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re: What happened to Top Golf?

Posted on 8/5/26 at 3:24 am to
Posted by BabyTac
Austin, TX
Member since Jun 2008
17352 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 3:24 am to
Never understood why people go there outside of a corporate outing.

It sucks for actual golfers and their balls will damage your clubs. Also go about 60% of the distance they should go.
This post was edited on 8/5/26 at 3:49 am
Posted by Taffeta
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2012
1011 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 3:46 am to
Affluent whites have moved on from top golf. They go to pickleball at Court to Table for “eatertainment”.

It’s just the natural progression. Once they leave the riff raff takes over.
Posted by RemyLeBeau
Member since Mar 2015
2447 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 4:23 am to
quote:

they lay out a bunch of cash and build a big facility and it is nice at first and the staff is good and as time goes on the crowd trickles in and you have shootings in the parking lot and the staff doesn't want to work there anymore and you get bad staff which makes the good clientele leave and then it becomes a shell of what it was but there is still a big loan on the space and it was designed so specialized that no other business can buy it and it creeps along until the plug is pulled


In the late 90s I thought a Dave and Busters would be a hit if it was located close to Tanger on HWY 30 in Gonzales. Now, as an older man, I know this is exactly how it would have gone within 3 years.
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
13576 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 4:26 am to
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Plus, was over $120 for 3 people.


This will be the doom of all business if prices keep going up, and business keeps yielding downward. I was at a restaurant that was usually bustling with business, there was only 4 groups there eating. Their price comes out to about 20-25 a person for lunch. Nothing is special about the place. It is not like it is Ruth’s Chris or a Hooters.

Even some fast food restaurants I pass by around lunch are empty. Something is changing economically.
This post was edited on 8/5/26 at 4:27 am
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
17944 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 4:32 am to
Honestly it needs to be more expensive than it is. It'd keep the riff raff away.
Posted by WhiskeyThief
Madisonville
Member since Oct 2018
759 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 4:38 am to
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But I’ve never known it to be hood / trashy. Just overpriced. Which I assume would keep the riff raff out.


It’s not in other States, with lower percentages of “usual suspects”

oh, and the riff-raff makes plenty of money selling drugs.
Posted by weagle1999
Member since May 2025
4026 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 4:39 am to
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Louisiana is the afghanistan of private equity "fun" places.


Posted by weagle1999
Member since May 2025
4026 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 4:42 am to
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The gears of this machine are worn out.


This is a great line to describe what is happening.
Posted by Shanegolang
Denham Springs, La
Member since Sep 2015
5166 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 4:57 am to
Are there a bunch of Challengers and Altimas parked outside? everybody smells like skunk weed? Or they haven't taken over yet?
Posted by ChatGPT of LA
Member since Mar 2023
8119 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 6:21 am to
Price point is so high per person, that its not something that you do repeatedly
Posted by Kreg Jennings
Parts Unknown
Member since Aug 2007
4046 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 6:34 am to
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Are there a bunch of Challengers and Altimas parked outside? everybody smells like skunk weed? Or they haven't taken over yet?


Combo of GMC & Chevy squatted trucks that look like all of the accessories cost as much as my truck…some Nissan Blaximas…random assortment of other cars.

Only saw one or two what I’d consider “normal” TV sitcom families.

The lack of desire from the staff was the worst. My little guy asked if we could get a 1st floor bay..and the front desk clerk said we could but we wouldn’t be able to order any food….which looking back may have been fine.,,never got waters, had to ask for napkins and silverware multiple times…and the runner who brought our food said zero words. Not even to determine who ordered what.

More tats than I could count. Neck tats, calf tats, you name it.
Posted by BrohemAlem11
Ratchet City, LA
Member since Oct 2014
14047 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 6:37 am to
Yea.... sometimes the wife and I go on expensive dates and wonder how is there this much garbage here then I remember.... most of these dipshits think nothing of adding to their mountain of debt
Posted by geauxturbo
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2007
4492 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 6:46 am to
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Had to ask twice for silverware and napkins


Took my son a couple times this summer. He's just learning and loves the Angey Birds game. Anywho, same problem. Who serves food and makes it an act of congress to get a damn napkin.
Posted by R11
Member since Aug 2017
5860 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 6:48 am to
IDK
WeI went to Topgolf, probably three or four months ago in Baton Rouge and I thought the same thing didn’t really see any hillbillies but a lot of Democrats black thugs and it was way overpriced.

Not int in going back anytime soon.
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
35037 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 6:49 am to
Like everything else that starts off good, the trash always seems to follow a few years later. The decent people stop going because of said trash, then the place goes to shite.

There was a place on Canal Boulevard called Spanky’s which was awesome, watched the 2003 Sec championship game there. Great bar with an awesome humidor, before “cigar bars” became a thing, about two years after it opened, all the Westbank trash took over, place closed about 2 years after, building was even torn down.
This post was edited on 8/5/26 at 7:05 am
Posted by inotsure
Member since Apr 2021
192 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 6:50 am to
I had never swung a golf club until college and am left handed so finding clubs to borrow or used to buy to get started was very difficult. Going to top golf for social outings gave me enough experience to say maybe golf isn’t as gay as my dad always said it was.
Posted by turnpiketiger
Member since May 2020
12727 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 6:55 am to
Louisiana has bad demographics in general but especially that area.

One in Lafayette might be better. Still might have a little trash but won’t be overwhelming.
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
78900 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 6:59 am to
TopGolf is so 2017
Posted by MFTPC
Member since Apr 2026
240 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 7:10 am to
Has the one off Siegen been taken over? Is golf suites a better crowd?
This post was edited on 8/5/26 at 7:12 am
Posted by StrikeIndicator
Sec. 419
Member since May 2019
1089 posts
Posted on 8/5/26 at 7:15 am to
Home Golf Sim took over. Boys need to show off their Bourbon and Guns.
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