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Ok, about to pull the trigger here. One thing I’m trying to dissect though is how wide is a typical swing. I will have to be off center, but either going to go overhead or radar so trying to solve for the floor since my space is 11’ and I want to do LH/RH (even if I have to be creative). Hoping someone has seen a study of the swing space and can help me out!!
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I have a similar width room at 128", so just shy of 11'. I have an overhead LM and hit 34" from the wall, am 6' tall, and can swing a driver without a problem. I have a Fiberbuilt 4x6' mat with hitting strips on both ends for lefties and righties. I plan to put the overhead LM on a motorized slide rail to move to the different hitting positions. -
Great! It looks like you have an Eye XO which is where I’m heading with the same idea but was going manual slide (until you said “motorized” haha). How is your floor setup? Will that change on your slide? At 34” it would seem you would stand on the LH hitting area?Comment
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The EYEXO is great! This is the Fiberbuilt mat I use.
I don't stand on the left hitting strip but close to it. Each hitting spot is 34" from the wall to the center of the hitting spot and 5' from right tee to left tee.
I don't expect any floor changes when I mount the EYEXO to the motorized slide. I haven't found a motorized slide product I can buy, so I'll have to build it myself. Right now, the Fiberbuilt just sits on the floor, but soon I will elevate the rest to make it all flush.Comment
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My sim is in the garage; 127" tall, 128" wide, and about 15' deep. I put my sim together a few months ago, kinda cheaply but am going to improve it soon. Here's a summary.
Screen:
Carl's preferred 10x10 hanging from 1" EMT conduit with bungees. I only attach the whole top and just the bottom corners of the screen, works well and balls pretty much just drop. This is temporary as I have storage behind the screen so I ordered the Stealth Retractable from Par2Pro, should get it in a few weeks. I also got their ceiling protection with it.
Sides:
12x15' canvas drop cloths as curtains. They hang from curtain rings on a 1" EMT conduit. They catch shanked shots really well but don't look as nice. I will be upgrading this to either acoustic foam panels or black curtains.
Floor:
I put down 1/2" thick carpet pad on the concrete and then just put cheap turf on top. As I mentioned previously, i'm gonna make the floor flush with the Fiberbuilt by using 1.5" thick foam pads and putting better quality turf on top of that.
Projector:
I had an old Epson 1080p projector that I wasn't using so I'm using that for my sim. It's only 2000 lumens and standard throw. Haha again, I will be upgrading this and researching these now. I'd like 4k but all the reasonable priced ones are DLP and if you have swing cameras, you can see the DLP flicker in the swing cam videos. But LCD projectors don't have this problem. But they're limited to 1920x1200 resolution and hard to find in short throw. I hit 11' from the screen and would like the projector to be right above or a foot or 2 in front so I can add more lighting for the swing cams without diluting the projector brightness. For my garage, I think 4000 lumens would be the minimum.
PC:
Bought a gaming desktop from Costco for $1k with a Nvidia 2060 super graphics card with 8gb of ram. Handles everything with no issues but it's not being pushed too hard with only running 1080p. I also have 2 27" monitors by my PC as well.Comment
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I can get hung up on the details as well but was under a time crunch to get my sim room functional which is why I just went cheap and could upgrade as I experimented with the sim and space. The narrow space is difficult but it works.
I think this has been a popular sub $1k projector for golf sims. Worth a look to see if it would work for you.
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