The Square Golf Home Edition is a $699 camera launch monitor that sits on the floor beside the ball, reads ball and club data at impact, and works with GSPro with no subscription from Square Golf. This Square Golf launch monitor review covers what it measures, what GSV found in three tests on the channel, the room it needs, what it costs to run, and where it falls short. Jay Lasco, host of Golf Simulator Videos, has tested the Home Edition since its first look on the channel in November 2024: in Square Golf's own software, chipping and putting in GSPro, and a full nine holes of GSPro a year later.
Updated October 15, 2026. Prices are the makers' list prices (MSRP), before tax and shipping.
- $699Square Golf HE, MSRP
- Beside the ballNo extra room depth behind the golfer
- No subscriptionFrom Square Golf, for its app or GSPro
- 5% offCode GSVSQUARE at Square Golf USA
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Square Golf Home Edition review: the verdict
For a simulator that stays indoors, the Square Golf HE is the lowest-priced camera launch monitor GSV has tested, and it does the whole round: driver, irons, chips and putts. In GSV's tests it read low-spin and high-spin driver misses, flop shots launching over 46 degrees, chips that carried under 3 yards and putts as short as a foot. It is not a tour-grade unit, and Jay says so on the channel: premium launch monitors are more precise, and a budget unit can have a random misread or a wider spread. You should buy it if you want a home simulator on a budget, in an indoor room.
Good at
- Short rooms: it sits beside the ball, so it adds nothing to the depth of the room.
- The short game and putting.
- No subscription from Square Golf.
- A free GSPro connection.
- A battery Square Golf rates at up to 8 hours.
Watch for
- Indoor use only: the manual asks for a room with little to no sunlight.
- Square Golf's patterned balls and a club marker for its full data.
- No club head speed or smash factor.
- A hitting zone of about 6 x 6 in.
What GSV tested
| Test | What Jay hit | What it showed |
|---|---|---|
| First look, November 2024, Square Golf's software | 8 irons shaped both ways, driver, putts, the swing stick | 8 iron carries of 147 to 163 yd on most swings, the shot shapes read, and a low-spin driver miss read as one |
| Chipping and putting, November 2024, GSPro | Chips from under 3 yd to 22 yd, bump and runs, flop shots, putts from 1 ft to about 65 ft | No full miss with the ball centered in the hitting zone, and start lines read to a tenth of a degree |
| Nine holes, November 2025, GSPro | Tobacco Road with a Titleist TP5x, driver to putter | Driver at 160 to 162 mph ball speed on good swings, fat shots read rather than missed, a five-under 30 |
In the first look, Jay's 8 iron carried 147 to 163 yd on most swings, against the 150 to 155 yd it usually goes, and push draws read about 170 and 174 yd, longer than that club goes for him. Backspin was about 6,000 rpm on Square Golf's own ball, under the 7,000 to 7,500 rpm he sees on a well-struck Pro V1, which he put down to the lower-spinning ball. A driver struck high on the face came back with very low spin, the way that miss behaves, and club path read out-to-in and in-to-out when he swung both ways.
What's in the box
- The Square Golf HE launch monitor
- A replaceable lithium-ion battery and a USB-A to USB-C charging cable
- A remote, for running the unit without walking to the screen
- Club markers, the stickers that go on the shaft for club data
- Three of Square Golf's patterned balls
- The swing stick and its safety strap, for swings with no ball
Square Golf rates the battery at up to 8 hours and about 6 hours to charge from empty, and the unit runs while it is plugged in. Because the battery is replaceable, a spare can go in when it runs down.
What the Square Golf HE measures
The Home Edition reads the ball from the side with what Square Golf calls a high-speed camera and built-in infrared LED lighting. Square Golf's manual sets out which numbers are measured and which are estimated, and it depends on the ball and the club marker:
| Setup | Ball data | Club data |
|---|---|---|
| Patterned ball and club marker | Ball speed, direction, backspin and sidespin, all measured | Club path and attack angle measured; face angle and dynamic loft estimated |
| Any ball and club marker | Ball speed and direction measured; backspin and sidespin estimated | Club path and attack angle measured; face angle and dynamic loft estimated |
| Any ball, no marker | Ball speed and direction measured; backspin estimated | None |
| Swing stick, no ball | Estimated from the swing | Club path, attack angle, face angle and dynamic loft measured |
It also reads launch angle, and from these numbers Square Golf's software and GSPro work out carry, apex, run and total distance. Square Golf lists these ranges:
- Ball speed: 3.4 to 201.3 mph on full shots, and 1.1 to 17.9 mph on putts
- Direction: 15 degrees left to 15 degrees right
- Launch angle: minus 10 to 70 degrees
- Backspin: minus 2,000 to 12,000 rpm; sidespin: 7,000 rpm either way
- Club path: 30 degrees either way; attack angle: minus 30 to 20 degrees
There is no club head speed or smash factor on the Home Edition. The Square Golf OMNI adds club head speed and impact location.
