What's the best way to control aim in a golf simulator setup, touchscreen or control box?

A hybrid setup works best for most players. A dedicated control box handles shot aiming for about 95% of shots since it allows fine adjustments, with keyboard arrows for microtweaking putts. Touchscreen is better suited for user interface tasks like clicking through menus and setting up rounds, plus letting guests aim their own shots from the tee without needing to sit at the computer.

How do I fix webcam putting ball speed being too fast or slow in GSPro?

Adjust the radius setting in the webcam putting advanced settings, since a bigger radius number makes the ball appear bigger to the tracking, which slows the rolled speed, and a smaller number speeds it up. Set your GSPro green stimp to match your actual flooring stimp, then tune radius so a 10 foot putt in GSPro travels 10 feet across your room. Typical radius values fall between 3 and 9, so nudge up or down by 1 from whatever the software suggests.

How to make OBS change scenes based on club selection in GSPro for floor projection?

Use the Advanced Scene Switcher plugin for OBS, not Auto Scene Switcher. It lets you trigger scene changes based on on screen content, either by matching a color or by using OCR to read text values like the selected club, then firing an action when that value changes. For a purpose built option, the OBS_OpenGolfCoach_Plugin on GitHub was made specifically for floor projection overlays like putter reference lines. See OBS plugin built for floor projection overlays: https://github.com/TaylorOpenLaunch/OBS_OpenGolfCoach_Plugin

How do you set up two SGT players for a scramble on one simulator?

Add both players as local players and connect each one's SGT account normally, making sure each player's name exactly matches their SGT account and entering their correct SGT ID. Once both accounts are linked, start the scramble round and add both players locally from there. This lets two people share a single simulator setup while both get credit through SGT.

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Best Software for Golf Simulators (2026)

Our picks for the best software for a home golf simulator, with the specs that matter, current retailers, and live pricing, so you can choose the right one and plan it into your build.

My Sim SetupUpdated Nov 4, 20264 products compared

Our pick for most home baysGSPro Simulation Software$250 at Carl's PlaceBuy at Carl's Place

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What our members actually run in published builds on this site, hardware compatibility counted across our own live catalog, platform reach, and value math over a realistic ownership window rather than a single year. Rank is earned on merit whether or not we can monetize a pick, and when two platforms tie on merit the one you buy once beats the one that bills you every year.

Software is the part of a sim build people research least and use most, so these ranks lean hardest on the evidence we actually own: community data from the builds our members publish here, compatibility counted directly out of our own live catalog rather than off a marketing page, and value math run over several years instead of one. Our house tie-breaker applies to software more sharply than to anything else, because software is where the recurring charges live: no subscription wins ties, and a one-time license that reaches parity inside two years is treated as the cheaper product, not the cheaper-looking one. Rank is on merit regardless of monetization: two of the five picks below have no listing in our catalog and no affiliate path at all, and they hold their slots anyway. Where a pick is really a hardware accessory rather than a purchase decision, we rank it and then tell you not to shop for it.

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The picks

#1Best for almost everyone

GSPro

GSpro

$250at Carl's Place

In this community it is not a close call: 27 of our 28 published member builds run GSPro. That is the single strongest signal in any guide we publish. The reasons behind it hold up. Our catalog spec sheet counts about 2,500 courses, the large majority of them built by the community and added free, which is a library no subscription budget could buy outright. Hardware reach is effectively universal: GSPro is named in 80 of the 86 launch monitor listings in our catalog, the widest net of any platform we track, with E6 Connect one behind at 79. And it is the platform the Simulator Golf Tour runs on, which is where the handicaps this site ingests every night come from, so for anyone playing our tournaments the software choice and the handicap are one decision rather than two.

What backs it

community data (27 of 28 published builds)
our own catalog compatibility data (80 of 86 launch monitor listings)
live retailer pricing

The caveat

It is a Windows PC product and it wants a real one, so budget for the machine as part of the price.
It is also a subscription at about $250 a year with no perpetual option, which under our own tie-break is a mark against it that only the course library and the hardware reach outweigh.
And community-built courses are community quality: the range runs from better than commercial to visibly rough, and curating that library is a job you inherit.

Where to buy

Carl's PlaceLowest price$250

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#4The family pick, and the value outlier

Awesome Golf

$350at Carl's Place

The most underrated product in this category, and every mainstream list misses it for the same reason: those lists sort by course count. This one is a single payment of about $350 with nothing to renew, and against GSPro at about $250 a year it reaches parity in roughly 17 months, so from the second year onward you are simply ahead, permanently. What you get for it is the thing most home bays actually do on a Tuesday night: range sessions with shot by shot analysis, challenges, shootouts and multiplayer against the house or the internet. If the sim is for the family rather than for grinding a handicap, this is the honest best buy in the guide.

