What Toptracer actually is
Toptracer is the camera system that draws those glowing arcs behind tee shots on golf broadcasts. The same technology is now bolted into driving-range bays: overhead cameras track your ball in flight and put the carry distance, total distance, ball speed, and shot shape on a screen right at your stall, seconds after you hit.
It's a vision-based system, which is the key difference from a radar launch monitor like Trackman. Toptracer is built for the range: it's as much about games and virtual courses as it is about raw numbers. You can close out a session by playing Pebble Beach against your buddies, run longest-drive contests, or just watch every shot trace and chase a tighter dispersion.
Toptracer vs. a launch monitor
If you want club-level data - club path, face angle, attack angle for a fitting or a lesson - that's radar territory, and Trackman or a similar launch monitor is the tool. Toptracer focuses on ball flight and the parts of your game you can see: how far it actually went, how straight, and how it stacks up shot to shot. For most golfers hitting a bucket after work, that's exactly the feedback that helps.
What it costs in BC
Toptracer pricing varies more than green fees do, because each range sets its own. The good news is it's often a small add-on rather than a premium tier. At Cultus Lake Golf Club, for example, using Toptracer in a standard stall has run about $15 an hour for up to two players, with buckets priced separately ($3 for a warm-up bucket up to $16 for the biggest). Their private Toptracer lounge - up to six people, unlimited balls included - sits around $69 an hour midweek and $79 on weekends.
Other ranges treat it as a flat add-on: at some BC venues you tack Toptracer onto any bucket for roughly $10. Either way, expect to pay a little more than a plain mat-and-bucket session, and a lot less than an hour in an indoor simulator.
Where to find Toptracer in BC
We tag every range we can confirm has Toptracer. The full, current list lives on the Toptracer ranges page - it updates as ranges add the system and as owners confirm their amenities. The technology is spreading steadily through the province, so a range near you that didn't have it last season may have added it.
If you run a range and you've installed Toptracer, claim your listing and we'll get the tag - and your bay counts - showing for the golfers searching for exactly that.
Updated June 2026 · DrivingRangeGolf.com