4K impact screen · 2.3 × 2.575mthe widest screen that fits inside the trim on your 2.7m end wall
· Proposal for Mark
Prepared for Mark · October 2026
Garden building · screen on the wall · Garmin R50
You asked if you can make it work. Yes, with a screen on the wall, not an enclosure.
At 2.7m wide, the room is too narrow for an enclosure, but a wall-mounted screen fits, and the R50 plays Augusta and thousands of other courses with no PC. Here's the room as an irons-and-wedges simulator, drawn to your measurements, with the rubber floor, the optional putting green, speakers, and every cost on the table.
That's the R50 room I'd build, ready-filled. Each option below has its own basket.
Your room: 2.7 × 5.0m, drawn to scale
Every cost shown
Down to the HDMI cable
Fits 2.7m
Screen on a timber frame, no enclosure
No PC needed
Home Tee Hero runs on the R50
~5 working days
From order, timed around your diary
Your space
Your room: a wall screen for irons and wedges
Drawn to your measurements: 2.7m wide, 5.0m long, 3.1m high over the hitting area and 2.4m at the wall.
Width
2.7m: irons and wedges, not driver Our smallest enclosure is 2.7m wide on the outside and needs about 10cm clear each side, so a screen on the wall is the way to do it. With the R50 0.5m from the ball, the ball sits about 0.75m off the right-hand wall, leaving 1.95m behind your back. A full driver swing needs about 2.25m, so it's 30cm short. To be honest, I'd keep driver for the range.
Ceiling
3.1m over the hitting area That's plenty over where you stand. It drops to 2.4m at the walls, so check the follow-through with a slow swing before the frame goes up.
Length
5.0m works well The ball sits 2.5m from the screen, which leaves 2.5m behind it for a bench or a club rack. The R50 needs nothing behind the tee.
Aim
Right of centre With the ball offset, your target line meets the screen right of its middle. That's normal in a narrow room, and you'll quickly get used to picking a target on the screen.
Your room in 3D — tap any item for details
A to-scale render of your room: 2.7 × 5.0m, the screen on the end wall, foam tiles on the walls and ceiling, the R50 0.5m from the ball and the projector overhead. The render draws a flat 3.1m ceiling; yours slopes to 2.4m at the walls. Every dot opens the product and its price.
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Bevelled wall & ceiling foam tiles
4 packs · 20m² — both side walls and the sloped ceiling, from the screen back to the tee
£960.00
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SimSpace Platinum 4K impact screen
2.3 × 2.575m, hung on your builder's timber frame with bungees
£399.99
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BenQ AH500ST short-throw laser projector
4,000 lumens · ceiling mount +£39.99
£1,780.00
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Garmin Approach R50
Opposite you, across the ball, about 0.5m from it. No PC needed
£3,879.00
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Tee-turf hitting mat, 1.5 × 1.5m
Right of centre, so your back has the most room
£289.99
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Premium putting turf (optional)
2.7 × 4m over the rubber floor, from the screen back
£345.60
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Impact screen foam pelmet kit
The padded black border that frames the screen and covers its fixings
£340.00
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Your complete R50 room
Every part itemised in the tables below, cabling included
£7,718.96
How the screen goes up
Screen frame: timber and bungees, built by your builder
Without an enclosure, the screen hangs on a simple timber frame, which is how most custom rooms are built. It's a straightforward job for a builder or a handy joiner.
- A timber frame across the end wall, fixed to the walls and ceiling joists, about 2.4m wide inside so the 2.3m screen fits with its fixings.
- Leave 150–200mm behind the screen so it can give when a ball lands. A screen tight to the brick will bounce balls back.
- The screen hangs from the frame on bungee cords through its eyelets. I'll confirm the bungees and the final screen size with our supplier before you order.
- The foam pelmet covers the frame edges and fixings, so it looks finished and edge-shots land on foam.
- A fixing point in the ceiling about 1.2–1.4m from the screen for the projector (I'll confirm the exact point), a double socket near it, and a cable route back to the R50.
- The end wall shape: if your roof slopes down towards the end wall, the screen may need to be a custom size. Send me a photo of that wall and I'll check it.
This is a draft specification
Because this is a custom room and not a standard enclosure, I'll have the screen size, the frame and the bungees checked by our supplier against your finished room before anything is ordered. The prices are live. The sizes are the part I'll confirm with you.
Included in both rooms
The same kit in both rooms
Both options below are the complete room: impact screen and foam pelmet, padded walls and ceiling, hitting mat, ceiling mount and cabling. Only the projector changes.
