Danny Picard scored an ace today when the Boston Licensing Board today approved his plans to buy a beer and wine license for the underground collection of golf simulators he's planning to open underneath the CVS at 417 West Broadway at F Street in South Boston.
At a hearing yesterday, Picard's attorney, Nick Zozula, said Picard is planning on running his Broadway Golf Club like a regular golf club when it opens this fall, only with six separate simulated courses, but, of course, with a 30-seat "19th-hole" style lounge to keep hard-driving ball thwackers lubricated before, during and after their rounds.
"Whether you're playing well or poorly, people like to have an adult beverage when you're doing it," Zozula said.
Zozula said that in order to take the walk downstairs, people will first have to sign up for "tee times" - there will be no bar crawling allowed.
"The only reason you're going to be there is golfing or before or after golf," he said.
At today's vote, board Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce rejected arguments from some in the area that the club would actually be just another bar, on a street already full of them. She said Picard and Zozula proved the liquor license would be used to provide an amenity to people there to actually simu-golf, rather than just there to score some Heinies. At the hearing, Zozula said club workers workers would be able to easily peer into the six walled off areas with the simulators to ensure nobody is getting out of hand, and that before that, they would carefully check IDs to ensure no precocious golfers get served alcohol.