Foresight GC2 - Initial thoughts

Wow.

 

That just about covers it guys.

 

Just recieved my GC2a Launch Monitor from Foresight Sports and had a blast with it today - seriously impressed. I took it to my local range along with my laptop and compared actual ball flight with the ball flight on the laptop. It was spot on every time. When the actual ball flight was a small fade of a yard or two, that's exactly what the flight on the laptop showed. A small draw shed exactly that. It was a pretty calm day and firing shots at a 100 yard flag (lasered) and on the laptop they fell exactly where they were falling in real life. I'd say it was good to within a yard or so in any direction.

 

Once I had confidence in the data I was getting I spent a bit of time playing with launch angle and spin rate on my driver, I tend to spin the ball far too much and it stalls a bit. As I got my spin rate down to about 2500 rpm I was able to see a pretty instant gain in distance. The funny thing is part of reducing the spin was backing off on the drive a tad - actually went further than when I thrashed it which just sent my spin numbers skyward. Lesson learnt there!

 

Back home I spent a bit of time hitting into a net and had a blast on one of the courses, The Brabazon, which was good fun and will keep me occupied should the snow close the courses and ranges. I've got 4 others Turnberry Pebble Beach, La Tempete and Spyglass coming soon.

 

All in all I was hugely impressed. For my money this system is the way forward, particularly for home practice with limited ball flight - you only need 8 inches. I haven't (yet) got the HMT addon that tracks the clubhead and gives all the data such as dynamic loft, face angle, etc as I have a pretty good idea what it is just looking at the result ie ball flight. I would say that when or if I do upgrade to that at least I will be getting totally accurate data.

 

Anyway, that's my initial thoughts - seriously good bit of kit.

 

Yep, still got it tucked away somewhere, I'm not really in your neck of the woods though - I'm in the UK.

Hi there. For medical reasons I've been off the golf for about a month but prior to that still really happy with my GC2. I've also got a P3Pro (similar to an optishot) and although that was 'fun' the inaccuracy meant that it just didn't cut it for me. I've also got the ipad app for my ipad mini so can chuck the GC2 and Ipad in my golf bag and take them to the range if I want to. Have even used it with my pro for my lessons. Even at home I tend to use the ipad mini rather than my laptop as it's more convenient.

Here in the uk we've had awful weather all winter and although the ranges and courses were all closed, I just swept the snow off my golf mat, dug out the net from the snow, got my under armour on, hot cup of coffee and kept practicing all winter. Other than my wife shaking her head at me in despair from our conservatory I was happy as larry - first year of non stop golf practice (other than these last few weeks for med reasons), I've had. So all in all, very happy I got it. :)

Sounds fair :)