Fairway Studio

Lay out a golf hole on open ground, shape every green and bunker, then watch the flyover at golden hour. It runs in your browser, free.

Open Fairway Studio

Fairway Studio is free and opens in a browser tab. You don't install anything or sign up, and your courses are saved on your own computer.

Every hole starts with three clicks.

Click where the tee goes, then a landing area, then the green. Fairway Studio builds the whole hole between them, with four sets of tees.

From there you push it around. Drag a bunker into the landing area, stretch the fairway, raise the ground behind a green, plant a row of pines. Par, the yardage from every tee and the slope of each green update while you work.

1 Par 4
  • 431
  • 406
  • 376
  • 336
28415150 yds
2 Par 3
  • 191
  • 176
  • 161
  • 136
19550 yds
3 Par 5
  • 603
  • 573
  • 538
  • 489
25221014450 yds

The three holes in the film above, drawn from the course file Fairway Studio saves.

Low behind the ball on hole 1 at 6:24pm, long tree shadows lying across the fairway.
Hole 1, low behind the ball, 6:24pm

Then you get to watch it.

Seven cameras know how to film a golf hole: the broadcast path from tee to green, a drone, a low chase behind the ball, the golfer's view from the tee, the view from behind the green, an orbit, and a free camera you fly with the keyboard.

Move the sun anywhere from 5 in the morning to 9 at night. When a shot looks right, save the flyover as a video or the routing plan as an image.

Open Fairway Studio

Best with a mouse on a laptop or desktop.

Broadcast camera crossing the pond on hole 2.
01Broadcast
Drone camera high over the par 5.
02Drone
Chase camera following the ball down hole 1.
03Chase
Golfer's view from the back tee on hole 1.
04Golfer
Looking back down hole 1 from behind the green.
05Greenside
Orbit camera circling the green on hole 2.
06Orbit
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