Golf Simulator FAQ

Most golfers want somewhere around ten feet to swing a driver freely, and nine is workable for a lot of people depending on height and swing plane. Below nine we look at your actual arc rather than a chart, because two golfers of the same height can need different clearances. In {city} we measure at the lowest obstruction in the room, since that is what the club will find.

Three dimensions, and we measure all of them at your {city} survey. Height at the lowest obstruction, width wall to wall at the hitting position so the club has room through impact and follow through, and depth from the screen back past your swing. Width is the one people forget. A household with both left and right handed players needs more of it than a single player build.

Yes, and across {county} it is one of the most common builds we do. Two things decide whether you will actually use it: temperature and floor. Insulate and add a heat source or the bay goes unused during {indoor}. And put a proper subfloor under the turf rather than laying it on the slab, because hitting off concrete is hard on wrists and elbows.

You need something between the turf and the concrete. A subfloor absorbs shock that a slab reflects straight back into your joints, and it lets us get the hitting surface level, which matters for accurate readings. This is the item people cut to save money and the one we are most often called back to {city} to fix.

A straightforward residential bay is usually a one to two day install once the room is ready. Rooms that need work first, like a duct reroute, added circuits or floor levelling, add time before we arrive rather than during. You get the sequence at quote stage so you know what has to happen and in what order.

It ranges widely, and the honest drivers are the launch monitor plus whatever your room needs before the bay goes in. Rather than quote a range that means nothing, we price your specific {city} room and itemise it so you can see where the money goes and what you could change. Quotes are free.

It will if you use it for practice rather than only for playing courses. Immediate ball data on every shot is the fastest feedback loop most amateurs will ever get. The {city} customers who improve are the ones doing gapping work and block practice through {indoor}. The ones who only play virtual rounds enjoy it and stay about the same.

Often yes. Retractable screens, turf that lives under a rug, and enclosures that fold back all exist for this. Plenty of our best {county} installs share a basement with a family room. Tell us at design stage and we build for dual use, which usually costs less than converting a room outright.

Plan for roughly the footprint of a large parking space per bay plus circulation, seating and service access. The number that catches {city} operators out is circulation, not the bay itself. If staff cannot pass behind a swinging club safely with a tray, the layout fails on a busy night regardless of how the maths looked on paper.

More than a home build. You are accommodating every swing that walks in rather than your own, including tall players with long drivers. We size to the worst case rather than the average, because a bay that only suits average golfers generates complaints and safety issues you cannot design out after opening in {city}.

The install itself is a matter of days per bay. The schedule is driven by what the room needs first: structure, power, sound treatment, egress changes. Most {county} projects run six to twelve weeks from site walk to opening. We sequence against your target date and tell you which items sit on the critical path.

Yes if you charge for play. Home licences generally do not permit commercial use and the exposure sits with the operator. We include commercial licensing in every {city} build and show the annual cost in the quote so it does not arrive as a surprise renewal in year two.

Treat screens, turf sections and projection as consumables with a replacement schedule. How fast they wear depends on your volume. We give you the intervals at quote stage and can hold spares, because the real cost of a worn screen is the revenue lost while a {city} bay sits offline waiting for one.

Public accommodations need to provide accessible access, and designing at least one bay for it from the start is both a legal requirement and much cheaper than remediating later. We build the accessible route into the {city} floor plan during design rather than treating it as an add on.

Most platforms offer some integration and the depth varies. Scope it during design, not after opening. A bay that does not talk to your booking system creates manual staff work every shift, and that cost is invisible in the equipment quote and very visible in your {city} labour line.