Originally posted by fritz:
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Originally posted by G-Man:
For the golf simulator, I am leaning toward the Uneekor Eye XO
Has anyone had experience with this simulator?
I haven't seen the Uneekor in my neck of the woods.
A buddy has a budget-conscious garage simulator based on the Garmin R10. It works fairly well, using E6 Connect as the software. I don't think Garmin is all that accurate with ball spin -- it under estimates both back and side spin.
The nearby PGA Superstore started with Foresight GC2 monitors in the public bays, with the additional units to measure spin in the fitting bays. These worked pretty well, and had only a few mis-reads. They later picked up a couple of GC Quads for the custom fitting bays. The GC Quad is very accurate. With the dots on the club face, it measures strike location and club path very accurately.
Not all that long ago, PGA Superstore upgraded all the public hitting bays to GCHawk overhead units, and installed TrackMan in the 3 custom fitting bays. GCHawk is great for bouncing between right and left handed players -- the weakness with GC2 and GC Quad. The GCHawk doesn't do as good of job picking up club face dots like the GC Quad, and thus the club metrics aren't as good for the overhead units. But GCHawk has virtually no mis-reads. They use FSX2020 software -- maybe not the highest graphics quality, but it's fast and plays well.
I've been on TrackMan less often than Foresight's systems. A bigger room is necessary for TrackMan, and it's best to use ProV1 RCT balls to accurately pick up spin. Trackman does have some delay in showing ball flight -- it's not instantaneous like Foresight and FXS2020. Trackman doesn't always pick up strike location on the club face, both for woods and irons. Earlier this week I was fitted for new irons with Trackman, and it caught strike locations on the 7-iron faces quite intermittently. The fitter often had to rely on my feedback of where the strikes occurred. PGA has big bays for the custom fitting and there were hardly any mis-reads with ball spin.
Get a good mat and be prepared to replace/move/rotate it. I have a definite downward attack angle, and thus worn-out mats punish my wrists and middle & ring fingers. If you have a shallow/sweeper attack angle this isn't so critical.
Don't scrimp on the projection screen. Go for durability over uber-high resolution. Your ball impacts will stretch and dent the screen, causing the impact area to sag. Understand that beefier screens will also wear out the ball's cover faster. Between my tendency to shave the ball cover with short irons and the projection screen, my ProV1s look pretty trashed after 6-8 sim rounds.
