Nearly two hours of testimony in a packed municipal room preceded the Ship Bottom Land Use Board’s approval of a groundbreaking golf‑simulator proposal with curtailed hours and a denied BYOB request – a month after the applicant said alcohol wasn’t needed and then met the question of withdrawing the ask with a deafening silence last week.

“We’re not looking for a liquor license, not looking for BYOB,” Christine Mundy, the applicant, had said at the March land use board meeting, adding, “(We)…