{"id":349,"date":"2011-03-07T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2015-07-25T01:37:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T05:37:26","slug":"golf-simulators-good-practice-or-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/golf-simulators-good-practice-or-giant.html","title":{"rendered":"Golf Simulators: Good Practice or Giant Video Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7091\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_1812.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7091\" src=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_1812-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stinky Golfer Chris letting it rip in the golf simulator (photo by Greg D'Andrea)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_1812-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_1812-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_1812-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/chrischirico\">Stinky Golfer Chris<\/a> letting it rip in the golf simulator (photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/gregdandrea\">Greg D&#8217;Andrea<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This past Friday night I got a text from <a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/gregdandrea\">Stinky Golfer Greg<\/a> asking if I can hit the indoor range Saturday morning. Unfortunately, due to my kids basketball playoff schedule, I&#8217;m unable to commit to it because I don&#8217;t know how far the team is going to advance, so therefore, don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll be free. We plan on trying again in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>However, it turns out they don&#8217;t advance very far, getting knocked out in the first round. This now frees up the afternoon. Still with the indoor range on my own mind, the kids remind me that I promised to take them to the indoor spot to use the golf simulator. So it looks like I&#8217;m going after all. I call ahead to make sure a tee time is available (yes&#8230;you need to make a tee time), and we&#8217;re off.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve used the simulator before, so it&#8217;s not new to me. I take it as just an opportunity to get a little swing practice in. But for the kids&#8230;this is a giant video game! And after listening to their excitement and the way they are looking at it, I start to realize that their right. It&#8217;s just a giant video game. But never did that become more apparent than when I absolutely crushed a beautiful drive off the tee to the tune of&#8230;156 YARDS?!<\/p>\n<p>OK, I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m capable of hammering out 300 yard drives on a regular basis. But I certainly am capable of of driving farther than 156! So I put it behind me until it&#8217;s my turn to tee off on the next hole. Once again, I hit it pretty solid. The result&#8230;163! What is going on??!! Now it&#8217;s no longer a game. I realize this is pretty inaccurate and go back to focusing on my swing.<\/p>\n<p>This experience got me wondering &#8211; Is the golf simulator a useful tool? Or is it just the giant video game my kids view it to be? I guess the answer is.., it&#8217;s both. I&#8217;m not playing out on an actual course, so course and weather conditions never came into play. Also, you don&#8217;t putt on the simulator, so my semi-normal three-putts never come into play either (you always one- or two-putt, based on distance from the hole). But at the same time, the inaccurate readings of distance certainly did force me to concentrate more on my swing. After all, I certainly can&#8217;t allow a 10 and 12 year old to out-drive me!<\/p>\n<p>In the end though, I got both a little bit of fun and a bit of practice out of the simulator. The inaccuracy of the simulator did force me to focus more. However, it was a rainy day in early March &#8211; not typical golfing season or weather&#8230;but there I was (according to the simulator anyway) in Myrtle Beach at Arrowhead Country Club (kids choice).<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, and just to prove how inaccurate the simulator really is&#8230;I shot an 89. My twelve year old&#8230;a 91. And my ten year old&#8230;.95 (including back-to-back birdies). In reality, I have never broken 90. But you know what? 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