Achieve Longer Drives - Delivers Precise Golf Club Swing Speeds from 20 to 200 MPH. Master Consistency | Swing Speed Training Tool | Instant Speed Results

This is an interesting device. It showed up today and I took it to the range for 90 minutes and then I played 18 holes. I'm in my late 50's with a 14 handicap. My biggest detriment to playing better golf is a gradual loss of distance off the tee compounded by the occasional banana slice when I try to swing harder. Everyone I play with tells me my swing is too fast and no matter what I tried I could not slow my swing down.Enter the Sports Sensor swing speed radar unit. With the combination of swing speed and tempo measurements from this radar unit I could slow my swing down to a repeatable tempo. Interestingly, when my swing tempo was reduced, my club head speed increased. Initially my club head speed with my driver was about 88-90MPH and my shots were wild. When I slowed my tempo, the club head speed increased to 98 - 100MPH and the ball was only 10 yards off center left and right rather than 25+ yards to the right with my quicker swing. I could not hit a draw with old swing - not possible.I found that per the directions, you definitely need to have this unit 8-10 inches away from the ball and pointed backwards into the swing path of the club, not forward towards the ball flight. The photo in the directions is a little misleading because it looks like the radar unit is directly opposite the ball. When I had it directly across from the ball or too far away, I got all sorts of screwy data like club head speeds of 142MPH. That's not possible, I'm not Tom Watson or a long drive contestant. I had my swing speed professionally measured last year and it averaged 88-90MPH which translates to a little over 200 yards.With practice, the data this device provided allowed me to change the settings on my Titleist 913 driver to a 9.5 degree loft (it was 10.25 degrees) and keep the draw bias to give me a little more distance and control. As I mentioned, I am a habitual slicer and I was using setting C3 on the 913 and I changed to setting B3 on a 913. With those adjustments on the driver combined with the data feedback from the radar unit applied to my swing tempo, I added 30-40 yards to my driver in 90 minutes on the range. It's amazing how much slower a golf swing feels adding just 3/10's of a second and it was repeatable and I gained muscle memory from the repeatability. I never would have know how much time to add to my backswing if I had not seen the data on the screen. OK, everything works great on the range, I'm one of the top range players on the planet and I know I have a lot of company. For whatever reason, my range success rarely translates to improvement on the course.So I took the tempo change I learned from this unit to the course where I play which is notorious for it's tight fairways with thick rough bordered by heather farther out on either side of most fairways. I shot an 83 (41 and 42 because), my best round of the year. With the tempo change, I was hitting the ball to points on or near the fairway where I had a 6, 7 or even 8 iron into the green rather than a 3 wood or a 3 iron. It's hard to get a 3 wood or a 3 iron to stick on a green unless it's soaking wet. I had better control over my drives because my tempo was controllable and that change removed the wildness from my drives and my lower irons. I have had days where my slice is so bad that the ball might hit me in the back of the head - it's really embarrassing.The radar unit itself is simple to use. Put in 3 AA batteries and it fires right up. The push button under the LCD screen can show you MPH, KPH (kilometers per hour), tempo time alone, swing speed alone or a combination of tempo time and swing speed. I used the latter setting for 90% of my time on the range. It comes with a small nylon stuff sack and an instruction book with a plastic information card that converts swing speed to yards. A club head speed of 98-100 MPH = about 225 yards in the air plus roll or the 240 years I was experiencing. At 90 MPH, my initial club head speed, the data on the card says I should hit the ball right around 200 years - exactly the yardage I had been seeing with my driver in the past. A couple of notes. It may be distracting to some players to have the unit 8-10 inches away but I got used to it quickly and there is a standard camera tripod screw mount on the bottom of this radar unit if you want to mount it to a tripod for other sports.I also found that my 3 iron (Titleist 714 AP1) had a club head speed of about 92-94MPH which explains why my driver was going only ten yards farther than my 3 iron. But with the tempo and driver loft changes, I appear to have rediscovered my long lost driver. Maybe I'm really a 9 or 10 handicap with better drives - we shall see as the season plays on but initially this is a simple to use and impressive unit and I'll never go to the range without this in my bag.

Tested this unit against two local professional swing analyzers in golf store and driving range using ARCCOS and Shot Tracker technology.This unit's swing speed results hitting real balls and taking 20-30 shots, then averaging them together were basically identical to what the professional speed analyzers got. No more than +/- 1 to 2 mph variation in measured speed between the pro analyzers and this one. And that could just be me from machine setup differences, my body varying the speeds, or measuring across multiple sessions on different days.One key thing I really like about it is it seems to measure your clubhead speed, not just the ball speed alone, so you can take practice swings on your mat at home and work on your tempo and club swing speed to tell if you're overswinging badly while you practice.Seems very accurate if you take the time to read its included instuctions carefully and set the unit up pointing it in the direction it says in relation to the ball you're hitting. Also you must make sure the unit is not tilted forward or backward on its metal stand bracket in relation to the ground or mat you're hitting from. It should stay horizontal to the ground or practice mat.I had no problem getting very accurate swing speed results with OR without actually hitting a ball as long as the unit was setup pointing the correct direction and well-leveled to the mat per instructions.I saw a slight but consistent 2 to 3 mph drop in swing speed with no ball to hit, just full speed practice swing with club ticking the mat like you were taking a divot on the ground with a real ball. After trying it, I recommend at least hitting a plastic practice ball with the unit to more closely approximate your carry speed through the ball at contact.Plastic practice balls seemed to produce results basically identical to real balls for me at least, so this seems like a valid way to practice with the unit. Real balls gave the most consistent and accurate speed measurements with only +/- 1 to 2 mph spread in velocities, averaged over many shots with the unit and trying it all three ways (real, vs. plastic vs. no ball).Can't assess longevity and durability of the product yet, but so far it's been excellent to work with in a few practice mat sessions and at the driving range too. No problems so far with crazy readings, failure to reset for next swing, or failure to read swing at all.

The price is cheap and very easy to set up but ultimately it will be inaccurate. It’s not consistently off at the same amount but average over 20 swings. It averaged about 6% high compared to my launch monitor It ranged anywhere from being almost exactly accurate to upwards of being 11% high, and that’s after I threw away the outliers. I wish it was just consistently off but unfortunately it’s a big variation. It’s cheap and gets you in the ball park, but don’t plan your game or equipment around it. This is the same thing RypStick uses so I guess that inflates your numbers too.Now, I read that this will read the point closest to it, which would be the toe of the club. With a closing club face this may be leading to these inaccurate numbers. Unfortunately, I cannot test a speed stick or Rypstick against a launch monitor because launch monitor only reads when a ball is struck. So perhaps, if you’re not actually hitting a ball, then the speed on this would be accurate. But if you hit with it then expect it to be off.If you’re using this for speed training, then just take your measurements without contact.