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I've got the sc100 had it probably 6 months used it once :) Its spends its life sat in the drawer at home lol
 
How long do you guys think a proper good golf monitor will be released for home use at an affordable price....

By affordable I mean a lot of golfers would fork out for even though still pricey... Maybe a little more than a lithium trolley like £800-1k?

And by good I mean GC2/HMT combo?

It will happen but 5 years, 10 years or what?

Reason I'm asking is that I've been doing the wife's head in saying the next place we move into I'm building full simulator(we stay in a flat just now).... I think it's gonna be a 5 year plan for now but at current prices have no chance as would cost about £10k for full set up
 
turkish said:
How long do you guys think a proper good golf monitor will be released for home use at an affordable price....

By affordable I mean a lot of golfers would fork out for even though still pricey... Maybe a little more than a lithium trolley like £800-1k?

And by good I mean GC2/HMT combo?

It will happen but 5 years, 10 years or what?

Reason I'm asking is that I've been doing the wife's head in saying the next place we move into I'm building full simulator(we stay in a flat just now).... I think it's gonna be a 5 year plan for now but at current prices have no chance as would cost about £10k for full set up
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I think even £10k would be optomistic especially if you wanted HMT with the GC2 - pretty sure thats £10k gone straight away!

a projector, cage, mat, screen etc would set you back another couple of grand if done properly and thats before you even build the building with ceilings at least 3m high (assuming your not moving into an old house with high ceilings).
 
Ok so even more- was just really basing it on Nosevi's setup which seems pretty high tech and think it cost him £11k for the lot.

So how long do we think actual good indoor monitors(so not Radar) will be within the £800-£1k range?

Trackman and foresights business models obviously work as they are still in business but eventually as price comes down to produce (and tech more established) they could probably make far more selling to mass market so IMO prices will eventually fall into that category.
 
I've considered buying something for the past few years but all the consumer devices just seem too basic to be of much value. IMHO.

Pretty much all the affordable consumer units just seem to give a ball speed and a calculated carry.

I think for it to be worth the investment it would need to be about £500 but have to give impact conditions and ball flight as well.

Even then I think £500 would be better spent on lessons with a coach with a professional setup who could translate the data and provide swing improvements as a result.
 
Westy said:
I've considered buying something for the past few years but all the consumer devices just seem too basic to be of much value. IMHO.

Pretty much all the affordable consumer units just seem to give a ball speed and a calculated carry.

I think for it to be worth the investment it would need to be about £500 but have to give impact conditions and ball flight as well.

Even then I think £500 would be better spent on lessons with a coach with a professional setup who could translate the data and provide swing improvements as a result.
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I agree about spending the money on lessons, but that's a single one fee weekly, fortnightly, monthly or more, the in between time needed to practice to groove in teacher changes is money you need to spend on the range and at say £5 or more for 80-100 balls twice a week during the winter that soon mounts up to a tidy sum.

Okay still no where near enough to buy a monitor out right, but if you did buy one, you could then practice 7 days a week at home. The way I look at it is that if I was doing 7 days a week at the range that would be £35 or £140 a month, based on that the monitor would soon pay for itself, then you can factor in, no travel time to the range, not using the car so less to fill up, more time with the family and missus (though some may see not see that as a benefit)

The down sides are where do you install one at home, if you have the space inside, champion you're warm and would no doubt practice a lot, if however you have to put it outside, you still have to light the practice area, in the winter, you still have rain, cold and probably snow to contend with, only the most determined would be out in their back garden in the cold practicing then.

Launch monitors, I would love one, but have no space inside to fit one, maybe when I win the lottery something like this

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Yeah Khamelion that's what my thoughts are- Less time out the house- even practicing an hour a day would be ideal without all the travel; spending money at the range- not to mention getting tempted by the kit in the shops(who am I kidding)

My main aim is to move into a house that will already have a suitable place to install it- IE garage/conversion that can be made into one...

The selling point to the Mrs is that it will double as a cinema room for the family ;-)

Lottery win please!!!
 
Don't get me wrong if I had the space and the spare money I'd almost definitely do something like this.

I guess the point I was trying to make, badly ;), is that the current crop of affordable consumer units like the ES type models offer such basic functionality that I don't think their worth the money.

As I say just my opinion. :)
 
turkish said:
Yeah Khamelion that's what my thoughts are- Less time out the house- even practicing an hour a day would be ideal without all the travel; spending money at the range- not to mention getting tempted by the kit in the shops(who am I kidding)

My main aim is to move into a house that will already have a suitable place to install it- IE garage/conversion that can be made into one...

The selling point to the Mrs is that it will double as a cinema room for the family ;-)

Lottery win please!!!
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Ive been looking at doing something similar in the garden and have found second hand GC2s for about £4k, my plan would absolutely be to make a business out of it though, in the evening i'd charge something like £20 an hour for people to come and use it.

although i wouldnt be expecting to quit work for it, renting it out would help recoup some of the cost.

I'd be fairly confident that i'd get some uptake given that the nearest one (and not great quality) is bristol.
 
I've been looking at these in a bit more detail lately and the current best compromise between price and performance seems to be the SkyTrak.

If you know someone in the States who could maybe carry it across the pond for you, they cost $2000 there - around £1300. Not an insignificant amount of money for sure, but about 1/3 of GC2 territory.

Still quite new, so it will be interesting to see reviews by ordinary people ands I would certainly want to before investing my hard-earned, but for me it ticks a lot of boxes - ball speed, launch angle, spin all directly measured, not overly critical of lighting, no mat based sensors so it can be used anywhere, sim software coming soon.
 
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