tobybarker
Active member
Considering buying a garmin R10. But unclear how it would handle the 80percent balls my range uses. Advice please
Launch monitor and range balls
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nickjdavis
Head Pro
Unless the ball needs to have any specific characteristics or markings in order to be recognised by the R10 I'd say it would be treated just like any other ball....The R10 doesn't know what you are hitting, it will just measure what it measures and calculate what it calculates. I am not familiar with the R10 but maybe it has a function where you can tell it that you are hitting a range ball and it might try to compensate or apply different flight calculations.
Now, having said that, I'm really not sure what value you are going to derive from using a launch monitor with range balls. If you have not seen this previously, follow the following link (OK...it seems to embed the actual post in this one) to see data where I compared several different balls on a Trackman system....ball 4 is a RANGE ball.
Now, having said that, I'm really not sure what value you are going to derive from using a launch monitor with range balls. If you have not seen this previously, follow the following link (OK...it seems to embed the actual post in this one) to see data where I compared several different balls on a Trackman system....ball 4 is a RANGE ball.
Well...today was the day....took 5 different balls with me and hit driver and 7 iron....have anonymized the balls because there is an obvious outlier which may (or may not) surprise you.
rulie
Head Pro
But ball 4 is nowhere near what our 80% range balls would be compared to the other premium balls in that chart! We use limited flight range balls (80%) at our course and periodically we'll find a regular ball in the pile that the range-picker has retrieved (our first fairway is next to the range). No comparison of an 80% range ball to a premium ball - not in the same ball park at least wrt to distance.
Mel Smooth
Hacker
The easiest way to asses this is play a few holes with a range ball, and whatever you play regularly and compare the figures.
I'm pretty sure the PRGR unit we have measures what it sees so if you hit a ball 150 yards it will tell you it's gone 150 yards. For us (well the youth, he uses it the most), it's a case of finding consistency and monitoring club and ball speed. If you're wanting to use a launch monitor and range balls to determine your yardages with a Pro V1 on a course - then it's always going to be ambiguous.
Swinglowandslow
Well-known member
What a post. Thank you. I find it very useful, because these distances are my distances for driver and 7 iron. ( age ….doesn’t help the ego, does itUnless the ball needs to have any specific characteristics or markings in order to be recognised by the R10 I'd say it would be treated just like any other ball....The R10 doesn't know what you are hitting, it will just measure what it measures and calculate what it calculates. I am not familiar with the R10 but maybe it has a function where you can tell it that you are hitting a range ball and it might try to compensate or apply different flight calculations.
Now, having said that, I'm really not sure what value you are going to derive from using a launch monitor with range balls. If you have not seen this previously, follow the following link (OK...it seems to embed the actual post in this one) to see data where I compared several different balls on a Trackman system....ball 4 is a RANGE ball.
Well...today was the day....took 5 different balls with me and hit driver and 7 iron....have anonymized the balls because there is an obvious outlier which may (or may not) surprise you.
) .I can see why ball 4 is the range ball, the values suggest that, but what I’d like to know is …..what is ball 3. ?
Edit.. sorry, I’ve now seen post 178 in other thread.
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tobybarker
Active member
Can the r10 be configured to know the balls are 80 percent balls? That way the yardages will be more accurate.....
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Just do it manually yourself in Excel afterwards? Divide every '80%' distance by 0.8 and that gives you your 100% distance.
harpo_72
Journeyman Pro
I have an R10, you can use the weather conditions settings to compensate but the R10 will measure directly ball speed and that is the factor that it uses to calculate distances. So an 80% ball could well be down on initial speed .. just check it by taking a used normal ball vs a range ball and see where it drops out. Spin is estimated from launch, I think, so it’s a bit of a guess.
I don’t really like the R10, for me it hasn’t really delivered and actually it’s something that I don’t use anymore because it frustrates me.
I don’t really like the R10, for me it hasn’t really delivered and actually it’s something that I don’t use anymore because it frustrates me.
