

There are also three floors of bars behind the doors that offer sweet, sweet air conditioning and a menu of burgers and wings in the $12-to-$15 range - plus great dessert options such as injectable doughnuts. Topgolf uses fans and air conditioners in its 102 climate-controlled bays to reduce the sweatiness, but that’s an impossible goal in a Florida summer. Pinellas County welcomed its first Topgolf location, the eighth for the state and the 90th worldwide for the company, earlier this summer.īut we still have stifling heat.

South Tampa has a new indoor golf bar called Birdie Club, and there are endless putt-putt options.

Petersburg, and the new Lona at Tampa’s Water Street has an air-conditioned spot to practice your swing. There are golf simulators at Ferg’s in St. With our insufferable heat in Florida, and the sport of golf itself waning for millennials, the game is working hard lately to revamp its image as a country club hobby. But for people who do, it’s good practice. Topgolf is golf for people who don’t play golf. And my puny putt still made it 30 yards to the center of the red target to give me 10 points on the score board. I was 20 feet up off the grass on the three-story Topgolf facility set up in the Carillon office park in St. But at Topgolf’s newest location in Pinellas County, that’s okay. PETERSBURG - It turns out I’m a terrible golfer.
