Mevo+ driver issue

[Markl]

My driver doesn’t track correctly on the mevo+ and only goes 125 -150 with 85 club speed on average. On the course I typically hit it 250. My fairway wood track fine indoors and average 200-220 but the driver is a no go. Is this a known issue? I have 8 feet from the mevo to ball, and 9 feet ball to net.

Anyone else have this issue?

[bubbtubbs]

What's your altitude? At 127mph ball speed, the furthest I could get was around 200y carry and 228y total in flightscope optimizer at sea level.

Or are you saying the CHS is also wrong? Have you measured it before on an indoor setup?

[Markl]

I am in Florida so my altitude is pretty close to sea level... if that is what you mean. In the setting it’s 36’.

All my other clubs seem to track fine which seems weird to me. Does hitting into a net make a difference when tracking the driver?

I don’t use the driver indoors anymore cause it is useless when it goes slightly further than my 9 iron.

[Dax]

Is your swing being impacted by being indoors? How high are your ceilings?

[bubbtubbs]

I wondered the same thing. 250y with 86mph club head speed isn't realistic.

[Dubville]

It's also not realistic to hit a driver 40-50 yards longer than your fairway woods. If your fairway woods are accurate at 200-210 to reality, then your driver should go around 230 in real life.

To hit it 250 total the ballspeed needs to be at minimum 140.
Mevo had issues with ballspeed over 150. What are parameters on a well hit driver. Also on a 7 iron. To hit driver 250 you should be carrying a 7 iron at least 155 with ball speeds around 110 mph.

[Markl]

Playing e6 again last night with the mevo+, My titleiest TS 4wood goes 190-205 pretty consistently. The driver, TS 9.5Degree, if I got 220 i would be content, but it is just not coming close — 140-150y at best. I have 10 ft ceilings. I just gave up on using it and just go fairway wood off the tee, but not using the driver makes things a little tougher. Thanks for the info, I will do another session tonight and track the data better.

[DS12]

Check the spin on the driver. Mevo+ will sometimes estimate spin and their driver spin estimate is high some have said around 4,000 rpm. If you plug the stats into the flightscope optimizer online a spin difference from 2,000 vs. 4,000 has the distance difference of about 20 yards.

Check that online against some of the driver shots to see if the Mevo is displaying the correct shot for the data recorded. Also post some of the driver shot data here, could be excessive launch/spin or if the smash factor is low could be missing the center of the club face. Could be any number of items

[Markl]

Here is a session I did tonight. I found that a taller tee improved my driver #s a little bit but they look about the same as the 4w.

These are the averages of about 20 shots and removing a few mis hits. Does this look right?

7 iron
Carry: 143.5
Total: 150.1
Club speed: 75

4w:
Carry: 179.2
Total: 192.1
Club speed: 84.4
Spin: 3123

Driver
Carry: 180.3
Total: 192.8
Club speed: 85
Spin: 2882

[banjopete]

Something is off, if your swing speed is truly 85mph you won't be carrying the ball much more than the readings are telling you. You need to add about 20mph to be carrying out close to 250yds. Smash might give you an indicator there. I've only got a few mph of difference between my 3w and driver so can't imagine you're losing 20mph between yours.

[Dubville]

What is the ballspeed on those readings?


I would agree with the above, your clubhead speed is too low (assuming it is accurately reported) to see much difference between a fairway wood and a driver.

Do you have a high lofted driver? Something around 12 degrees may suit you.

Not trying to belittle your thoughts of driving it 250 yards but the average LPGA pro has a driver club speed of 93 mph and Carrys driver about 215. Assuming your club speeds are accurate, those numbers add up.

[Markl]

Those numbers are directly from the session averages. I think my swing varies from day to day but certainly not 20mph. I do hit the ball on the low side on the course here in FL and I’m thinking I may benefit from more rollout than the mevo offers, or an overinflated perception of my course performance, Ha! I guess it is what it is and I’ll have to work on my speed.

Ball speed ave is 123.7 for the driver and 122.4 on the 4w if that helps.

[banjopete]

I'll add that I'm interested too as I've just started using my own mevo+ and hit with my father in law who swings his driver in the 90's for swing speed and we were getting what seemed like really low yardage off of his woods and drivers similar to what you're saying with the 160yds. He usually will get his driver out 210 to 220yds on avg on course so seeing the yards drop off so much in the first swings on the mevo had us wondering about setup and environment in the indoor space we were in.

[Gresh12]

I’ve written my backstory in some other threads and I have higher swing speed but look at strike and club delivery. TXG just put out a video that shows ~105 mph club speed (radar speed not GCQuad) can get you 280 carry. I swing 112-115 and occasionally a bit higher. I rarely carry it 280 despite having plenty of speed. If your fairway goes roughly same distance as driver it’s likely AoA or strike.

All of these devices measure ball speed pretty accurately from what I can tell (I’ve owned Skytrak, Mevo+, Sc200 and put them all against Trackman 4 and ball speed was always close, Skytrak lagged a bit over 150 mph but that has been fixed I believe). Ping has a good chart that shows max carry by ball speed based on various launch and spin figures. Compare your ball speeds to this chart and see how you stack up.

[Dubville]

It's a common perception to think you hit it farther than you do. If the tees are at the front of the box, hole is a bit downhill/down wind, pin is In front of the green, or it's a dogleg you can easily misjudge the distance off the tee.

it can only help to have a better knowledge of your game.

[3on3putt]

Markl ---

Here is the flightscope shot optimizer referenced above. It's a neat little tool.

https://flightscope.com/products/trajectory-optimizer/

I don't know what your launch angle is with the driver but in plugging in your ballspeed and spin (and using 100 feet for elevation) it shows 189 carry with a 15 degree launch and 194 carry with a 20 degree launch.

You mentioned that you tend to hit the ball on the low side. So I adjusted the launch angle to 12 degrees and it shows 182 carry.

I would say the 180 carry number you are reporting is accurate.

[Markl]

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, that tool doesn’t seem to work on my iPad.

[bubbtubbs]

That's what I used to initially check the 86mph CHS distances. It's a nifty little resource.

[GungHoGolf]

Markl - it should work fine on your iPad. Open the link in Safari. Works on my iPhone with Safari.