Best Tools to Help Inside??? HELP!!! Launch Monitor or Simulator?

[plumcrazy]

Ok, I have searched too many web pages trying to search for info about the best way to improve a game over the winter indoors. Some say no net hitting, instills bad habits, I say yes because your not worried about where it goes. Seems to me thats the foundation of the mental side of the game, but to make the argument even I was going to add a simulator or launch monitor to have the best of both.

Here goes, launch monitor or home simulator? Launch monitors aint cheap, Trackman $20k, Zelocity $4 and the one thats seems reasonable is VelocityPro $3. But, they dont simulate the game. For simulators, your looking at $50k to $500 as a range and the to that seem to be under $1000 and with responsible results seem to be Dancingdogg and P3Swing.

So, if your going to try to drop 5-10 strokes off season with 1-2 hours a day what do you pick, and has anyone tried it? Currently I have a netreturn in a room I built thats 15x20 with 10' ceilings....

[Gerardv]

I've decided to go and get a string of lessons after searching around to find the right pro. I figure I won't get to play much over the winter so I can break my game down and rebuild it. As it has worked out though, I haven't had to completely rebuild - just tweak.

Regardless, the best time I ever spent improving my game was going around and interviewing pros until I found the right one. His swing theory matches mine and he teaches in a way that allows me to learn.

[O.B. Right]

I have the p3proswing and have found it helpfull. However, I have found that I swing very differently inside in an enclosed space. No matter what, I can't get myself to take a full, hard swing inside.

It has been very usefull, though, to switch off between half-swing sessions on the p3proswing and full-swing sessions at the range. Indoors, I try to focus very hard on swing path and club face (with the p3proswing for feedback) and then go to the range, get a 40 ball bucket, and just swing away.