Mevo+ for juniors: A two year mini-review

[MB19]

There hasn't been a launch monitor thread in the Junior forum in some time, so I thought I would share my journey with the Mevo+ over the last two years.

 

How old were my kids when I got the Mevo+?  What was their skill level?

 

My kids were 2, 9 and 11.  The older two had been playing tournament golf for two years, and were shooting in the high/mid 40s for 9.  Neither had broken 40 yet.

 

 

Why did I buy a Mevo+ for my kids to train on?

 

My family's schedule can get very busy, and two years ago taking my then 2yo son to the course with us to practice wasn't fun, easy or efficient.  But do you know what was?  Taking him to Big Shots--a local Top Golf-type of facility 15 minutes from my house where I could sit on a couch and keep him eating/entertained while the other two kids hit.  They used the Flightscope Xi Tour, which were definitely accurate enough for our purposes.  Before I ever introduced my kids to golf, I spent a couple of hours at this location dialing in my irons' distances when I thought I was serious about playing again.  I was impressed with how easy it was to get in meaningful practice, while mining my data and enjoying lunch.  This place was a major reason why I was able to get my kids practice time for a couple of years, and the Mevo+ was supposed to be the next best thing to having an Xi Tour.  Why not just have a Big Shots in my garage?

 

I liked all the data points that came with it, along with the six courses of simulated golf.  Little did I realize how cool the combine feature was on the FS Skills app (iPad version), as this is arguable the best practice mode of all.

 

How does Mevo+ stack up against other launch monitors I've tried?

 

After two of my friends had very mixed experiences with the Mevo+, it wasn't an easy decision to try it out as my garage launch monitor. Flightscope updated the firmware at some point during my selection process, and Mevo+ gained accuracy from it according to several reviewers.  In a perfect world, this would be the launch monitor we used until my son (who was 9 at the time) would use until he got to high school and my daughter (who was 11) was about through high school.

 

I was upgrading from an Optishot2, which was mostly used for rainy days when my kids were ages 6-10.  I had just enough space for a Mevo+, but the original Skytrak was tempting for slightly less money.  At the end of the day, I went with Mevo+ after heavily considering Skytrak, Bushnell Launch Pro (before they *really* crippled it) and the Garmin Approach R10.  I thought I would bring the Mevo+ to the range a little bit, but so far it has stayed in the garage save one practice session a friend borrowed it for after getting his son new irons.

 

To be clear, If I were willing to part with the money I would by a Trackman or a GC Quad.  Those are the benchmarks, but with that said, the Mevo+ is within spitting distance of them and provides competitive data points.

 

The numbers--even driver numbers--are competitive with Trackman or TopTracer.  The spin numbers with RCT balls are also competitive, although more inconsistent.  For every 100 balls hit on a TM, maybe 3 will have suspect spin numbers.  It would be 10-15 balls on a Mevo+.

 

Have I upgraded my original software package?

I have not upgraded to the Pro Package and Face impact Location, but I did pay the $100 fee to put E6 on my computer after about six months.  While I don't my laptop for E6 that often, it was money I would spend again.

 

FYI, my unit was purchased before the included course package was expanded from 6 courses and I paid about $1740 for it shipped to my door from new from Flightscope.  My first dozen RCT balls lasted me until just this week when I found a deal via Golf Galaxy.  They were beat up something fierce, with only traces of the RCT and Titleist logos.  I bought two-dozen for $127 shipped to my door, and I'll probably replace them this time next year.

 

Would I buy a Mevo+ today if I were starting a garage setup?

 

It would be in the mix with the Unicore Eye Mini Lite, Skytrak+ and GC3.  I'm not sure which one I would pick, but Mevo+ is still the best on a budget.  No subscriptions is a good thing.  With the Foresight NextUp program, the GC3 is super tough to beat and I would have a much tougher decision on my hands than I did two years ago.  The GC3 would give me some of my garage back, but most days I don't really care.

 

Have my kids improved as a result of having the Mevo+ in the garage?

