Driver Questions

[Clevited]

I have read through a ton of these forums and searched this topic but I haven't found a difinitive answer to questions I have regarding this. I woudl appreciate being pointed in the right direction or a direct answer if any of you have one. So my questions....

If you tee the ball high for driver, and hit up, thus have a high launch angle, does Skytrak still calculate ball flight even if it doesn't get a good ball flight capture (like bottom of ball exiting field of view). Are there any instances where it might spit out numbers including ball speed regardless of if it caught the ball with both cameras adequately?

I ask so I know if I can just leave it down all the time, or if I have to lift it up to get accurate numbers because its making up stuff when it has poor captures. I am not exactly consistent enough to know for sure if it makes a big difference, its more for when I have friends of mine over, most of whom are much better players than I. I don't really want them to struggle through it when I can figure this out before hand from those of you that have had a Skytrak for longer.

Thank you.

[MainStGolf]

You definitely have to play with tee height. I tee my ball lower indoors than outside. If I used the same tee inside I would have sky marks all over the top of my driver. And I've seen numerous people come in and do the same thing even though I tell them about it :-). I've seen a driver launch as high as 24 degrees and as low as 0 degrees.

[Clevited]

Did you ever see any weird spin numbers or ball speed numbers with high launching high tee'd and perhaps faster than average ball speed? That is what I will be dealing with when I start my league. (crowned hits I am not so worried about

[Ironstrokes]

I often hit my driver with a high launch angle sometimes 21 degrees (really gotta lower that a bit) with a ball speed in the 160s and never had any trouble with it reading and reading accurately. Ive seen people go right under the ball and sky it off the driver top and is still manages to read some/most of those at like a 35+ degree angle. So i think youll be alright no matter who is hitting. And dont think it makes up numbers, I think the viewing window is larger than some of us may think

[petroche]

I have started teeing the ball up about one inch closer to the net/screen when driving and I believe I'm getting more consistent reads and less (but still some) no reads with high launches.

[Miura Mario]

driver is the only club im kind of iffy about - I hit my driver on skytrak around 17 to 18 degrees with about 1800 2100 spin with a really high tee - which is how I play the ball outside - my nutted 3 wood off of a normal height tee gives me 141-144 ball speed launches around 15 with low 3k spin on skytrak - IRL i hit 3 wood 245 - 260 total which is what I see on skytrak - I still havent seen a drive over 145 bs on skytrak even though llaunch and spin are fine and my skytrak drives are usually a touch shorter than my 3 wood. Hitting driver on my buddies GC2 my better swings get 153-156 bs. So I stopped hitting driver on my sim completely.. IRL I hit driver further than 3 wood by a good 20ish yards..

[Clevited]

Thank you for the replies. I will assume, until I know otherwise that if it gives a reading, it captured the shot and isn't making up anything.

[ironFrank]

Nothing at all,

I leave ST at the same level like normal shots. The laser points exactly at the bottom of the tee.

I usually use a 11.5 ' driver and hit up to 16-17' launch angle and that works fine.

It would be a pain in the.. if you need to change the height during simplay.