City Golf, which covers the equivalent of two football fields, combines virtual and real-world gameplay.
Courtesy of GolfZon
No one can say for sure what the future will bring, but it doesn't hurt to make an educated guess.
As golfers, we can gaze into the crystal ball and ask ourselves: Is this the future of the course?
The image in question comes from Tianjin, a booming municipality in northern China, where the ribbon was recently cut on an out-of-the-box facility called City Golf: a sprawling, indoor course that combines the virtual game with the real world.
If that sounds a little like SoFi Center, the Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., custom-built facility for the Tiger Woods-led golf league, TGL, is, well, sorta. The difference is that City Golf is designed for community play. And while the SoFi Center will boast one, giant screen and one, green, City Golf has 18 screens with 18 holes and 18 artificial greens, spread over 106,000 square meters (roughly the size of two football fields), inside the giant. convention center.
Fully equipped, state-of-the-art in-house training.
The company behind it is GolfZon, a golf screen giant based in South Korea, which has been praised for its project as bleeding-edge and eco-conscious: all the high-level pleasures of the game, in small steps.
Golf chairman Kim Young-Chan described it as “the perfect urban golf course,” offering “a new and unique golf experience that's like playing a round in the middle of the city.”
Simulators are by no means new to the game of golf, but their use in alt-golf-like recreation areas has increased, seen in concepts from TGL to Fairway Social, Topgolf Swing Suites, X-Golf and Five Iron Golf. Like those other locations, City Golf aims to further market golf as a lifestyle by offering additional amenities and services, including golf lessons, merchandise, fitness classes and dining. (It also hosted a $700,000 on-screen golf tournament last month.)
And it's not meant to be the only one of its kind. If you're looking to the future, consider this: GolfZon says it envisions City Golf expanding into major cities around the world.
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