How the choice actually gets made.
Launch monitors, software platforms and subscriptions, ceiling heights, projector throw, screen sizes, club markers. Each product looks fine on its own spec sheet. The trouble starts when they meet in your room, and most people who piece a simulator together themselves find that out after it's installed. We've worked through these trade-offs in our own five bays, so we can match the pieces to your space and your game before you spend a dollar.
Four questions that decide it
Where does the unit sit?
Overhead units mount to the ceiling and leave the floor completely clear. Floor-side units sit beside the ball and can travel with you to the range.
What does your ceiling allow?
Ceiling height decides more installs than budget does. Overhead units need clearance to mount above and in front of the strike.
Does it need markers on your clubs?
Camera systems read the ball directly. Reading the club is harder, and most systems solve it with small reflective stickers on the face.
Which software does it open?
The unit decides which courses and platforms you can play. Some run their maker's software; others open up to third-party platforms.
Foresight Sports
Foresight is the majority of what goes into our builds, and it's what runs in our own bays. Photometric cameras read the ball at impact rather than inferring flight from a distance, which is why tour players and club fitters use it indoors. The range runs from a floor-side unit you can carry to a lesson tee up to the overhead systems we put in permanent rooms.
Falcon
The permanent-bay unit. Ceiling mounted ahead of the strike, floor completely clear, and a wide hitting zone that takes left and right handers without moving anything.
GCQuad
The reference unit that fitters and teaching pros reach for, and what runs in the fifth bay at our own facility. Sits beside the ball, packs up, and travels to the range.
QuadMAX
GCQuad hardware with the expanded data set switched on. For serious fitting work and anyone who wants every metric without an add-on.
GC3
The way into Foresight ball-tracking accuracy without the full Quad package. Three cameras, same photometric approach, smaller data set.
FSX Play & FSX 2020
Foresight's own platforms for course play, practice modes and data screens. Which one you run depends on the unit and how you plan to use the room.
What five bays in daily use taught us
Four Falcons and a GCQuad run at 247 Indoor Golf seven days a week, under members, lessons, fittings and league nights, which is a harder duty cycle than any home bay will see. Running overhead and floor-side in the same building is how we can tell you what the difference feels like rather than what the spec sheet claims: room lighting, mounting height, calibration drift, and what holds up.
ProTee VXComing soon
An overhead unit built around two synchronised high-speed cameras that read the ball and the club at impact, with no stickers on the clubface and no marked balls.
It ships with a perpetual licence to ProTee's own software rather than a subscription, and it opens into GSPro, E6 Connect and Creative Golf 3D, so it doesn't fence you in.
- PositionOverhead, ceiling mounted, floor stays clear
- TrackingDual synchronised high-speed cameras, ball and club read at impact
- MarkersNone. No stickers on the club, no marked balls
- Ceiling9–10 ft, mounted roughly 3½ ft ahead of the strike
- WidthAbout 14 ft for a centred bay that suits both hands
- SoftwareProTee's own platform included outright, plus GSPro, E6 Connect, Creative Golf 3D
Not available yet
We're in the process of adding ProTee to the lineup. It isn't something we can quote or install today. If it's the direction you're leaning, tell us and we'll let you know the moment it's live.
Why we're adding it
Our overhead options are excellent and sit at the premium end. Plenty of people want the clean floor and the both-handed hitting zone of an overhead unit without that spend. The VX fills that slot, and it does it without club markers, which is the one thing overhead owners complain about most.
Everything else that goes in the room
A launch monitor is one line on the invoice. What you stand in is the screen, the frame, the mat and the floor, and those decide whether the bay still feels good in year three.
Uneekor
The EYE XO2: overhead, three high-speed cameras and a notably large hitting zone. Opens into GSPro, TGC and E6. Uses reflective club stickers for full club data.
Carl's Place
Impact screens and enclosure kits sized to the room, framed and tensioned so the screen lasts and the projected image stays flat.
Fiberbuilt
Hitting mats built for volume rather than a garage that gets used twice a month. The difference shows up in your wrists and elbows about six months in.
Grass-Tex
Surrounding turf and putting surfaces, cut and seamed to the room on site rather than dropped in as a rug with a visible edge.
The bay units, compared
Room requirements are starting points. Beams, columns, door swings and lighting move them, which is why every job starts with a survey.
| Unit | Position | Ceiling min. | Club markers | Software | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foresight Falcon | Overhead | 9.5 ft | Yes, 1 or 4 dot | FSX Play / FSX 2020 | Permanent bays, mixed-handed households |
| Foresight GCQuad | Floor-side | 9 ft | Yes, 1 or 4 dot | FSX Play / FSX 2020 | Fitting, teaching, taking it to the range |
| Foresight QuadMAX | Floor-side | 9 ft | Yes, 1 or 4 dot | FSX Play / FSX 2020 | Serious fitting, full data set |
| Foresight GC3 | Floor-side | 9 ft | 1-dot; subscription for club data | FSX Play | Foresight accuracy at the entry point |
| ProTee VXSoon | Overhead | 9 ft | None | ProTee incl. · GSPro · E6 · Creative Golf 3D | Overhead performance, no stickers |
| Uneekor EYE XO2 | Overhead | 9.5 ft | Yes, reflective stickers | GSPro · TGC · E6 | Large hitting zone, third-party software |
Specifications current as of September 2026 and confirmed against each manufacturer. Pricing is quoted per project, because every room is different.
Reading about them only gets you so far
Come to the showroom and hit balls on the units you're deciding between, back to back, with your own numbers on the screen. An hour in the bay settles what a week of research can't.