HERE<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s always something I\u2019ve wanted to do because I\u2019m a keen golfer,” Martyn told the Chronicle during an exclusive tour.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe built a man cave at our last house, but it was nowhere near big enough.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cInitially, I only built it for myself, and I knew I wanted to make it big enough for a golf simulator.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt took about six months to get it all sorted before we opened in November.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe only help we really had was with the electrics. Other than that, Siobhan and myself did most of it.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cTwo other boys came and helped me put the shell together.”\n<\/p>\n
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The Golf Cave (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n The facility also has an interactive dart board, a TV set up with various sports channels and soft and warm drinks available to purchase.\n<\/p>\n
\n At the moment, the Golf Cave can be booked for groups of up to four people for a maximum of four hours, but Martyn admits there may be scope to extend this in certain circumstances.\n<\/p>\n
\n The incredible technology has a real-life simulation of thousands of courses across the world, including the home of the Masters in Augusta.\n<\/p>\n
\n And there are also local favourites like Troon and Prestwick on the system.\n<\/p>\n
\n Martyn and Siobhan are both keen to ensure the cave is used by as wide a range of people as possible.\n<\/p>\n
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The Golf Cave (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
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The Golf Cave (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: \u201cInitially it just started with a few of my mates round playing and then they told other people and then word spread and I had people messaging asking if they could come and book it for an hour or two.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo that was when we got the idea to make it a booking system and use it as a business, because there\u2019s definitely nothing like this around here and it\u2019s perfect for golfers during the winter.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut we want to stress that it\u2019s not just for people who are keen golfers. You can come along with a few of your pals for an hour or two, have a few shots and a laugh and you don\u2019t need to travel for miles.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe know a lot of older people maybe loved golf, but can\u2019t get about the courses now.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe don\u2019t want them to be put off by the fact it\u2019s technology being used, so they can come along and see what it\u2019s like and see that it\u2019s not as scary as it looks.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOne of us tends to be here when it\u2019s new people coming along, just so we can show them how things work. But when it\u2019s faces we get to know, we\u2019re happy to effectively leave them to it.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe also want to open up the opportunities to young golfers who maybe haven\u2019t got the means to go and travel and play a course or have a membership.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nestled behind its Barrhill Road house, The Golf Cave is the creation of Martyn Paxton and partner, Siobhan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-421727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}