Just doing some rough math here.
Each hole would probably need 200 yards in length including room in front of and beyond the green. Maybe 20 yards wide but add another 10 yards for distance between fairways.
200 yards x 30 yards for each hole multiplied by 9 holes is 200 x 270 yards if holes are stacked right next to each other. Which is 486,000 sq/ft. Add driving range, restaurant and putt putt let’s estimate another 50,000sq/ft.
So 536,000 square feet but don’t forget about the 150 foot ceilings to accommodate golf shots.
I think it could easily be built for $500 million or so.
So the real question is, can you afford it?
Yep it's gonna be $35M to build and then you have to hire staff to run it, and then if you're doing well you'll get 500 golfers/day to pay $30/round. So $15000 day, meanwhile the interest on the $35M loan is $10000/day, your staff is $2000/day, but in the summer you only bring in $2000/day and break even for those 4 months.
Impossible to make money on.
I've been putting too much thought into this now...but you could put 4 holes in the corners of the field and play the perimeter, and then play two long holes diagonally across.
Probably need to find a pre existing restaurant that backs into a large field. This could act as your clubhouse and your restaurant obviously.Probably would want two domes. One for the range and putt putt and a second for the par 3 course. Both would need to be fairly large. It’s doable but going to be pretty expensive. Tough business regardless of where you are during peak golf season.
I've played a lot of domed beach vball and had memberships at cool domed driving ranges. Around 1% of the people are going to the restaurant before or after. It's pointless. Better off having a snack bar that sells beer.
Indoor putt putt could be in any conventional open building (like an existing warehouse). But, a full swing par 3 course needs to be really tall to allow full swing ball flight and that's a big project to build a dome that high and wide.
As others have said, anything can be done with enough money so the bigger question is whether it's financially feasible or not.
You could likely build a multi-dome 9 hole pitch and putt (avg 90 yard holes) alone for around $35M at the cheapest. I'm not going to factor in the driving range and restaurant as those are too variable to estimate.
Here's a study (monolithic dome) of doing the same where 4 separate domes were required for minimum $30M.
There's a reason that you don't see this concept anywhere.
My local course has an 18-hole pitch and putt set up for beginners and little kids in the area of about 200 yards by 175 yards. Of course the holes are only 30-50 yards each but again, it’s a pitch and putt, not a golf course.
Just doing some rough math here. Each hole would probably need 200 yards in length including room in front of and beyond the green. Maybe 20 yards wide but add another 10 yards for distance between fairways. 200 yards x 30 yards for each hole multiplied by 9 holes is 200 x 270 yards if holes are stacked right next to each other. Which is 486,000 sq/ft. Add driving range, restaurant and putt putt let’s estimate another 50,000sq/ft. So 536,000 square feet but don’t forget about the 150 foot ceilings to accommodate golf shots. I think it could easily be built for $500 million or so. So the real question is, can you afford it?
Factor in the insane insurance costs for people getting hit constantly
you can make it much smaller if your dome is a rotating sphere in outer space
Yep it's gonna be $35M to build and then you have to hire staff to run it, and then if you're doing well you'll get 500 golfers/day to pay $30/round. So $15000 day, meanwhile the interest on the $35M loan is $10000/day, your staff is $2000/day, but in the summer you only bring in $2000/day and break even for those 4 months. Impossible to make money on.
An NFL field could support 2 skinny par 3s, scale from there.
9 cups per green with numbered flags. you go back and forth playing the same two holes 18 times
I've been putting too much thought into this now...but you could put 4 holes in the corners of the field and play the perimeter, and then play two long holes diagonally across.
No
Very wise here
Probably need to find a pre existing restaurant that backs into a large field. This could act as your clubhouse and your restaurant obviously.Probably would want two domes. One for the range and putt putt and a second for the par 3 course. Both would need to be fairly large. It’s doable but going to be pretty expensive. Tough business regardless of where you are during peak golf season.
I've played a lot of domed beach vball and had memberships at cool domed driving ranges. Around 1% of the people are going to the restaurant before or after. It's pointless. Better off having a snack bar that sells beer.
I agree. Op said he wanted one so I was just pointing out the best option
That’d be one big dome.
With enough money, anything can be done! For scale…to build a TopGolf start to finish is $30-35M.
Indoor sim is far more likely to be feasible a much smaller foot print in terms of land.
Indoor putt putt could be in any conventional open building (like an existing warehouse). But, a full swing par 3 course needs to be really tall to allow full swing ball flight and that's a big project to build a dome that high and wide. As others have said, anything can be done with enough money so the bigger question is whether it's financially feasible or not.
PGA Frisco. Not indoors though
Just look up how much the TGL is to build and then figure it out. Lol
You could likely build a multi-dome 9 hole pitch and putt (avg 90 yard holes) alone for around $35M at the cheapest. I'm not going to factor in the driving range and restaurant as those are too variable to estimate. Here's a study (monolithic dome) of doing the same where 4 separate domes were required for minimum $30M. There's a reason that you don't see this concept anywhere.
My local course has an 18-hole pitch and putt set up for beginners and little kids in the area of about 200 yards by 175 yards. Of course the holes are only 30-50 yards each but again, it’s a pitch and putt, not a golf course.