 

Yes.  Both of my older kids broke 40 the year after we got the Mevo+, and then broke 80 the year after.  With a schedule as packed as ever (art class, Taekwondo, piano, dance, etc...) and school courseload getting heavier by the year, spare time is becoming a rumor.  Sometimes the garage is the only option for hitting on any given day, due to rain, lack of course availability, lack of babysitter or running out of daylight.  I can send their coaches clips of them hitting with data from the Mevo+ to get a home diagnosis for times when seeing our pro is impossibilty due to our schedule or availability.

 

As a bonus, my 4 yo likes to hit on the simulator like his siblings do.  Our setup may be budget, but when a 4yo sees a giant projection screen that shows what his swing did to that little ball it makes him happy.  Mind you, he hits on the range and course with us a little as well--but getting to hit in the garage is fun for him.

 

Do my kids like hitting in a garage simulator setup?

 

Most days, my kids still prefer going out to the course and playing live.  They go through periods of feeling the data isn't accurate, but a trip to the range always changes their mind.  My daughter, who loves the nature aspect of golf more than the game itself, doesn't love hitting in the garage.  Over the last few months, though, she has taken to playing simulated rounds with her brother and doesn't scowl at me anymore when I take her out to the garage to hit.  My son would hit in there all day if I didn't make him stop.  The 4yo thinks it is cool, and hopefully it sets the tone for his interest in golf.

 

Does my garage now rival a Big Shots/Top Golf setup?

 

Full disclosure--my garage setup is not fancy.  I have two really nice 4x6 mats I snagged off ebay and the cheap screen I also snagged off ebay--probably $450 invested altogether.  The bottom of my screen has two pool noodles weighing down the bottom and protecting the garage door against ground balls.  The screen is hung by an old pool pole, which is suspended by thick zip ties to the garage door's suppor structure.  The rest of the floor is a mash-up of toddler play mats (which I will replace at some point).  I snagged two blackout theater curtains on eBay for about $170 together, that go on either side of the screen.

 

We don't have a couch to lounge on (yet), just a fold-up chair and an adjacent rowing machine to sit on.  But it's open bar/buffet whenever I feel like it, so there's that.

 

 

[TroyB123]

We had a similar setup with the R10, but couldn't really get it positioned right so that he wasn't thinking about the door rails when hitting driver.   We thought the R10 worked great for the money, especially once it started supporting RCT balls. 

 

We eventually gave up due to the space not working it and sold everything.  He has a membership at a local Trackman facility for $150/month unlimited use that he has no problem getting 2-3 hours time after school as long as we book ahead when we see bad weather days.   Numbers were pretty spot on between R10 and Trackman.   R10 doesn't measure shot shape, as it just guesses, so that is the biggest difference.

 

Last year seemed like just a good way to get reps in, and have some fun on course sims.   This year he's getting a lot more out of it, and really dialing in his numbers and working on specific things.   The Trackman combine is great.  The new Trackman Performance center has been a fantastic way to practice.

 

I've thought about launch monitors for tournaments he travels too where conditions will be different.  I have a hard time seeing that being really useful though if you can only use random range balls that are probably a bigger variable than the conditions.

[LawGenius305]

32 minutes ago, TroyB123 said:

We had a similar setup with the R10, but couldn't really get it positioned right so that he wasn't thinking about the door rails when hitting driver.   We thought the R10 worked great for the money, especially once it started supporting RCT balls. 

 

We eventually gave up due to the space not working it and sold everything.  He has a membership at a local Trackman facility for $150/month unlimited use that he has no problem getting 2-3 hours time after school as long as we book ahead when we see bad weather days.   Numbers were pretty spot on between R10 and Trackman.   R10 doesn't measure shot shape, as it just guesses, so that is the biggest difference.

 

Last year seemed like just a good way to get reps in, and have some fun on course sims.   This year he's getting a lot more out of it, and really dialing in his numbers and working on specific things.   The Trackman combine is great.  The new Trackman Performance center has been a fantastic way to practice.

