Every Golf House Membership in Fairway Costs the Same Per Hour. The Tiers Sell Access.
Through Labor Day, the Pool House at 6136 Mission Road was where swimmers checked in for the summer. The Fairway Pool closed for the season on Monday, September 7. Five days later, the same building opened as The Golf House, Fairway's indoor golf simulator venue. Its own site says it runs "from Labor Day to Memorial Day."
The venue has two simulator bays. The Fall 2026 Focus on Fairway activity guide lists three membership tiers, and when you divide each monthly price by the bay-hours it includes, every tier comes out to the same hourly cost. The money you add from tier to tier doesn't make golf cheaper per hour. It gets you hours, earlier booking, and access to two bays that a whole city can reserve.
The city planned this one in public. Fairway's Parks & Recreation master plan, adopted November 10, 2025, called for a golf simulator in the Pool House "as a unique programming and rental asset." The city's 2027 draft budget summary lists $100,000 for golf simulators in 2026.
The build happened while the pool was still open. In August the pool cut back its schedule, and Midwest Golf Innovations, a Kansas City company that sells and installs golf simulators, was given the Pool House on the days the pool was closed, Monday through Thursday. The city's August parks report put it this way:
"Although it was a furious month getting the space to come together, we are finally ready to open The Golf House on September 12!"
That line is from the parks department's report in the September 14 City Council packet. According to the council minutes in that same packet, on August 26 the council held a special meeting and unanimously approved a cereal malt beverage license for The Golf House so the snack bar could serve beer before the ribbon cutting. The booking page says Fairway Parks & Recreation runs the venue.
According to the fall guide, all three tiers come with monthly credits for one-hour bay rentals, and each has a resident price and a non-resident price. Here's each tier with the cost per bay-hour worked out:
| Tier | Bay-hour credits per month | Fairway resident | Cost per bay-hour | Non-resident | Cost per bay-hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Par | 4 | $110 | $27.50 | $125 | $31.25 |
| Birdie | 8 | $220 | $27.50 | $250 | $31.25 |
| Eagle | 16 | $440 | $27.50 | $500 | $31.25 |
A Fairway resident pays $27.50 per bay-hour at every tier. A non-resident pays $31.25 at every tier. Each step up doubles both the price and the hours. The difference between Par and Eagle is a bigger monthly commitment, plus three benefits that grow with the tier.
All three tiers include a Golf House shirt. The venue's website lists the same 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. public hours every day of the week.
The pricing makes sense once you look at capacity. During public hours, two bays give The Golf House 22 bay-hours a day. Member-only hours run longer, from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m., so the bays can take up to 36 bay-hours a day. Most of the extra time falls in the early morning and late evening, which is when people with day jobs can play.
The demand is large, too. As of July 2, the city had sold 2,049 pool memberships for the 2026 season, and 14,812 visits had been logged at the pool that summer. The pool and the simulators sit in the same building and serve the same community, but the Pool House holds two bays, not a pool deck. One Eagle membership spoken for every month takes 16 bay-hours of the schedule before anyone else books.
That's why the tiers sell access. A non-member can book seven days ahead. Each tier gets a bigger head start on the same calendar. For someone who wants a Tuesday morning before work, a day's lead time may not matter. For a regular Saturday foursome, it could decide whether they play.
Reservations go through the online system, and full payment is due at booking. Walk-ins may be taken during business hours if a bay is open, but they aren't guaranteed. Sessions run at least an hour, and you can add time in 30-minute steps. The venue recommends four players per bay. Cancellations made less than 24 hours ahead don't get a refund or a credit, and no-shows are treated the same way.
Members aren't the only ones who can play. Bay rentals for non-members cost $35 an hour for one person, plus $5 for each guest, with a maximum of three guests. A full group of four pays $50 for the hour, or $12.50 each. That's the same $50 rate the venue's group page lists for a one-bay golf-only package.
Compare that with the membership price. A resident on the Par plan pays $27.50 per bay-hour, so a Par member who brings three friends spends less than the walk-up group, but only for four hours a month and only after committing $110. A group that plays a few times over the winter will likely do fine without a membership, as long as they book on time.
The other options:
Players must use clean clubs and the golf balls the facility provides.
The Golf House is the latest of several projects on the 62nd Street and Mission Road block meant to keep the site busy outside pool season. In its June 2026 report, published in a City Council packet, the parks department said the new Pool Pavilion and turf field had been "a huge hit" with campers during the first five weeks of summer camp. Staff turned on the irrigation sprinklers on hot afternoons to cool the turf. The 2027 draft budget summary lists $300,000 in 2025 for the camp shelter and turf, with additional 2026 money for the shelter.
Some of the plan is still waiting. The parks plan included tennis court resurfacing and possible shade structures as 2026 improvements. The fall newsletter says the city halted its planned capital projects after the only bid came in more than 25% over the engineers' estimates. The latest draft budget moves the $55,000 tennis shade structures from 2029 to 2032. The building itself has needs as well. In that same June report, the department said that the three rooftop HVAC units serving the Pool House and snack bar were "beginning to show their age," with repairs becoming more frequent heading into the first simulator season.
The other city-run site a few blocks away also has fall programming. The Shawnee Indian Mission, at 3403 W. 53rd Street, is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Its traveling exhibit "Trespassers Beware!" covers Fort Conley and the Wyandot women warriors and is on site through November 14. The Mission's Western Academy Series holds a program that day at 10 a.m.; the topic hasn't been announced. The order deadline for the Mission's wreath and greenery fundraiser was October 17. People who ordered can pick up starting Saturday, November 21, at 9 a.m., and must collect their orders by Sunday, November 28. Proceeds support Boy Scout troops and the Mission.
The fall guide says the date, location and fee for Fairway's Santa's Workshop will be posted by November 1. Until then, the 2025 dates on the city's site don't apply to this year. Golf House memberships and bay rentals are available at golffairway.org. The parks department can be reached at (913) 262-0350, ext. 3.
At The Gamble Group, we follow how Fairway uses its civic spaces, from the turf field at Neale Peterson Park to the Pool House's new winter season, because those details shape what a block feels like across all twelve months. If you'd like to talk through what's changing on your corner of northeast Johnson County, we'd be glad to sit down with you. Schedule a Consultation.
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