Golf Simulator & Launch Monitor Blog
What to Buy First for a Golf Simulator, and In What Order
The most common expensive mistake in home golf simulation is buying the launch monitor first. It feels like the right first purchase because it is the exciting one, the component with the reviews and the rivalries. But the launch monitor...
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Garage Golf Simulator Build: A Full Parts List for One Bay
More home golf simulators end up in garages than anywhere else, and for a simple reason: the garage is usually the only room in the house with enough depth to swing a driver and take a full ball flight reading. A standard single bay, roughly 10 to 12 feet wide...
Low Ceiling Golf Simulator Builds for 8 and 9 Foot Rooms
Budget is a negotiable constraint. Ceiling height is not. You can save another year for a better launch monitor, but no amount of money adds twelve inches above your head, and the equipment list for an 8-foot room is genuinely different from the list for a 9-foot room. This guide...
Complete Golf Simulator Builds by Budget: $5K, $10K, $20K
Ask what a golf simulator costs and you get component reviews: this launch monitor versus that one, this projector versus that one. The real question is what a complete, working setup costs, and the honest answer is that we can build a good one at $5,000, a serious one at...
Will a Golf Simulator Fit Your Room? A Full-Setup Fit Check
Most golf simulator sizing guides answer the wrong question. They tell you what screen fits, or what projector fits, or how much room one launch monitor needs. Nobody buys a screen. You buy a complete setup, and the whole thing has to fit at once: the screen against the wall,...