Foam pelmet kitthe padded black border that frames the screen and covers its fixings
Wall & ceiling foam tilesbevelled 1.0 × 0.5m tiles on both side walls and the sloped ceiling, 2.5m deep
Hitting mat · 1.5 × 1.5msits right of centre, so your back has the most room
Projector ceiling mountfixes the projector overhead, clear of your swing
4K/8K HDMI 2.1 cable, 10mone run from the R50 up to the projector
The decision
Two complete rooms, both with the R50
The room and the launch monitor are the same. The choice is the projector.
9/ 10 · Which one I'd build
The R50 Room
Garmin Approach R50 · £3,879.00
No PC to buy or manage: Home Tee Hero runs on the R50 itself and goes straight to the projector over HDMI
Sits on the floor 0.5m from the ball, facing you, so it needs no space behind the tee
Augusta National, Pebble Beach and TPC Sawgrass are among its higher-detail courses
BenQ laser projector at 4,000 lumens, built for golf, with a short throw that suits a 5m room
Complete room, itemised
£7,718.96
screen + pelmet + padded walls and ceiling + mat + BenQ projector + mount + R50
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8/ 10 · Same room, lower cost
The R50 Room, Optoma projector
Garmin Approach R50 · £3,879.00
Identical room and launch monitor. Only the projector changes
Optoma laser projector at 3,600 lumens, with no lamps to replace
The trade-off: it isn't a golf-tuned projector, and the picture is a step down from the BenQ
Saves £780.01 against the BenQ room
Complete room, itemised
£6,938.95
screen + pelmet + padded walls and ceiling + mat + Optoma projector + mount + R50
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Why I'd build the R50 room with the BenQ
The R50 suits this room. It sits beside the ball, so none of your length is lost behind the tee, and it runs Home Tee Hero itself, so there's no computer to buy or house.
The trade-off: Home Tee Hero's graphics are more game-like than GSPro on a gaming PC. If that matters to you later, the R50 also runs GSPro through a PC, so nothing is closed off.
On the projector, I'd spend the extra on the BenQ. It's tuned for golf, and its short throw puts a full picture on the screen from about 1.2m away, which suits your room.
What I've assumed
The room is drawn for a right-handed golfer and designed around 2.7m wide, please confirm the finished width once the walls are boarded.
No gaming PC needed: the R50 runs Home Tee Hero itself, straight to the projector.
We haven't talked budget yet, so optional extras are priced separately: the putting turf, the floor and the speakers.
The floor
Rubber flooring, with putting turf as an option
You asked for rubber flooring across the room. It's the right call: it takes the impact, quietens the room and gives you a stable stance. We don't sell rubber flooring, so here's what to look for.
- Interlocking rubber tiles, 15–20mm thick, across the whole 2.7 × 5m floor (13.5m²). Gym-flooring suppliers sell them in 1m or 500mm squares.
- The hitting mat and the R50 sit directly on top. Keep the R50 level with the mat.
- If you'd rather order the floor with the rest of the kit, our 20mm EVA foam underlay covers the whole room for £255.00. It's softer than rubber and wears faster, so rubber is still my first choice.
Putting turf, as an option on top. A 3 × 4m piece of our premium putting turf, trimmed to 2.7 × 4m, covers the front of the room from the screen back. It lays straight onto the rubber floor, and the hitting mat sits on it.
- Putting turf on its own: £345.60.
- The R50 room with the turf added: £8,064.56.
- The R50 reads putts too, so you can putt out on Home Tee Hero.
The courses · Home Tee Hero, built into the R50
Courses: yes, you can play Augusta.
Home Tee Hero comes on the R50 and plays on its own 10" screen or on your projector over HDMI. It has more than 43,000 courses from Garmin's worldwide course maps. Fifteen have been rebuilt in higher detail with mapped green contours, and Augusta National is one of them, along with Pebble Beach, TPC Sawgrass and Pinehurst No. 2.
43,000+courses on Home Tee Hero
Augusta NationalGeorgia, USA · enhanced course
Pebble BeachCalifornia, USA · enhanced course
TPC SawgrassFlorida, USA · enhanced course
Pinehurst No. 2North Carolina, USA · enhanced course
Play
- Full rounds, stroke play
- Up to 4 players
- Weekly online tournament
- Replay any hole as practice
Your settings
- Putting on or off
- Gimme distance
- Green speed
- Wind and weather
On screen
- Hole on the projector
- Shot data on the R50
- Impact video of each strike
Worth knowing
- Game-style graphics, not photo-real
- Augusta's layout, not official Masters branding
- Course play needs the membership
Course play needs a Garmin Golf membership, about £8.99 a month or £89.99 a year. The practice range works without one. The R50 also connects to GSPro, E6 Connect and Awesome Golf, which run on a separate PC or tablet with their own subscriptions.
