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Range Session
Nine shots. Pick your club, time the meter, stick it close. Real ball flight physics, real wind, and elevation that actually changes your carry. No download, no signup.
9 shots · closest to the target
Range Session
Real ball flight physics, wind, and elevation that changes your carry. Pick a club, time the meter, hit the rings.
Tap the screen or press Space to swing
Elevation is not decoration. Thin air means less drag, so the same swing carries further in Denver than it does in Boston. Change the city and watch the club distances update.
How To Actually Score Well
Three things decide your score, and only one of them is the swing meter. Club selection comes first. The yardage under each club updates with the elevation you pick, so read it before you swing rather than defaulting to driver. Overswinging is punished on purpose: the power bar keeps climbing past the mark, and pushing past it costs you distance the same way it does in real life.
The accuracy meter is where the points live. Dead centre starts the ball on line with no curve. Miss it and you get two penalties at once, because the face angle sends the ball offline and the tilted spin axis curves it further the same way. That is why a small miss looks fine at first and finishes forty feet from the pin.
The Physics Under It
Ball flight here is not a canned animation. Every shot integrates gravity, aerodynamic drag and Magnus lift from backspin, stepping forward two milliseconds at a time until the ball meets the ground. Drag and lift both scale with the spin ratio, which is why a wedge climbs steeply and drops short while a driver flattens out and runs.
Air density comes from the standard barometric approximation, so elevation feeds straight into the drag term. Swing the same driver in Boston at 141 feet and again in Denver at 5,280 and the model gives you about five percent more carry, roughly twelve yards.
Worth being straight about something. The common rule of thumb is two percent more carry per thousand feet, which would predict closer to eleven percent at Denver. This model is more conservative because thinner air cuts the lift holding the ball up as well as the drag slowing it down, and those two partly cancel. The rule of thumb is a useful shortcut for setting a simulator's altitude field. It is not physics, and the gap between the two is exactly the sort of thing a real launch monitor settles for your swing rather than an average one.
Why We Built It
Because the single most useful thing a simulator gives you is not virtual golf, it is knowing your carry numbers. Most amateurs have no idea what their 9 iron actually does, which costs more strokes than driver distance ever will. Play a few sessions here and the gapping idea stops being abstract.
Then, if you want the version that measures your real swing instead of a timing bar, send us your room dimensions and we will tell you what it would take.
Range Session Questions
Is the game free?
Yes, completely. No signup, no download, nothing to install. It runs in your browser on desktop and mobile, and your best scores are stored on your own device rather than on our servers.
Does the ball flight use real physics?
It does. Each shot integrates gravity, aerodynamic drag and Magnus lift from backspin in two millisecond steps until the ball lands, then adds roll based on descent angle and spin. It is the same set of forces a launch monitor models when it predicts your carry.
Why does changing the city change my distance?
Air density falls as elevation rises, which reduces drag on the ball. That is why the same swing carries further in Denver than in Boston. The game uses the standard barometric approximation, so the effect lands close to the rule of thumb of about two percent more carry per thousand feet.
How do I get a better score?
Pick the club whose yardage matches the target rather than defaulting to driver, stop the power meter just under the mark rather than at the very top, and treat the accuracy meter as the real test. A centre strike keeps the ball straight; a miss both pushes and curves it.
Does this play like a real golf simulator?
The ball physics behave similarly, but a real simulator measures your actual club and ball rather than a timing bar. The point of this game is the gapping idea: knowing what each club carries. That is the thing a real bay gives you, measured from your own swing.