TopGolf Falls & Injuries

When word spreads that TopGolf is considering opening in a community, the local businesses naturally ask, “Will this hurt us or help us?” Given that TopGolf has seized the TopBooze spot in most every location it has opened, local taverns and restaurants may have reason to worry that their business will suffer. But local Emergency Rooms and Urgent Care Clinics can probably rest assured at a new revenue stream: injured TopGolf customers.

The most common injuries, we think, are from mishit balls, ricocheting balls, swinging clubs, and lost clubs. And given TopGolf’s successful aspiration to be TopBooze in so many communities, and to encourage inexperienced golfers to take swings inside of an enclosed space, this isn’t surprising.

TopGolf has been fighting having to produce the reports of injuries to their customers, so our calculations are only based on the data we have. That data includes partial injury reports secured through litigation discovery, extrapolations as to the number of properties and quantity of customers they now have, and the inquiries we get from injured customers.

Those inquiries are notable because they include four categories of injured customers.

At least one instance of when TopGolf had claimed to have produced a full-set of reports for a certain location over a specified range of dates, but failed to include the report of a woman who lost her eye at that location during that time.