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The Protee VX uses 2 high speed cameras and IR to measure the ball and club. The ball data (speed, horizontal/vertical azumuth, spin and spin axis) requires some marking on the ball but not any special pattern of marking. Bolder logos and thicker lines are more easily recognized. I would not recommend marking your ball if you are hitting into an impact screen. Most natural ball logos would work. Club data doesn’t require any markings and uses AI to measure the data, accumulating accuracy over time. It’s quite amazing actually.
Given the Logo recognition, I thought I would do some testing with different balls in my bag to see if I noticed any difference in launch data. I think this will be useful given the different balls that are used by us golfers.The main focus was the accuracy of spin and spin axis, namely shot shaping with all the balls. I hit each ball with my wedge, 7 iron and driver attempting to hit fades and draws. This is by no means scientific but based on ability to work the ball with the different ball logos and comparing spin/spin axis to the GC3. I used ProV 1, TP5, TP5 PIX, Callaway Chrome soft triple track, Callaway Chrome soft Truvis, Srixon Soft Feel, Bridgestone E6+, Kierkland and Wilson Staff. I also hit some yellow Callaway supersoft balls. I was able to get normal spin and spin axis measurement with all the balls compared to my GC3. Here are some findings in general:
1. TPX PIX works great given the pattern of logos on the ball. It is very consistent and it’s the ball that just felt the best with the VX. May be biased as I play the TP5. Regular TP5 worked great as well.
2. Callaway Triple Track and Truvis worked well however the actual red pattern was not seen by the camera in the video. The Callaway sign was picked up and hence no spin issues but the patterns were not visualized. Again must be an infrared thing. I have the Truvis red and the red logos did not show in the infrared video. The ball worked just fine however.
3. Faded logos are not as good as bold new ones. For example newer ProV with a bolder Titleist logo seemed to worked better. That would make sense. I would see the occasional strange spin numbers with older faded ProV.
Nothing terrible but I would recommend newer balls for sure.
4. Logo placement – I tried hitting with logo up (towards the camera) vs pointing a bare area up and I didn’t really notice much difference. I suppose that depends on the amount of logos and rotation/speed of the ball. Random ball placement worked very well with all balls so really no need to place the ball in any orientation. Drop it and hit it once it’s recognized by the VX.
5. Yellow golf balls appears as white in the swing video most likely from the infrared imagery. They read with no troubles. I assume other colored balls would be the same.
What I have seen so far is that any golf ball with a logo/writing or mark of some sort will definitely work and give accurate spin/spin axis reading.
Given the Logo recognition, I thought I would do some testing with different balls in my bag to see if I noticed any difference in launch data. I think this will be useful given the different balls that are used by us golfers.The main focus was the accuracy of spin and spin axis, namely shot shaping with all the balls. I hit each ball with my wedge, 7 iron and driver attempting to hit fades and draws. This is by no means scientific but based on ability to work the ball with the different ball logos and comparing spin/spin axis to the GC3. I used ProV 1, TP5, TP5 PIX, Callaway Chrome soft triple track, Callaway Chrome soft Truvis, Srixon Soft Feel, Bridgestone E6+, Kierkland and Wilson Staff. I also hit some yellow Callaway supersoft balls. I was able to get normal spin and spin axis measurement with all the balls compared to my GC3. Here are some findings in general:
1. TPX PIX works great given the pattern of logos on the ball. It is very consistent and it’s the ball that just felt the best with the VX. May be biased as I play the TP5. Regular TP5 worked great as well.
2. Callaway Triple Track and Truvis worked well however the actual red pattern was not seen by the camera in the video. The Callaway sign was picked up and hence no spin issues but the patterns were not visualized. Again must be an infrared thing. I have the Truvis red and the red logos did not show in the infrared video. The ball worked just fine however.
3. Faded logos are not as good as bold new ones. For example newer ProV with a bolder Titleist logo seemed to worked better. That would make sense. I would see the occasional strange spin numbers with older faded ProV.
Nothing terrible but I would recommend newer balls for sure.
4. Logo placement – I tried hitting with logo up (towards the camera) vs pointing a bare area up and I didn’t really notice much difference. I suppose that depends on the amount of logos and rotation/speed of the ball. Random ball placement worked very well with all balls so really no need to place the ball in any orientation. Drop it and hit it once it’s recognized by the VX.
5. Yellow golf balls appears as white in the swing video most likely from the infrared imagery. They read with no troubles. I assume other colored balls would be the same.
What I have seen so far is that any golf ball with a logo/writing or mark of some sort will definitely work and give accurate spin/spin axis reading.
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