Golf Entertainment Complexes Offer a New Spin on an Old Game

John Burke | May 3, 2016

By John Burke With almost 1,500 18-hole equivalent golf course closures over the last 10 years and six million fewer golfers according to the National Golf Foundation (NGF), is it realistic to consider that the highest and best use of a Texas golf range that only managed $310,000 in gross revenue and 25,000 annual customer visits is still a driving range – albeit not your grandfather's driving range? Topgolf developers thought so, and in 2007 transformed the 50-stall Hank Haney Golf Range at Park Lane Ranch in Dallas into Topgolf Dallas, a 72-bay golf entertainment complex that bridges the gap between the traditional driving range...