Indoor Golf Bar

[mtngirl]

We are seriously considering opening an Indoor Golf Bar, but our business model relies heavily on league play to be profitable. We are in an area where the golf courses open Mid May and close early October. We can still have snow into July as well. There are 5 golf courses in our small town and they each have a men's and women's league with around 30 participants in each, so our idea is to have the club pros organize a winter league to play on our simulators 4 nights a week at least. The F&B sales and guaranteed hours on the machines generated by the leagues would make us a decent profit according to my pro formas.

Does this seem like a reasonable assumption to make? We plan to have 3 simulators, so leagues would be limited to 12 players.

Also any advice from those that own a commercial endeavor would be much appreciated.

THanks!

[MainStGolf]

You all have about 7,000 more than we do. Our big city however has a metro population of nearly 650,000. And again two of these businesses could not make it there. I never visited one of them. I did go to the other one a couple of times while I was doing some research on what I wanted to do in my own town. Location did not help this particular business in my opinion.

Also another idea is to rent the sims to local golf pros so that they can continue their teaching during the winter months when range lessons are not available. If you have enough space a putting and chipping area would be nice, but ads to the expense. You might put that in instead of say the third hitting bay.

Also I think its Michigan that has a full fledge indoor hitting facility that is one of those air domes. So not only do they have golf, but you can have baseball and softball included. I think the more multi-faceted you can make the facility within reason the better the chance of success.

[PUNTE]

The cost of liability insurance has to be awful for something like this, yes?

[Igor-247-golf]

That is the point of my post, Igor. I was hoping for some insight from those who've done this.

I can introduce you to 5 or so people who owned them - they can share experiences offline.

[Georgeh]

Reading this old thread, curious as to the cost of the build out of one of these places. Seems like an interesting side business.