To be real or not to be real?

[MatalaWedge]

Sorry guys. i'm too busy and tired this weekend to do anymore testing. But if you do need more tests done with the golf sense then pm them to me and I'll try and get them done on Monday.

Can't. Kids to be taken care of... Sorry.

[JohnMeyer]

Played at 89 speed 100 distance with woods today's comp round with almost golf. The distances were pretty much what I would expect to see on the course. Taking an extra 11% off would feel pretty short to me. Just my gut feeling... Speed was probably averaging ok with gs but was seldom close. It was all over the place but averaging ok. Pretty irritating though... Had a 126mph @ 89% fly way over the green at one of the short par 4s... Anyway... Good work from all the past 20 pages of the thread.

Auri dont suppose you fancy another few hits of testing? Know youve done loads but really close now

[MatalaWedge]

Played at 89 speed 100 distance with woods today's comp round with almost golf. The distances were pretty much what I would expect to see on the course. Taking an extra 11% off would feel pretty short to me. Just my gut feeling... Speed was probably averaging ok with gs but was seldom close. It was all over the place but averaging ok. Pretty irritating though... Had a 126mph @ 89% fly way over the green at one of the short par 4s... Anyway... Good work from all the past 20 pages of the thread.

[JohnMeyer]

From testing with Buckeye Im 100% ready to call the real ball stock turf setting at 100% Speed, 90% distance. 89% does throw the odd 2.39 ratio, whereas 90% seems to be 2.46 to 2.51 more consistently

I have also been testing with IAN. HOGGARD who hits no ball and found that remarkably the 100% Speed 90% Distance also throws 2.47 average ratio there too So Unless anyone else want to investigate that further think hes the only one hitting that setup at the moment so happy to go with that.

Need one more tester to just confirm the 89S 89D / 90 90 D / for foam stock turf and if all ok on course will be happy to call that one too.

PSgolfer is to test Real Ball Thick turf setting, again think hes only one with that setting so will tune setting from him on that one

Catman is finalising the Height restricted 3 wood as driver setup, and once thats confirmed I personally believe well be in a position to call these settings

3 wood and 5 wood general settings are proving a mystery, so need to decide if we want these fixed or user allowable like irons, but with certain caps etc etc

[MatalaWedge]

Sorry guys. i'm too busy and tired this weekend to do anymore testing. But if you do need more tests done with the golf sense then pm them to me and I'll try and get them done on Monday.

[fhann]

I don't mean to throw another wrench in to the mix but does OptiShot use the same calculations "off line" on the driving range and "on line on the course"? The obvious answer would seem yes, but I am noticing a difference. Hitting a real ball with SS set at 100% and distance to 90% I am hitting about right on the driving range with a 270 total and a SS of 108. However when I go to the course I am only showing a 250 total drive with similar swing speeds.

Before we invest any more time in this we may want to verify the range and course are the same or different and proceed accordingly.

Check to see if your environmental conditions are exactly the same for range and golf course including the same direction of shot on the golf course that matches the range in case you have wind influencing the shots differently.

[JohnMeyer]

I don't mean to throw another wrench in to the mix but does OptiShot use the same calculations "off line" on the driving range and "on line on the course"? The obvious answer would seem yes, but I am noticing a difference. Hitting a real ball with SS set at 100% and distance to 90% I am hitting about right on the driving range with a 270 total and a SS of 108. However when I go to the course I am only showing a 250 total drive with similar swing speeds.

Before we invest any more time in this we may want to verify the range and course are the same or different and proceed accordingly.

I don't mean to throw another wrench in to the mix but does OptiShot use the same calculations "off line" on the driving range and "on line on the course"? The obvious answer would seem yes, but I am noticing a difference. Hitting a real ball with SS set at 100% and distance to 90% I am hitting about right on the driving range with a 270 total and a SS of 108. However when I go to the course I am only showing a 250 total drive with similar swing speeds.

Before we invest any more time in this we may want to verify the range and course are the same or different and proceed accordingly.

Just checked this through. Course looks spot on in line with range. Constant ratios from 2.46 - 2.48. Looking good. No notable difference between 89% distance and 90% so guess that 1% fall within the margin of error

[JohnMeyer]

From Joes update the setting that gives the correct ratio was 89% 89% using foam balls, stock turf

[Buckeye]

I don't mean to throw another wrench in to the mix but does OptiShot use the same calculations "off line" on the driving range and "on line on the course"? The obvious answer would seem yes, but I am noticing a difference. Hitting a real ball with SS set at 100% and distance to 90% I am hitting about right on the driving range with a 270 total and a SS of 108. However when I go to the course I am only showing a 250 total drive with similar swing speeds.

Before we invest any more time in this we may want to verify the range and course are the same or different and proceed accordingly.

[JohnMeyer]

Did some testing now..

First I checked my real life distances with a Bavarian "earthview" site to measure where my drives are normally (with this software you can measure distances in a satellite view, so I only have to locate my normal drives on every hole and measure to the men's tee). The result is an average drive distance (with roll) of about 225 meters (246 yards). I really thought my drives are longer... Hmmm.. not being alone here... ;-)
Then set SS to 90 and Distance to 100. The average SS (10 shots) then was 90 mph and the average distance 227 meters (248 yards). Another 10 shots with this settings: Average SS 90 and average distance 250 yards.
Setting SS to 100 and Distance to 90 (10 shots): Average SS 101 mph and average distance 232 yards.
All shots with AlmostGolf Balls and setting "foam ball".

So I think SS 90 and Distance 100 seems to match with my real life measures (with driver and ball on long tee). If I tried to hit the ball extremely low I thought the SS was measured a bit higher. But with a normal swing on normal driver tee my setting seems to be ok.
I don't want to learn to drive as low as possible to achieve higher SS readings... ;-)

Joe that looks like another one with foam balls and stock turf who is speed 89%, distance 100%

If possible joe could you please try these exact settings

Swing Speed % - 89%, Distance % - 100%

Hit 10 drives and then post Av Swing Speed recorded and Av Distance, taken from stats screen accessed from bottom right menu in optishot

Once you've noted these click delete all to clear all stats from that session so far and and then change your settings to

Swing Speed % - 89%, Distance % - 89%

Hit 10 drives and then post Av Swing Speed recorded and Av Distance, taken from stats screen again,

Just want to compare the 2 different sets of data

Cheers bud