6,000 Cycle Through Safeco Field Topgolf's Pop-Up
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 08:45 PM
Geoff in Miscellaneous Articles

Callaway and the Padres pioneered (Actual) Stadium Golf but it was great fun to see Topgolf take the idea and incorporate their concept at Safeco Field.

Sean Quinton reports for the Seattle Times. I could have done without this quote from CEO Erik Anderson, who sounds desperate invoking the M word.

“We are the place where millennials hit golf balls,” said Erik Anderson, Topgolf’s Co-Chairman and CEO. “You get to play the game, you can compete and trash talk with your friends, flirt with your girlfriend.”

Music blaring on the loudspeakers, the next shot lands squarely in the middle of a yellow target. The screen tracks the ball in realtime, adding 40 points to the score. This is not your grandpa’s version of golf.

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