New Johnson County sports bar will have golf simulators loaded with 3,500 courses

AME Sports has picked Overland Park for its first AME Golf & Brew lounge.

The Minnesota retailer has operated a sports merchandise, autograph collectibles and memorabilia store in Oak Park Mall, at 95th Street and Quivira Road, for three years. Now it is taking the 3,800-square-foot former Microsoft Store space for an early September opening.

The venue will have an indoor patio in front — a place to watch mall shoppers — with a couple of TVs. Customers will enter the sports lounge through double barn doors. It will have a full bar, appetizers, multiple TVs turned to sports, and two full-size golf simulators. Some fans take the golf simulators so seriously, AME expects them to bring their own clubs.

Sports memorabilia on the walls will be available for purchase.

“You have the memorabilia, you have sports and you can swing sticks in the middle of a mall,” said Ryan Marshall, who owns the businesses with his wife, Jennifer. “It’s going to be cool to see people walking through the mall with golf clubs. There will be over 3,500 different courses.”

AME stands for “autographs and memorabilia experts.”

The couple may open additional lounges in the Kansas City metro. They also have two AME Sports shops in Minnesota.