Full Swing Unveils Gaming Platform As Golf Sim Participation Surges

Full Swing has teamed with Evenplay on a brand new Skill Strike gaming platform for its indoor golf simulators that provides customers an opportunity to win actual cash in closest-to-the-pin competitions.

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Full Swing, the official licensed golf simulator of the PGA Tour, has launched a first-of-its-kind, skill-based gaming platform known as Skill Strike that delivers closest-to-the-pin competitions – and an opportunity to win actual cash – for golf simulator play.

Rather than competing in opposition to different golfers, nonetheless, the brand new function, which can be utilized in dwelling or industrial simulator areas, permits members to pay an entry charge, take a swing, and probably win cash by outperforming their anticipated shot-making talents. Essentially, gamers are competing in opposition to themselves and their algorithm-derived anticipated shot end result, so it ranges the enjoying subject between scratch gamers and less-experienced golfers.

“Skill Strike is an unprecedented shift in skill-based gaming,” mentioned Full Swing Chief Operating Officer Jason Fierro. “It essentially creates a real-time dynamic handicap for golfers of any skill level and allows them to win money so long as they perform above their personalized expected outcome.”

The Skill Strike platform is run by patented AI expertise from Evenplay that analyzes real-time monitoring information from Full Swing simulators and makes use of machine studying to calibrate every problem to a person’s talent degree.

Target sizes and distances (yardages) robotically regulate on each try, with tiered payouts relying on how shut a given shot lands to the opening. Players can win as much as eight occasions their entry charge, which vary from $3 to $20. There are additionally separate prizes obtainable for holes-in-one.

As for doable “sandbagging” on this planet of indoor golf simulators, the expertise appears to be like at key swing indicators and might acknowledge if a consumer has dramatically modified shot to shot. In phrases of building a baseline for efficiency, the AI can detect if swing mechanics are completely different from shot-to-shot and regulate the targets for subsequent photographs in an accelerated style.

“We built our AI specifically to solve a problem that’s plagued golf gaming forever: how do you make it fair and fun for everyone?” said Evenplay co-founder and CEO Bryan O’Reilly, whose Las Vegas-based company is pioneering skill-based gaming through AI. “Full Swing’s precision tracking data gives us the perfect foundation to create truly personalized challenges.”

Full Swing is without doubt one of the main simulator expertise firms within the golf business, with a presence in 3,000 industrial bays and partnerships with the PGA Tour in addition to the indoor TGL league.

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The Growing Golf Simulator Market

The rollout of Full Swing’s gamified expertise comes at a time when the golf simulator market continues to broaden quickly.

More than 8.1 million Americans used golf simulators in 2024, based on the National Golf Foundation, a 31% enhance over the earlier 12 months. Commercial simulator venues — together with each nationwide chains and impartial operators — have additionally exploded in quantity, with at the very least 1,500 locations now working nationwide, almost triple the full from 2022.

Full Swing, which is acknowledged by the NGF as one of many prime 100 companies within the golf business and is an official expertise accomplice of the TGL indoor league, has simulators in roughly 3,000 bays at industrial venues.

“In recent weeks, we’ve given several of Full Swing’s commercial partners a sneak preview of the technology,” mentioned Fierro. “All have been impressed by Skill Strike’s seamless integration into the simulator gameplay experience and believe it’s going to create a significant new revenue stream for their businesses, as it will increase the frequency of customer visits and also the time they spend onsite.”

Fierro added that extra integrations are on the way in which, together with the power to play in opposition to associates throughout simulator rounds and overlaying closest-to-the-pin challenges on well-known par 3 holes from all over the world.