Meghan: Happy Birthday Daddy! A Day at TopGolf

For Justin's birthday I wanted to take him to TopGolf. We've been wanting to try it out and what better occasion than a birthday?!

Gp Bailey, Gm Bailey, Nolan, Justin, Branson

Paul and cute Branson

TopGolf is kind of like a mix between a driving range and bowling alley. Each person has a player card that you swipe which inputs your name into the system. The names appear on a screen like bowling and when it's your turn you put your club over a sensor and a ball comes out. The picture below shows how the range is situated. There are basically 4 large colored circular nets, 2 smaller yellow ones, and 4 small red ones. Each circle has sections with netting to catch balls and each ball is chipped and synced to your card so the system can assign points to the correct player. There are probably 12 different types of games you can choose from. We played one game where you basically just see who can accumulate the most points by getting as many balls into the circles (and as close to the flag as possible). The other game gave you 5 chances to get as many balls in the red circles as possible, then you had 5 chances to get into the yellow, etc.

Justin (L), Doug (R)

Nolan wanted to get in on the action too! I gave him a few of my turns, but Paul was still recovering from his shoulder surgery and didn't want to swing too much so he gave Nolan lots of turns ♥

And guess what? I won all 3 games!

I'll admit it was very nerve-wracking having Nolan with us because to him it looked like a wide open space for him to run around, yet we had to confine him to a small area to keep him from getting hit with a club on someones back swing. So understandably it was hard for him to understand where he could and couldn't go. He did much better after a few walks and after we gave him a job to do. Nolan became the official ball-getter and he LOVED it!

After each swing he'd wait until the person said he could come get a ball, then he'd put the club over the sensor, watch for the ball to come out, put it on the tee for them, then run back to mommy, daddy, or whoever was in charge of him and wait for his next turn. It worked pretty well keeping him occupied and out of harms way. The only concern after that was getting him to only get ONE ball each turn ☺

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Since Justin's birthday was on a Tuesday we did some celebrating over the weekend as well. Dinner at OSF and Sunday dinner and grandma and grandpa Bailey's.