Frisco sits less than two miles from the PGA of America headquarters. The city has five professional sports teams, a population that’s grown 500% in two decades, and one of the highest median household incomes in Texas. People here have options, and they’re picky about how they spend their time.
So women in Frisco aren’t waiting around for a Saturday morning tee time to try golf. They’re walking into a simulator bay on a weeknight, ordering something off the menu, and figuring out the game at their own pace.
That pattern holds nationally. The National Golf Foundation reports that women now make up 28% of on-course golfers in the U.S., the highest percentage ever recorded. Nearly 7.9 million women played on a course in 2024, an all-time high. But here’s the more telling number: women make up 43% of Americans who only play golf off-course, at places like simulator facilities, entertainment venues, and driving ranges.
Indoor golf is where women are choosing to start. The practical reasons are hard to argue with.
Traditional Golf Wasn’t Built for How Most Women Want to Learn
The barrier has never been athletic ability. It’s logistics.
A round of golf takes four to five hours. You need equipment, a basic understanding of course etiquette, and enough confidence to swing in front of strangers. For a woman managing a career, a household, or both, that’s a steep ask just to find out whether she even likes the sport.
Layer on the social pressure. The NGF’s own research shows that women who didn’t stick with golf rated their introduction as “low-fun” at nearly three times the rate of women who stayed with the game. The environment matters as much as the instruction. If the first experience feels stressful, there usually isn’t a second one.
Driving ranges don’t solve the problem either. Hitting balls into an open field with no feedback on what went right or wrong is exercise, not learning.
What a Simulator Actually Gives You That a Course Can’t
A golf simulator is a controlled environment with real-time data on every shot. That combination makes it a better starting point than a course or a range, especially for someone picking up a club for the first time.
At X-Golf Frisco, each bay tracks club head speed, ball speed, launch angle, spin rate, carry distance, and club path. After every swing, you can see exactly what happened and why. That feedback loop compresses weeks of trial-and-error on a driving range into a single session.
You also control the pace entirely. There’s no group behind you. There’s no clock running on your round unless you set one. You can hit the same shot ten times in a row, or switch clubs between swings to feel the difference. The simulator adjusts to how you want to practice.
For women who learn methodically, that structure matters. Every rep has data behind it, so skill builds faster than guessing your way through a bucket of range balls ever could.
The Time Math Works Better Indoors
Frisco’s professional demographic skews toward households where both adults work. The median household income here tops $150,000, and more than 67% of adults hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. These are busy people. Time is the scarcest resource.
A simulator session at X-Golf Frisco runs about an hour. You can book it online, show up on Preston Road, walk straight to your bay, and be swinging within minutes. Compare that to the half-day commitment of a full round, or the 45-minute drive to a course that actually has an open tee time.
A simulator session fits into the schedule you already have. You don’t have to rearrange your week around golf.
You Don’t Need Equipment, Experience, or a Playing Partner
One of the bigger misconceptions about golf is that you need a bag of clubs before you can start. You don’t. X-Golf Frisco has clubs available for use in the bays. Walk in with comfortable shoes and you’re set.
You also don’t need to know anything about the game. The simulator interface walks you through setup. The staff can explain anything that’s unclear. And if you want structured instruction, X-Golf Frisco offers golf lessons that pair professional coaching with the same launch monitor data you’d use in a session on your own.
Coming alone is fine, too. Plenty of women book solo sessions to practice at their own speed before bringing friends into the mix. There’s no minimum group size and no social expectation. You can make it as quiet or as social as you want.
The Social Side Catches Up Fast
Frisco has a deep bench of women’s organizations. The Frisco Women’s League has over 250 members. The Chamber of Commerce runs Women Enhancing Business for female professionals. Groups like Frisco Women build friendships across the north Dallas suburbs.
What these groups have in common is that they bring women together around a shared activity. Indoor golf fits that naturally. A bay holds up to six players, the food and drink menu turns it into a full night out, and the competitive format keeps everyone engaged without requiring anyone to be good.
That combination is why group bookings from women’s organizations, corporate teams, and friend groups keep growing. It works as a happy hour alternative, a team-building event, or just a Tuesday night that beats the usual options.
Women who want to take it further can join a league at X-Golf Frisco. Leagues run on a regular schedule with a set group, which solves the playing partner problem and builds the kind of consistency that actually improves your game.
The Data Supports What We See in the Bays
The NGF reports that women have accounted for roughly 60% of the net gain in on-course golfers since 2019. More than half of that growth has come from women under 30. The numbers have been steady for five years, and the demographics behind them suggest they’re permanent.
The pattern the research describes is straightforward: women start off-course, build comfort and basic skill, then transition to traditional golf when they’re ready. The NGF specifically names simulator facilities like X-Golf as part of the off-course category feeding this pipeline.
Indoor golf created a path to the course that didn’t exist ten years ago.
What Your First Visit Looks Like
X-Golf Frisco is on Preston Road, just south of Lebanon Road. You’ll walk into a space that feels like a sports lounge, with a front desk, a full menu, and a row of private simulator bays. Each bay has a wide impact screen, overhead and floor-level sensors tracking your shot data, and a library of 52 world-famous courses including Pebble Beach, St Andrews, and Bay Hill. You’ll use real clubs and hit real golf balls. The simulator reads the shot and displays it on screen with full ball flight, distance, and terrain response.
Most first-timers spend the opening few swings just getting comfortable. By the fifth or sixth hole, the competitive instincts kick in and the group gets loud. That’s the normal progression.
There’s no dress code and no etiquette quiz. Just show up and swing.
Start on Your Terms
The best time to try golf is whenever it fits your life. For most women in Frisco, that’s a weeknight after work or a weekend afternoon between other plans. Simulators make that possible.
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