Swinging freely indoors
Swing freely: avoiding indoor swing syndrome
Plenty of golfers swing shorter and slower indoors without realising, because part of them is worried about the walls and the ceiling. It costs speed and distance, tightens the grip and can flatten the swing. In a narrow room it's worth planning for, so here's how this room is set up to avoid it.
How the room helps
Height where it matters. 3.1m over the hitting area gives your swing room at the top.
Foam on everything you might touch. Both side walls and the sloped ceiling are padded for the first 2.5m, so a clipped wall is a thud, not damage. Knowing that takes the fear out of it.
The right clubs for the room. Irons and wedges fit this room with room to spare. Keeping driver for the range means you never have to hold back.
Before the frame goes up
Do the swing test. Stand where the ball will be, 0.75m off the right-hand wall and 2.5m from the end wall, and make slow swings with your longest iron. Watch the backswing and the follow-through near the 2.4m wall height.
Build up gradually. Start with wedges, then work up the bag.
Keep checking. Film your swing indoors and outdoors now and then and compare them. A few range sessions keep your full swing in shape.
Mats are more forgiving than grass, so a slightly heavy strike can go unpunished. The tee-turf mat here gives truer feedback than a basic mat, and the R50's impact video shows you exactly where you struck it.
Music in the room
Music speakers: what suits a sim room
We don't sell speakers, but here's what works in a sim room. The R50 sends picture and sound to the projector over HDMI, and the BenQ has a 3.5mm audio output, so wired powered speakers plug straight in.
- Wired beats Bluetooth for the sim. Bluetooth can put a noticeable delay between the strike and the sound. Wired has none. You can still stream music to the speakers over Bluetooth when you're not playing.
- Keep them out of the ball's path. With no enclosure, don't put speakers on the side walls near the hitting area. High in the corners behind the screen, or up on the back wall behind you, both work well.
- Around £100–£150: a pair of Edifier R1280DB powered bookshelf speakers. Bluetooth and wired inputs, and plenty for a room this size.
- Around £350–£400: Edifier S2000MKIII. A big step up for music, with wired and low-latency Bluetooth inputs. A pair of Sonos Era 100 also works if you already use Sonos, but needs an adapter for the wired input.
- The room helps too. The rubber floor and foam tiles take a lot of the echo out of a brick building.
Prices are approximate, from UK retailers in October 2026.
Your questions, answered
Worth knowing before you decide
What exactly is included?
Each room is complete: the 2.3 × 2.575m 4K impact screen and its foam pelmet, bevelled foam tiles for both side walls and the sloped ceiling, the hitting mat, a ceiling-mounted projector with its mount, and a 10m HDMI lead, plus the R50. The R50 needs no computer. Not included: the timber frame and its fitting (your builder), the bungee cords (confirmed with the screen before you order), rubber flooring and speakers (see the sections above), and the optional putting turf.
Do you fit it, or supply only?
Supply only. The screen goes on a timber frame your builder puts up, and I'll send them the measurements they need: the frame size, the gap behind the screen, the fixing points for the projector and the cable route.
How quickly can it arrive?
Typically 5 working days from order, and I'd allow a little buffer. As you're busy for the next few weeks, we can time it so it lands when you or your builder are ready for it.
Is there a subscription?
Only for course play. The R50 works as a practice range without one. Playing courses on Home Tee Hero needs a Garmin Golf membership, about £8.99 a month or £89.99 a year, which also covers the weekly tournament. If you ever want GSPro or E6, they run on a separate PC with their own subscriptions.
Can left-handed friends play?
Yes. The R50 has a left-handed setting and the unit moves to the other side of the ball. In your room a left-hander's back would face the right-hand wall, which is the tighter side, so they'd want to stick to wedges and short irons.
What if the room ends up a little narrower once it's boarded?
Send me the finished width once the boards are on and I'll check the screen size and the ball position again before anything is ordered. Every centimetre counts on the side behind your back.
No rush, prices held for 14 days
Tell me what you'd change
Happy to talk any of it through. Send me the finished width once the walls are boarded and a photo of the end wall, and I'll confirm the screen size and frame before anything is ordered.