I’m surprised I haven’t seen a post in here but wanted to know everyone’s thoughts.
My thoughts: It’ll be unaffordable in the winter and probably be empty in the summer. Will it eventually have the same financial situation as Top Golf right now? Probably
by Door_Box_4697
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Over under on 60 bucks a round in the middle of winter?
I’d play the shit out of this in the winter. Probably regardless of cost
50 million to build seems crazy low to me.
Why would they close it at midnight? Seems kinda early
Imagine all the advertisements that’ll line the roof during your $180 9 hole round on artificial turf.
Truman show vibes
50 million dollars to play 9 holes YA OKAY LOL
“At Mega Lo Golf, you’re slicing for the rest of your life”
Hell yeah
When people are saying outside of Chicago I don’t think they realize Oswego is an hour drive from the city with no traffic.
I’ll check it out if it opens as it’s somewhat in my area. Seems like a nightmare to me, it’s going to cost an arm and a leg to play given what indoor simulators/top tracer domes are charging. With 7 par 3s and 2 par 4s I imagine pace of play will be slow, they will maximize profits by sending people out every 7-8 minutes.
110 feet? I’m not a big numbers guy with my different shot heights, but doesn’t that seem like… pretty low?
Why is the range so short!? 275 not gonna contain these nukes I’m ripping through on a full bucket! 🚀💣
I’ll believe it when I see it
Will there be a dress code?
Real turf? That seems…ambitious.
Obviously they are going to have to make most of their money during the winter. But that’s just sort of the opposite problem that a regular golf course has in the area.
I think the big issue is going to be an empty core problem — are they going to be able to get regulars who consistspend money, or will people try it once or twice, just for the novelty of it?
Some kind of membership with reduced rates is probably the way to go.
Absolutely no shot this only costs $50m. I bet this never gets built.
I guess you can call it “outside” Chicago but that word is doing a lot of heavy lifting. It’s 50 miles from downtown. I can cross the WI state line faster.
Imagine pulling up to the Megalodome with a mint condition Nike Sumo SQ driver, and proceeding to deafen everyone inside.
Cool concept. Really depends on how much a membership costs. Real turf would be crazy to see. Hope they can pull it off.
They’re open from 6 to midnight.
Fitting since this news just gave me an erection.
“Outside Chicago” is a very generous interpretation of Oswego’s location. It’s roughly the same distance as Kenosha. Wisconsin.
Looks cool but zero way this is 50m. Our town just built a hockey rink and it was > 40m. Still and all – would totally play this in winter
110 ft is not high enough. I’m not even a high ball hitter and I was fit so that all my clubs go about 109 ft high.
Lmao just saw there’s more than one image. They couldn’t even be assed to edit in the Chicago skyline. Unless that’s supposed to be Naperville lol.
In theory, fantastic. In practice, yeeeaaaahhhhhh I’m less confident.
Finally. Something to colonize mars with.
Trees? Electric bill go brrrr. Nice try chat
Sooo… funny story…. I once deflated one of these golf dome places.
I work in Building Automation which is a fancy way of saying I work on the computers that run the HVAC equipment (it’s more than that, but that’s beside the point). For these domes the usually have their own system that runs supply and exhaust fans in a way to keep the pressure just right. Young and idiotic me did not know that and this particular dome also used those fans for comfort cooling and humidity control. So, anyway, I’m trying to program these things thinking only about temperature and humidity and my setting keep getting overridden. I get frustrated because I can’t figure out why so I wipe out the program entirely and start from scratch; which worked because the override program no longer knew what my stuff was called.
I go home, eat dinner, and my work phone rings. I’m not on call. It’s my boss. “Get back down to the golf dome, now.” He was not happy but he also didn’t really know what was wrong.
Well, I didn’t need an explanation because you could see it from the highway that the building was literally collapsing. I called our lead tech and he explained, through a lot of laughter, the situation. Good guy that he was, he had a backup of the old program and drove to the site to give it to me and help me get set up. Saved the day (and the building).
The customer banned me from their site the next day. Usually that would be a death knell in a technicians career but I was well liked by a lot of other customers so I got by.
Still gonna take 3hrs to play the 9 holes
Biodome 3
I’d bet it goes under in 5 years
having water seems like such a wast of spae
Why does it need to be indoors? The weather in Chicago is nice year round isn’t it? /S