Best launch monitors for small rooms

Room depth, not ceiling height, is what kills most home simulator plans. These current sim-capable launch monitors are ranked by our computed minimum depth: screen buffer + required ball flight + whichever is larger, the device's behind-the-ball distance or the golfer's swing space. Read the ranking with one caveat: it rewards makers who publish a short ball-to-screen minimum. Where a manufacturer publishes none — true of most side-placed and overhead camera units — we apply a conservative 10 ft of ball flight, which is why so many of them land on an identical figure. For those, treat the number as a cautious floor rather than a ranking, and check the per-device space note.

31 devices match. Ranked deterministically from sourced specs — no editorial thumb on the scale.