how indoor golf works
Indoor golf is played with real clubs and balls inside a simulator programmed with complete golf courses.
Having chosen which course to play, you hit real golf shots into the screen a few feet away.
Two infra-red curtains track the flight, speed and spin of your ball; the simulator calculates where it would land on the course, and shows you what your next shot would be. You play from various surfaces to represent fairway, rough and bunker.
After each shot, the screen recalibrates to show the view from your new ball position to the flag, and then resets to display the next player's shot.
With a touch screen by your side, you control the game; it's very straightforward: if you can operate a mobile phone you can operate a golf simulator!
You can set the simulator to play a whole course, or a choose only the holes you wish to play.
You can set the weather and wind conditions, even the pin positions (from easy to nasty!), and the tee positions, and if one of you needs a bit of a boost you can turbo-charge your swing so that the ball flies further... You also decide whether you allow mulligans - the chance to scrub a poor shot and take it again with no penalty!
We use the same technology to set up a driving range for you to practice long game or short.