Golf simulator software
Real courses, in your backyard, for $79.
Your launch monitor and a phone. That's the whole sim. Real courses, your own ball flight, a real scorecard. Pay once. No subscription, no gaming PC, nothing else to buy from us.
Not on the stores yet. Leave your email and you get one message when it is. That's the whole list.
What people said
We didn't write these.
Three guys came over and hit balls in the yard. This is what they said about it.
Yeah, it's a bit fugly, but it's the same experience as a Trackman simulator for less than the cost of 30 minutes on one.VinsonPlayed a round in the backyard
Holy shit, it's legit.RobPlayed 18 holes on a Thursday night
It's a great way to suck at golf in the backyard and not be intimidated.MatthewSaid the quiet part out loud
Straight up
What you're buying. And what you're not.
Most golf sim marketing is photos of rooms nobody has. Here's the real thing before you spend anything.
What it is
- Real courses. Built from public elevation and aerial data. The hole you play is the hole that's there.
- Your ball flight. Speed, launch, spin and spin axis come off your monitor. Skull one and it goes like a skull.
- Every shot kept. Carry, dispersion, strike, and the gaps between your clubs. Enough to find what's costing you.
- Rounds with your friends. Nine or eighteen, everybody on one card, and a screen the whole group can watch.
- A round on your own at ten at night. No tee time, nobody waiting on you, nobody watching you top one.
- Cheap, and outside. Yard, garage, driveway, under a string of lights.
What it is not
- Photoreal. Vinson called it a bit fugly and he's right. You can see the hole and read the ground. That's the bar we set.
- Immersive. No wraparound screen, no crowd noise, no cart girl. It's you, a net and a scorecard.
- A replacement for real golf. It's for the other six days.
- Proven on every launch monitor. We build and test on a Garmin R10. Others might already work and we want testers. The honest list is here.
- Finished. Courses are still going in. You'd be buying it early enough that what you say still changes it.
Screens
One phone runs it. Everything else in the house can watch.
There's a little web server in the app. Anything on your wifi can open the round. Nobody crowds around a six inch screen reading numbers upside down.
Phone one
The one that runs it
Talks to your launch monitor, plays the hole, feeds the projector. The only phone that has to be any good.
Your everyday phone.
Phone two
The putting camera
Clip an old phone to a tripod and point it at the mat. It calls your putts in or out. A buddy's phone works fine for the night.
That drawer phone with the cracked corner.
Anything else
The big screen
TV, tablet, smart projector, laptop. The full card, the last five shots and who hit them, and every number off the monitor.
Whatever is already on the wall.
Why it costs what it costs
Everything else wants a subscription and a gaming PC.
Nothing against the expensive stuff. If you've got a dedicated room and a real graphics card, go buy GSPro. It's great. Most of us have a yard and a net.
| Software | What it costs | What it runs on |
|---|---|---|
| Limestone Links | $79 once | Your phone. Android or iPhone. |
| GSPro | $250 / year | Windows gaming PC |
| E6 Connect | Subscription, or per course | Windows gaming PC |
| Awesome Golf | Subscription | Windows gaming PC |
| Garmin Home Tee Hero | About $100 / year | Phone or tablet |
Prices as published when this went up. They change. Go check them.
What it does
Built to make you better, not to look good in a screenshot.
Every one of these is here because somebody wanted it while standing on a mat in the dark.
Ball flight from your numbers
Speed, launch angle, spin and spin axis go in. A full trajectory comes out. Descent angle is calculated, not assumed, so a thin one runs and a high one stops.
Every shot you have ever hit
Carry, total, dispersion left and right, and where your gaps are. The stuff a range bucket never tells you because you never wrote it down.
Twenty real courses
Mapped from public elevation and aerial imagery. Real elevation, real green shapes, real trouble. Want one we don't have? Ask.
Putting on a spare phone
An old phone on a tripod watches the mat and calls the putt in or out. It tells you out loud where to set the ball so you never pick a phone up mid round.
Watch it on the TV
The app serves a page on your wifi. Open it on a TV, tablet or smart projector and everyone sees the card, the last five shots and all the numbers.
Rounds with your friends
Nine or eighteen, everybody on one card, proper notation. Circles for birdies, squares for bogeys, and a ridiculous flock of birds across the screen when somebody goes low.
The build
A whole setup for under $600.
A net in the backyard against a cedar fence. A second one angled over it so wedges don't sail out. A cheap projector throwing the hole onto the net, and string lights on a cable so you can hit after dark.
With a used R10 and our software it came to $591.39. Every part, every price, and why it's on the list.
| Garmin Approach R10Bought used. New is about $600. | $300.00 |
| Nets, lights, cable, projector, tripodSix items, all off the shelf. | $212.39 |
| Limestone LinksOnce. Not per year. | $79 |
| Total | $591.39 |
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