SimLight Golf

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Your garage is dark. The projector lights up the screen. You step up, swing, and the ball rockets off the face. The screen shows the ball flight — nice draw, 280, center fairway.

And then the room lights up green.

That’s it. That’s the whole thing. A wall of green light that says “yeah, that was pure.” No data readout, no impact screen popup. Just green. Because you hit it pure, and the room knows it.

This is what SimLight Golf does. It’s $149 in software and maybe $150 in hardware. And it turns an already-good sim room into something your buddies will talk about all winter.

What Is SimLight Golf?

SimLight Golf is a piece of software made by Norwell Labs LLC that connects your GSPro installation to smart LED strips in your sim room. When you hit a shot, the lights react instantly based on what happened:

• Pure strike — the room turns green
• Draw or fade — orange
• Made putt — gold
• Personal best — full rainbow
• Shank or bad miss — red
• Multiplayer — each player gets their own color profile

It’s not a lighting company making software. It’s a software company that happens to use lights. Which is the right way around — they nailed the software side first, then wrapped hardware around it.

The tech is simple: SimLight Golf runs on your Windows PC, reads shot data from GSPro through the OpenAPI, and sends commands to a WLED controller over your network. The WLED controller is a $15-20 device that connects to standard addressable LED strips (the same kind people use for DIY bias lighting behind TVs).

The Setup: What You Actually Need

SimLight Golf is not for someone who wants a single box and zero wires. It’s for someone who’s comfortable with a little DIY.

Software: $149, one-time. No subscription. You buy it on Lemon Squeezy, get an instant download link, and install it on Windows. 14-day money-back guarantee.

Hardware (sold separately, ~$130-185 total):

• Addressable LED strip (WS2812B or similar, ~$25-50 for a 5m roll)
• WLED-compatible controller (ESP32-based, $15-20)
• Power supply (matching your LED strip voltage, $15-25)
• Diffuser channel (optional, $30-60 — makes a huge difference in looks)
• Wiring/connectors ($10-20)

You don’t have to buy from Norwell Labs. Any WLED-compatible setup works. If you already have smart LED strips in your sim room, you might already have 90% of what you need.

Requirements:

• Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) — no Mac support
• GSPro installed (this only works with GSPro)
• PC and WLED controller on the same network
• About 30-45 minutes for hardware setup

Does It Actually Work?

Short answer: yes. And it’s surprisingly seamless.

You install the software, point it at your GSPro install path, tell it the IP address of your WLED controller, and it just works. Hit a ball in GSPro, the lights react. There’s no lag that matters — it registers in milliseconds between the shot registering in GSPro and the lights changing.

The color mappings are fully customizable. Don’t like green for pure strike? Make it blue. Want the shank color to be purple instead of red? Go ahead. The software has a color picker for every event type.

The multiplayer support is genuinely clever. When you set up a sim night with three buddies, each player gets their own color profile. You can tell who’s swinging by the room color. It turns an already good sim night into something that feels like a real production.

The Subscription-Free Pitch

SimLight Golf costs $149 once. That’s it. No annual renewal. No tiered plans. No “Pro” version that unlocks features that should have been in the base version. You buy it, you own it.

This is increasingly rare in sim golf software. GSPro is $250 a year. E6 Connect is $300 a year for the basic subscription. TGC 2019 is a one-time purchase at $895+. Everything is moving toward subscriptions because, well, recurring revenue is better for the companies.

SimLight Golf chose differently. They’re selling a product, not a lease. And for that, they get some real goodwill from the sim community.

Where It Falls Short

Being honest, there are two real limitations:

GSPro-only. If you use E6 Connect, TGC 2019, or any other sim software, SimLight Golf won’t work for you. This is a hard technical limitation — they built the integration through GSPro’s OpenAPI, and other software doesn’t have equivalent APIs. GSPro is the dominant sim software (and the one most owners recommend for GSPro setups), but it’s not the only one.

No mobile app. The configuration is entirely through the Windows software. You can’t change colors from your phone while you’re on the sim. It’s not a dealbreaker — set it once and forget it — but it would be nice.

The hardware setup also requires basic electrical competency. If you’ve never wired an LED strip before, you’ll need to spend 20 minutes watching a YouTube tutorial. It’s not hard — it’s three wires (power, ground, data) — but it’s not zero-effort.

The Verdict

SimLight Golf gets an 8.5/10 from me. The software is excellent. The price is fair. The experience is genuinely fun — not “that’s cool I guess” fun, but “hit the pure shot and the room turns green and you feel like a pro” fun.

The GSPro-only limitation keeps it from being a universal recommendation. But for the GSPro crowd — which is most serious sim owners — this is the best $300 you can spend on your sim room.

Your garage is dark. The ball is teed up. You swing.

The room turns green.

That feeling is worth the price of admission.

Buy SimLight Golf at simlightgolf.com. $149, one-time, 14-day money-back guarantee. You’ll need a WLED-compatible LED setup for the hardware side ($130-185 separate). It takes an hour to set up and you’ll smile every time you hit a pure shot from then on.