 

I've thought about launch monitors for tournaments he travels too where conditions will be different.  I have a hard time seeing that being really useful though if you can only use random range balls that are probably a bigger variable than the conditions.

 

I bought the R10 on launch.  The experience we had is that at high swing speeds, the unit was off.  In the garage or on a net it was awful.  On the range not much better.  At high swing speeds the kid has to be on a trackman or Foresight unit.

[mrshinsa]

Don't want to start another flame thread, but mevo and mevo+ is junk, imo 

 

Super curious about the accuracy on the new R50.  

[MB19]

1 hour ago, LawGenius305 said:

 

I bought the R10 on launch.  The experience we had is that at high swing speeds, the unit was off.  In the garage or on a net it was awful.  On the range not much better.  At high swing speeds the kid has to be on a trackman or Foresight unit.

At around 90 SS, it works for both of my kids right now.  But in two years when my son is 13 and looking me in the eye?  He’s probably gonna need a bigger boat.

 

 

Edited December 6, 2024 by MB19

[MB19]

46 minutes ago, mrshinsa said:

Don't want to start another flame thread, but mevo and mevo+ is junk, imo 

 

Super curious about the accuracy on the new R50.  

When was your last experience with it?  The accuracy definitely improves on the Mevo+ a couple years after it launched.

 

I know you went through a couple of different systems a several years back, and had an Xi unit at one point if my memory is correct.  Did you move to a quad?

[mrshinsa]

15 minutes ago, MB19 said:

When was your last experience with it?  The accuracy definitely improves on the Mevo+ a couple years after it launched.

 

I know you went through a couple of different systems a several years back, and had an Xi unit at one point if my memory is correct.  Did you move to a quad?

We bought the Mevo+ when it came out.  The accuracy on any clubs higher than 90Mph+ was off.  Spin was inaccurate.   Failed to read shots half the time.  The app kept crashing.  Took FOREVER to line up correctly.   Battery didn't even last an hour of range session.  I could go on and on, but I don't want to offend any more people.  It's just my honest opinion. 

 

With any of these lower tier LM, I'm always second-guessing the numbers,  like "How trust worthy are these numbers enough to play them in a tournament?" thoughts.

 

We have gc3 and there is no second guessing for the numbers now.  

Edited December 6, 2024 by mrshinsa

[MB19]

9 minutes ago, mrshinsa said:

We bought the Mevo+ when it came out.  The accuracy on any clubs higher than 90Mph+ was off.  Spin was inaccurate.   Failed to read shots half the time.  The app kept crashing.  Battery didn't even last an hour of range session.  I could go on and on, but I don't want to offend any more people.  It's just my honest opinion. 

 

With any of these lower tier LM, I'm always second-guessing the numbers,  like "How trust worthy are these numbers enough to play them in a tournament?" thoughts.

 

We have gc3 and there is no second guessing for the numbers now.  

You definitely aren’t offending me, and I respect your input as a forum member who has researched a wide variety of topics to the nth degree.

 

The Mevo+, like many new tech products at launch, came up short of promises.  While I can tell you the battery life is still dreadful (I am getting ready to replace the battery for the 2nd time), I can also tell you that whatever updates they have done over the past couple of years have made it more accurate.  

Keeping it in the garage in the same place and hitting from the same measured spot also helps.  RCT balls help.  Mixed lighting and running fans don’t help, so the environment has to be pretty controlled.

 

A GC3 is going to be better for sure, and much better if you want to take it to the range.

[Golfingdawg19]

2 hours ago, mrshinsa said:

Don't want to start another flame thread, but mevo and mevo+ is junk, imo 

 

Super curious about the accuracy on the new R50.  

I'm curious as to what numbers you really want. I have the Flightscope X3 because someone gave it to me. I take it to the range when my daughter needs it and I use it to check her wedge distances and play games off it. I never really look at any numbers other than her distances with those wedges. My buddy has a GC Quad in his indoor bay. I will go over there if something looks off and I need to check path or spin. That is very seldom that I do that. When I go to her coach, he has TM and they check all the numbers there. It has worked for us so far and my daughter has a full ride offer to a good D1 school. I'm not a techie but even with that I think people get too caught up in all this data. At the end of the day you have to be able to get it in the hole. You can have a perfect path, spin, speed, etc and still not get good scores. When I read all these posts it just seems like some people put way too much emphasis in all these numbers. I relate it to working in the pro shop and the ladies would come in and call every penalty there was on each other but none of them could break 100. That is just my take so flame away if you wish.

