CHENNAI: Golfer’s Edge Chennai (GEC), a new indoor golf centre in the heart of the city has opened its doors to the public.
The centre features an HD virtual simulator and a 170 sq.ft. putting turf.
Promoted by TeeTime Ventures (TTV), a Bengaluru-based sports and recreational services company, GEC is the company’s flagship experience centre. While GEC caters to golfing enthusiasts with a fully air-conditioned indoor facility that will enable visitors to play golf all-year-round, it also aspires to make learning golf affordable, accessible and entertaining to new players.
GEC claims to have customised coaching sessions, memberships, and special programs for adults and children.
The GEC virtual golf simulator features practice modes to replicate a real golf driving range experience, and offers over 150,000 golf courses from around the world including the world famous Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland (The Home of Golf), Pebble Beach Golf Links and Augusta National (home of The Masters Tournament) to play in. With a high speed tracking camera and live analysis of every swing, chip and putt, the simulator offers a very real golfing experience to learn and improve your game.
Other than regular golf, the simulator also offers numerous fun games such Footie Golf, Golf Bowling, Gallery Golf and Golf Darts, to name a few, to make the experience fun and competitive.
As per the companyy, the putting turf is ideal for anyone to practice their putting skills and learn the finer aspects of the short game.
GEC provides golfing equipment at no additional cost in order to enable customers to learn with ease, without the hassle of buying expensive equipment at the very start.
Additionally, GEC offers individual and group coaching classes for children and young adults. GEC will soon open its first summer camp for kids between 7-12yrs. For its kids coaching program and summer camps, the company has partnered with Golphin, a company from Scotland that designs and manufactures junior golf sets, and will use Golphin’s proprietary mobile app – MyPathway2Golf to make learning fun.
For adults GEC offers personalised and group lessons with licensed coaches.
Since 2014, TTV has successfully completed over 50 indoor golf and sports installations across India and Sri Lanka and works with the hospitality, real estate, sports, corporate and armed forces industries amongst others.
