What's new
What's new in Home Nine
Here's what each version adds, newest first. The download page shows which version it offers.
We last updated these notes on October 31, 2026.
Version 0.5.0-beta.1
- A new sign-in screen. SIGN IN and CREATE ACCOUNT are tabs over one form, with bigger fields that are easier to read from the tee.
- Sign up with a code. Making an account in the game or on the website now sends a 6-digit code to your email. Type it in to finish, and your address is confirmed too. Older versions of the game send you to the website to sign up.
- Safer updates. The game only installs an update by itself when it's signed by us.
- Sign out everywhere means everywhere. Signing out everywhere, or changing your password, now also ends the game on any computer you signed in on. Sign in again there to keep playing.
- Your launch monitor connection is safer. A web page can no longer send shots to the game or knock your launch monitor off.
- Faster course imports. Imports read our own copy of the golf map and elevation data first, so a busy public map service no longer slows them down or stops them.
Version 0.4.0-beta.10
- Aim lines for putts and full shots. SETTINGS > DISPLAY AND SOUND has AIM LINE for full shots and PUTT AIM LINE for putts. A hidden aim line shows while you turn your aim, then goes when you stop.
- The camera follows a chip. On a short chip or pitch to the green, the camera follows the ball so you can see it land and run out.
- The green grid stays how you set it. GREEN GRID is AUTO, ON or OFF, and your choice holds for the next hole and the next round.
- Music in the arcade games. Block Blast plays island ukuleles, and skee-ball, darts, battleship and the inflatables each have songs of their own. Set it in SETTINGS > MUSIC.
- Battleship hits explode. A hit sets off an explosion and leaves the square burning. A sunk ship goes down and its wreck stays.
- Darts on an easel. The board leans back on an easel so you can see it from the tee. You throw lawn darts, and each one stays in the board until the game ends. Each player throws their own color.
- Block Blast starts in the middle. Each level's aim starts on the target straight out from the tee.
- Calmer water. Ponds no longer turn into a sheet of white when you look toward the sun, and the flag no longer shows in the water behind the green.
- Birds where they belong. Birdsong plays on the course and at the main menu, not while you practice.
- The golfer's collar is fixed. In the downloaded game the polo's collar no longer sits around the golfer's mouth.
Version 0.4.0-beta.9
- Simpler menus. Settings, Account, Players and Conditions are laid out in cards, each setting with a line saying what it does. Settings shows what most players change first, and the rest is under SHOW MORE.
- Changes save as you make them. No more SAVE button. Change a setting and it's saved, then press DONE.
- Switches and a volume slider. On and off settings are switches, and the volume is a slider.
- A cleaner account screen. Your name, your plan and your computers are on one card, with sign-in on another.
- Shot grades. On the range, each full shot gets a grade from S to E, measured against your own usual miss. Choose MY GAME, SCRATCH or OFF in SETTINGS > PLAY.
- Nova: path and face. The club card shows an estimated club path and face angle for monitors that only measure the ball.
- Move shots to the right player. Hit a session on the wrong player? MOVE TO... on the statistics screen gives the shots to whoever hit them.
- Move an account to the right player. Signed in on your kid's player? ACCOUNT > MOVE TO ANOTHER PLAYER puts your account on yours.
- Skee-ball is putted. Putt up a 25, 35 or 50 foot lane, off the ramp and into the rings, with a big 15 cm ball. Every ball rolls all the way to the bottom of its ring.
- One line per computer. Signed-in devices lists each computer once, however many times you sign in on it.
Version 0.4.0-beta.8
- Updates on their own. On Windows, the game downloads new versions in the background. Press RESTART TO UPDATE, or just keep playing and it installs when you quit.
- Install this one yourself. Earlier versions can't update themselves, so download this version once. After that, updates come to you.
Version 0.4.0-beta.7
- Stay signed in. On Windows, turn on KEEP ME SIGNED IN when you sign in, and the game signs you back in next time. It's kept encrypted for your Windows user. Turn it off any time with STAY SIGNED IN.
- Sync your stats now. SYNC MY STATS on the account screen saves your profile and stats to your account right away, and brings down anything newer.
- Pick your launch monitor. SETTINGS > LAUNCH MONITOR starts with a list of monitors. Pick yours, and the game sets up the connection and shows only the settings it needs.
- Nova: knows when it drops. If your Nova loses power or Wi-Fi, the game notices within about 15 seconds.
- Nova: FIND NOVA. The game finds your Nova on any network your computer is on, and remembers the one you pick.
- Nova: missed shots. If the Nova measured a shot that never reached the game, you'll see a message to hit it again.
- Nova: club card. The club card shows the shot shape and an estimated club speed.
- Spin when none is sent. A full shot that arrives with no spin gets the usual spin for the club in hand, so it doesn't drop out of the sky. The tile says SPIN (EST.).
- Discord community. The website links to our Discord for help from other players and from us.
Version 0.4.0-beta.6
- Your stats follow you. Your profile, range shots, rounds, skills games and short-game numbers are saved to your account. Sign in on another computer and they're there.
- Two computers per account. Home Nine runs on two computers at a time. Add another for $49.99, or move to a new one from your account page.
