Square Golf Home Simulator Package Review (UK): Who It Suits and What You Get

The Square Golf home simulator package is our lowest-cost complete room: a SimSpace enclosure, the Square Golf camera unit beside the ball, a Tee Turf mat, rubber base and a BenQ short-throw projector. It fits a 4.2 m room, starts without a PC and has no subscription. It gives up data depth and polish to the R50 and GC3.

Who this package is for

I would put this package in front of three kinds of golfer. The first has a garage or spare room that measures at least 3.0 m wide, 2.7 m to the ceiling and 4.2 m long, and wants a proper screen to hit into rather than a net and a phone. The second has set a budget in the under £5k band and wants everything in one delivery rather than piecing a room together over a year. The third is wary of running a gaming PC and would rather play from an app on a phone, tablet or laptop they already own.

If you are chasing the deepest club data, or you want the simulator to feel like a games console the moment it is switched on, this is not the package to pick, and I will explain why further down. For a first room on a sensible budget, though, it is the one I find myself describing most often. If you want to see how it sits against the other rooms we sell, our Sim Buyer Docs page on golf simulator packages by budget and room lines all of them up by price band and room length.

What is in the box, and what is not

The package is built around the same five parts as every SimSpace room we sell, and the launch monitor is the only thing that changes between them.

SimSpace enclosure in the size you choose, with velour side and ceiling panels and the impact screen. Sizes run from SIM 0 (3.3 × 2.5 × 1 m, which comes with its own side netting) through SIM 1 to SIM 4 at 2.5 m tall, up to SIM 5 and SIM 6 at 3 m tall and 3 m deep.

Square Golf launch monitor, the camera unit, with its battery, USB-C cable, remote, swing stick and three dotted balls in Square's box.

SimSpace Tee Turf hitting mat, a switchable mat so left- and right-handers can share it.

Rubber base under the mat, which is kinder on your joints than a mat laid straight on concrete.

BenQ AH500ST short-throw projector in a floor case, so the lens sits inside the bay rather than over your head. Its 0.499 throw ratio puts the lens about 2.04 m from a 2.3 m-high screen.

Now the list people miss. Side netting is an add-on (except on SIM 0, which includes its own). The HDMI cable from your device to the projector is an add-on. The ball tray is a paid add-on. And there is no…