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Holden's Golf Sim Build (Garage) + Questions
Holden's Golf Sim Build (Garage) + Questions
First of all thanks to the wealth of knowledge on these forums, I have gone thru and read countless questions and problems solved.
I'm a pretty young golfer with a 20-25 handicap and this will be my first sim build. Im probably going to go with a ST(Skytrak) System to start with because up here in Canada there is rarely any stock and I can get my hands on one in about a month.
I'm going to be utilizing my 2nd empty garage space. Im lucky to have a very tall 12-13' garage but I build a Mezzanine to store some of my young kids junk etc. So I have full range to swing but am planning to put the hitting matt(screen) below. This leaves me with about 8' wide and either 7-8' tall. (Think I may take off the tracks for where the garage could open up into to give me ever more room/width so the tracks wont interfere.
From where I will be swinging from I could have anywhere from 8-12'feet. I don't want to stand too far back in case I get under some balls and pop em up too high.
My first thoughts to start today were to put in a quick and simple dricore sub-floor on the part of the garage I would be swinging from, both for accuracy for the ST and also for myself to feel like I have a good "range" ball lie. Not sure how important this is or not, or just buy a nice 6'x5 Matt to hit off of. So my thoughts were to build about 8feet wide by about 12-14 wide long if I went with dry-core first.
I'm going to budget about 5,000 Canadian dollars, roughly 3700US.
Budget ($5,000)----- ($ 1350 Remaining)
Subfloor $150 (If I head this way)
ST $2800 (Anyone Near TORONTO selling?? =D PM me)
Hitting Screen -Carl's Screen Maybe? 7.7Hx10W ($600)
https://www.carlofet.com/shop/golf-s...rd+Golf+Impact
Projector - Not really understanding it all, I think I want 4:3 Aspect, which is cheapest?
Hitting Mat -
Various netting/sheets -
Laptop/PC - Already own a high end gaming pc
Pics Below, Any thoughts or more info would be greatly appreciated.
Empty Garage (Sort of) Pre build)
First of all thanks to the wealth of knowledge on these forums, I have gone thru and read countless questions and problems solved.
I'm a pretty young golfer with a 20-25 handicap and this will be my first sim build. Im probably going to go with a ST(Skytrak) System to start with because up here in Canada there is rarely any stock and I can get my hands on one in about a month.
I'm going to be utilizing my 2nd empty garage space. Im lucky to have a very tall 12-13' garage but I build a Mezzanine to store some of my young kids junk etc. So I have full range to swing but am planning to put the hitting matt(screen) below. This leaves me with about 8' wide and either 7-8' tall. (Think I may take off the tracks for where the garage could open up into to give me ever more room/width so the tracks wont interfere.
From where I will be swinging from I could have anywhere from 8-12'feet. I don't want to stand too far back in case I get under some balls and pop em up too high.
My first thoughts to start today were to put in a quick and simple dricore sub-floor on the part of the garage I would be swinging from, both for accuracy for the ST and also for myself to feel like I have a good "range" ball lie. Not sure how important this is or not, or just buy a nice 6'x5 Matt to hit off of. So my thoughts were to build about 8feet wide by about 12-14 wide long if I went with dry-core first.
I'm going to budget about 5,000 Canadian dollars, roughly 3700US.
Budget ($5,000)----- ($ 1350 Remaining)
Subfloor $150 (If I head this way)
ST $2800 (Anyone Near TORONTO selling?? =D PM me)
Hitting Screen -Carl's Screen Maybe? 7.7Hx10W ($600)
https://www.carlofet.com/shop/golf-s...rd+Golf+Impact
Projector - Not really understanding it all, I think I want 4:3 Aspect, which is cheapest?
Hitting Mat -
Various netting/sheets -
Laptop/PC - Already own a high end gaming pc
Pics Below, Any thoughts or more info would be greatly appreciated.
Empty Garage (Sort of) Pre build)