527 Premium: It's a Driving Range, Nightclub, Restaurant, Event Space, and Videogame! It's Topgolf w

Golf Smarter

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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527: Topgolf is the hottest concept in golf that caters to young and old, scratch golfers & first timers, and if it's not already there, it's coming to your area soon. Our conversation this week is the Director of Operations for Topgolf Austin, TX, Hunter Farris. My annual golf buddy trip is going to Austin this year, so I'll be showcasing this entertainment venue, a course or two, and some great golf instructors. Please visit the all new GolfSmarter.com and click on the Survey icon next to the Hey Fred button, to take our brief multiple choice survey so that we can learn more about you, what you like, and what you don't like about the Golf Smarter Podcast.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Golf Smarter Premium, number 527, published on February 16, 2016.
0:07.0	What do you get when you combine a driving range, nightclub, restaurant, event space, and video game, TopGolf, with Hunter Ferris of TopGolf Austin?
0:14.9	This is Golf Smarter Premium. Here's your host, Fred Green.
0:23.2	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Hunter.
0:28.9	Thank you. Thanks for having me, Fred. I'm very excited to talk to you because I'm coming down to Austin, Texas. I've been reading about Top Golf for a long time. It's been more than months.
0:35.5	You guys have been around. And so when my buddy said,
0:39.3	all right, where are we going this year on a golf trip? I started, my first thing was to search
0:43.6	Top Golf. Where can we go to a Top Golf at night? And so Austin was the perfect choice for us.
0:51.6	So we're coming down in a couple weeks.
0:55.9	What is Top Golf?
0:59.0	And we are very lucky to be looking at this on Blab right now because we have a third camera going.
1:01.1	We're looking out towards your driving range, it looks like.
1:04.0	But that is not a normal-looking driving range.
1:06.6	What is Top Golf?
1:08.6	Correct.
1:09.3	Well, it's a very unique concept.
1:11.6	We're a one-of-a-kind entertainment venue that offers golf in a wide variety of experiences.
1:20.6	And our overall objective is to provide the best times of people's lives when they visit us.
1:28.7	So as you can imagine and see on the screen right now, we have a 240-yard driving range.
1:35.4	And within that driving range, within the field, the outfield, we have targets anywhere
1:39.8	from 20 to 185 yards out.
1:42.9	These targets, it's kind of like a dartboard, if you could imagine.
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