The Stack Wedge System

[iacas]

If you own a Stack radar (for now, it's limited to Stack radar only), and want to work on your wedge game… it turns out that wedge distances are 99% correlated to ball speed. So, with a small radar, you can practice your wedge game easily in a gamified way.

[Clemsonfan]

I have one and look forward to trying this. I bought the Stack Radar and developed pretty severe tennis elbow, likely from a new workout program, prior to receiving it, and have not used it very much. Asa competitive person, I respond well to gamifying practice. That’s why I also love using the Stack putting app. Two great incremental benefits of the program.

[Ty_Webb]

This is pretty interesting. I don't have a Stack radar so I can't use the app, but given what they say it should be fairly easy to come up with some kind of proxy to it if I spend an hour with a trackman. Just note what ball speed gives what distances and plot it. It's presumably not directly linear, but if you hit 50 shots between 30 and 100 yards, you'll have enough to pin down most yardages in that window (yards vs ball speed). Then rather than trying to match distances, just try to match ball speeds with whatever radar you do have. The whole strokes gained thing would be more difficult, but that's not really necessary to work on it. Or just buy a Stack radar...

[saevel25]

I was messing around with Flightscope Trajectory Optimizer. 

Yea, if spin rate stays with in normal ranges (don't hit a 2000 rpm spin rate PW 140 yards, lol). Spin rate doesn't matter much for carry distance. Except obviously hitting into a pretty solid head or tailwind. 

Carry	Ball Speed
34	45
42	50
51	55
60	60
70	65
80	70
90	75
101	80
111	85
122	90
132	95
142	100

[iacas]

6 hours ago, saevel25 said:

I was messing around with Flightscope Trajectory Optimizer. 

Yea, if spin rate stays with in normal ranges (don't hit a 2000 rpm spin rate PW 140 yards, lol). Spin rate doesn't matter much for carry distance. Except obviously hitting into a pretty solid head or tailwind. 

Carry	Ball Speed
34	45
42	50
51	55
60	60
70	65
80	70
90	75
101	80
111	85
122	90
132	95
142	100

Yeah, Dr. MacKenzie will tell you that ball speed is a 98% predictor for carry yardage.

[mdl]

43 minutes ago, iacas said:

Yeah, Dr. MacKenzie will tell you that ball speed is a 98% predictor for carry yardage.

I love this on my old swing caddie SC200. There's a match mode where it'll give you a random distance between 40 and 100 yards. I haven't done it in a little while but I dialed in my wedges over the last couple years just getting the distances for "1/2" and "3/4" feel shots with all my wedges, and then I'd play that game with different wedges. Super fun and has definitely improved my game in the 60-100 yard range.

[4zim]

Wish it was compatible with PRGR!