Golf simulator software
Real courses, in your backyard, for $50.
Limestone Links turns a launch monitor and a phone into a golf simulator. Real mapped courses, real ball flight off your own numbers, a real scorecard. One purchase. No subscription, no gaming PC, nothing else to buy from us ever.
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What people said after playing it
We did not write these.
Three guys who came over, hit balls in the yard and said what they thought. Printed the way they said 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
Here is what you are buying, and what you are not.
Golf sim marketing is mostly photographs of rooms nobody has. We would rather you knew exactly what this is before you spent anything on it.
What it is
- Real courses, really mapped. Built from public elevation and aerial data, not invented. The hole you play is the hole that is there.
- Your actual ball flight. Speed, launch, spin and spin axis come off your launch monitor and drive the physics. Skull one and it goes like a skull.
- A practice tool. Every shot is kept. Carry, dispersion, strike quality, the gaps between your clubs. Enough to find what is actually costing you strokes.
- Real rounds with your friends. Full 9 or 18, everybody on one card, proper scoring notation, and a screen the whole group can watch.
- A round on your own at ten at night. No tee time, no foursome, nobody waiting on you, nobody watching you top one. Just you and eighteen holes.
- Cheap, and outside. Your yard, your garage, your driveway, under a string of lights.
What it is not
- Photoreal. Vinson called it a bit fugly and he is not wrong. The graphics are clean and readable, not a showcase. You can tell where you are and what the ground does. That is the bar.
- Immersive. No wraparound screen, no crowd noise, no cart girl. It is you, a net, and a scorecard.
- A replacement for a real tee time. It is what you do the other six days of the week.
- Proven on every launch monitor yet. The Garmin R10 is what we build and test on. Others may already work and we want testers. The honest list is here.
- Finished. Courses are still going in, features are still landing. You are buying it at the stage where what you say still changes it.
Screens
One phone runs it. Everything else in the house can watch.
There is a tiny web server inside the app. Anything on your wifi with a browser can open the round and follow along, so nobody is crowded around a six inch screen reading numbers upside down.
Phone one
The one that runs it
Pairs to your launch monitor, plays the hole, and feeds the projector. This is the only phone that has to be any good.
Your everyday phone.
Phone two
The putting camera
Clip an old phone to a tripod, point it at the mat, and it watches the ball and calls your putts in or out. A guest's phone works just as well for a night.
That drawer phone with the cracked corner.
Anything else
The big screen
TV, tablet, smart projector, laptop. Open the address on your wifi and you get the full card, the last five shots with whoever hit them, and every number off the monitor beside the view of the green.
Whatever is already on the wall.
Why it costs what it costs
Everything else wants a subscription and a gaming PC.
We are not knocking the expensive stuff. If you have a dedicated room and a real graphics card, go get GSPro, it is genuinely great. Most of us have a yard and a net.
| Software | What it costs | What it runs on |
|---|---|---|
| Limestone Links | $50 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 by each company at the time of writing. They change. Go and check them, we would rather you did.
What it does
Built to make you better, not to look good in a screenshot.
Everything in here exists because it answered a question one of us had while standing on a mat in the dark.
Ball flight from your numbers
Speed, launch angle, spin and spin axis go in, and a full trajectory with lift and drag comes out. Descent angle is calculated, not assumed, so a thin one runs and a high one stops.
Every shot you have ever hit
Club by club 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.
Ten real courses
Mapped from public elevation and aerial imagery. Real elevation changes, real green shapes, real trouble. Want one we do not have? Ask and we will look at it.
Putting on a spare phone
An old phone on a tripod watches the ball on the mat and calls the putt in or out. It says 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 the whole group sees the card, the last five shots and the full set of 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.
Ours is a net in the backyard against a cedar fence, a second net angled over the first so wedge shots do not clear it, a cheap projector throwing the hole onto the net, and string lights on a cable so you can hit after dark.
Including a used R10 and our software, the whole thing came to $562.39. Every part, every price, and the reason it is 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. | $50 |
| Total | $562.39 |
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