4 Alternatives to the Durbles Golf Simulator Strike Screen (and 2 Better Options for Practice)

If you mainly want a screen for indoor ball striking, the Durbles is the value pick at £159.99: it’s affordable, has a strong 4.7★ rating, and is aimed at creating a simple home hitting bay with grommets and bungee cords. The trade-off is that it’s just the screen component, so you’ll still need a net/frame, projector, and ideally a launch monitor if you want useful data.

Garmin Approach R10 — £371.74, 4.3★

This is the best “step up” if you want actual shot data rather than just a strike surface. Compared with Durbles, the R10 gives you carry distance, club speed, ball speed, launch angle, spin estimates and more, which makes practice far more useful for improving your game. It’s also portable, works indoors or at the range, and offers up to 10 hours of battery life. What’s worse is that it’s not a screen, so you’ll still need a hitting area and ideally a compatible simulator setup. Choose this if you want a budget-friendly launch monitor with enough data to guide gapping, wedge control and driver consistency.

Rapsodo MLM2PRO Mobile Launch Monitor + Golf Simulator — £649.00, 4.2★

This is the better choice if you want more advanced simulator and practice features than the Durbles can ever provide. It’s a photometric-style launch monitor with strong app integration, useful for golfers who care about spin, dispersion and session data export rather than just hitting into a screen. Compared with Durbles, it’s much more expensive and requires more of a full tech setup, but it gives you far more insight into club fitting metrics and practice quality. Pick this if you’re serious about data-driven practice and want a simulator experience that goes beyond “just hitting balls indoors.”

ExPutt EX500D Pro Golf Putting Simulator — £375.00, 4.3★

This is a specialist option, and in some ways it’s better than Durbles if your biggest scoring problem is on the greens. Durbles is for full-swing impact practice; ExPutt is for putting, with feedback that helps you work on face control, start line and distance control. It’s worse if you want a full simulator bay, because it won’t help with driver or iron practice. Choose this if you want a compact indoor tool that targets the part of the game most golfers undertrain.

Square Golf Unisex Indoor Launch Monitor — £689.00, 4.3★

Square Golf is the premium alternative for golfers who want a more serious indoor launch monitor setup. Compared with Durbles, it offers actual performance tracking rather than simply providing a durable strike screen. It’s the strongest option here for golfers building a dedicated home simulator, especially if you care about software compatibility, repeatable numbers and more complete practice feedback. The downside is cost: it’s far more expensive and only makes sense if you’ll use the data regularly. Choose Square Golf if you want a high-end indoor practice tool and are willing to pay for it.