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Enter the inside dimensions of the room, where you plan the tee, and who will play. The tool applies the room rules of Shop Indoor Golf's space guide and the figures each retailer publishes for each launch monitor, then lists the units that fit, the ones that depend on a detail, and the ones that do not, with the reason.
Measure your swing in 5 minutes
No store we read publishes a formula that turns your height into a ceiling height, and we will not invent one. Measure instead:
- Stand where the tee will be, in the shoes you play in, on the mat if you already have it.
- Take your longest club, usually the driver, and make three slow full swings. A helper watches the highest point the clubhead reaches, at the top of the backswing and in the follow-through.
- Stop at that highest point and hold the club still. The helper measures from the floor to the top of the clubhead with a tape.
- Keep the highest of the three readings, in inches, and enter it above. Do the same for every player in the house.
- Look up as well: light fittings, beams, ducts and garage door tracks count as ceiling.
A slow swing is not a full-speed swing: the tool shows your clearance, and Shop Indoor Golf's own warning applies, an 8-foot ceiling "often requires golfers to curtail their backswing or refrain from using longer clubs like woods and drivers".
The rules the tool uses
- Ceiling: the launch monitor's published window when there is one (example: "9.5 to 10 ft ceiling height at mounting position" for the Trackman iO); otherwise the general guide (8 ft minimum, 9 ft optimal).
- Width: the unit's published width when there is one (15 ft for the Trackman 4, 12 ft for the Foresight Falcon), otherwise 10 ft for one tee position and 14 ft for a centred tee, per Shop Indoor Golf.
- Depth: the larger of the published total depth and the space behind the ball (7 ft, or more when the unit sits further back) plus your tee-to-screen distance, which must not be shorter than the published minimum ball flight. If the room is shorter, the tool tells you when moving the tee closer would work, never closer than 8 ft (the ball flight Shop Indoor Golf gives for radar units, "at least 8 feet", which we use as a floor for every unit).
- Enclosures: enclosure width plus 6 inches on each side (Shop Indoor Golf: "a buffer of at least six inches on both sides of the enclosure"), and enclosure height under your ceiling.
Every figure, unit by unit: room size and ceiling height.
Frequently asked questions
Why does the tool ask where the tee will be?
Because the depth a launch monitor needs is the space behind the ball plus the distance to the screen. Shop Indoor Golf recommends the tee about 10 to 12 feet from the screen and 7 feet behind the tee; radar units that sit behind you need their own published distance instead of the 7 feet.
Why do some monitors say "fit depends on a detail"?
Either the store does not publish a figure we need (for example the mounting height of the Uneekor EYE XO), or your room works only in one layout, such as the tee 8 feet from the screen for the FlightScope Mevo Gen2.
Can the tool tell if I will hit the ceiling?
Only if you measure your swing. Follow the protocol below and enter the highest point your club reaches. We do not use a formula based on your height: no store we read publishes one.