SVB
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Yes - well done, I was trying to remember the name.
Pro's Launch Monitors
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DanFST
Head Pro
My range balls say "floater" on them, safe to say theres no point tracking them!
Piece
Tour Winner
Correct. Their range balls are excellent, around 90% mark. The fitting balls are proper yellow Srixon Z Stars
Sybez
Challenge Tour Pro
Flightscope prices are as follows, give or take a few quid...
Xi = £1995+vat
Xi+ = £3995+vat
X2 = £10k+vat
Skytrak has just launched in the States and is coming in at $2k so with conversion should be cheaper in Uk when released. Rumours of another system coming to market in 2015 are also around on the U.S. forums. Which should all drive down the prices of the higher priced units....
I just bought a FS Xi+ unit, should be here tomorrow!
ne:
Xi = £1995+vat
Xi+ = £3995+vat
X2 = £10k+vat
Skytrak has just launched in the States and is coming in at $2k so with conversion should be cheaper in Uk when released. Rumours of another system coming to market in 2015 are also around on the U.S. forums. Which should all drive down the prices of the higher priced units....
I just bought a FS Xi+ unit, should be here tomorrow!
ne:
Nosevi
Head Pro
Flightscope and trackman are radar based systems. GC2 is camera. Loosely speaking, the outdoor radar ones tell you where your ball has gone and uses that info to reverse calculate some of the ball data (e.g. spin), whereas the camera one tells what your ball has done immediately and then extrapolates some data (e.g. distance). When it's windy, club fitting is difficult with radar as it can't definitively tell whether you've snap hooked it or the wind has blown it....
The GC2 with HMT is probably the best LM around, IMHO. The HMT can tell you what's happening with the ball and club at impact by directly measuring it, whereas the radar can't 'see' the club-ball interaction and has to second guess what it thinks is happening based on ball flight.
In all, they are pretty much on the money. My personal preference is GC2 HMT hitting outdoors, with the least favourite indoor Flightscope.
IMHO.
Hi guys. New to this place having got sick to death with having my posts deleted on a US Golf forum whenever the moderators or admin decided it didn't agree with their (very narrow IMO) view of the world. Drove me nuts.
Anyway (IMO of course) the above is spot on. If you want to know where the last shot went, get a radar system. If you want to accurately know why, buy a GC2. The limitations of the doppler radar systems stem from the fact they can't measure spin axis and can't 'see' the clubface. I won't bore you with why they can't measure the spin axis but I tested doppler radars for the military so have a fair idea how they work
I looked at all the systems out there in detail and the GC2 was definitely the one for me. Not to say there's anything wrong with the radars, they just don't quite do what a GC2 does.p.s. Getting some craziess with the forum jittering and missing letters etc - my snag or a forum one?
My set up:
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SVB
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Hi guys. New to this place having got sick to death with having my posts deleted on a US Golf forum whenever the moderators or admin decided it didn't agree with their (very narrow IMO) view of the world. Drove me nuts.
Anyway (IMO of course) the above is spot on. If you want to know where the last shot went, get a radar system. If you want to accurately know why, buy a GC2. The limitations of the doppler radar systems stem from the fact they can't measure spin axis and can't 'see' the clubface. I won't bore you with why they can't measure the spin axis but I tested doppler radars for the military so have a fair idea how they work
My set up:
Nope, not envious at that set up, not one little bit.
Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
Off for a Ping fitting this Sunday at somewhere that has nFlight and GC2, I am sure this is what Crossfield uses now when he is showing distances. I am always a bit skeptical when the launch monitor says I have hit a 7 iron 165 yards when in reality on the course I struggle to get anywhere near that. So I'll see what this set up says.
Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
Hi guys. New to this place having got sick to death with having my posts deleted on a US Golf forum whenever the moderators or admin decided it didn't agree with their (very narrow IMO) view of the world. Drove me nuts.
Anyway (IMO of course) the above is spot on. If you want to know where the last shot went, get a radar system. If you want to accurately know why, buy a GC2. The limitations of the doppler radar systems stem from the fact they can't measure spin axis and can't 'see' the clubface. I won't bore you with why they can't measure the spin axis but I tested doppler radars for the military so have a fair idea how they work
p.s. Getting some craziess with the forum jittering and missing letters etc - my snag or a forum one?
My set up:
My set up is much like that. Well apart from the launch monitor. And screen, And I don't even have a garage. But I have a cheap plastic mat!
Nosevi
Head Pro
Thanks guys. The garage was built specially for the sim (and car in a carcoon) so the ceiling is just shy of 11 foot high. Getting the sim past the 'boss' was the easy part, it was securing funds for the bar and pool room upstairs that was tricky. I'll stop now, I just love my new garage a little bit
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