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

Edit: contrary to what I say below, a flashing number on display indicates a reading at same value as last swing. E.g. two readings of 80mph in a row…After two months of use, I can say that this is hands-down the best golf training aid I have ever purchased, and probably the best $110 I have spent in over four decades playing this silly game. I have seen a dramatic increase in my swing speed for almost all my clubs, with a significant improvement in both distance and trajectory at range practice and on the course.First off, this thing is incredibly easy to use. Turn it on, verify it is in correct mode, and swing away. If it gets enough data to process, it will instantly display your swing speed. If not, you will see your last valid speed flashing. The unit will automatically turn itself off after several minutes of inactivity. I have not changed the batteries yet, so power consumption appears very good.Now for the results. When I first purchased, I spent the afternoon at my home hitting station (a home-built frame with a net and a mat) baselining all my clubs PW through driver. My initial numbers were... less than impressive. My PW was in the mid 60s. My 7i was low-to-mid 70s. Ouch. Driver was mid 80s. I have no idea whether these are accurate speeds, as I have not compared against a Trackman or other high-end launch monitor. However, given a little internet research, my known distances seemed to match the numbers I was getting, e.g. 135-140 yards for 7i. My game distances should have given me a clue, but it was still a kick in the front of my pants to see these kind of numbers.So I spent the next several weeks experimenting with different aspects of my swing... relaxed grip, wide full backswing, coil against stable lower body, feeling club load at the top, improved timing of weight shift through transition, etc. I saw incremental improvement. My most recent numbers are vastly improved, in some cases 25% or more. My PW is now registering an average 80mph. My 7i average is now high 80s, and will sometimes stay in the 90+ range for extended periods when I am hitting well. I will reiterate that these may not be absolute numbers, but I believe they are a good relative indicator of progress. I am far from perfect, and will sometimes see my speeds regress significantly. But never to the point that they were, and I am always able to recover to my averages by systematically working through the checklist of things I believe through trial-and-error are contributing to higher club head speed.One thing I noticed: I seemed to get a dramatic increase in speed (10% or more) almost instantly at some point during my swing evolution with each of my clubs, but at different times. My theory is that that is where I was able to improve my technique to the point where I was able to get each shaft past its working threshold, where it was finally able to really contribute to my swing speed. Until then, I might as well have been swinging a lead pipe for all the help I got from the shaft. Just a theory.The one exception to my success story has been my driver, where I still feel I am unable to isolate key factors to help me improve. My average has risen to 92, so still close to a 10% increase. Just not what I believe I am really capable of, and seemingly very low relative to my iron numbers. Oh well. Something to continue working on. Maybe I just haven't gotten to the point where I am working the shaft.On the range and course, my distances have gone up significantly, and my trajectories are far more piercing than the symmetrical ballistic arcs I used to hit. If anything, my accuracy has improved. So no downside that I can see.For consistency and apples-to-apples comparisons from one day to the next, be sure to set the unit up the same way every time. I set it up at a 45 degree angle to target line, directly opposite and 10" outside of the ball. I seem to get larger/smaller numbers if I move the unit significantly closer to or further away from the ball.You will occasionally get a flashing display after a swing, which means the unit knew a swing event occurred, but did not have enough data to process into a swing speed. This happens to me about 10-15% of the time. More than I would like, but a small price to pay for such technology in a very affordable unit.I rarely see what I consider to be rogue numbers that others have mentioned. E.g. a 158 for a driver, or something else obviously incorrect. Even the highest (and lowest) numbers I see are well within the realm of possibility. Still, I typically take 12-14 swings when I am capturing averages, and throw out the highest and lowest one or two to get an even 10 swings.Not sure if my results are typical. I am in good shape and very flexible for my age, but have struggled with horrid mechanics. So I may just be in the small population that can most benefit from the type of empirical feedback that a tool like this provides. If you already have a fairly sound swing, you may already be tapping more of your potential, and will likely not see the same improvement.

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.

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.