Mexico – Golf POC

Remember it never rains in a simulator, an advantage that golf simulators have over the outdoor version of golf. Golf courses are always dependent upon the weather to cooperate and the day is done when the sun inevitably falls under the horizon. This is not the way it is on a simulator. Without the dependency on weather or daytime, you can develop more consistent schedules and extend billable hours while using a golf pro. With a golf simulator you can determine how late you want to remain open. If your business offers refreshments, you can anticipate people staying around longer, while they play several rounds or get a lesson after outdoor golf courses are closed.

The history behind golf simulators is important to know. Once used as a training tool, golf simulators were used by players as a convenient resource to receive teachings on their swing. This same training aspect is still the underlying benefit of most golf simulators. Yet, today as software and sensors progress and evolve, golf simulators are transforming into not only simply training gizmos, but sources of sports entertainment. Entertainment customers are willing to purchase. The key element to steering consumers to your golf simulator and thus greater revenues into your pocket is by knowing how to make use of its amenities.

Golfers often are looking to get better. A golf simulator can assist tremendously with this goal, by offering swing analysis, club fitting and the advantage of playing indoors year round. Do not disregard the countless number of golfers seeking to improve their technique. The best method to accomplish this is to work with or employ a golf pro. A golf pro can charge their client for time on the simulator while utilizing the cutting-edge training tools offered on almost all golf simulators available to purchase. Many golf professional are threatened by the simulators. They think it will steal their normal business clients. Actually, a golf simulator can assist a pro to better understand where the problem areas are with a client’s technique and in turn, make them a more beneficial teacher. In the mean time this will allow golf pros to work year round and charge the same if not more for an indoor session. What about club fitting? With most golf simulators, a pro is given the suggestions required to offer club fitting to your customers, thus increased sales to your pro shop.

Working together with a golf pro is the easiest way to earn revenues on your golf simulator. My advice is you should work with a golf pro to develop a program that offers both indoor and outdoor lessons to clients. Find pros at local courses and check what they’re charging for lessons. Then price your packages accordingly and competitively.

This can be a part of your simulator which can drive profits through repeat business. Offering your customers a true engaging experience will have them rushing back for more (and with their friends). Using your simulator to achieve entertainment is easy. From the comfort of your business, you are offering your customers the opportunity to play in the best golf courses from around the world. Players love trying out new courses; a golf simulator grants them the possibility to play a round in Georgia, the next round in Mexico, or where ever they choose to play from your course library. By marketing this feature and creating a buzz for your establishment, you may even establish different leagues, tournaments and contests, such as “longest drive” and “closest to the pin.”

These are easy ways to bring people to your simulator. Again this is a fantastic way to extend your hours. A two-some will golf a round of golf on a simulator in approximately an hour and fifteen minutes, so host a league night of eight players and you could have golfers at your establishment; eating, drinking, and playing golf, well into the late hours of the night, if you please.

My recommendation is survey your customers’ interest in specific events. Why stop your league by the end of summer, when it can continue throughout the fall and winter? Speak to your sponsors offer prizes for a “closest to the pin” contest or to the winner team of a tournament. Market the idea of being able to play a different golf course every week and include this into your leagues and tournaments. My suggestions is scheduling nine hole leagues that play no longer than eight weeks.

You can create more profits by using your golf simulator, working with a golf pro and setting up programs. One last thing: Market your programs! Let your current and potential customers know about your system and programs. This will greatly increase golfer participation and consumer awareness. These are simply suggestions and performance will vary on location, market competition and other factors. Please feel free to contact me through my website if you have any questions on generating revenues with your golf simulator.

If you come to Acapulco to play golf and are ever paired up with a local golfer or Mexican tourist, you may need to have a little background on Mexican golfers and the Spanish of golf. Here is some quick assistance.

