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Ryder Cup Winner
I mentioned on the "what have you bought" thread that I'd ordered these last week, and I've now had the chance to try them out a few times.
Ideally I'd have loved a cage to hit into but I wanted something that I could use inside with a standard height ceiling so this is what I came up with.
It comes folded up in a hula hoop (the child's toy, not the crisp) sized bag, and to put it up you literally let it unfold itself. Their video shows it being easy to fold up too but I've not tried that yet. While it's cold and dark outside it can stay where it is.
When open it forms a triangular shape. The downside of that is that when hitting wedges it's only about 4' wide at the height the balls are hitting the net, but the frame at the sides tilts away from you so you can get within 3' or so of the opening.
I've missed the net twice so far but they were both shanks caused by lazy swings. I've hit more sockets than that but only 2 escaped, and I think they went between the frame and the net rather than missing the opening altogether. I've no idea how, but neither ball hit anything breakable.
As long as the net that touches the floor is not facing away from you and tucked under itself it sends the ball back to you along the floor. I've probably hit around 300 shots into it so far and had to retrieve the ball less than a dozen times.
The Callaway mat is really solid, but very small. It's very nice to hit balls from with a plush fake grass surface backed by quite heavy rubber. It moves on my laminate floor especially when I get a bit steep as I've a tendency to do, but considering the surface it's on I didn't expect anything different.
The biggest downside for me is that I'm standing on the floor so the ball is maybe an inch above my feet so I need to figure something out for that.
The SC200 is better than I expected. The swing speeds it's given me are very much where I expected them to be, and although I don't know what the carry distances should be exactly because a) it's cold, b) I've either been using range balls or inside where I can't swing freely on full swings and c) I'm favouring my shoulder slightly, they seem 'ball park' right.
In all the balls I've hit so far it's only missed 3 that I remember.
I won't say too much more about what it does because it's only stuff you can read of their product specs page, but the approach mode is great. I'm normally getting bored towards the end of a bucket of balls but time flew trying to beat my last score with this. It would be nice if you could specify the range of the random distances it asks you to hit but that's a minor gripe. You can always choose your own distances in practice mode (just hit the ball and it tells you the distance) or target mode (you set a distance up to 200 I think and it scores you on 10 consecutive shots).
One final thought - it really needs a button to delete the last shot from averages. You can look at stats for each club for either 'today' or all time, but to be useful for gapping averages you really need to be able to ignore a bad shot.
I'm going to post a couple of videos I've taken tonight. One from behind me showing the net (although you can hear the voice caddie) and one just showing the SC200 as I play the approach game.
Each is 10 shots and between 3-4 minutes, so unless you're really bored you only need to see a little bit to get an idea of the products.
On the SC200 screen: before I hit the shot it shows the target distance and my score so far, and after the shot it shows carry distance, club speed, ball speed, smash factor and score for that shot. Speaking of the score, it's a little on the generous side. You have to be way off to score less than about an 8 although I haven't experimented to see exactly how far away gets how many points. I remember being 9yds out and getting 8! Spot on scores 11 which is weird.
The 3 items together aren't cheap cheap, but considering the use I'll get out of them for less than the cost of a new M1 I'm very happy with them so far.
Ideally I'd have loved a cage to hit into but I wanted something that I could use inside with a standard height ceiling so this is what I came up with.
It comes folded up in a hula hoop (the child's toy, not the crisp) sized bag, and to put it up you literally let it unfold itself. Their video shows it being easy to fold up too but I've not tried that yet. While it's cold and dark outside it can stay where it is.
When open it forms a triangular shape. The downside of that is that when hitting wedges it's only about 4' wide at the height the balls are hitting the net, but the frame at the sides tilts away from you so you can get within 3' or so of the opening.
I've missed the net twice so far but they were both shanks caused by lazy swings. I've hit more sockets than that but only 2 escaped, and I think they went between the frame and the net rather than missing the opening altogether. I've no idea how, but neither ball hit anything breakable.
As long as the net that touches the floor is not facing away from you and tucked under itself it sends the ball back to you along the floor. I've probably hit around 300 shots into it so far and had to retrieve the ball less than a dozen times.
The Callaway mat is really solid, but very small. It's very nice to hit balls from with a plush fake grass surface backed by quite heavy rubber. It moves on my laminate floor especially when I get a bit steep as I've a tendency to do, but considering the surface it's on I didn't expect anything different.
The biggest downside for me is that I'm standing on the floor so the ball is maybe an inch above my feet so I need to figure something out for that.
The SC200 is better than I expected. The swing speeds it's given me are very much where I expected them to be, and although I don't know what the carry distances should be exactly because a) it's cold, b) I've either been using range balls or inside where I can't swing freely on full swings and c) I'm favouring my shoulder slightly, they seem 'ball park' right.
In all the balls I've hit so far it's only missed 3 that I remember.
I won't say too much more about what it does because it's only stuff you can read of their product specs page, but the approach mode is great. I'm normally getting bored towards the end of a bucket of balls but time flew trying to beat my last score with this. It would be nice if you could specify the range of the random distances it asks you to hit but that's a minor gripe. You can always choose your own distances in practice mode (just hit the ball and it tells you the distance) or target mode (you set a distance up to 200 I think and it scores you on 10 consecutive shots).
One final thought - it really needs a button to delete the last shot from averages. You can look at stats for each club for either 'today' or all time, but to be useful for gapping averages you really need to be able to ignore a bad shot.
I'm going to post a couple of videos I've taken tonight. One from behind me showing the net (although you can hear the voice caddie) and one just showing the SC200 as I play the approach game.
Each is 10 shots and between 3-4 minutes, so unless you're really bored you only need to see a little bit to get an idea of the products.
On the SC200 screen: before I hit the shot it shows the target distance and my score so far, and after the shot it shows carry distance, club speed, ball speed, smash factor and score for that shot. Speaking of the score, it's a little on the generous side. You have to be way off to score less than about an 8 although I haven't experimented to see exactly how far away gets how many points. I remember being 9yds out and getting 8! Spot on scores 11 which is weird.
The 3 items together aren't cheap cheap, but considering the use I'll get out of them for less than the cost of a new M1 I'm very happy with them so far.
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