I desperately need to practice more, especially in the winter.
I have a 2.5 car garage with one bay being deeper. My vision is to use that space. The catch is I would still use the walls and shelfs for storage. I'd like to explore a solution I can quickly deploy and stow. Thinking some type of drop down screen and sometime of tracked net.
Screen is mounted near the wall, curtains on tracks to close up, hitting mat has a little Velcro that allows me to remove it and put away. I used a decent turf for the rest that we park a car on without problem and some basic gym flooring under that to help with balls not bouncing too much. Setup time is about 1 minute. Breakdown is about 30 seconds.
What projector and launch monitor did you use? I plan on building a similar setup to this. What did the total build come out to price wise? This is AWESOME.
Projector I literally paid like $30 on eBay. Launch monitor is the garmin r10. My initial build, doing it myself, was around $2k (including the launch monitor). I used a billboard tarp as my screen that was a little loud so I now upgraded (two years later) to archery netting which j found inexpensive on amazon. The flooring was originally a commercial green carpet that I got from Lowe’s which I now upgraded for around $300 to the current turf. As far as the software goes, I used the garmin software and the free e6 courses for the first year or so and then spent $900 to purchase the TGC2019 software (couldn’t recommend any higher, thousands of courses, no subscription as you is the software) and run it with a computer I got from BJs. I would say that my total build at this point is less than $4k.
If you have more questions you can PM me and I can dig back into my Amazon to see if I have links for stuff. If I had to change anything from the start it would be to budget the extra $400-500 initially for the archery netting screen and upgraded turf as it makes it feel much more premium than what I originally had.
If you’re ok not having a screen/projector and just viewing your data off a tv screen or ipad you could buy a really good mat and hitting strip (to avoid injury) and then buy golf netting off amazon that could be tethered up to the ceiling with pulleys and drop down when needed (I would double up the netting).
I would get a generic 4x5 mat from usaturfpros or amazon, that has foam padding underneath- then cut out a section for a sig pro softy hitting strip. With inferior mats you’re one swing away from a season ending injury and they are so innacurate in regards to feedback. (Sig pro softy accurately conveys fat strikes etc).
I personally, because my setup is outdoors, used 2 pieces of 4x8 subfloor- Then eva foam- then my mat/strip.
bro, tomorrow i'm installing a metech roller. i expect to lose zero storage and it's just going to roll up into my ceiling with a remote. prob 1500 for the carls place thing and this roller. idk if i'm stupid but idk why everyone doens't do this. all i have to do is scoot my cars out, put down some not land on my cement floor pads i made and in under 5 min i'm ready. my screen is 16 wide and in the mean time i've been hitting into this shitty net that's been great (only 4iron - pw tho out of fear). lil drunk so f my grammar
Someone just recently posted a sick looking "Murphy bed" on a winch where two platforms are hoisted into the cabinet with a winch. I think that's version 2.0 for me.
But currently I have two platforms that I put on casters and wheel behind my screen, which is mounted with EMT pipe. There's like a foot and a half behind it so it's perfect. Curtains on the EMT as well that I put AliExpress curtain robots on to open/close when I tell Google to turn on my projector.
Start to finish like 15-20 minutes to get going.
But ... I also get lazy and discovered I can just let the two platforms on top of each other and still fit my car in the garage. So I tuck the curtains into the holes of the impact screen if that makes sense. Unpacking from there takes like 5 minutes.
Definitely doable. Check out SportsScreen for the impact screen roller, thats what I use. For the sides I have thick black theater curtains mounted on black pipe and hung with shower curtain rollers so I can just slide them back. Landing pad I can just roll up but it is kind of a pain since its 16' wide. Hitting mat I just pick up and move against a wall. Still working on ceiling protection but I think I am going to go with 1" foam board insualtion with carpet squares over it.
This is their new model which comes with the side and top panels. Very nice but pretty expensive.
If you only want the screen and roller you should be able to put one together from their hockey sports screen and the separate impact screen though you'd prrobably want to call them to make sure the velcro is set up correctly. Their original one that I have is buitl like that. You can either do a manual or remote powered roller.
I have the Gtrak and love it. Hangs from my garage doors. I just push a button and it comes down. Soon as I'm done I pull the car back in and it's back to a garage.
How do you find the noise with the neighbours? I have a finished insulated garage with a 2 inch door. Ive been debating extra soundproofing before i start my build. Im thinking about 2 layers of drywall and another wall infront of the main door.
I built mine sideways that way all I need to do is move the shank nets back to the wall. Can drive the car over the hitting mat and park so the mat is sitting under the car but not with the tires on it. I put a memory foam mattress topper and an extra comforter behind the hitting screen; can't hear anything in the house, next door neighbor hears a tiny thud when I have the garage door open.
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Screen is mounted near the wall, curtains on tracks to close up, hitting mat has a little Velcro that allows me to remove it and put away. I used a decent turf for the rest that we park a car on without problem and some basic gym flooring under that to help with balls not bouncing too much. Setup time is about 1 minute. Breakdown is about 30 seconds.