[mrshinsa]

2 hours ago, Golfingdawg19 said:

I'm curious as to what numbers you really want. I have the Flightscope X3 because someone gave it to me. I take it to the range when my daughter needs it and I use it to check her wedge distances and play games off it. I never really look at any numbers other than her distances with those wedges. My buddy has a GC Quad in his indoor bay. I will go over there if something looks off and I need to check path or spin. That is very seldom that I do that. When I go to her coach, he has TM and they check all the numbers there. It has worked for us so far and my daughter has a full ride offer to a good D1 school. I'm not a techie but even with that I think people get too caught up in all this data. At the end of the day you have to be able to get it in the hole. You can have a perfect path, spin, speed, etc and still not get good scores. When I read all these posts it just seems like some people put way too much emphasis in all these numbers. I relate it to working in the pro shop and the ladies would come in and call every penalty there was on each other but none of them could break 100. That is just my take so flame away if you wish.

The x3 is a $12k LM, mevo+ is a $2k consumer device.  

 

As for the rest of the rant I have no idea what ur talking about.

[MB19]

3 hours ago, mrshinsa said:

The x3 is a $12k LM, mevo+ is a $2k consumer device.  

 

As for the rest of the rant I have no idea what ur talking about.

My take was something like:  How much data do you need?  This is subjective, of course, and thankfully there is a very large selection of launch monitors to chose from available to us as of late 2024.

 

I really enjoy data from these machines, but I could probably live with only having about 7-8 data points:

 

-swing speed

-ball speed

-angle of attack

-launch angle

-smash factor (optional)

-spin

-carry yardage

-height (apex)

 

The other half of the data points I get are nice and can be useful at times, but these are the ones I feel I need after years of sitting in on lessons given with a Trackman and sometimes also TopTracer... along with years of watching/hitting at Big Shots on the Xi Tour.

 

For the garage bay, getting to see shot shape via Optima HD27 projector/screen setup is another part of the equation I really like to have.  

 

 

It can't go without saying, that while my kids hit in the garage several times per week they do not usually perform their best when this is their only means of golf. Chipping isn't great on it, and putting is worse.

 

In FL, though, having my own bay is a huge luxury with all the rain and tropical storms/hurricanes we can get.  If I still lived in Michigan, it would be an answer for the snow.  

[TroyB123]

1 hour ago, MB19 said:

My take was something like:  How much data do you need?  This is subjective, of course, and thankfully there is a very large selection of launch monitors to chose from available to us as of late 2024.

 

I really enjoy data from these machines, but I could probably live with only having about 7-8 data points:

 

-swing speed

-ball speed

-angle of attack

-launch angle

-smash factor (optional)

-spin

-carry yardage

-height (apex)

 

The other half of the data points I get are nice and can be useful at times, but these are the ones I feel I need after years of sitting in on lessons given with a Trackman and sometimes also TopTracer... along with years of watching/hitting at Big Shots on the Xi Tour.

 

For the garage bay, getting to see shot shape via Optima HD27 projector/screen setup is another part of the equation I really like to have.  

 

 

It can't go without saying, that while my kids hit in the garage several times per week they do not usually perform their best when this is their only means of golf. Chipping isn't great on it, and putting is worse.

 

In FL, though, having my own bay is a huge luxury with all the rain and tropical storms/hurricanes we can get.  If I still lived in Michigan, it would be an answer for the snow.  

Face angle and club path are pretty vital

 

 

[kekoa]

Best day was when I sold the mevo + and bought a gc3.  GC3 is more expensive, but also much more useable in every way.  The upnext discount was huge for us.  FWIW, my son is now 14 and takes the gc3 to the range and course with him everyday. 

