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Moving golf simulation into the cloud [0].

Golf is one of the only sports that can be realistically simulated indoors.

Golf is also one of the only sports where even severe lag has no effect on the accuracy of the play - just the viewing experience. Unlike FPS games in the cloud which become unplayable with even modest lag.

The golf simulation technology landscape today is pre-cloud. People running their own gaming computers with complex lash ups of open source software to connect their launch monitors. All pretty prohibitive to the stereotypical older tech-averse golf player.

[0] https://golfsimcloud.com



Golf and downhill skiing were huge when I was a kid. I grew up golfing and downhill skiing.

Decades have gone by now. Who golfs? Who has downhill skis?


I think this very much is a personal perspective thing. Skiing is only increasing in popularity. Many ski resorts recording record high visitation this year. https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/29/national-ski-areas-record...


Golf has surged in popularity after covid, 20 year high rates of growth in every demographic.


> Who golfs? Who has downhill skis?

I imagine you could answer that question by going to a golf course or ski slope to see who's there.


Colorado resident, here. I'd say 95% of people I know do one or the other. Probably 50% of people I know do both.


Bought season passes for me and 3 of my kids this year, we’ll ski as much as possible. Have multiple pairs of skis myself. Resorts are always busy and 50/50 ski/snowboard.


Figuratively everyone skis in Seattle. Like, you need to reserve parking or get shuttled at Crystal these days it’s so busy.


your site flashes and loads content for like 10 seconds for me. the content just keeps moving up and down...


Is it possible you have first party cookies disabled? On your first visit we need to run some JS (apparently the only way to get the user timezone). We store that in your session and then redirect you so we can show availability in your timezone. If first party cookies are disabled then there will be no session and the page will loop. (Open to suggestions on better TZ handling - other than rewriting as an SPA :)


When you loop at least set a query string counter and stop after 3 times. You can then display a note to the user that they need to enable first party cookies.


The first time loading the page, the white bar holding the menu flashes 2cm lower then higher for a few seconds (as elements load). It doesn't flash afterwards. Consider moving something to the footer, so the user doesn't see the loading/flashing.


Many thanks for the input.


I do not have first party cookies disabled. I don't have any weird settings. Just basic android OOTB.




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