First, Lorena Ochoa is Mexicos most noted golfer. In 2009 she was the number one-ranked female golfer in the world and a leader of the LPGA Tour. Lorena was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco in 1981. Many think that Lee Trevino (sometimes called Supermex by his fans) is Mexican, but that is only true by heritage. He was born in Dallas, and lives permanently in California. He has never lived in Mexico. Do not imagine that Chi Chi Rodriguez, Seve Ballesteros and Sergio Garcia are Mexican because they have Hispanic surnames. Chi Chi is Puerto Rican and the latter two are from Spain.

Second, there is some good news for English speakers about playing golf in Mexico: As golf was invented in Scotland, almost all of the terminology of golf is either in English or (archaically) in Scots Gaelic. (For example, niblick is derived from Scots nib for nose). Words like birdie and bogey came in from slang usage in the US and England. Thus, your Mexican golf partners will probably use the same terminology as you do most of the time. There are a few exceptions, of course, and you should be prepared for variations in the way the words are pronounced. For example, green will probably be pronounced more like gring and will rhyme with swing.

The club (the location) is a Club de Golf. The club (stick) itself is a palo or palo de golf. Woods are called maderas and irons are called hierros. (Don’t pronounce the “h” and do trill the two r’s, if you can.)Your wedge (sand, loft or pitching) is a cucharilla, which literally means a small spoon. The putter is a puter. (In Spanish this word has a comical and sometimes ironic similarity to a coarse word for prostitute.) All these clubs go into your golf bag, or bolsa de golf.

You may have a caddie to help you out on the course. He is called a caddie. Sometimes we use the more generic term, ayudante or helper. You may be riding around the course in a carrito, “carrillo” or carro de golf.

A golf ball is a bola, though every so often it is referred to ironically as a pelotita or little ball, particularly when it bounces in the wrong direction. (Pelota is usually reserved for inflatable balls and bola for hard spheres, but theres no strict rule.)

The course itself which you will call a course or links is a recorrido, which means something close to a round. You probably will hear the course called a campo or cancha, which are more informal usages.

The terms for handicap (for either a hole or a player) and scratch (i.e., a zero handicap player) are the same as in English, but you may hear golpes adjudicados or sin golpes adjudicados respectively. These are more like definitions than fixed terms.

The hole is a hoyo (which means hole in Mexican Spanish). Once you leave the salida or tee, you are, we hope, in the fairway, or calle. This is the same word as street in Spanish. If you missed the fairway, you are probably in the mato or matorral the rough. Your objective, of course, is the green (the same in Spanish as in English). Try to avoid the bunkers, which are called bunkers in Spanish, too, but are often referred to simply as arena sand. Any other hazard water or man-made obstacle is either a hzar or an obstculo.

A stroke is a golpe. A drive is a golpe largo. It is usually made from the salida the tee. (The actual ball support — not the starting point of a hole — is called a tee on Mexican courses.) Hooks (efecto a la izquierda) and Slices (efecto a la derecha) are usually called by their English terms or perhaps by appropriate, unprintable names, just as in the States.

The second shot from the fairway, is a golpe de aproximacin but often called un aproach. A pitch (short and high) is the same as in English (often pronounced peach). (In some Spanish-speaking countries (not Mexico) this word sounds coarse, and therefore may generate some chuckles.) A chip (usually pronounced cheap) is the same term as in English, but the verb for hitting a chip is chipear. “Patear” is used for putting, which is often written “put,” but pronounced more like “paht.” “Tirar al hoyo” is a more formal expression, and can cover puts as well as long, low chips.

Top spin is either some version of top spin or avance or efecto de avance. Back spin follows the same convention. In Spanish it might be called retroceso or efecto de retroceso.

To top a ball hit it on top so as to crease or cut it is topar. The swing itself is balanceo.

The types of golf competitions are much the same as in English, too, though some golfers will use Spanish versions like the following: A major tournament is sometimes called a gran premio. A master tournament is for pros only. Medal Play is a competition in which the lowest adjusted score wins. Match Play is a tourney in which the player winning the most holes takes first place. An open may be called a torneo abierto or torneo libre.

Good luck Buena suerte on you golf vacation in Acapulco.

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