[MB19]

2 hours ago, TroyB123 said:

Face angle and club path are pretty vital

 

 

I can usually cover that with an iPhone when need be.  It’s not in my must-haves, but I understand those data points are important.

[MB19]

10 minutes ago, kekoa said:

Best day was when I sold the mevo + and bought a gc3.  GC3 is more expensive, but also much more useable in every way.  The upnext discount was huge for us.  FWIW, my son is now 14 and takes the gc3 to the range and course with him everyday. 

I hope my son has half of your son’s successes by the time he is 14.  It makes me feel good that you got him where he is today with the Mevo+ being part of his past training.

 

GC3 would be great in a couple of years for sure.  My son’s lefty friend may be a little disappointed, but maybe his dad will buy my Mevo+ as a result?  🤣

[kekoa]

12 hours ago, mrshinsa said:

We bought the Mevo+ when it came out.  The accuracy on any clubs higher than 90Mph+ was off.  Spin was inaccurate.   Failed to read shots half the time.  The app kept crashing.  Took FOREVER to line up correctly.   Battery didn't even last an hour of range session.  I could go on and on, but I don't want to offend any more people.  It's just my honest opinion. 

 

With any of these lower tier LM, I'm always second-guessing the numbers,  like "How trust worthy are these numbers enough to play them in a tournament?" thoughts.

 

We have gc3 and there is no second guessing for the numbers now.  

I'd have to totally agree.   The mevo+ is perfectly fine for kids or novice golfers who are looking to have fun with semi accurate numbers.   If you are working with any accomplished golfer who wants to dial in yardages and other parameters, a GC3 or similar product becomes absolutely necessary. 

[Golfingdawg19]

18 hours ago, mrshinsa said:

The x3 is a $12k LM, mevo+ is a $2k consumer device.  

 

As for the rest of the rant I have no idea what ur talking about.

My point was if you are paying a coach to work with your kid, why do you still need all that data? They will check the data and work with them on all the problem areas at a lesson. If you want to know all the other stuff, that is why you do a fitting. Outside of occasionally checking clubhead/ball speed to see if you are making gains, why do you need all the other data. All I use the X3 is for dialing in wedges. Her coach told me when I got the X3 not to go down that rabbit hole. 

[LawGenius305]

13 hours ago, TroyB123 said:

Face angle and club path are pretty vital

 

 

Depends what the need is. I would argue a launch monitor in general isn't vital unless working on something specific. Some players are married to a launch monitor and some will use one a couple of times a year just to see the numbers.

 

One thing about the mevo+ is inside it is terrible. Especially when the room is enclosed and echoes. Camera unit is always best indoors.

[MB19]

 

[darter79]

On 12/6/2024 at 9:48 AM, mrshinsa said:

Don't want to start another flame thread, but mevo and mevo+ is junk, imo 

 

Super curious about the accuracy on the new R50.  

100% this. Great for the guy who wants to play golf in his garage. But most the numbers were way off. At one point I had both a gc3 and a mevo to compare it wasn't close on things like spin, ss and thus carry. Ball Speed was always spot on. 

[Aggies087]

If looking at "budget" launch monitors, I can recommend the Square. For $700, the data it provides is pretty incredible. I've had a membership at a local Trackman studio, and have done 3 sessions comparing data of Square vs TM. Ballspeed/Carry are generally very close, with exception of driver which is consistently 1.5-2 MPH low for some reason, hopefully a software update can fix that. Launch angle / direction almost always spot on, spin usually within 200-300 rpm. Spin axis generally close, there were times TM/Square disagreed and not sure it was always TM that was correct as TM indoors isn't known for super accurate spin axis data.

Most importantly to me when comparing to other LMs is the Club Path / Face Angle / Attack Angle numbers were consistently very very close to TM. Working with my kids, those numbers have been some of the more important ones.

Short game also is much better than any other "budget" LM i've used. The company previously developed ExPutt, so no surprise that the putting is very good.

