Launch Monitor Doofus

[12 piece bucket]

I did have an opportunity to get one very limited golf "fix" while on my little Orlando excursion. I went to the Golfsmith Store there 'cuz I heard that had them launch monitors.

If you ever go to their store in Orlando, allow an extra 45 minutes. That joint has the worst parking lot I have ever seen. It's in a strip mall thingie. It's like they let Ernest T. Bass be the civil engineer on the project or something. It literally took me 45 minutes to get out of the mall complex.

Anyway . . .

I don't understand launch monitors. I hit about 8 balls before some kid that looked like his face got into a fight with a staple-gun ran me off. (I was skeered.) I hit one ball that I felt like I mashed. It said it went 127 yards??? Then I hit another that felt like I cold topped it. It said I carried it 283 and it went 336? Huh? Do lauch monitors have cart paths in there or something? I ain't never in my whole life hit a ball that far. Other than boucin' drives over a frozen lake.

Am I a launch monitor tard?

What's y'all's experience been?

[efnef]

I did have an opportunity to get one very limited golf "fix" while on my little Orlando excursion. I went to the Golfsmith Store there 'cuz I heard that had them launch monitors.

If you ever go to their store in Orlando, allow an extra 45 minutes. That joint has the worst parking lot I have ever seen. It's in a strip mall thingie. It's like they let Ernest T. Bass be the civil engineer on the project or something. It literally took me 45 minutes to get out of the mall complex.

Anyway . . .

I don't understand launch monitors. I hit about 8 balls before some kid that looked like his face got into a fight with a staple-gun ran me off. (I was skeered.) I hit one ball that I felt like I mashed. It said it went 127 yards??? Then I hit another that felt like I cold topped it. It said I carried it 283 and it went 336? Huh? Do lauch monitors have cart paths in there or something? I ain't never in my whole life hit a ball that far. Other than boucin' drives over a frozen lake.

Am I a launch monitor tard?

What's y'all's experience been?

That's kinda why I've never tried one. I trust my 5 senses more than I do a machine, especially if the results are interpreted by a $7.50 an hour store clerk. I just go to the range/course and try different club/shaft/ball combos (and to be honest, it doesn't matter what I try, I still dink 'em about 220 yards).

[YodasLuke]

I did have an opportunity to get one very limited golf "fix" while on my little Orlando excursion. I went to the Golfsmith Store there 'cuz I heard that had them launch monitors.

If you ever go to their store in Orlando, allow an extra 45 minutes. That joint has the worst parking lot I have ever seen. It's in a strip mall thingie. It's like they let Ernest T. Bass be the civil engineer on the project or something. It literally took me 45 minutes to get out of the mall complex.

Anyway . . .

I don't understand launch monitors. I hit about 8 balls before some kid that looked like his face got into a fight with a staple-gun ran me off. (I was skeered.) I hit one ball that I felt like I mashed. It said it went 127 yards??? Then I hit another that felt like I cold topped it. It said I carried it 283 and it went 336? Huh? Do lauch monitors have cart paths in there or something? I ain't never in my whole life hit a ball that far. Other than boucin' drives over a frozen lake.

Am I a launch monitor tard?

What's y'all's experience been?

Galled you're back, bucket! (glad, glad, I meant glad) Now we can get back to our regularly scheduled programming.

I've had similar experiences. My favorite is the guy that was fit indoors on a launch monitor and he shows up to take lessons from me with a 7 degree driver. I get it all the time. The typical MO is, "I hit the ball really high, so we wanted to make my ball flight lower." And, you entrusted whom to make your decision? Did you ever think about fixing the bent left wrist at impact, instead of the equipment?
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I'll tell you what...let's get you a 3 degree driver, because that left wrist is about the worst I've ever seen! Technology is great, if the operator knows what the heck he's doing. That's like giving my 7 month old the discussion about the warping of time and space and the theory of relativity. He's having enough trouble with algebra, right now. I think discussing the speed of light and gravity with it's effect on time would only frustrate him.

[ThinkingPlus]

I've had similar experiences. My favorite is the guy that was fit indoors on a launch monitor and he shows up to take lessons from me with a 7 degree driver. I get it all the time. The typical MO is, "I hit the ball really high, so we wanted to make my ball flight lower." And, you entrusted whom to make your decision? Did you ever think about fixing the bent left wrist at impact, instead of the equipment?
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I'll tell you what...let's get you a 3 degree driver, because that left wrist is about the worst I've ever seen! Technology is great, if the operator knows what the heck he's doing. That's like giving my 7 month old the discussion about the warping of time and space and the theory of relativity. He's having enough trouble with algebra, right now. I think discussing the speed of light and gravity with it's effect on time would only frustrate him.

Relatively speaking of course... Fortunately, Algebra is the first stepping stone to group theory and topology, foundations of modern particle theory. You are starting him out right.

[12 piece bucket]

Relatively speaking of course... Fortunately, Algebra is the first stepping stone to group theory and topology, foundations of modern particle theory. You are starting him out right.

And I can't get my kid to stop eatin' boogers. Genetic crap shoot is a cruel game.

[ThinkingPlus]

And I can't get my kid to stop eatin' boogers. Genetic crap shoot is a cruel game.

Maybe he will inherit your sense of humor despite his current lack of gustatorial discrimination!

[alex_chung]

Its really depends on how well the monitor was calibrated. I read somewhere (yes, I do read.....) that the earlier models of monitors you could fool by hitting the ball really low and it would register things like 300 yard drives and so on.
Like it was said earlier all depends on who is operating the monitor, ideally it should be recalibrated after every person has finished with it.
As for your kid eating boogers, tell him to stop it. Its disgusting. Replace the booger with a nice juicy piece of chicken!!
Alex