Opinions on Indoor Golf Simulator places.

There’s a Back 9 that opened a year ago down the street from me. I inquired about memberships but was overly expensive and all code/badging entry so no staff on site. Seemed hard to ever get a hold of anyone.

I drive by there all the time and have never seen a car in the parking lot.

They seem incredibly expensive and I just have never fully understood the appeal…$60 just seems steep to go hit into a projected screen for an hour.

Especially in the south. I guess I could see if you’re in an area heavily affected by the winter and even then I think you’d have to commit to a membership like you mentioned to make the price palatable.

I don’t know, I guess some people see the appeal…

I actually like going after work during the week to practice. I've got a full-time time job and kids so I don't always have time to play full rounds on the real course.

Also, the softwares have different practice modes. "Performance Center" for trackman and "Dynamic Greens" for GSPRO allow you to set specific distance ranges and after you take a shot the green resets to a different distance in that set range. That's just a fraction of what the softwares offer.

The goal is to ultimately get one setup at my house, but everybody's different and I could understand why people would not be a fan.

You won’t use your membership nearly as much as you think you will. Better to just pay for sim time as you need it.

I was a member at five iron fishtown when it opened in Philly for about a year. It was $300/mo and you got 90min of bay time per day. There were some other benefits with drink/food discounts, lesson discounts, they started offering basic complimentary coffee/danish. It was terrific.

With that said, I have not found anything in North Jersey that rivals that. Everything up here is wildly expensive and the monthly memberships are mostly a joke for what they offer. I’m considering rejoining five iron midtown but have some concerns over daily bay availability.

ETA in the northeast you simply aren’t golfing from Halloween through April unless it’s indoors. The Midwest has more golf dome driving ranges but those aren’t up here.