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No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

1103: The World of Simulator Golf with Carl Markestad

No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

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Sports, Golf

4.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Carl Markestad - owner of Carl's Place in Milton, Wisconsin - has turned what started out as a business focused on outdoor projector screen setups into one of the largest indoor golf simulator companies in the country. As winter sets in across the country, DJ and Carl discuss the evolution of the indoor golf simulator, technological updates that have drastically lowered the price point of a home setup, common misconceptions around simulator installs, and a ton more. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://nolayingup.com/esf⁠ Support our Sponsors: East Sands Golf Co If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Be the right club.

0:07.2

Be the right club today.

0:09.0

Yes.

0:10.2

Yeah, that's better than most.

0:15.7

How about him?

0:17.7

That is better than most.

0:20.1

Better than most. Better than most. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Nolanga podcast.

0:31.6

My name is DJ.

0:32.6

Got an interview for you today, kind of a bonus episode for you today.

0:36.6

I got an interview with a guy named Carl Markstad, who is the founder of a company called Carl's Place, which is a company I had not heard of before.

0:46.7

But they are a major player in the golf simulator game.

0:50.9

I got golf simulators on the mind, I would say, as of as of late, because

0:55.9

A, it's very, very cold at my house where I live here in Wisconsin. And, you know, the idea

1:02.6

of me playing golf out on green grass in the real world is still quite far off. And so I've

1:08.5

been thinking about simulator golf, which clearly I'm not going to be

1:11.4

breaking any news here is very much on the rise. And that kind of brings me to the second thing,

1:15.5

which is that I think for the last, I don't know, 20 years, I feel like I've had this like

1:21.3

conception preconceived notion of what golf simulators are. I mean, I remember in high school,

1:27.4

I would walk into dick's sporting goods

1:30.5

pj tour super store golf galaxy whatever and you know you see a whole wing of the building

1:35.2

that's been fitted out as you know this golf simulator and it probably cost 200 000 dollars and

1:40.5

they use it for club fittings and this that and the other thing and you know i think i just walked around for a very long time with that in my head. Like, that's what a golf simulator is. And obviously, things have changed immensely over the last 20 years as technology has changed. Launch monitors have changed. The space it takes to put one of these in has gotten a lot smaller.

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