ROOFGOLF
Golf goes vertical — rooftop ranges, urban practice, and city golf you can play after work.
RoofGolf is for the city golfer who practises where they can — a rooftop net, a balcony mat, a driving range after work. Six hands-on calculators handle distances, ball flight, net sizing, handicap, and green speed; 15 in-depth guides cover everything from sizing a net safely to budgeting a simulator room; and the Urban Golf Setup Decision Guide lines up every option — net, monitor, simulator, range, or short course — side by side so you can pick the one that actually fits your space and budget.
Golf Tools & Calculators
Free tools for rooftop and urban golf — club distance & gapping, ball carry, rooftop net height, handicap, green speed, and range cost.
Club Distance & Gapping Calculator
Turn your real carry distances into a gapping chart and spot big gaps that need a club or overlaps where two clubs do the same job
Ball Carry Calculator
Estimate carry, apex height, and hang time from ball speed and launch angle, and see how the two numbers leaving the clubface shape the flight
Rooftop Net Height Calculator
Size a practice net safely from the distance to the net and the steepest launch you might hit — a conservative minimum height for small-space practice
Golf Handicap Calculator
Estimate your Handicap Index the way the World Handicap System does — from recent rounds, their Course and Slope Ratings, and your best differentials
Stimpmeter Green-Speed Converter
Turn a Stimpmeter reading into a plain-language speed category and see how far a putt rolls uphill versus downhill on a slope you choose
Driving-Range Cost Calculator
See what range practice really costs by ball, session, month, and year, and compare buckets against a membership to find your break-even
Which setup is actually right for you?
Net, launch monitor, home simulator, rooftop putting green, driving range, or a local par-3 course — every option trades cost, space, noise, and feedback quality differently. The Urban Golf Setup Decision Guide is a single side-by-side comparison of all of them, built specifically for this site, so you can match a setup to your own space and goals instead of guessing.
Start With Our Deepest Guides
Hand-picked, not just the newest — these are the most detailed guides on the site, each 1,200+ words with real numbers, worked examples, and step-by-step guidance.
Setting Up a Safe Rooftop Golf Net
A net on a roof puts a hard, fast ball a short distance from open air and other people. Here is the geometry, the worked numbers, and the checklist that make a rooftop setup genuinely safe.
Golf Simulators for Small Spaces: How They Work and What to Budget
Camera versus radar tracking, the room dimensions that actually matter, and realistic price tiers from entry-level launch monitors to a full home simulator room.
Understanding Your Club Distances (and Why They Matter)
Knowing how far you carry each club — not how far your best-ever shot went — is the foundation of course management. A worked 13-club example shows exactly what a good gapping chart looks like.
Urban Golf Practice Drills: A 4-Week Plan for a 10×10 Space
A structured, week-by-week practice plan built specifically for a 10x10 foot space — what to work on, in what order, with concrete drills, reps, and a simple way to track progress.
Museum of Golf
Wander an illustrated museum of the game — the history of golf and the players who shaped it, the evolution of clubs and balls, the great courses and the architects behind them, and the modern world of urban and small-space recreation, each in its own gallery. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Tour the museum →Latest From the Blog
The most recently published guides — rooftop range design, reading wind on an exposed roof, noise control, and more, on top of the deep-dive picks above.
Rooftop and Urban Golf: How City Players Actually Practise
A practical, numbers-first look at how golfers without a course nearby keep their game sharp — nets, mats, simulators, and ranges — with real cost and space figures for each.
Setting Up a Safe Rooftop Golf Net
A net on a roof puts a hard, fast ball a short distance from open air and other people. Here is the geometry, the worked numbers, and the checklist that make a rooftop setup genuinely safe.
Understanding Your Club Distances (and Why They Matter)
Knowing how far you carry each club — not how far your best-ever shot went — is the foundation of course management. A worked 13-club example shows exactly what a good gapping chart looks like.
Improving Your Swing in a Small Space
You do not need a driving range to build a better swing. A structured weekly drill menu, the traps that make blind net practice counterproductive, and how to guard against them.
Choosing the Right Practice Balls: Foam, Plastic, and Limited-Flight
Foam, perforated plastic, limited-flight, or real balls into a net each suit a different space. A side-by-side on carry, cost, and feedback shows which is genuinely right for yours.
Reading Your Golf Handicap: What the Number Means
A Handicap Index measures demonstrated ability, not average score. A full worked example — eight rounds, real differentials, and the WHS selection table — shows exactly how the number is built.
Keep Learning
Plain-language explainers on getting started, equipment and gear, playing and scoring, and the courses and culture of the game — everything you need to dig deeper into golf, on the roof or on the course.
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