- Friends sign in free. A friend signing in at your simulator doesn't use one of their computers.
- Questions by topic. The questions page is sorted into topics, with new answers on setup, the Mevo, practice and the range games.
- Report a bug on the website. Sign in and tell us what went wrong at the new bug report page.
Version 0.4.0-beta.5
- Realistic water. The sea has real waves and foam, and ponds reflect the sky and the trees. It's on at the MEDIUM and HIGH graphics levels on Windows and Linux.
- Bigger splashes. A ball in the water throws up a tall splash, and rings spread out across the surface.
- Fuller rough. The rough has thicker, taller grass.
- Plants under the trees. Ferns, heather, clover and wildflowers grow under the trees, chosen for each course's region.
- Palms fixed. Palm crowns no longer show up bright blue.
Version 0.4.0-beta.4
- A new showcase hole. Plumeria Cove is a par 3 over a pond to a green set in flowering azaleas, with the sea past the flag. Every round on it is the Home Nine Invitational, with a grandstand, a leaderboard and a crowd.
- Skee-ball plays like skee-ball. Roll a wooden ball up the lane on the pier and the hump at the end throws it into the rings. Hit it harder to go deeper. You can still fly it in.
- Better palms. Courses in Florida and Hawaii have real-looking palm trees.
- CHECK AGAIN finds a game you just bought. If it can't reach the internet, as on a Mevo's Wi-Fi, it says so instead of "up to date."
Version 0.4.0-beta.3
- Branded emails. Emails from Home Nine now have the same navy and gold look as this site.
- Sign up on the website. Create your account here before you download the game.
- Updates show up sooner. A new version reaches the download page and the title screen as soon as it's built.
- Beta versions in the right order. The update check now knows beta.10 comes after beta.2.
Version 0.4.0-beta.2
- Nothing to set up online. The game connects to Home Nine's server by itself. There's no server address to type.
- GO OFFLINE. To have the game send nothing at all, select GO OFFLINE on the ACCOUNT screen. GO ONLINE turns it back on.
- A cleaner AIM LINE setting. In SETTINGS > DISPLAY AND SOUND, it's now a SHOW or HIDE choice like the other settings.
Version 0.4.0-beta.1
- Buy it once. Home Nine is $99.99, paid once. The monthly Pro plan is gone.
- A free 7-day trial. It starts the first time you sign in to the game and opens everything offline.
- After the trial, the practice range and your shot data stay open. Courses, skills games, drills and short game practice need the full game.
- Everything online is included. Online play, friends, matches, Tour Week, and rounds and courses saved online.
- Refunds. Get a full refund from your account page within 14 days of buying.
- Plays offline. Each computer keeps its own license, so the game runs without the internet and checks in when it starts.
Version 0.3.0-beta.2
- The Mevo stays armed when you change clubs. A new tee height or mode could leave it showing READY while it wasn't listening.
- Online from the start. The game starts connected to Home Nine's server, so accounts and online play work with nothing to type.
Version 0.3.0-beta.1
- Play online. Start a lobby and play a live round with up to three friends at their own simulators. Everyone plays at their own pace and sees the others' shots.
- Swing camera. One or two webcams record every swing. Watch it in slow motion after the shot, with body tracking for head movement, spine tilt and hip slide.
- Mac and Linux. Home Nine runs on macOS and Linux as well as Windows, and the Garmin R10 and Omni direct links work there too.
- Open Launch Nova. Connect a Nova directly over your home network.
- MONITOR TEST. Under SETTINGS > LAUNCH MONITOR, see your connection and every data field of your last ten shots.
- REPORT A PROBLEM. Send us what went wrong, with the monitor details we need. You see exactly what's sent first.
- LISTEN ON NETWORK. Launch monitor software on another computer or a tablet can send shots to the game.
- More launch monitors. Each one is listed by name and marked TESTED, SHOULD WORK or NEEDS TESTERS.
- Game night venues. Skee-ball on a pier, darts in a pub garden, battleship at sea, and inflatable targets at a fair.
- Better skee-ball and darts. Skee-ball has wooden rings, and darts is a real dartboard: count down from 301 and finish on a double.
Versions 0.2.0-beta.1 to 0.2.0-beta.11
Launch monitors
- FlightScope Mevo direct. A Mevo or Mevo+ connects over its own Wi-Fi, without FS Golf.
- Mevo setup in the game. Line up the hitting area with its camera, check tilt and roll, and set the ball type.
- Tee heights by club. Each player sets driver, wood and iron heights, sent to the Mevo as clubs change.
- Garmin R10 and Square Golf Omni direct. Both connect over Bluetooth with no other app.
- A READY light. The light by the club shows whether your next swing will count, and the game says why a monitor isn't working.
Courses and rounds
- A course library. A card for every course, four new built-in courses, and real courses imported with one press.
- Front 9, back 9 or one hole. Choose how much to play when you set up a round.
- Handicaps and net scores. Plus best ball, alternate shot and shamble, with closest to the pin and long drive in group rounds.
- Your rules. House rules, concessions in match play, auto-putt and gimmes for each player.
