Move in St. Lou: Golf­ing

Do you en­joy golf­ing on a long eigh­teen-hole course? No? I don’t ei­ther, but I thor­oughly en­joyed my time at Golf Head­quar­ters. Golf Head­quar­ters, lo­cated in O’­Fal­lon, MO, is known for their eigh­teen-hole course, nine-hole course, dri­ving range, and mini golf course. They have any­thing and every­thing you need re­lated to golf. 

Pepe Her­nan­dez Sara­cho, a Maryville Uni­ver­sity ju­nior, vis­it­ing the course with me. He said, “The dri­ving range is well main­tained, and pric­ing was pretty cheap at around ten dol­lars for a medium bucket of around eighty balls.” 

I agree en­tirely with Pepe. The build­ing was nice, and so were the boxes we were dri­ving from on the range. We did­n’t rent one of the top-tracer boxes where you can play a vir­tual game of golf or just track your dis­tance, but the reg­u­lar boxes were just as well taken care of. The top-tracer boxes var­ied on price de­pend­ing on how long you played. For an hour, a box costs thirty dol­lars. In com­par­sion, just thirty min­utes was twenty-two dol­lars. The price range vastly dif­fered from other dri­ving ranges, such as Top Golf. Golf Head­quar­ters is a much more af­ford­able ver­sion of the same place.

One of my other friends, Osama Elkhal­i­fia, a sopho­more at Maryville Uni­ver­sity, of­ten vis­its the mini golf course at­tached. He said, “It’s not the best mini golf course around, but it’s a nice place to go get away from cam­pus. Few peo­ple visit, so you don’t have to wait on other groups of­ten.” 

Af­ter fin­ish­ing up at the dri­ving range, a few friends and I played mini golf on the course. All the holes were ba­sic, with­out props or ex­cit­ing twists. I was­n’t over-im­pressed with every­thing it had to of­fer. It was tech­ni­cally an eigh­teen-hole course, but con­struc­tion is be­ing done on a few holes. They also had a lit­tle pond of wa­ter flow­ing around the course. The pond was poorly taken care of and needed more wa­ter. On the plus side, since con­struc­tion was un­der­way, we were able to play for free.

Al­though I did­n’t love the mini golf course, the dri­ving range and the eigh­teen-hole course were kept up with and clean. They both ex­ceeded my ex­pec­ta­tions. As I men­tioned be­fore, the price of every­thing was very low and well within a col­lege stu­den­t’s bud­get. I en­cour­age every­one to visit Golf Head­quar­ters, lo­cated fif­teen min­utes from cam­pus. Even if you don’t want to play on the course, there are other op­tions for you to en­joy as well.

Thanks for fol­low­ing me through­out the se­mes­ter as I found unique ex­er­cise lo­ca­tions in St. Louis!

More in­for­ma­tion on Golf Head­quar­ters is avail­able in the link be­low.

https://​www.golf-head­quar­ters.com/