Reid Colson

I've always loved golf and thought about switching careers to become an indoor golf business owner. Most of the simulator manufacturers had ROI models that they provided me showing an expected utilization of ~70-80% for the year, but were unable to share actual results. They also didn't have any empirical information on impacts of weather, population, etc. I decided to create a survey to collect that sort of information and provided a copy back to participants of the survey. What I found was that these ROI models overstated actual use. I was also able to evaluate a number of other data sources covering weather, golfers in a 10 mile radius, home price, percentage of renters, etc around a facility to identify a few drivers to help build a forecast of expected utilization in my area. Given the total lack of information like this, I thought it might be interesting to see if I could build a community and continue to gather data that owners would find useful.