- Pin sheets. Up to six hole locations on every green.
- Real rules of play. Out of bounds where a real course has it, drop choices, unplayable lies, and optional uneven lies.
- A smarter caddie. It picks the club for how the shot plays, not just the yardage.
Practice and games
- Short game practice. Putting, chipping and bunker shots from any distance you choose.
- New range games. Gates, windows, stingers, the ladder, around the clock, shot shaper, and Block Blast across eight islands.
- New drills. Fairway finder for driving accuracy, and a wedge matrix that builds your own carry chart.
- Best scores. Every skills game and drill keeps your best.
- Aim on the range, and line up the picture with your screen using screen alignment.
- Club path animation in the club data card.
Watching and playing
- New views. Target view (J), a hole flyover (H), replay angles (V) and round highlights.
- A better-looking course. Golden hour light, deeper clouds, a seaside course, spectators and polo shirts.
- Your controls. Play with an Xbox or PlayStation controller, set your own keys or GSPro's, or use your phone as a remote.
- A new home menu. PLAY, PRACTICE and COMPETE, a two-step round setup, and help for your first session.
- A smaller download. The Windows download is about a third smaller.
Version 0.1.0
The first version, as it shipped. Some of this has changed since, as the newer versions above say.
What Home Nine does
- It flies the shot your launch monitor measured. Hit a real ball into a net or impact screen. Your monitor's software sends ball speed, launch angle and spin over GSPro Open Connect, and the game flies the ball from those numbers. It bounces and rolls differently on the fairway, rough, green and cart path.
- Real courses, from public maps. Import a course from public map data, then play it. Each course plays at its real altitude, with its trees and the houses and roads beside it.
- Courses of your own. Have the game make one or draw one in the designer. Every hole has four sets of tees.
- One to four players. Take turns on one scorecard, each with your own tees and handedness. Gimmes and mulligans are built in, and wind and lie affect every shot.
- The conditions you choose, or the real ones. Set the weather, green speed, firmness and time of day, with the sun in its real position. A plays like distance and a green grid show how each shot plays and how each green slopes.
- A range for real practice. See carry, dispersion and gapping for every club, with a dispersion plot and CSV export. There are skills games too, including inflatable targets for kids, and a caddie that uses your own distances.
- Club data. If your monitor measures the club, a card after each shot shows club speed, smash factor, attack angle, club path, face angle and impact location.
- No account, no internet. The full game plays on your own PC. An account is optional and only needed for cloud features.
New in this version
- More ways to play with friends. Stableford, match play and scramble join stroke play and skins. In a scramble, two to four players hit every shot as a team and play on from the best ball.
- Customize your golfer. Choose hair, clothes, shoes, hats and colors for each player, and save looks to use again.
- Inflatable targets. Kids aim at big landing rings on the range and build hit streaks.
- Replay the last shot. Press V to watch the flight, bounces and roll again, with the cameras, tracer and sound.
- Putting with a webcam. A putting camera can send putts through the MLM2PRO-GSPro-Connector while your launch monitor stays connected for full swings. The green shows each putt's read, start line and pace.
- Live weather from the U.S. National Weather Service. It covers courses in the United States. Courses elsewhere play in the weather you choose, and the game tells you so.
- Tour Week. Play a weekly event on the course the pro tour is playing, one round a day. Daily and weekly leaderboards come with a pro's score to beat, trophy case awards and season points.
- Drills on the practice ground. Play the approach challenge, up-and-down, bunker challenge, putting ladder and long drive. One to four players can play on four holes built for practice.
- Courses in the cloud. Save your courses to your account and open them on another PC. With Pro, you can publish them for other players. You can also browse published courses, see each one's map credit before you download and report one that's wrong.
- My rounds. See every round saved in the cloud, newest first, with your playing partners.
- Friends and private matches. Add friends with a friend code. A Pro player can set up a private match on a cloud course. Friends each play one round in the same conditions, on a board only they see.
- Watch a round again. Rounds saved in the cloud can be replayed shot by shot, with the cameras, tracer and sound. Watch your own, a friend's, the rounds in your matches or any Tour Week entry.
- Achievements and the locker. Rounds saved in the cloud earn achievements, like breaking 90 or three birdies in a round. Some unlock a ball color, a tracer color, a bag colorway or a title.
- Computer players. Add a computer player, from tour level to a 28 handicap. It plays its own shots on the course.
- Photo mode. Press F to freeze the game, move the camera anywhere and save a picture.
- Looks and sounds. The game has recorded golf sounds and a swing for each club. Bunkers have cut edges, ponds reflect their banks, and a cup camera shows putts that drop.
- Display settings. Choose the window mode, resolution, graphics level and frame limit. The title screen also tells you when a newer version is out.
- Polish. You'll see a clearer shot strip, the putt's line on the green, calmer sand and water, better-looking woods, birdsong in the trees and a shorter pause menu.
Your account and this site
- Your account on the web. Sign in here to confirm your email, change your name or password, see where you're signed in, and manage your plan.
- Your data. Download my data on your account page saves a copy of everything we keep about you. You can also change your account's email address.
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