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Buying guides

Longer-form guides for the decisions that come before a purchase: what a home simulator actually needs, and whether your room can fit one.

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How to Build a Home Golf Simulator

Four decisions determine whether a home simulator works: your room, your launch monitor, your budget, and whether the pieces you buy actually fit together.

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How Much Room You Need for a Golf Simulator

Ceiling height, swing clearance, and how much runway your launch monitor needs decide whether a space works, not a single universal number.

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How to Choose a Golf Launch Monitor

A launch monitor is the most expensive single decision in a simulator build, and the hardest to reverse. Here is what actually determines which one fits you.

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How Much a Home Golf Simulator Actually Costs

Real prices for the 9 launch monitors in my catalog, plus honest ranges for everything else a full setup needs.

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How to Choose a Golf Simulator Screen and Projector

The screen and the projector are bought together and have to work together. Here's what actually determines whether they will.

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Best Golf Simulator Launch Monitors

Which launch monitor to buy depends on your room, your budget, and whether you want ball data or full club data, more than it depends on any single spec.

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Best Budget Golf Launch Monitors

A cheap launch monitor is only worth buying if it measures the handful of numbers you actually care about consistently, not if it just measures the most numbers on paper.

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Best Golf Simulator Projectors

A golf simulator projector lives or dies on throw distance and room darkness, not on resolution, and picking the wrong throw distance for your room is the single most common mistake.