Big cities with few indoor golf venues

Why a big city can come up short

This list counts venues by the city in their mailing address. Three things can make a city look emptier than it is:

• Suburbs. A venue a mile outside city limits counts for its own town, not the big city next door. Check the state page for venues nearby.
• Postal names. Some big-city neighborhoods have their own postal names, so a venue there is counted under that name.
• Our bar for listing. We list a place only when it rents simulator bays or indoor hitting space to the public, with proof from its Google listing, reviews or website. A city may still have a bar, golf course or golf shop with a simulator that we don't list.

If you know an indoor golf venue we missed, email hello@indoorgolfcenters.net.

How we count

We take every incorporated US city with at least 100,000 residents in the US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 population estimates (July 1, 2024), then count the indoor golf venues in this directory whose mailing address names that city. That means incorporated cities and towns (Gilbert, Arizona, is legally a town), plus Honolulu, which the Census counts as a census-designated place. Townships, New England towns and other census-designated places are left out because their mailing addresses often use other names. Consolidated city-counties use the city part (Nashville, Louisville, Augusta and similar). We match common spellings, such as St. and Saint.

"Underserved" here means few listed venues for a city's size. It says nothing about how many people in the city play golf or would use a simulator. Data as of 2026-11-08. More on our method on the stats page.

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