Chipping and putting: the GSPro test
Chipping and short putts were what viewers asked about most, so GSV gave the Square a full session of them in GSPro. With a 58 degree wedge, 22 yd chips spun at about 3,300 to 4,000 rpm and the cut and pulled chips started where they were hit. Flop shots launched at 37 to 46.6 degrees, and a chip that carried about 2 1/2 yd landed close to where it did on the mat. Bump and runs with an 8 iron read with start lines to a tenth or two of a degree.
On the green, it read putts at 5 ft, 14 ft, 48 ft and about 65 ft, and a putt of about a foot at 1.5 mph of ball speed. Pulls and pushes read as 0.4 to 1.8 degrees, small enough to see on each putt, which is what a golfer wants from a putting read. Jay had no full miss with the ball locked in at the center of the hitting zone.
One tip from the test: GSPro does not show where the ball sits in the hitting zone, the way Square Golf's own app does, so Jay marks the center of the zone on his mat to keep each ball inside it.
Playing GSPro on the Square Golf HE
Square Golf charges nothing to connect the Home Edition to GSPro, and there is no Square Golf subscription for it. GSPro itself is $250 a year from GSPro and runs on a Windows PC. In 2024 the connection ran through Square Golf's small connector program, SQG GSPro Connect. By the November 2025 round, GSPro found the Square and connected on its own when it opened. Square Golf still offers SQG GSPro Connect as a free download.
In that round at Tobacco Road, with a Titleist TP5x, good drives read at 160 to 162 mph of ball speed with about 2,000 to 2,500 rpm of backspin, in line with what Jay sees on other launch monitors. A drive high on the face came back with very low spin and one low on the face with more, and a fat 9 iron read as a fat shot rather than being missed. The card was a five-under 30.
Square Golf also names E6 Connect, Awesome Golf and Creative Golf as third-party software for its launch monitors. GSV's GSPro compatible launch monitors page has the yearly cost to play GSPro on every unit.
Square Golf's own app
The Square Golf Home Edition app runs on iOS, Android and a Windows PC, so the unit can play on a tablet or phone into a net as well as on a full simulator. The driving range, closest to the pin and putting practice are free. Course play uses credits: 1,000 come with the unit, which Square Golf says is enough for more than 55 rounds for one player, and more can be bought in the app.
In GSV's first look, the range showed club data only in its data view, without the range graphics. The swing stick mode was more forgiving than real shots, and it measures the club in full, so it works for swing practice in a room where a ball cannot be hit, or for family and friends.
The room the Square Golf HE needs
The Home Edition sits on the floor beside the ball, facing the golfer, so it needs room to the side of the hitting mat rather than behind the golfer. Its hitting zone is about 6 x 6 in, centered about 16 1/2 in in front of the unit. It should sit level with the ball, square to the target line, and out of direct sunlight.
A radar unit sits behind the golfer instead. In the GSV Sim Builder, a room 14 ft wide with a 10 ft ceiling and a 5 ft 9 in golfer needs at least 15 ft 6 in of depth for a Garmin R10 and 16 ft for a Rapsodo MLM2PRO. A unit beside the ball fits a shorter room. Check your own room in the room size checker, or place the Square in a 3D model of it in the GSV Sim Builder.
A left-handed golfer stands on the other side of the ball, so the unit moves to the other side of the mat. The Home Edition's manual does not cover left-handed setup, so a left-handed golfer can ask Square Golf before buying. The OMNI has a left-handed setting.
Square Golf HE vs OMNI
Square Golf's second unit, the OMNI, is $1,599 MSRP. It sits beside the ball too, but with four cameras it reads any ball with no markings, works outdoors on real grass, adds club head speed and impact location, and shows each shot on a screen on the unit.
| Square Golf HE | Square Golf OMNI | |
|---|---|---|
| MSRP | $699 | $1,599 |
| Where it works | Indoors, little to no sunlight | Indoors and outdoors |
| Golf balls | Patterned balls for the full data | Any ball |
| Club speed and impact location | No | Yes |
| Screen on the unit | No | Yes |
| Battery | Up to 8 hours | 5 to 7 hours |
| Subscription | None | None |
Every spec side by side is in Square Golf HE vs OMNI, and GSV's test of the OMNI indoors, on turf and in sunlight is in the Square Golf OMNI review.
Square Golf HE alternatives
| Launch monitor | List price | How it differs from the Square Golf HE |
|---|---|---|
| Garmin R10 | $599.99 | Radar behind the ball: the range as well as the simulator, but a deeper room and no putting |
| Rapsodo MLM2PRO | $699.99 | Cameras and radar behind the ball, with swing video; a Rapsodo membership for simulator play and GSPro |
| FlightScope Mevo Gen 2 | $1,299 | Radar and a camera, indoors and out, with no subscription from FlightScope |
| Square Golf OMNI | $1,599 | Beside the ball like the HE, with any ball, outdoor use, club speed and a screen |
GSV5OFF takes 5% off a first order of the Garmin R10 or the Rapsodo MLM2PRO at Shop Indoor Golf, one use, and GSVMEVO takes 5% off at FlightScope. All of them, with the room each needs, are in GSV's best launch monitor under $1,000 guide, and the launch monitor finder checks every unit against a budget and a room.
