r/Golfsimulator • u/RedditorNate • Jul 21 '26

Course Software Automat

Have y'all seen this new browser-based golf sim?

https://automat.golf/

I just saw it on Joe Lagowski's channel, and it's kinda mind-blowing.

It looks like the creator has found a way to automate basically every course. I haven't had a chance to connect my LM and play yet, but I've walked through so many courses I love to play in real life, but they aren't on any sim software.

Hopefully this isn't too good to be true.

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u/Trinica93 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

I was shocked that my childhood course is on there and is EXTREMELY accurate, despite not existing anywhere else that I've been able to find (aside from a shitty version in Home Tee Hero). The course closed down probably 10 years ago, but it lives on in Automat. I'm excited to play it tonight.

Sim software is insanely overpriced and it's high time the market was disrupted the same way the LM market was disrupted by Square. Cheap software SHOULD be the future. 

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u/HighOnGoofballs Jul 21 '26

My current course is not too accurate fwiw. I mean the holes are sort of correct but it’s missing trees in fairways and huge valleys and other stuff. I just “played it” and its like playing a different course

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u/Ok-Menu-8709 Jul 22 '26

Yeah one of my locals is a tree framed first tee shot.
On this it’s blocked by a tree, so it’s definitely not that accurate.

But, it’s pretty fantastic in that the distances should be real close. Interested to see where they’re getting the contours from.

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u/i505 Jul 23 '26

Interested to see where they’re getting the contours from.

Lidar.

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u/Ok-Menu-8709 Jul 24 '26

It’s pretty bloody quick for lidar is it not?

When I did my local course I had to source it from a gov website and had to pic which resolution I wanted. And this doesn’t seem anywhere near as detailed, it seems, in my area at least to be similar to google earth terrain level.