What backs it

value math (about $350 once against about $250 a year)
our own catalog spec sheet (6 courses
named in 20 of 86 launch monitor listings)

The caveat

Our catalog spec sheet lists 6 courses.
That is the trade, stated flatly: this is a games and practice product with golf attached, not a course library, and if what you want is to play a famous course on a Tuesday it is the wrong purchase at any price.
Hardware support is also narrower than the top two: our catalog names Awesome Golf in 20 of the 86 launch monitor listings we carry, including FlightScope, both Square Golf units, the Foresight GC3S, the Rapsodo MLM2PRO and the Garmin R10.
Check your monitor is on that list before you buy.

Where to buy

Carl's PlaceLowest price$350

Full details and every retailer

ProTee Labs: a chunk of this audience already owns it

ProTee Labs is not a subscription and is not really sold on its own: it ships as a perpetual license with the ProTee VX, with no annual fee and no expiry. That matters here because the VX is the most-run launch monitor in this community, so every member on one already holds a practice, range and shot analysis package outright before any of the picks above enter the conversation. It is not a course-play replacement for GSPro or E6, and ProTee has a separate course simulator of its own in the pipeline that our product data has listed as arriving during 2026. We will rank that when it lands and we can actually see it. In the meantime, if there is a VX on your ceiling, use what is already in the box before you buy anyone a subscription.

Every member running a ProTee VX already owns a perpetual ProTee Labs license, because it ships with one.

What our members run

27 of our 28 published member builds run GSPro
Source: published builds on this site, read 2026-07-31
GSPro is named in 80 of the 86 launch monitor listings in our catalog; E6 Connect in 79, FSX in 27, TGC 2019 in 21, Awesome Golf in 20
Source: our own live catalog spec sheets, read 2026-07-31
40 of our members run the ProTee VX, which ships with a perpetual ProTee Labs license
Source: most-run gear across published member builds, counted live

Community counts read 2026-11-04. They move as members publish builds.

Live prices right now

3
Professional Software Subscription
Golf Joy America TBGJOY10
$249Price
4
Diamond Software Subscription
Golf Joy America TBGJOY10
$799Price

Software questions, community answers

What the MySimSetup community actually asks about software, summarized from member answers in our Discord.

What's the best way to control aim in a golf simulator setup, touchscreen or control box?
A hybrid setup works best for most players. A dedicated control box handles shot aiming for about 95% of shots since it allows fine adjustments, with keyboard arrows for microtweaking putts. Touchscreen is better suited for user interface tasks like clicking through menus and setting up rounds, plus letting guests aim their own shots from the tee without needing to sit at the computer.
Answered by 4 owners in the MySimSetup community, 2026
How do I fix webcam putting ball speed being too fast or slow in GSPro?
Adjust the radius setting in the webcam putting advanced settings, since a bigger radius number makes the ball appear bigger to the tracking, which slows the rolled speed, and a smaller number speeds it up. Set your GSPro green stimp to match your actual flooring stimp, then tune radius so a 10 foot putt in GSPro travels 10 feet across your room. Typical radius values fall between 3 and 9, so nudge up or down by 1 from whatever the software suggests.
Answered by 4 owners in the MySimSetup community, 2025
How to make OBS change scenes based on club selection in GSPro for floor projection?
Use the Advanced Scene Switcher plugin for OBS, not Auto Scene Switcher. It lets you trigger scene changes based on on screen content, either by matching a color or by using OCR to read text values like the selected club, then firing an action when that value changes. For a purpose built option, the OBS_OpenGolfCoach_Plugin on GitHub was made specifically for floor projection overlays like putter reference lines.
OBS plugin built for floor projection overlays Answered by 3 owners in the MySimSetup community, 2026
How do you set up two SGT players for a scramble on one simulator?
Add both players as local players and connect each one's SGT account normally, making sure each player's name exactly matches their SGT account and entering their correct SGT ID. Once both accounts are linked, start the scramble round and add both players locally from there. This lets two people share a single simulator setup while both get credit through SGT.
Answered by 3 owners in the MySimSetup community, 2025

All 6 software questions on the owner FAQ

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Product	Price	Physical	Docs	Buy
Product	Price	Dimensions (W×H×D in)	Docs	Retailers
Professional Software Subscription GolfJoy	$249	-	-	Golf Joy America TBGJOY10
Simulation Software GSPro	$250	-	-	Carl's Place
Software Awesome Golf	$349.99	-	-	Carl's Place
Diamond Software Subscription GolfJoy	$799	-	-	Golf Joy America TBGJOY10

Click any column header to sort · drag the table to scroll · Columns reveals every spec we track. Prices are the lowest live across all retailers.