself in the mood to play. We have a tee time for Sunday, but on this holiday morning (Happy Fourth!), I had the itch for the sticks.
Hilltop’s driving range is closer to our house, but I decided to head over to Top Golf on South Van Dorn Street in Kingstowne. It had been a while since we were there, so I was interested to see if it was still a happening place. Wow, was it ever. I got there around 1030 and business was booming.
If you don’t mind, I’m copy/pasting my description of how to play Top Golf from my write-up in 2005.
Here’s how it works. Instead of a green, you aim for a target area, a flat surface with sectors where the golf ball falls down into a collection area. The balls have a tiny computer chip embedded inside. When you hit the ball on the virtual green, it falls down into the collection area and signals the distance to a monitor at your hitting area. You get points based on accuracy and distance. There are 11 targets ranging in distance from 20 to 260 yards.
If you haven’t checked this place out, you should give Top Golf a try. Just make sure you drop each ball through the green tub, or your
shot won’t count!
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