Golden Rueckert created Ironwood Golf Sim and Sports Bar in Longmont to build the sort of community he loved being a part of.
As an avid golfer and a member of the local Fox Hill Club, he was ready to move in a new direction after he wound down a business producing spreadsheets and crunching data in the student loan market. He started thinking about the things he enjoyed.
“It was just time for something new, something fun, something where people get excited and that changes every day,” he said. He looked at the off-season at the club, when golfing, swimming and gathering with other members goes dormant. “When I was thinking about doing something like this, it’d be so great to replicate that communal feel, that engagement with people beyond Fox Hill, especially in the winter months.”…