Your Garage Golf Bay — Prepared for Chris
Prepared for Chris · August 2026 · Updated with the final width verdict
Your 4m bay, specced end to end — with the straight answer on the driver.
Everything from our conversation is in here: the 4m partition so the storage (and the peace) survives, camera-based tech chosen for swing improvement rather than just fun rounds, flooring over the bare concrete, and the frame plan for your builder. We supply every component; your builder fits it. The headline: as an irons and wedges simulator this room is outstanding, and the kit lands well inside budget. The one thing 2.7m of width honestly cannot give you is a full driver swing indoors — the verdict and the maths are below, in full.
4m of sim, 2.4m of storage — the window stays safe
2.7m won't take a driver. We checked everything, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Your maths, confirmed
A driver swing needs ~2.25m from the ball to the wall behind your back. In 2.7m of width that forces the ball to ~45cm from the right wall — and with the screen's trim pad and bungees taking 15–20cm off that side, you'd have roughly 30cm of screen to hit into. Every simulation aim point lands in that corner; the natural response is pulling shots toward the big safe part of the screen. That's a bay that trains a fault.
We took it to our supplier's design team
Angled hitting lines, offset positions, software aim tricks — all of it was examined. Their verdict is the same as the geometry's: at 2.7m wide there is no workaround, apart from making the space larger. We'd rather tell you that plainly than sell you a compromise dressed as a solution.
What this room IS brilliant at
Everything from lob wedge to the long irons and hybrids — the clubs that actually build handicaps. Shorter clubs need less room behind you, so the ball moves toward the centre of the screen and the geometry problem dissolves. The camera launch monitors in this quote are at their absolute best with scoring clubs: spin, strike location, face data, wedge distance calibration. An irons-and-wedges sim used four nights a week beats a driver-capable one used twice a month — and your driver keeps its range sessions.
Your two honest paths
Path 1 — build the scoring-club sim (our recommendation): the quote below is unchanged; nothing in it is driver-specific. Path 2 — make the space larger: if a structural widening of the garage is ever on the table, indoor driver comes back on it — but that's a building conversation, not a simulator one. If an indoor driver swing is non-negotiable for you, say so and we'll tell you straight that this room can't deliver it — we'd rather lose the sale than build you a fault factory.
The build, validated line by line
We put the full specification through our supplier's engineering review, and it came back better: a tournament-grade screen, a 4K laser projector, a dedicated tee-insert winter mat, protection sized properly to your room — and GSPro course software included for year one. Everything below is shared by both options and none of it is driver-specific — the bay is built for the scoring clubs, and the launch monitor is the only decision left.
| Component | Price |
|---|---|
| Pro+ tournament impact screen — 2500mm × 2400mm the flagship screen grade, cut to your frame: pin-sharp 4K picture, whisper-quiet strike | £815.00 |
| Foam pelmet kit — 2700mm × 2500mm frames the full wall edge-to-edge, hides every fixing | £370.00 |
| Screen fixing bungees tensions the screen to your builder's timber frame | £19.99 |
| Foam bevelled protection tiles — 7 packs, 50cm × 50cm, run 2m deep walls and ceiling protected for the full 2m strike zone around the screen — skied wedges included | £980.00 |
| Nylon winter insert-tee hitting mat — 1.5m × 1.5m takes a real tee, built for daily indoor volume | £329.00 |
| Foam underlay — 3m × 4m cushions the whole bay over the bare concrete | £255.00 |
| Putting turf surround — 3m × 4m a real putting surface wall-to-wall around the hitting station | £432.00 |
| BenQ AK700ST 4K laser projector the step up from full HD — 4K on your new screen, laser-driven, no lamp changes | £2,374.00 |
| Projector ceiling mount fixes to a rafter, clear of the swing and the putting surface | £39.90 |
| Gaming PC — sim spec drives GSPro and the 4K projector; lives on a shelf at the bay | £1,790.00 |
| 4K HDMI cable full-bandwidth run from PC to projector | £29.99 |
| GSPro course software — year one included the realism benchmark: 200,000+ community-built courses, the software serious home simmers choose | £250.00 |
| Shared build total | £7,684.88 |
- Builder's scope (excluded): rafter change, 4m stud partition, screen-wall timber frame to our dimensions, power to the ceiling projector position and a double socket at the bay.
- One consolidated delivery to Epping; we brief your builder on frame dimensions and fixing points, and remote-guide the tech setup.
Two launch monitors, two complete builds — both well inside £20k
How to choose between them
Both are serious, accurate camera systems running the same GSPro software on the same 4K screen — you're choosing an experience, not a compromise. If the appeal of a completely clear floor and a built-in-from-day-one feel wins, it's the VX — and your rafter work makes the overhead install unusually straightforward. If you'd rather bank £3,241 against the building work and get impact-video replay of your strikes, the Eye Mini build is outstanding value. Either way the whole project — builder included — lands comfortably inside your number.
Next step: your builder's quote, then pick your build
Get your builder's price for the rafter, partition and frame, and put us in touch — we'll confirm frame dimensions and lock the order the same day. One delivery, builder fits, we guide the tech setup. From builder's nod to first round on GSPro is typically two to three weeks.