Recommended Golf Simulator Projectors

The new Optoma ZK608TST is the best all-around golf sim projector money can buy. It’s got 5879lm of peak brightness in “Bright” mode with less than ideal but still usable color accuracy, and 4600lm in “Vivid” mode with vibrant and accurate colors. It has one of the shortest throw distances I’ve ever seen as well as optical lens shift and digital image shift. It’s quiet, dust proof, has a relatively low power draw for its brightness, a very high native contrast ratio, supports HDR content and 3D, has low input lag, and it’s just barely larger than a typical home theater projector. The only downsides I can see are that it doesn’t have any optical zoom and at $5999 it’s not going to fit most people’s budget.

The new Optoma ZK608TST is the best all-around golf sim projector money can buy. It’s got 5879lm of peak brightness in “Bright” mode with less than ideal but still usable color accuracy, and 4600lm in “Vivid” mode with vibrant and accurate colors. It has one of the shortest throw distances I’ve ever seen as well as optical lens shift and digital image shift. It’s quiet, dust proof, has a relatively low power draw for its brightness, a very high native contrast ratio, supports HDR content and 3D, has low input lag, and it’s just barely larger than a typical home theater projector. The only downsides I can see are that it doesn’t have any optical zoom and at $5999 it’s not going to fit most people’s budget.

An honorable mention has to go to the Magcubic HY450 for doing something completely different. I love the short throw and 100% offset and I think it would make a great projector for someone looking to build a budget golf simulator and would be perfect for doing projection holiday decorations. At $139, it’s the most lumens per dollar of any of the projectors in the video, but I think I’d recommend paying the extra $10 to get the NetRange version of the projector instead of the Android version like I tested. Be aware that it does have a decently loud fan at 47.2 decibels and the speakers are usable, but definitely not great.