The state of sim golf

This is a snapshot, not a history. It describes the community as it stands right now, and it makes no comparison to any earlier point. We keep no community wide record of what these numbers were before, so a claim about how they have moved is one we could not check, and a distribution that shifts because new members joined would say nothing about anyone playing better. Every figure below is the present state and only that.

Who is counted. Handicaps come from members with a public profile whose handicaps are synced from their tour play, the same members the handicap leaderboard ranks. Gear and rooms come from published builds only, one build per member, which is the same build their profile shows as the sim they run today. A member who has not published is not in this data.

Nobody is named. Everything here is a count over a group. Where a figure rests on so few members that it would effectively point at one of them, we withhold it and say so instead of printing it.

Across 146 members with a synced handicap, the median is 1.5.

Counts of members, not rounds. The bars are scaled to the largest band; the number beside each one is the raw count, and the bands add up to the 146 members stated above.

Of 13 members whose current sim pairs a launch monitor with simulator software, the most common pairings are these.

1. 1
   ProTee VXwithGSPro Simulation Software

   4 members, 31% of the 13
2. 2
   EYE MINI LITEwithGSPro Simulation Software

   3 members, 23% of the 13

6 other pairings are in use across 6 members, each by too few members to name without pointing at them. They are counted in the 13 above and left unnamed on purpose.

The median published build sits in a room 21 ft long and 17 ft wide, across 64 builds that state both.

Length and width are medians taken separately over the same builds, so they describe the middle of each dimension rather than one particular room. Builders enter these themselves when they publish. If you are planning yours, the build tool checks your room against the gear.