Swing into Action at Simply Golf of Lauderdale By the Sea

A Simulation—Virtual Reality Indoor Golf Environment in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea

Where beginners and pros come out to play and exercise besides improving their gameplay experience.

By Wayne Koss

Simply Golf has not so simply become the newest highly sought-after attraction among Lauderdale By The Sea’s bustling beach-side activities here in the northern greater Fort Lauderdale area.

Its recent opening has attracted devout golf sports enthusiasts as well as casual beginners. Various facets of the game are much easier to learn and improve with the latest technology on this turf with various levels of PGA instructors and personnel.

Simply Golf is located at the Sea Ranch Lakes Centre on State Road A1A where notable Publix, the Dollar Store, CVS, and several popular locally owned and crafted boutique service stores that make this a shopping mecca for the area. A free large parking lot here is another appreciated amenity

Simply Golf incorporates industry leading-edge technology and equipment that is utilized beyond the casual golfer’s gameplay. However, unlike the natural course, here adjustments at all levels of play can be personalized, reviewed and refined.

“We have three, 15 foot-wide by 11-foot tall golf simulator bays. Each is equipped with the latest state-of-the-art computer software alongside high-speed, high-definition cameras to capture the golfers swing that is synchronized to record a virtual reality experience of golfing,” describes Gary Palis, co-owner of the entity along with his wife Janice and son Randy.

What’s more exhilarating to most is the multitude of realistic professional golf courses to pursue by preference. Like our modern 4K quality, its a true immersive vision within these bays with the background computer software enabling added effects of wind, rain, and movement of the sun to provide everyday realistic conditions and an array of endless experiences of gameplay. Its unquestionably highly sophisticated, challenging and fun.

This is how the vast majority of the world’s top golfer’s practice and improve their games on these courses and overall–among millions of others around the world. This is the present, and future of the longstanding popular game that will likely become more populated with golfers than all that partake in courses across the country and universal landscape. It is simply taking golf to new and broader levels.

“We started a company 20 years ago called V1 Sports that does 80 percent of the videos for Golf, Baseball, Tennis, its all video-based. Being in this business for 20-plus years, we know this technology and have the knowledge to produce a great experience for the golfer” Palis informs.

V1 Sports, founded in 1995 is recognized as the pioneer and leader of instruction platform to capture, analyze, and share swing video for lesson creation. The V1 game improvement platform connects golf professionals and golfers to improve performance with integrated telestration and voiceover. The software is used by more than 10K PGA golf professionals including many of the Top 100 instructors, as well as distinguished academies worldwide from Pebble Beach to St. Andrews. They have delivered more than 3M digital video lessons to their students. The V1 Golf App is also a worldwide leader among consumers with nearly 5-million downloads. In 2016 and 2017 Golf Digest ranked V1 the No. 1 Video Analysis Software.

Its clearly obvious, a lot of research, experience, thought, multiple-skills of the game, people passion and commitment ensures the community will have a new landmark destination for many years to come.

Janice, conveys, “I want to add, its a nice stepping stone for the beginner because I know what it’s like to go out on a golf course for the first time. Its overwhelming when you are just learning. You can start here and get comfortable with all the different clubs and learn what you are able to do with them before you go out on the golf course.”

Gary adds, “We have every category of clubs to work with including youth, men, women’s, left and right are all available here on site. We encourage golfers to bring their own clubs yet have options if they don’t. We also provide the top brand golf balls.”

Quality added amenities are throughout – do it right for the discriminating pro golfer…

We’ve also added three 6 high output tee five lighting electronic ballast—a non-flicker light in each bay that captures the player’s golf swing at an optimum. We’ve added country club level hitting mats that encompass the latest technology and our world’s most powerful and portable solution to measure pressure, velocity, and dynamic force throughout the golf swing. We’ve got turf that is very high quality—we’ve turfed the entire facility about 1650 square feet.

“The rates are incredibly reasonable, We’ve been told we are undercharging yet we want to provide a good experience to the community and golfer and want more people to play golf and enjoy golf. So where pricing this with all we have to offer with technology, at $20 a-half and $40 an hour. And if you bring in two or three people in your bay its not per person–its per bay. So for three people for a half-hour, it is $20.00. For an hour it’s $40.00, so its very reasonable and fun entertainment. We also rent out the entire facility for corporate/business and family and friend gatherings” Palis said.

Randy Palis expresses, “our goal is to raise your game and to raise your joy in the game,”

With all the pertinent logistics…

“Golf incorporates what I call three Instruction levels. One is self-analysis: where you hit balls and not only can you just hit it and say that felt good. You can see the ball flight, where it went, how far, what the carry was—that’s what the simulator has. It can also give you spin rates and a lot more if you’re interested—probable more than people know. It also has a game Improvement where you can play closest to the pin where you can hit a pitching wedge with quarter swings, half swings, full swings and know each of the distances.

So the first of the three levels of instruction is self-taught. Second is: send your swing online to a PGA teaching professional for an analysis. Even though the teacher did not meet them, they can provide very helpful feedback for a very nominal fee. The third offering is to have a face-to-face lesson. We book those in advance. We have three different levels of teachers. We’ll have the four handicappers or five handicappers all the way down to the 10-year old that wants a lesson. So we will have three price points from a master professional to an apprentice. This will be face-to-face with all the technology we have here at Simply Golf.

For those who want to look at there swings? You can hit a ball watch the swing, replay and analyze it deeper. We can compare it next to a tour player face-on and side-by-side and they can compare themselves with one of a hundred different tour players–both male and female.

Rainy Days Are Sunny Days Here – Finally The Weather Too–Is At Your Command!

However, the owner is quick to note: “We don’t want to bank on bad weather days here because the main plan is for people to book in advance to secure a time slot that works best for them. We expect most people to make reservations from our website that walks one seamlessly through the process.

That being said, the game goes on here when the traditional course may have too much of a rough to even accommodate your scheduled play.

“We’ve got a great set-up here for gameplay, training, and fun that’s comfortable with a cosmetic feel that’s first-class We included golf clubs and everything you need. Refreshments are also provided with Coffee, soft drinks and water and of course teas/tees. The free parking is ample,” Gary Palis concludes.

Simply Golf

Located at the Publix Sea Ranch Lakes Centre Mall

4755 North Ocean Drive (A1A) Lauderdale-By-The-Sea

Phone: 954-980-1907

Prices: $20.00 half-hour, $40.00 1 hour

Private/Corporate Parties available (Gather the mates).

Hours: 10:00A.M – 8:00P.M. Mon. thru Saturday | Sunday 12-noon – 6:00 P.M.

Available for Corporate and Private use | Gift cards available

Website: Simplygolf.golf

Check out the Walk-in introductory Video of Simply Golf