Afternoon Storm Season and Why Indoor Testing Holds Up

From late spring through early fall, the Gulf Coast runs on a fairly predictable pattern — clear mornings, building cloud cover by early afternoon, and a real chance of a thunderstorm rolling in sometime between two and five o'clock. Outdoor ranges lose bays to lightning holds constantly during that stretch, sometimes for twenty minutes, sometimes for the rest of the day.

What That Does to a Fitting Schedule

A club fitting isn't a quick nine holes you can pick back up tomorrow without losing anything. Stop mid-session for a lightning delay and you've lost your baseline — hands cool down, focus drifts, and the numbers from before the delay stop being a clean comparison to the numbers after it.

Why Indoor Removes the Variable Entirely

The capture room sits well back from any exterior glass, runs on its own climate system, and doesn't care what's building offshore. A session booked for 3pm in the middle of storm season runs exactly the same as a session booked for 10am in February — same length, same conditions, same honest read.

We haven't rescheduled a single session for weather since opening, which says less about luck and more about never letting the weather have a vote in the first place.

Outdoor Rounds Still Happen — On Our Schedule, Not the Sky's

Validation rounds against real courses still matter, and we still run them regularly. The difference is we pick the morning, check the forecast, and go when conditions are calm — instead of hoping a scheduled fitting session survives whatever the afternoon sky decides to do.