A winter home for Long Island golfers
Championship courses, real ball data and a league with standings, all winter. Golf bays built for the months Long Island courses are closed.
Long Island golf has a problem it cannot fix: November. The courses close, the clubs go in the garage, and by March the swing that was finally coming together has gone back to wherever swings go. The golf bays at Overtime Arena exist for that gap.
The course is the course
HD Golf builds its championship courses as 3D models from real-world data, so the hole on the screen is the hole they play, with the same slopes and the same water you would rather not think about. Play nine or eighteen, pick the tees that suit you, and keep a card.
The data is real
The bays use computer vision cameras to read ball speed, spin and how the clubface met the ball, including the face angle. That is the information a lesson is built on, and the range mode gives it to you on every swing: carry, launch, spin and dispersion. Grind on your wedges for an hour and you will leave knowing exactly what they do.
Bring your own clubs, or not
Serious players bring their own bag. First-timers borrow ours. Either way the bay adapts, because the player settings in HD SportSuite adjust to the person swinging, so a couple on a first date and a foursome of single-digit handicaps get the same screen and a different game.
The league
Our Winter Golf League is planned as teams of two playing a weekly round on famous courses, with handicaps so every level can compete, season standings and a playoff night. Registration opens with the arena. If you run a league already, bring it; we will host it.
And because the bay is a multi-sport bay, the group that came for golf can finish the night with a hockey shootout or a frame of bowling on the same screen, which is not something the course can offer in July either.
