supo Posted March 9, 2022 Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 Hit the range last weekend for my first sesshy of the season, surprisingly i hit them extremely well, was very happy with the irons , smoked them actually, a nice 15*c and just a hint of a tiny into draw crosswind to make it interesting , great session really. A random guy in the bay next to me had a portable little swing measurer that measured the ball speed, distance smash factor , in fact lots of measurements , he gave me a try of it. I loved it cudnt take my eyes off it totally threw me off my concentration.. ive never bothered to use one of these before and found out str8 away it totally fkks up ur rythm bec u immediatly try and crush the bloody ball to max out the numbers. anyway....... once i put the mental D ... measuring device to the back of the mind , i relasied this cud be a very good tool , esp if u have more than 1 set of clubs , which, id guess more than 1 or 2 of us have. point in fact. i had 2 ,6 irons in hand both from yamaha , the tour 2009s with crazy cbi and the 1980s sx with fujikura mci both about the same weight. i postulated they were not the same loft..............................................and the 09 wud be longer well on the trackman thingy the SX flew 166-171 yards and the 2009 went 172-177 yards. now, before i actually saw this i wud had said maybe 5 yards differernce at max but 10? thast a whole club! the 2009 7 iron for eg was a consistant 161-166 max. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, food for thought. onto the woods....... they seemed pretty consistant with what i think i hit on course , 3 wood was going 240+/- yards and the driver swing speed was 105-108 but only going about 265 ish , the smash factor as i was shown was all over the place, a good one is high 140s , i however was low 140s , at best , hopefully ill put that down to early season rust not an oh shiit , lawn bowls is in my immediate future. The guy said he cud see me slicing the ball which accounts for the low distance with driver and it felt like i wasnt quite nailing it ............... work to be done ! Now im over the " just see how long i am thing " im going to grab one as it most certianly gives me excellent data on what each club can produce bec , i may just have more than i set i need to measure. question ......... does anyone have one of these and can reccomend one , i have no idea what he had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-500 Posted March 9, 2022 Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 The PRGR red eyes is supposed to be ok for how relatively cheap it is compared to other small launch monitors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supo Posted March 10, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2022 got one. by YUPITERU called atlas. this is the one i used. its triffic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobmontana Posted March 17, 2022 Report Share Posted March 17, 2022 I had the Yupiteru ATLAS GST-6W... great tool. but after 6 years or so, the internal rechargeable battery is now dead and can't hold charge. So I need to use it along with an external USB battery pack connected to it... 😞 While the accuracy of these things is questionable , I still find it very useful for comparing distances I get against different clubs or head-shaft combos. As with any launch monitor, the measurement comparison needs to happen on the same device... ( i.e. you can't compare Trackman data against a Yupiteru. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supo Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 nobs thats baically the only thing i want it for.. as a tool for going ok, my 5/6/7 irons go this far, with those shafs t i think it cud be a GREAT tool. i use more than 1,234,566,789 sets of irons per season as u know, and im quite often wrong with my distance sat .to sudnday when i swap sets on the same course. which does my head in! so a check to measure carry i think cud help a lot. i dont have access to trackman so cant use that. thinking is, if i miss one less green short on the par 3s , that can make a decent impact to my score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobmontana Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 I remember Ryo Ishikawa long time ago used to carry one in his bag to use at warm ups before a round... swing speed measurement was his way of measuring physical condition for that day which I think is also a legit way to use one ... different day, different swing (speed) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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