★Carried & Installed

Carl’s Place enclosures · Kansas City.

IntegrateIT carries and installs Carl’s Place across the Kansas City metro — the enclosures and impact screens our own simulator builds use as standard. One precision first, because the trade is sloppy about this word: Carl’s Place is a line we carry and install, not one we hold a dealer agreement on, so we do not call ourselves an authorized Carl’s Place dealer. What we are is the people who measure the room against the kit, frame it into structure, tension the screen properly and deal with the light, the power and the network the carton quietly assumes you already have. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

What we carry and install from Carl’s Place

Named the way the manufacturer names them. We specify and install to order rather than holding stock, and we size everything to the room rather than to a catalog default.

• DIY Golf Enclosure Kit with Impact Screen. The free-standing frame kit, shipped with a screen and Carl’s BlackStop enclosure fabric — the usual starting point for a home simulator bay.
• Pro Golf Simulator Enclosure Kit with Impact Screen. The heavier version, built on two-inch EMT framing for installs the manufacturer describes as needing commercial-grade strength. What we specify for a venue bay or a bay that gets used every day.
• Curved Golf Simulator Enclosure Kit with Impact Screen. A curved screen that wraps the field of vision, for a room where immersion matters more than the simplest possible frame.
• Built-In Golf Room Kit. The permanent build: a custom-sized Built-In Impact Screen anchored into the wall with cables and hardware, with wall and ceiling protection options. The right answer during new construction or a gut renovation, when the walls are open anyway.
• Standard, Preferred, Premium and High-Contrast Gray impact screens. The four grades, in the Classic, Classic with Flaps and Classic with Loop Fasteners finishing styles. The screen is chosen with the projector, never after it.
• Carl’s HotShot golf mat systems, hitting strips and mat base. The configurable hitting surface, with replaceable twelve-by-thirty-inch inserts — Standard, Foam Divot and Gel — so a worn landing area is refreshed rather than replaced.
• Carl’s Golf Room Floor Tile System. Interlocking foam tiles that make a cushioned, level subfloor under the turf, with tapered edge and corner pieces to finish the perimeter. Levelling the floor is what keeps the hitting strip flush with the turf.
• Net wall extensions, golf room curtains, acoustic tiles and wall tiles. The containment and the room treatment: extensions that stop a shanked ball leaving the bay, a curtain that turns a shared space into a sim room, and tiles that take the edge off a hard-surfaced room. Where a bay doubles as a media room, we treat it properly rather than tiling it.
• Projector and launch-monitor mounting. Flush, drop and frame-mount projector kits, the floor-mounted projector enclosure with its angling wedges, and the launch-monitor ceiling drop-mount and Pro-enclosure frame mount. We mount into structure; the frame mounts are for the cases where structure is not where you need it.
• Complete packages, including Carl’s Trackman 4 Pro Golf Package. Carl’s builds bundles around most launch monitors — the Trackman 4 package pairs the Pro enclosure and Premium screen with the unit, which lines up with our TrackMan and Uneekor dealer lines.

The kit is the easy part. The room is the job.

A kit gives you the enclosure hardware, the screen and usually netting or padding, with turf, mats and projector mounts alongside. What no kit contains is the room. It assumes ceiling height for a full driver swing, structure to anchor to, a level floor, control over the light landing on the screen, power where the projector and the PC need it, a wired network path, and a projector at the correct throw distance. Every install problem we are called about lives in that list rather than in the box.

• A square frame, anchored into structure. An out-of-square frame shows up as a trapezoid image and uneven screen tension, and no amount of keystone correction in the projector fixes it.
• Clearance behind the screen. The screen has to flex. Pushed against the back wall, every solid strike rebounds at you.
• The hitting strip flush with the turf. A strip standing proud changes your stance, then your strike, and then gets blamed on the launch monitor.
• The projector out of the ball path and out of your shadow. Throw, brightness and screen grade are one decision — the pairing piece covers it.
• Light you control. An impact screen is a matte, roughly neutral surface with no ambient-light rejection, so the fixtures and the shades matter more here than in a theater.
• A dedicated circuit and a wired drop. Not Wi-Fi. The simulator PC on cable is the difference between a session and a support call.

The long version — what a kit contains, what it assumes, and the five places a self-build goes wrong — is in our write-up on assembling a Carl’s Place kit, and the numbers that decide whether your room takes one are in the room-requirements guide. If the room is a garage, the conversion piece covers levelling, insulating and heating it first.

What goes in the bay with it

• A launch monitor from one of our dealer lines. TrackMan, Foresight Sports or Uneekor, mounted and aligned after the enclosure and flooring are in, because both move the reference.
• Architectural ceiling speakers. Sonance or Triad, so nothing sits in the swing path.
• Lutron lighting on a scene. One press takes the room from bright to projection-friendly.
• Ubiquiti for the wired drop. Carried and installed; the simulator PC and the bay hardware get cable, not radio.
• Control4 or Crestron Home in front of it. One command starts the projector, the lights and the PC.
• A room that doubles. Most of these bays are media rooms too — that combination has its own write-up.

Common questions