Giving Our Hometown Golf Team a Place to Golf Year-Round

Usually, we're building golf simulators for customers across the country. This time, we decided to build one for the neighbors.

Carl’s Place is proud to call Milton, Wisconsin home. So we spent part of summer break turning an empty room at Milton High School into a pretty sweet indoor golf facility for the school's golf team.

New enclosure. New tech. Year-round golf. The works.

And we pulled it off without the students knowing a thing.

The space we started with was simple: concrete floors, brick walls, and tall ceilings.

Our team planned a golf simulator that would fit the room without requiring major modifications. The design centered around a deeper Carl's Place Pro Golf Enclosure, allowing us to mount the launch monitor and projector directly to the enclosure instead of the high ceiling.

The plan also called for a full turf hitting area, equipment mounts, and concealed wiring. Everything needed to make the room look like a dedicated golf facility, not just a simulator dropped into an empty space.

First order of business: make the floor a little more golf-friendly.

We installed flooring tiles, rolled out the turf, and added finished edges to make the hitting area look good and clearly mark where people shouldn't stand when someone's swinging a driver.

Then came the Pro Golf Enclosure with room-darkening BlackStop fabric, a Premium Impact Screen, and a vertical crossbar to hold the computer and monitor.

Not bad for a room that started with concrete floors and brick walls.

A nice enclosure is great. But the students probably wanted to actually golf on courses and get data, too.

We installed a ProTee VX overhead launch monitor, keeping the equipment out of the swing area and making it easy for both right and left handed golfers to play.

Paired with GSPro golf simulator software and a bright 4K projector, students can practice on virtual driving ranges, play courses from around the world, and use real shot data to improve their game.

Once the tech was installed, we tested swing clearance, calibrated the equipment, and cut the hitting strip into the turf for a flush finish.

Everything was ready for some serious golf. Or at least some seriously competitive rounds after practice.

We got the equipment installed, the cables tucked away, the software running, and the room looking sharp.

Then we shut the door.

The students came back to school expecting, well, school.

Instead, they found a brand-new golf simulator.

The reactions were worth every minute of the build.

My first reaction was definitely exciting. It's such a cool experience to have this in our school.

Others were already looking forward to tracking their stats, improving their swings, and playing courses they'd normally never get the chance to experience.

And being able to practice year-round? That's a pretty big deal for a Wisconsin high school golf team.

For Carl's Place, this project was about more than installing a golf simulator.

Milton is our home. It's where our team works, where we develop our products, and where we're proud to be part of the community. Giving local students a new place to practice, compete, and enjoy golf was an opportunity we couldn't pass up.

As one Milton High School staff member put it:

These are the type of things that move schools forward, creating more opportunities for students.

A few days, a whole lot of equipment, and one very well-kept secret later, Milton High School has a dedicated golf facility where students can work on their game year-round, regardless of what Wisconsin's weather has planned.

We're grateful to Milton High School for helping bring this project to life. We can't wait to see what the golf team accomplishes in its new space.