Golf Simulator in a Double Garage (UK): Layouts That Work, With or Without the Car
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Tom Hayward provides detailed measurement guidance for fitting a golf simulator into a double garage, starting with three critical dimensions (3.0 m wide, 2.7 m high, 4.2 m long minimum). The piece covers two main layouts—keeping the car and using the other bay vs. converting the entire garage—and explains how launch monitor type affects required length. The article also references four key garage jobs (door, floor, cold, power) that determine whether the setup gets used year-round, though the body excerpt cuts off before detailing those fully.
Excerpt from Open Golfer - Blog
A double garage is the easiest garage to put a golf simulator in. Keep the car and fit a bay on the other half, as long as that half clears 3.0 m wide, 2.7 m under the door runners and 4.2 m long. Give the whole garage to golf and the wider SIM 3 and SIM 4 bays open up.
This guide is about double garages only. If yours is a single, the numbers are tighter and our Sim Buyer Docs page on putting a golf simulator in a garage covers it. Here I'll work through the two layouts that come up most, the bay sizes that fit each, how the launch monitor changes the length you need, and the four garage jobs (door, floor, cold, power) that decide whether the room gets used in January.
Start with three numbers, taken on the golf side
Our minimum room is 3.0 m wide, 2.7 m high and 4.2 m long, and a ceiling of 3 m or more is ideal. In a double garage, measure those on the half where the bay will stand, not across the whole floor. Width runs from the wall to wherever the car (or whatever else stays) will sit. Height is to the lowest thing overhead where you swing: door runners, the motor, a light fitting or a beam. Length runs from the wall behind the screen to the wall behind you.
The width number is the one that decides the layout. A new double garage built to current council design guidance is around 5.5 m by 6.0 m inside; older doubles are often narrower, and a pier between two single doors or a fuse board on the side wall can take a chunk out of the usable wall. Measure the real thing.
If any of the three comes up short, I'd rather say so now than sell you a bay you can't swing a driver in. A garden cage or a launch monitor for the range is a better start in that case. Will a golf simulator fit my room? walks through the measuring in more detail.
Layout A: keep the car, golf in the other half
This is the layout most people with a double garage want, and it works. Park the car tight to one wall and the simulator takes the other bay. The enclosure stays up between sessions, so the golf half becomes a permanent room and the car half stays a garage.
The bay you can fit depends on the width left once the car is in. Measure it with the car parked where it will live and the driver's door open, because that's the width you'll actually have, and then read it against the table. In most doubles it lands somewhere around 3 m, which is exactly where the bay sizes start to matter.
Clear width on the golf side Bay that fits Inside size (W × H × D) Wall width it needs
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