A $9 million San Diego home has a $100,000 Full Swing sim room

MrShortGame's latest home-golf tour stops at a house in the Santa Luz area of San Diego. His Nov. 9 video calls it a $9 million golf paradise. The house is for sale, and the listing agent, Chris, joins the homeowner, Jen, for the walkthrough.

The house

Chris says the home was built in 2023, which he calls rare for the gated part of Santa Luz, where most houses are Spanish Mediterranean. A private club sits around the corner, and Jen says she takes a lesson there once a week. The golf wing opens with a bar she designed with wine chillers on both sides. Past that are three guest bedrooms, each with a full bathroom, and a TV wall that can show several games at once.

The simulator room

The centerpiece is a Full Swing simulator in a room with 12-foot ceilings. The host points out deep wood acoustic panels on the walls, more paneling inside the enclosure, guards for stray shots, and barn doors that close the room off when the kids are asleep. Asked what it cost, Jen says about $90,000, then about $100,000, and calls it money well spent.

For the sim test, the group played the seventh hole at Pebble Beach, the short par 3 he uses for every episode of the series. Jen, the first woman to take on his challenge, got extra swings after a setup tip and a reminder to grip it more softly. Chris won the closest-to-the-pin with a shot that finished 21 feet away.

The backyard

Outside, Back Nine Greens built a short-game setup with three tee boxes, two of them up on a hill, and bunkers the host wanted to test. Jen says she practices out there a couple of times a week on top of a weekly range session and her lesson.

He gave her the ladder drill to take home. Chip the first ball so it lands on the green and stops as short as possible. Hit each ball after that just past the one before, and start over after a miss. His point is that short game is mostly feel, and the drill builds it without a lot of swing thoughts. They finished with a three-hole chipping match from about 30 yards and broke nothing, which the host called a record for his show.

If you're planning a build, copy the room spec: tall ceilings, real acoustic treatment and shot guards. The ladder drill works on any practice green.