About Garage Fore

Knee surgery in late 2023 dropped my weekend rounds from 36 holes to maybe 9 a month. That fall I spent a lot of late nights watching simulator build tours on YouTube: the kind where someone shows a before-and-after garage with a cost breakdown on screen. By spring 2024 I'd cleared half of our two-car garage in suburban Cincinnati and ordered a SkyTrak.

Then came a year of buying things and sometimes returning them. Three mats, two of which went back. A net, an impact screen, a projector, a handful of accessories. Total spend close to five thousand dollars, tracked in a spreadsheet I started in April 2024 and still update. The wife has a moratorium through December 2026, agreed to in writing. This site is the record of what that five thousand bought: what stayed, what went back to the retailer, and what I'd do differently starting over with the same garage footprint and the same hard spending ceiling.

Everything covered here was tested in the actual setup, hit against the screen, tracked by the launch monitor, used across enough sessions to form a real opinion. Not borrowed, not unboxed once for a video.

Who's behind this is on the author page.

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