Current weak point is the Square software. Just very basic, hopefully will get better with time. In the meantime I primarily use GSPro and Awesome Golf integration is coming in a couple of weeks which my kids are very much looking forward to.

[MB19]

5 hours ago, darter79 said:

100% this. Great for the guy who wants to play golf in his garage. But most the numbers were way off. At one point I had both a gc3 and a mevo to compare it wasn't close on things like spin, ss and thus carry. Ball Speed was always spot on. 

I don't think anyone will ever confuse the Mevo+ with a CC3 or Quad, but firmware updates (and add-ons like the pro package/face impact) each of the past two years have made it a very competitive unit in the sub-$4000 space.  For someone like me who had an old laptop, an old iPad Pro and hitting screen already, it was a pretty cheap--and dare I say, effective--way to build a bay in my garage for my kids to practice on.

 

We do not see a real big varience in spin, ss or carry when we do get on our pro's trackman or when we get on the big boy Flightscope at Big Shots compared to the numbers we see practicing through the E6 software.  For whatever reason, the numbers we get using the Flightscope software are less hot than E6--and less hot than Trackman.

 

With more competition of late, I suspect that Flightscope will have to come out with a product to compete with these new units--especially the Garmin R50, which is un unreal value at $5K IMO.

[darter79]

18 hours ago, MB19 said:

I don't think anyone will ever confuse the Mevo+ with a CC3 or Quad, but firmware updates (and add-ons like the pro package/face impact) each of the past two years have made it a very competitive unit in the sub-$4000 space.  For someone like me who had an old laptop, an old iPad Pro and hitting screen already, it was a pretty cheap--and dare I say, effective--way to build a bay in my garage for my kids to practice on.

 

We do not see a real big varience in spin, ss or carry when we do get on our pro's trackman or when we get on the big boy Flightscope at Big Shots compared to the numbers we see practicing through the E6 software.  For whatever reason, the numbers we get using the Flightscope software are less hot than E6--and less hot than Trackman.

 

With more competition of late, I suspect that Flightscope will have to come out with a product to compete with these new units--especially the Garmin R50, which is un unreal value at $5K IMO.

I would add the garmin into the same category as mevo. Had the r10 for a bit. Man she would get smash like 1.6 on the driver. hahahaha 

 

 

[MB19]

16 minutes ago, darter79 said:

I would add the garmin into the same category as mevo. Had the r10 for a bit. Man she would get smash like 1.6 on the driver. hahahaha 

 

 

So far, the R50 has done better than the R10 in reviews--so there's hope for it.

 

We've never gotten anything approaching a 1.6 on Mevo+, but I guess we have a new goal now 😁

[MB19]

As both my kids have broken through to 90mph on driver swing this year, it has become obvious that the Mevo+--especially running on the native application--discounts about 8-10% on driver carry.  A review posted on the Golf Busters YT channel yesterday, in a head-to-head comparison with the Garmin R50, stated that when running GSPro ($250yr subscription) the Mevo+ is just as accurate with the driver (and everything else) as the R50.  Given, this is just one review, but the Breaking 80 YT reviewer seems to echo the sentiment that Mevo+ is very accurate when driven by non Flightscope apps.

 

 

[MB19]

On the advice of a couple different YT reviewers--Breaking 80 and Golf Busters--I upgraded to GS Pro on the Mevo+.

 

In doing so, I moved my 3+ yo desktop tower to the garage to give me an RTX 3060 to run GS Pro on.  As I will only be running it in 1080P off my older Optoma 27HD projector, this meets our usage needs.

 

In setting up the tower for GS Pro, I downloaded around three-dozen courses (full and short).  Even at 1080P, the graphics are a huge step up from the E6 Mevo+ came with.  Augusta, Pebble Beach, Seminole Legacy and others look really good.

 

Early returns are good on the accuracy of the GS Pro software in tandum with the Mevo+, as even my daughter who doesn't care for hitting in the garage sees it as a huge upgrade.  As I've been away from home for a few weeks, I have limited input on it all right now--but that both kids feel it makes the garage bay much better is a good thing.  That drives and fw are going the distance they are supposed to go is a very welcome feature.

