Blind Shot Social Club

Blind Shot Social Club occupies Garver Point on the near east side, next to the Garver Feed Mill redevelopment, and is a golf venue first: five Trackman simulators, memberships, lessons and leagues that run through the Wisconsin winter, with a full kitchen doing breakfast through dinner. It is women-owned, and one of the owners, Brent, also works as a firefighter. None of that would put it in a non-alcoholic guide. What does is that the bar has built the largest N/A programme in the state and treats it as permanent inventory.

The numbers, as reported by WMTV during Dry January 2026: eighteen non-alcoholic cocktails, five alcohol-free wines and seven non-alcoholic beers. For comparison, a bar in this guide with a genuinely good zero-proof list typically carries three or four named drinks. Eighteen means the non-drinker gets what the drinker gets — a menu to read and a decision to make, rather than the one thing the bartender knows how to make without alcohol. The James Bond Style is the build local coverage names: non-alcoholic botanical gin with an N/A coffee liqueur, which is a spirit-forward, bitter, adult drink rather than a sweet one.

The format matters as much as the menu. Golf simulators give an evening a spine that is not the bar — you are taking turns hitting into a screen, the round is the round of golf rather than of drinks, and nobody is counting what is in your glass. That is the same structural advantage arcade bars and comedy clubs have, and it is why this is the single easiest recommendation in Madison for a group where one person is not drinking. Hours are unusually generous for the city, from 9am at weekends and to midnight on Friday and Saturday. Table Wine and Herbiery are both a few minutes away in Schenk-Atwood.