Simulator bars, domes and the conversion problem
Here the model arrived indoors first. The Canadian question is not whether venue customers book a tee time, but whether they book one four…
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Who plays golf now, what they spend, and how the game is changing — participation, simulators and domes, women’s golf, and the technology reshaping practice.
Launch monitors at home: measure the room first
In a basement, ceiling height eliminates half the market before price does. Carry distance and ball speed are the numbers that matter.
The under-40 wave in a five-month season
Six million golfers, and a generation whose first winter of golf happened in a simulator bay. Nine holes and twilight rates keep them.
Water, chemicals and the pesticide bans
Quebec and Ontario restricted cosmetic pesticides before most jurisdictions, and Canadian superintendents learned to manage turf with fewer products.