Square Golf HE alternatives
- Garmin Approach R105% off at Shop Indoor Golf with code GSV5OFF.First-time buyers only, one use. Not valid on a standalone Trackman, the Square Golf launch monitor or the ProTee VX.
- Rapsodo MLM2PRO5% off at Shop Indoor Golf with code GSV5OFF, first-time buyers.
- FlightScope Mevo Gen25% off at FlightScope with code GSVMEVO.
- Square Golf OMNI5% off at Square Golf with code GSVSQUARE.
Who the Square Golf HE fits
- It fits a golfer who: hits balls only indoors, in a garage, basement or spare room; wants a camera unit beside the ball for a short room; wants to chip and putt in the simulator; wants no yearly fee from the launch monitor maker; and is happy to use the patterned balls and a club marker.
- Look elsewhere for: the driving range or the course (the OMNI, the R10 or the Mevo Gen 2), club head speed and smash factor, any ball with no markings for full spin data, or tour-level precision for club fitting.
Square Golf discount code
Code GSVSQUARE takes 5% off the Square Golf HE and the OMNI at Square Golf USA, and GSV's Square Golf link applies it at checkout. In the UK and Europe, code SQUAREGSV works at SimSpace Golf. How to use both is on the Square Golf discount code page, and every other GSV code is on the golf simulator discount codes page.
Square Golf HE and OMNI: code GSVSQUARE
- Square Golf Home Edition5% off at Square Golf with code GSVSQUARE.
- Square Golf OMNI5% off at Square Golf with code GSVSQUARE.
Prices are on the shop's page. Codes last checked September 17, 2026.
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Free consultation with GSV's partner builders
Building a simulator around the Square Golf HE? Jay works with official partners: master builders he hand-picked, who get on a call quickly and make sure the launch monitor, the room and the screen fit before you buy anything. They offer package deals on the whole build, DIY packages, full installation, and more. The consultation is free.
Square Golf launch monitor: questions
Is the Square Golf launch monitor worth it?
For an indoor simulator on a budget, yes. At $699 MSRP it is the lowest-priced camera launch monitor GSV has tested, it sits beside the ball so it fits a short room, it chips and putts, and Square Golf charges no subscription for its app or for GSPro. It is indoor only, it uses patterned balls and a club marker for its full data, and it is not a tour-grade unit.
Is the Square Golf launch monitor accurate?
In GSV's tests it read driver ball speed and spin in line with what Jay sees on other launch monitors, read low-spin and high-spin driver misses, flop shots launching over 46 degrees, chips that carried under 3 yards and putts as short as a foot, with no full miss when the ball was centered in the hitting zone. Premium launch monitors are more precise, and a budget unit can have a random misread or a wider spread.
Does the Square Golf HE need marked golf balls?
For its full data, yes. Square Golf's manual lists backspin and sidespin as measured with its patterned balls and estimated with other balls; with a plain ball and no club marker, it gives an estimated backspin and no sidespin. Three patterned balls come in the box. Club path and attack angle need the club marker on the shaft.
Does the Square Golf launch monitor have a subscription?
No. Square Golf charges no subscription for the Home Edition, its app or its GSPro connection. The range, closest to the pin and putting practice in Square Golf's app are free, and course play in the app uses credits, with 1,000 included. GSPro itself is $250 a year from GSPro.
Does the Square Golf HE work with GSPro?
Yes, and Square Golf charges nothing for the connection. In GSV's November 2025 round, GSPro found the Square and connected on its own. GSPro is $250 a year and runs on a Windows PC.
Can the Square Golf HE be used outdoors?
No. Square Golf's manual asks for a room with little to no sunlight. The Square Golf OMNI, $1,599 MSRP, is Square Golf's unit for outdoor use.
How much room does the Square Golf launch monitor need?
It sits beside the ball, so it adds nothing to the depth of the room. Its hitting zone is about 6 x 6 in, centered about 16 1/2 in in front of the unit. In the GSV Sim Builder, a radar unit such as the Garmin R10 needs at least 15 ft 6 in of depth in a room 14 ft wide with a 10 ft ceiling.
Square Golf HE or Garmin R10?
The Square Golf HE, $699, for a dedicated indoor simulator in a short room, with putting and the short game. The Garmin R10, $599.99, for a golfer who also wants a unit for the driving range, in a room at least 15 ft 6 in deep in the GSV Sim Builder.
Is there a Square Golf discount code?
Yes. GSVSQUARE takes 5% off the Square Golf HE and the OMNI at Square Golf USA, and GSV's link applies it. In the UK and Europe, SQUAREGSV works at SimSpace Golf.
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