Par Society virtual golf

Hands on experience of new golf simulator at Par Society, Portsmouth

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00:00Just go slow, keep your eye on the ball, don't take your eye off the ball, see it's fine.

00:07So while Portsmouth and the surrounding areas have got golf courses and driving

00:10range you've got to drive a little bit further afield to find a golf sim. That's

00:14why there's a lot of excitement recently when Pass Society announced that they'd be

00:17opening up in Portsmouth. Now I've not played golf in about two years and when

00:23I did play I wasn't very good but I've come down today to give the golf sim a

00:26go, play some of the famous courses that are available on their simulators and

00:31maybe just hopefully get a little few tips on how why I'm so terrible. Now I

00:36don't have a golf club with me, I don't have the golf shoes so that's the

00:40excuses in the back pocket. Let's see how I get on.

00:45So Sam, it's been a couple of weeks since we were here last, it looks a bit different now but you've opened up, how's it been?

00:51Yeah it's been great, we've had a great reception. First day we were fully booked and then

00:57every evening so far I've been fully booked and people have been loving it I think, a lot of

01:01good feedback, it's been great. So what kind of things can you do here?

01:04Yeah so you can play golf, practice, there's challenges, I'm running a weekly

01:09challenge too where you can win a free hour so we do it closest to the pin in

01:12Long Drive this week, it'll be slightly different next week but yeah you can

01:17play this, there's now 1,420 courses available, we have like 30 downloaded on

01:23each but yeah you can do all sorts. And we were kind of looking earlier, it's got

01:27like, it kind of shows you, it records your kind of your shot and shows you

01:32what your, so what kind of data does that show there? Yeah so you get I think it's

01:3740 points of data, I wouldn't be able to tell you what all of them are, I'm sure some

01:40people could, like ones that most people will probably understand is like your

01:44swing path, like the ball speed, distance, those kind of things, the spin on the

01:50ball, but yeah it goes, there's 40 points of data so if you really want to know

01:54what's wrong this will tell you.

01:56As expected I was a tad rusty but after I warmed up I hit some

02:01okay shots for me and managed to not break anything, which is a bonus, but it's

02:08really good fun, from playing famous courses to playing mini games or just

02:11taking shots at a driving range, there's lots to do, it also gives you lots of access to

02:15information to help with your game. Sam is welcoming, friendly and relaxed, it's

02:20far removed from some of the more pretentious places that may put people

02:23off golf. It was great to hit a few balls again and I'll be definitely coming back.

02:30Oh that's bad, that felt better.

02:48How can people book in? Yeah so look the best way to book in is to go online because we show you all of our

02:53availability and you can book up to four weeks ahead, so yeah get on our website

02:58you can do it through Instagram or if you want to pop in or give me a call but

03:02it's definitely easy to go online.

03:09So yeah make sure there's a little bit of bend in the knees and then keep your head

03:17keep your eye on the ball and just slowly just try and swing through it.

03:22How far do I go back? Go back as far as you want, the further back you go the more that can go

03:26wrong so just in terms of but yeah so to start with you can just go