(Image: Five Iron Golf)
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This is the final weekend to shop at the first and only Bogey Boys golf fashion store in the world. Macklemore, as planned, is shutting his Capitol Hill retail pop-up down after the weekend:
Our Capitol Hill Pop-Up’s final weekend is this weekend. If you haven’t had a chance to check out the space and @goosemageesvintage you have until this Sunday 3/13, we would love to see you. It has been a dream come true to spend the past 6 months in this beautiful space in the neighborhood I grew up in. We created a little world to celebrate the clothes we craft, the sport we love & the vintage that inspires it. Thank you to everyone who stopped by the store, came to a concert on the carpet, or participated in the putting contest on the turf where we raised funds for First Tee Seattle. We’re excited for what’s next ❤️⛳️
CHS reported here on the September opening of the fashion store, its downstairs Goose Magees Vintage Mall, and, yes, putting green in the space formerly home to an upscale fashion retailer next to Elliott Bay Book Company on 10th Ave. The lifespan of the “pop-up” was intended to last through the end of 2021, a spokesperson told CHS at the time, but apparently the concept got a few extra months in the space.
We’ve asked for an update on retail plans for the Macklemore-founded golf fashion operations but have not heard back. But that doesn’t mean you won’t see the rapper’s alter ego Ben Haggerty still swinging clubs in the neighborhood.
(Image: Five Iron Golf)
Wednesday, the newly opened Capitol Hill location of Five Iron Golf announced it was teaming up with Haggerty as a new co-owner and brand ambassador to promote the new virtual golf bar that is located just a chipshot away on 11th Ave:
Avid golfer and proud Seattleite Macklemore, whose real name is Ben Haggerty, inspired Five Iron Golf to open the Seattle location. Now, as brand ambassador and co-owner, Haggerty will further his goal of encouraging participation in the sport by making golf more accessible.
No financial terms of the deal were released but we’ve asked for more information about any financial stake Haggerty will take in the company.
CHS reported here on the mid-February debut of the new Five Iron, a 12,000-square-foot virtual golf bar with a dozen “custom-built” simulators “featuring multiple high-speed cameras to capture every angle of the golf swing,” and a restaurant and bar that promises “TVs at every turn.”
Five Iron says Haggerty will host a grand opening event at the 11th Ave venue on March 30th. We assume you’ll also be able to buy some Bogey Boy style before you play your first round.
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That guy is lame! He needs to shut his mouth on addiction until he gets a real one. Insulting to many.
So you’re the arbiter of what constitutes ‘real’ addiction? Enlighten us, what is a ‘real one’?
What a horrible, mean-spirited comment. I can’t imagine being so entitled and selfish that you get to judge someone’s addiction as authentic or not. Beyond shameful.
So sad that people can be as angry as you are. Truly. This should not upset you.
Helping gentrify the city he grew up in. ☹️
I don’t golf, but the “Capitol Hill Cool Kid” crowd’s knee-jerk reaction against anything related to golf is cringe.
Do you feel this way about disc golf, too? Or is it just that “the wrong sort of people” play traditional golf?
Using the term cringe, is now heavily used by the wrong people and already out of the cool person vernacular.
Wrong people? Who are these ‘wrong people’?
Nice try with the disc golf whataboutism, but unlike golf, disc golf doesn’t use up tons of resources (land, water), doesn’t pollute heavily (fertilizer), doesn’t act as an enormous tax break for already wealthy people (Broadmoor), and hasn’t traditionally been an exclusively rich, white, male activity that actively excluded everyone else (so weird that Macklemore likes golf now that he’s rich, right?). So, yeah, golf is cringe.
Must be sad living your life with so much resentment for those who don’t share your beliefs and pastimes.
None of what DD15 said was opinion based and every statement has empirical evidence backing it up. Looking down on an activity that has been traditionally sexist, racist, classist and bad for the environment is fine by me.
Many more people were having fun at Value Village prior to this mess being built. It went from an accessible space for everyone to a space solely for wealthy golfers, has nothing to do with being cool. Just like many other spaces popping up on Capitol Hill, solely for people with $$$ at this point.
Can we trade Macklemore to Denver too? Please.
No, face your biases and accept you judge people on surface based issues
Macklemore seems more like a Bay Area type to me.
and what’s a Bay Area type?
My brother was killed working on his house on capital hill last year. Our family never heard boo from him.
RIP BILL 2/24/2021
Why we have so many HATERS in Seattle, damn! No wonder no one wants to come here. It’s a damn golf bar in Cap Hill. Has NOTHING to do with a golf course. Paying $20 get a beer, burger and swing a club as hard as you can into a Virtual Screen. Sounds like a fun, inexpensive, accessible to EVERYONE type of family outing to me. Stop drinking Haterade Seattle… It’s going to be/already has been your downfall. Figure it out.