Hello Everyone. I've been lurking here for sometime and have posted a few times while I pondered building a sim. Recently my buddy sent me a link for Trugolf that is being sold by Costco. I have to admit I found it exciting, but after reading many posts and thinking about what I really want, that particular sim wasn't going to work and moving up is going to be WAY to much $$$. So now I come here looking for help/suggestions to make this happen.
Background. You guys are going to be very jealous. I have a HUGE building so I have almost no limit when it comes to size outside of budget. But wait. There's more. My wife is on board!! We were moving some stuff around and she actually said "This place needs a simulator AND a putting green!" Yep, I married a good one!
The building is a "pole barn". It was actually a pretty nice car museum. Heated and cooled with a full bathroom. The rear section where the sim will live is 36'x65'. The front section is 36'x45' with a loft above. The ceiling is 9ft at the wall and it rises up to probably 14'-16' at the peak in the middle.
While it sounds like nirvana, I do have a budget and want to get the most bang for the buck. This is essentially going to be a man cave at the cottage. Winters are long in Michigan and heading to the cottage with the boys for golf, cigars and bourbon sounds like a pretty good plan to me.
So after reading many posts, I still have a ton of questions. I think the cage and screen can be figured out pretty easily. What appealed to me about the Trugolf system was the complete package. No need to figure it all out. Just buy and assemble. But I see how much more that costs and realize that a 10' screen is going to seem pretty small in the space I have. So something in a 12-14' size from Allprosystems or Carls is probably the ticket. Turf and mat is pretty easy to figure out.
As far as launch monitor goes, I am thinking Skytrak for the first go at it. The price is certainly right and it seems to be fairly popular and accurate. What I don't know is how much computing power I need and how difficult it will be to integrate everything. I know it is naive to think everything will just work, but with my wife and kids (20's) using the system, I need something relatively idiot proof. Software seems to be moving to a subscription basis and I am ok with that. The sim we play now uses Trugolf with a Flightscope lm. It works fine until you get to the green. Then it struggles recognizing shots (misses a lot) and short chips sail over the green etc. Pretty useless. Is this pretty common across most platforms? Is one clearly superior?
The last big issue is with the projector. The ceiling is high and I'm not sure how I am going to hang a projector. I may need to put it on the floor under a box. Any benefit/drawback to either way? Obviously it makes putting hard, but I am not really a fan of putting anyway on a sim.
Sorry it rambles a bit. As you can tell, I have a lot of info bouncing around in my head. Guess I am looking for highs and lows of building a system piece by piece rather than buying a ready to go system.
Background. You guys are going to be very jealous. I have a HUGE building so I have almost no limit when it comes to size outside of budget. But wait. There's more. My wife is on board!! We were moving some stuff around and she actually said "This place needs a simulator AND a putting green!" Yep, I married a good one!
The building is a "pole barn". It was actually a pretty nice car museum. Heated and cooled with a full bathroom. The rear section where the sim will live is 36'x65'. The front section is 36'x45' with a loft above. The ceiling is 9ft at the wall and it rises up to probably 14'-16' at the peak in the middle.
While it sounds like nirvana, I do have a budget and want to get the most bang for the buck. This is essentially going to be a man cave at the cottage. Winters are long in Michigan and heading to the cottage with the boys for golf, cigars and bourbon sounds like a pretty good plan to me.
So after reading many posts, I still have a ton of questions. I think the cage and screen can be figured out pretty easily. What appealed to me about the Trugolf system was the complete package. No need to figure it all out. Just buy and assemble. But I see how much more that costs and realize that a 10' screen is going to seem pretty small in the space I have. So something in a 12-14' size from Allprosystems or Carls is probably the ticket. Turf and mat is pretty easy to figure out.
As far as launch monitor goes, I am thinking Skytrak for the first go at it. The price is certainly right and it seems to be fairly popular and accurate. What I don't know is how much computing power I need and how difficult it will be to integrate everything. I know it is naive to think everything will just work, but with my wife and kids (20's) using the system, I need something relatively idiot proof. Software seems to be moving to a subscription basis and I am ok with that. The sim we play now uses Trugolf with a Flightscope lm. It works fine until you get to the green. Then it struggles recognizing shots (misses a lot) and short chips sail over the green etc. Pretty useless. Is this pretty common across most platforms? Is one clearly superior?
The last big issue is with the projector. The ceiling is high and I'm not sure how I am going to hang a projector. I may need to put it on the floor under a box. Any benefit/drawback to either way? Obviously it makes putting hard, but I am not really a fan of putting anyway on a sim.
Sorry it rambles a bit. As you can tell, I have a lot of info bouncing around in my head. Guess I am looking for highs and lows of building a system piece by piece rather than buying a ready to go system.
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