 

Even though this is the thread nobody necessarily asked for, I will post a few updates for those interested how much better this $250yr software makes the Mevo+ experience.

[MB19]

Summer '25 update

 

After about four months of running GS Pro on the Mevo+, the kids have used the hitting bay much more than they ever have.  While they spend most of their time at the range (Playground), they have also played several of the courses I downloaded.  Seminole Legacy, being that it is the only course on there they have played in real life, is their go-to--but they have also played many of the old US Open courses.  Here are a few observations of GS Pro so far on Mevo+:

 

--Driver carries are more consistent with their real world carries.

--The graphics are so much better than the E6 software that came with the machine.

--The ability to use the range/practice area at some of the famous courses is a welcome novelty.

--Short game is improved.

--Putting is still not good.

--The ability to play famous holes like 12 at Augusta, 17 at TPC Sawgrass and even 16 at the WMPO (complete with a rowdy crowd with cheers/jeers)

 

My son had a birthday party at our place with his golfer buddies, and they spent half of their time doing par 3 challenges on these holes.  Even my daughter, who is about 19 months older than my son, was out there competing with them and she used to really dislike hitting out there pre-GS Pro.  

 

Maybe a good bit of that seems like a party trick or too much novelty, but the software has helped keep a club in their hand when we've been unable to get out and practice due to weather or time restraints.  I have to pull my son off of it several times per week to get him to do other things or go to bed.  

 

The direct result of getting GS Pro has meant they practice more, and are shedding strokes.  My son has dropped 4.7 points off his handicap since the software install, and has broken par for the first time in tournament play--doing both days of a two-day event, and then in the very next one-day event.  My daughter, who probably puts in about 40% the effort and time he does, has dropped 2 points off her handicap.  She had never broken 80 in consecutive rounds before the install, and she has done it twice this summer.

 

I'm not doing anything I haven't done in the past.  They still get lessons once or twice per month, I'm still tinkering with their club lineup, and I'm still trying to make it work with a son under 5 with me most of the time.  The one thing I have done, now that they are 13 and 12, is that I've made a concerted effort to enter them into two-day events rather than a larger volume of one-day events.  But part of the reason I've done this is also because they improved to the point where I could justify taking everyone a few hours away and cramming them into a Town Place Suites for a few days.

 

At any rate, even if your opinion on Mevo+ may be that it is complete rubbish--GS Pro for $250/yr is a great garage solution for a junior who needs to get more swings.  

 

On 1/2/2025 at 2:06 PM, Aggies087 said:

If looking at "budget" launch monitors, I can recommend the Square. For $700, the data it provides is pretty incredible. I've had a membership at a local Trackman studio, and have done 3 sessions comparing data of Square vs TM. Ballspeed/Carry are generally very close, with exception of driver which is consistently 1.5-2 MPH low for some reason, hopefully a software update can fix that. Launch angle / direction almost always spot on, spin usually within 200-300 rpm. Spin axis generally close, there were times TM/Square disagreed and not sure it was always TM that was correct as TM indoors isn't known for super accurate spin axis data.

Most importantly to me when comparing to other LMs is the Club Path / Face Angle / Attack Angle numbers were consistently very very close to TM. Working with my kids, those numbers have been some of the more important ones.

Short game also is much better than any other "budget" LM i've used. The company previously developed ExPutt, so no surprise that the putting is very good.

Current weak point is the Square software. Just very basic, hopefully will get better with time. In the meantime I primarily use GSPro and Awesome Golf integration is coming in a couple of weeks which my kids are very much looking forward to.

If I were doing it all over again, I would probably get the Square.  With GS Pro, and considering how decent the putting is on the Square, I have no doubt this is the best budget solution around right now.  For about $1K out the door, the Square/GS Pro combo is unreal.

 

There's one caveat--my son's best friend is a lefty, and he's over at our place often using the hitting bay.  The Mevo+ doesn't have to move to accommodate him, and that's a nice touch.